plc Board
Seated, left to right: Richard Hextall, Charles Philipps, Roger Taylor
Standing, left to right: Tony Holt (Director until May 2011), Sir Mark Wrightson, Marty Feinstein, Richard Davey, Nigel Buchanan, Christine Bosse, Brian Carpenter
Not pictured: Simon Beale (Director since May 2011), Sir Alan
Collins (Director since November 2011)
Roger Taylor (68), Chairman 
Appointed a non-executive Director and Chairman in 1998
Chairman of the Nomination Committee. He is non-executive President of Yura International Holding B.V. and of Yam Invest N.V. and a non-executive director of White Ensign Association Limited. He was formerly Chief Executive of Sun Alliance Group plc and, until 1998, Deputy Chairman of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc. He was Chairman of the Association of British Insurers from 1997 to 1998.
Charles Philipps (51),
Chief Executive
Chief Executive
Appointed Group Chief Executive in 1999, having joined the Board
as Group Finance Director in 1997 Chartered Accountant. He
represented Amlin Corporate Member Limited on the Council of
Lloyd’s from 2001 to 2007, was a Vice Chairman of the
Lloyd’s Market Association from 2004 to 2007 and President of
The Insurance Institute of London 2008 to 2009, having served on
its Council since 2004. He was a director of NatWest Markets
Corporate Finance Limited until 1997, having been employed there
from 1983. Whilst at NatWest Markets he was responsible for the
formation and flotation on the London Stock Exchange of Angerstein
Underwriting Trust PLC (which became Amlin plc).
Simon Beale (49), Underwriting Director, Amlin London
Appointed a Director in 2011 (May)
He has been Underwriting Director of Amlin London since June 2008.
His background is as a specialist Marine Hull Underwriter since
joining Lloyd’s in 1984 and he is a recognised international
leader in this field. He joined Amlin in 1994 as Marine Hull
Leading Class Underwriter and headed Amlin’s Marine business
from 2001 to 2009. Simon is a previous chairman of both
London’s Joint Hull Committee and the Ocean Hull Committee of
the International Union of Marine Insurance. He has also
represented the London market on IUMI’s Executive Committee
and been an elected member of Lloyd’s Market Association
Marine Committee. He is currently a co-opted member of the LMA
Underwriting Committee.
Christine Bosse (49), Independent
Non-Executive 
Appointed a Director in 2008
She has been Group Chief Executive Officer of Tryg A/S, the largest general insurer in Denmark and second largest in the Nordic region, from 2001 until February 2011. She joined TrygVesta in 1987, serving in various roles prior to her appointment as CEO, including as head of both the underwriting and claims departments and as Human Resources Director, joining its Group Executive Management in 1999. She is a non-executive director of Nordea Bank AB, Aker ASA and TDC A/S. She chairs the Supervisory Boards of the Danish Insurance Association and of the Danish Child Fond Foundation (Børnefonden). She is a Danish citizen.
Nigel Buchanan (66), Senior Independent
Director 
Appointed a Director in 2004
Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2005 and senior independent non-executive director since 2006. Chartered Accountant. He is a non-executive director of Butterfield Bank (UK) Ltd and a trustee of the Outward Bound Trust. He retired as a senior client partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2001, where he specialised in financial services clients. He joined a predecessor firm in 1968 and was appointed a partner in 1978.
Brian Carpenter (52), Underwriting Director, Amlin UK
Appointed a Director in 2000
Brian heads Amlin UK, which underwrites the Group’s UK
motor, property and liability business. He has been a member of the
Lloyd’s Market Association’s Motor Committee since 1989
and has also served on the Lloyd’s Market Board and the
Business Development Unit Board at Lloyd’s. Prior to joining
the Group in 1989 as active underwriter of motor Syndicate 887 (now
part of Syndicate 2001) he worked as a broker with Sedgwick and
Marsh.
Sir Alan Collins (63), Independent Non-Executive
Appointed a Director in 2011 (November)
Sir Alan Collins, KCVO, CMG, has had a distinguished career in HM Diplomatic Service; principal posts have included Ambassador to the Philippines; High Commissioner to Singapore; and for the last four years until July 2011, Director General Trade & Investment USA and Consul General New York. These roles required considerable commercial involvement to promote and protect British business interests in, and gave him considerable exposure to, the Financial Services Industry including the insurance sector. He holds a degree in International Relations from LSE. He has recently been Managing Director, Olympic Legacy for United Kingdom Trade and Investment.
Richard Davey (61), Independent
Non-Executive
Appointed a Director in 2005
He is a non-executive Vice Chairman of the Yorkshire Building
Society, senior independent director of Severn Trent Plc and
non-executive Chairman of London Capital Group Holdings plc. The
majority of his executive career was spent in investment banking at
N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, in roles including Head of
Investment Banking and Chairman of the Executive Committee. He
retired in 1999. A financial services sector specialist, he advised
Lloyd’s of London, and then Equitas, on the Reconstruction
and
Renewal proposals of the early 1990s.
Marty Feinstein (61),
Independent Non-Executive
Appointed a Director in 2007
He is a non-executive director of Reynolds American Inc and GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Farmers Group Inc from 1997 to 2005, when he retired after 35 years’service with that group. By 2005, Farmers was the third largest property and casualty insurance group in the US. Whilst Farmers was owned by BAT and then by Allied Zurich between 1997 and 2000 he served in turn as a director of BAT Industries plc and of Allied Zurich plc. He is a US citizen.
Richard Hextall (41), Finance Director
Appointed Group Finance Director in 1999
Chartered Accountant. He has been a director of the
Lloyd’s Market Association since 2007 and was a member of its
Finance Committee from 2002 to 2009 (Chairman from 2005 to 2007).
He was also a member of the Lloyd’s Investment Committee from
2003 to 2007. He has been an independent non-executive director of
The City of London Investment Trust plc since 2007. He joined Amlin
from Deloitte & Touche, where he was
a director specialising in the insurance and financial services
sector.
Sir Mark Wrightson Bt (59), Independent
Non-Executive
Appointed a Director in 2006
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee since November 2008. He retired as Co-Chairman of Close Brothers Corporate Finance Limited in 2006. He was formerly Chairman of the London Investment Banking Association Corporate Finance Committee and a member of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers. He is a non-executive director of Domino Printing Sciences plc and was a non-executive director of Tees Valley Regeneration Limited until July 2008 and of British Vita plc from 2004 to 2005.
Current member of the Audit Committee
Current
member of the Nomination Committee
Current
member of the Remuneration Committee