Sir Brian Williamson
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director +
Sir Brian Williamson
Senior Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Sir Brian Williamson has held a number of chairmanships and directorships in banking, exchanges, funds, investment trusts and private equity. Sir Brian was Chairman and Chief Executive of Gerrard Group PLC. A member of the Court of the Bank of Ireland, a director of HSBC Holdings PLC, where he was also Chairman of the Nomination Committee, and a director of the NYSE Euronext and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.
Sir Brian was one of the four founders of the London International Futures Exchange and twice Chairman. In the US, Sir Brian has been a board member of both Nasdaq (additionally serving as Chairman of its international advisory board) and the New York Stock Exchange. In the UK, he was a director of The Climate Exchange PLC.
Sir Brian is currently a director of Incubex, which is in partnership with the European Energy Exchange, part of the Deutsche Borse Group and Nodal Exchange in the US.
Sir Brian is a former director of London International Vintners Exchange, Fleming Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC, Templeton Emerging Market Investment Trust PLC, Waverton Investment Trust PLC and he chaired Electra Private Equity PLC. Sir Brian was also the first chairman of Resolution Life Group.
Sir Brian has served on regulatory bodies in both the US and UK, the National Association of Securities Dealers and The Financial Services Authority.
External directorships: Edenberg Trust Corporation Limited, R.J. Fleming & Co Limited, Vice Chairman of Bergos Fleming Zurich, Director Politeia, and Incubex Inc.
Committee memberships: Remuneration Committee (chair) and Nomination Committee
Elizabeth Murphy
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Elizabeth Murphy
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Elizabeth Murphy has worked in the insurance and reinsurance industry for more than 30 years. Elizabeth qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in London and moved to work for them in Bermuda. She continued her career with ACE Tempest Reinsurance Ltd as Chief Financial Officer from 1993 to 2000 and as Treasurer of ACE Limited for the next two years.
From 2002 to 2006, Elizabeth worked for Scottish Re Group Limited, as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. From 2006 to 2008 she was an Executive Director of Kiln Limited, Chair of the Compensation Committee and Non-Executive Member of the Audit Committee and she also served on the Board of SCPIE Holdings Inc. where she was a member of the Audit Committee and Stock Option Committee. From 2009 to 2015 Elizabeth was an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Amlin Bermuda Ltd./Amlin AG and a member of the Risk Committee.
External directorships: Bernina Re Holding Ltd., Bernina Re Ltd.
Committee memberships: Audit Committee (Chair) and Nomination Committee.
Ken Randall
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Ken Randall
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Ken Randall is a certified accountant and has worked in the insurance industry for more than 46 years. During the early 1980s, Ken was Head of Regulation at Lloyd’s which was then a self-regulated institution. From 1985 until 1991 Ken served as Chief Executive of the Merrett Group, which managed a number of prominent syndicates at Lloyd’s.
In 1991, Ken left Merrett to set up his own business in partnership with Alan Quilter. Over the next eight years they developed the Randall & Quilter Group’s principal subsidiary, the Eastgate Group, into the UK’s largest third party provider of insurance services with 1,300 employees and a turnover of over £80 million per annum. Eastgate was sold to Capita plc in November 2000.
Following the sale of Eastgate, Ken and Alan refocused Randall & Quilter onto the acquisition of non-life legacy run-off portfolios and again developed an insurance servicing business in London and the US; initially, the Randall & Quilter Group’s service offering focused on legacy portfolios and in recent years has also developed a fast-growing programme management business in Europe and the US.
Ken retired as a director of Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. and all of its subsidiary companies on 31 March 2021.
External directorships: Roosevelt Road Ltd, Roosevelt Road Re Ltd, Leamington Insurance Advisors Ltd., Renaissance Capital Partners Limited, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company Ltd.
Committee memberships: Audit Committee, Nomination Committee (Chair) and Remuneration Committee.
Malcolm Furbert
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Malcolm Furbert
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Malcolm Furbert is a corporate and regulatory lawyer with over 30 years’ experience including as a corporate lawyer with one of Bermuda’s leading law firms and over 15 years’ diverse in-house legal counsel and management experience with Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance companies (including American International Company Limited, Catlin Insurance Company Limited and XL Catlin), most recently as General Counsel and Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs for the Bermuda operations of XL Catlin, a Bermuda based global re/insurance company (following the acquisition of the Catlin Group by XL Capital).
In these roles he provided general and transactional legal and regulatory advice and support to all business areas, and had oversight over the Bermuda compliance function. He also acted as company secretary to both regulated and non-regulated group companies.
He is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and the Bermuda Bar.
External directorships: Somers Corporate Services Limited
Committee memberships: Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee.
Michelle Seymour Smith
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Michelle Seymour Smith
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 15 September 2021
Skills and experience: Michelle Seymour Smith has over 20 years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry. During her career, Michelle built a reputation of making strategic initiatives a reality and building effective teams and operations to support sustained growth in global organisations.
Michelle began her career with Arthur Andersen in 1995. She went on to hold positions at Zurich Insurance Global Energy and XL Capital Ltd. In 2004, she joined Arch Reinsurance Ltd as Vice President, Controller. She performed several roles at Arch Re including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, building and overseeing the financial operations of the insurance, reinsurance and mortgage divisions and their international subsidiary reinsurance division. She served as the Chief Transformation Officer of Arch Capital Group Ltd until 2019, leading a global programme to grow business and improve operational efficiency.
Michelle has been named as one of 100 Influential Women in Insurance and Reinsurance by Intelligent Insurer. She is a member of The Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda and the Institute of Directors.
External directorships: n/a
Committee memberships: Audit Committee
Rebecca Shelley
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Rebecca Shelley
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 24 July 2023
Skills and experience: Rebecca Shelley brings extensive commercial and financial services experience to the Board, as well as her background of market-facing roles at listed companies. Having been Investor Relations and Corporate Communications Director at Norwich Union plc from 1998-2000, Rebecca moved to Prudential plc in 2000, starting as Investor Relations Director, and then became Group Communications Director with a seat on their Group Executive Committee.
From 2012 to 2016, Rebecca was the Group Communications Director of Tesco plc and a member of their Executive Committee. During this time she held positions on the board of the British Retail Consortium and was a trustee of the Institute of Grocery Distribution. In her final Executive role Rebecca spent three years at broker TP ICAP plc as Group Corporate Affairs Director, and was a member of the Global Executive Committee.
External directorships: Sabre Insurance, Liontrust Asset Management, Hilton Food Group
Committee memberships: Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee.
Sir Brian Williamson
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director +
Sir Brian Williamson
Senior Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Sir Brian Williamson has held a number of chairmanships and directorships in banking, exchanges, funds, investment trusts and private equity. Sir Brian was Chairman and Chief Executive of Gerrard Group PLC. A member of the Court of the Bank of Ireland, a director of HSBC Holdings PLC, where he was also Chairman of the Nomination Committee, and a director of the NYSE Euronext and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.
Sir Brian was one of the four founders of the London International Futures Exchange and twice Chairman. In the US, Sir Brian has been a board member of both Nasdaq (additionally serving as Chairman of its international advisory board) and the New York Stock Exchange. In the UK, he was a director of The Climate Exchange PLC.
Sir Brian is currently a director of Incubex, which is in partnership with the European Energy Exchange, part of the Deutsche Borse Group and Nodal Exchange in the US.
Sir Brian is a former director of London International Vintners Exchange, Fleming Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC, Templeton Emerging Market Investment Trust PLC, Waverton Investment Trust PLC and he chaired Electra Private Equity PLC. Sir Brian was also the first chairman of Resolution Life Group.
Sir Brian has served on regulatory bodies in both the US and UK, the National Association of Securities Dealers and The Financial Services Authority.
External directorships: Edenberg Trust Corporation Limited, R.J. Fleming & Co Limited, Vice Chairman of Bergos Fleming Zurich, Director Politeia, and Incubex Inc.
Committee memberships: Remuneration Committee (chair) and Nomination Committee
Elizabeth Murphy
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Elizabeth Murphy
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Elizabeth Murphy has worked in the insurance and reinsurance industry for more than 30 years. Elizabeth qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in London and moved to work for them in Bermuda. She continued her career with ACE Tempest Reinsurance Ltd as Chief Financial Officer from 1993 to 2000 and as Treasurer of ACE Limited for the next two years.
From 2002 to 2006, Elizabeth worked for Scottish Re Group Limited, as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. From 2006 to 2008 she was an Executive Director of Kiln Limited, Chair of the Compensation Committee and Non-Executive Member of the Audit Committee and she also served on the Board of SCPIE Holdings Inc. where she was a member of the Audit Committee and Stock Option Committee. From 2009 to 2015 Elizabeth was an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Amlin Bermuda Ltd./Amlin AG and a member of the Risk Committee.
External directorships: Bernina Re Holding Ltd., Bernina Re Ltd.
Committee memberships: Audit Committee (Chair) and Nomination Committee.
Ken Randall
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Ken Randall
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Ken Randall is a certified accountant and has worked in the insurance industry for more than 46 years. During the early 1980s, Ken was Head of Regulation at Lloyd’s which was then a self-regulated institution. From 1985 until 1991 Ken served as Chief Executive of the Merrett Group, which managed a number of prominent syndicates at Lloyd’s.
In 1991, Ken left Merrett to set up his own business in partnership with Alan Quilter. Over the next eight years they developed the Randall & Quilter Group’s principal subsidiary, the Eastgate Group, into the UK’s largest third party provider of insurance services with 1,300 employees and a turnover of over £80 million per annum. Eastgate was sold to Capita plc in November 2000.
Following the sale of Eastgate, Ken and Alan refocused Randall & Quilter onto the acquisition of non-life legacy run-off portfolios and again developed an insurance servicing business in London and the US; initially, the Randall & Quilter Group’s service offering focused on legacy portfolios and in recent years has also developed a fast-growing programme management business in Europe and the US.
Ken retired as a director of Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. and all of its subsidiary companies on 31 March 2021.
External directorships: Roosevelt Road Ltd, Roosevelt Road Re Ltd, Leamington Insurance Advisors Ltd., Renaissance Capital Partners Limited, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company Ltd.
Committee memberships: Audit Committee, Nomination Committee (Chair) and Remuneration Committee.
Malcolm Furbert
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Malcolm Furbert
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 18 November 2020
Skills and experience: Malcolm Furbert is a corporate and regulatory lawyer with over 30 years’ experience including as a corporate lawyer with one of Bermuda’s leading law firms and over 15 years’ diverse in-house legal counsel and management experience with Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance companies (including American International Company Limited, Catlin Insurance Company Limited and XL Catlin), most recently as General Counsel and Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs for the Bermuda operations of XL Catlin, a Bermuda based global re/insurance company (following the acquisition of the Catlin Group by XL Capital).
In these roles he provided general and transactional legal and regulatory advice and support to all business areas, and had oversight over the Bermuda compliance function. He also acted as company secretary to both regulated and non-regulated group companies.
He is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and the Bermuda Bar.
External directorships: Somers Corporate Services Limited
Committee memberships: Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee.
Michelle Seymour Smith
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Michelle Seymour Smith
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 15 September 2021
Skills and experience: Michelle Seymour Smith has over 20 years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry. During her career, Michelle built a reputation of making strategic initiatives a reality and building effective teams and operations to support sustained growth in global organisations.
Michelle began her career with Arthur Andersen in 1995. She went on to hold positions at Zurich Insurance Global Energy and XL Capital Ltd. In 2004, she joined Arch Reinsurance Ltd as Vice President, Controller. She performed several roles at Arch Re including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, building and overseeing the financial operations of the insurance, reinsurance and mortgage divisions and their international subsidiary reinsurance division. She served as the Chief Transformation Officer of Arch Capital Group Ltd until 2019, leading a global programme to grow business and improve operational efficiency.
Michelle has been named as one of 100 Influential Women in Insurance and Reinsurance by Intelligent Insurer. She is a member of The Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda and the Institute of Directors.
External directorships: n/a
Committee memberships: Audit Committee
Rebecca Shelley
Independent Non-Executive Director +
Rebecca Shelley
Independent Non-Executive DirectorAppointed to the Board: 24 July 2023
Skills and experience: Rebecca Shelley brings extensive commercial and financial services experience to the Board, as well as her background of market-facing roles at listed companies. Having been Investor Relations and Corporate Communications Director at Norwich Union plc from 1998-2000, Rebecca moved to Prudential plc in 2000, starting as Investor Relations Director, and then became Group Communications Director with a seat on their Group Executive Committee.
From 2012 to 2016, Rebecca was the Group Communications Director of Tesco plc and a member of their Executive Committee. During this time she held positions on the board of the British Retail Consortium and was a trustee of the Institute of Grocery Distribution. In her final Executive role Rebecca spent three years at broker TP ICAP plc as Group Corporate Affairs Director, and was a member of the Global Executive Committee.
External directorships: Sabre Insurance, Liontrust Asset Management, Hilton Food Group
Committee memberships: Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee.