Energy

Senior Underwriter

After graduating from Lancaster University with a BA (Hons) in Economics, Huw spent the first 13 years of his career at Royal & SunAlliance (formerly Royal Insurance) where he was involved in writing the Energy Property, Liability and Marine Hull accounts. Huw moved to the Catlin Group in 2002 as part of the Energy Property and Liability Underwriting team. He joined Wellington in December 2005 as divisional underwriter for the Energy Liability account and was promoted to divisional underwriter for the Energy Property and Liability account in October 2006. He returned to Catlin upon the acquisition of Wellington in December 2006 and was appointed Energy Business Group Leader.

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Jo started in the Insurance industry in 2005 as a broker on the Agnew Higgins Pickering Non-Marine team. After 3 years broking Property and Energy accounts, Jo joined the Catlin Energy team in 2008 as an assistant underwriter on the downstream energy and power book.

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Tom graduated from Cardiff University with a BA in English Literature, followed by an MA in English Literature from King’s College, London. He joined the Marine division of JLT Risk Solutions in 2002 working as a broker technician and moved to the Energy team at Catlin the following year as an underwriting assistant. Tom passed his ACII qualification in 2006.

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Jennifer started working in insurance for Trenwick in 1999 as part of the UK Liability department. She then joined Wellington in 2001 working on the War and Political Risk account as an underwriting assistant. In 2004 Jenny transferred over to the Energy account where, at the start of 2006, she obtained her underwriting scratch.

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Matthew graduated from DeMontfort University with a BA (Hons) in Economics. In 1998, he joined the marine underwriting team of Agnew syndicate 672 as an underwriting assistant. In 2000, following the merger of syndicates he moved to the Wellington syndicate 2020 within the marine team. In July 2000, he transferred to the Energy account as an assistant underwriter. In December 2006, following the acquisition of Wellington by Catlin, he joined syndicate 2003 as a Class Underwriter within the Energy team.

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Clive began his career in energy and liability insurance as an assistant underwriter in 1984 on syndicate 1009. He progressed to class underwriter in 1986 and by 1995 was appointed deputy of the syndicate, under David Hope.

In 2002 he joined Catlin’s Underwriting Board, moving in 2003 to a position within underwriting operations then in 2005 became a director of Group Operations. In October 2007 he returned to underwrite for the Energy Business Group.

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Will Martin began his career in 1990 in the Marine department of the Methuen Underwriting Agency. Following the appointment of Robin Todd as active underwriter in 1995, Will transferred to the energy department to assist in the writing of Upstream and Downstream Energy business.

Between 1996 & 1998 the syndicate went through a period of acquisition by ACE Global Markets & the merger of the Tarquin underwriting agency. In 1999 Will joined Atrium Underwriting to focus solely on underwriting Upstream Energy business. Will joined Catlin in 2003 to underwrite upstream and Downstream business and became a class underwriter in 2006.

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Peter began his insurance career in 2000 with Marsh. After spending a year broking international property risks he moved to the power department. He spent 4 years broking power risks from around the world into the London and European market.

In 2005 he joined Catlin on the non-marine property account and began underwriting worldwide property. In 2006 he focused on underwriting mining, downstream energy and power generation for the non-marine property account. In 2007 he transferred to the energy account and was promoted to class underwriter where he currently writes the downstream energy and power generation book.