Insurance/ Reinsurance

Rod Dampier

Having begun his underwriting career with Royal Insurance marine department in 1967, Rod moved to the aviation division in 1971. He then joined Aviation and General in 1985, which merged with most other UK composite insurer's aviation departments to form British Aviation Insurance Group (now Global Aviation) in 1991 where he was a senior underwriter until 1997. He then moved to Amlin as the divisional underwriter for the aviation division.

Rod is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a member of the LMA Aviation Committee.

Miles Taffs

Miles has worked in both the broking and underwriting fields since 1986. During this time he worked across the airline, products and airports accounts before joining Amlin’s Aviation division.

James Greenhalgh

James began his insurance career with the broking house Bain Clarkson (now part of Aon) before moving to a Legal & General affiliate as a pensions and investments specialist.

In 1994, James joined the Aviation Underwriting Consortium between Murray Lawrence & Partners and Stewart & Hughman which developed into Syndicate 2001 and Amlin's Aviation Division. During this time James worked on reinsurance and syndicate accounting before becoming an underwriter.

James is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurer.

Andrew Metcalfe

Andrew has worked in the insurance market since 1984 in both the broking and underwriting fields. During this time Andrew has gained experience in all classes of aviation business both as a claims adjuster and an underwriter. Andrew rejoined Amlin in 2007 underwriting Airlines, Products classes with specific responsibility for the General Aviation class.