A committed and loyal team of underwriters, risk managers, claims specialists and actuaries, using our superior knowledge to achieve market leading results. 

  • Abi Forni
    HR OFFICER 

    Abi continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Abi is the HR Officer for the Insurance Group and has worked in HR for the last 11 years. Prior to Fidelis, Abi worked for 8 years at Insight Investment. Abi attended the University of Bath where she obtained a BSc in Sociology with HR Management.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Akshara Venkatesh
    RESERVING MANAGER

    Akshara continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Akshara joined Fidelis Insurance in 2022 as a Reserving Manager on the Actuarial Team. After completing her MEng in Engineering, Economics and Management at Oxford University she worked as an Actuary at SCOR and before that joined Delioitte as a Technology and Actuarial consultant.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Alexandra Chan
    SENIOR REGULATORY REPORTING ACCOUNTANT

    Alexandra continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Alexandra joined Fidelis Insurance in 2022 as a Senior Regulatory Reporting Accountant. Prior to joining Fidelis Insurance, Alexandra worked as an auditor at Deliotte and a Senior Regulatory Reporting Accountant at QBE. Alexandra holds a degree is management from SOAS and is ACA qualified.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Allan Decleir
    GROUP CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND FIBL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Allan is the Chief Financial Officer of FIHL and the Chief Executive Officer of FIBL. Prior to assuming these executive positions, Mr. Decleir was a consultant to FIBL since June 1, 2022. He has over 26 years of experience in the (re)insurance industry. Since June 2015, Mr. Decleir has been an independent consultant for ThreeSeas Consulting Ltd, providing management consulting services in the Bermuda (re)insurance market. Mr. Decleir was also a Listings Manager at the Canadian Securities Exchange from February 2019 until March 2022. Prior to this, he was Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. (“Platinum”) from June 2010 until March 2015, overseeing SEC, financial and regulatory reporting. He first joined Platinum’s Class 4 reinsurance subsidiary, Platinum Underwriters Bermuda, Ltd., in 2003, and, from 2005 until his promotion to Platinum’s Group CFO, served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Platinum Bermuda, Mr. Decleir was the Chief Financial Officer of Stockton Reinsurance Limited from June 1996 to May 2003. He began his career at Ernst & Young in 1988, taking on various positions in Canada and Bermuda. Mr. Decleir was granted a National Association of Corporate Directors governance fellowship in 2017 and achieved the “Directorship Certified” designation in 2022, and earned the Associate in Reinsurance designation from the Insurance Institute of America in 2000. Mr. Decleir holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (Chartered Accountant).

    Email: [email protected]

  • Andrea Gannon
    TREASURY CONTROLLER
    *Subject to immigration

    Andrea contines her role at Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023. Prior to Fidelis Insurance, her career began at PwC in insurance/ reinsurance audits. She then became the Financial Controller of Old Mutual Bermuda Limited, part of the Old Mutual plc Group, and later for GAM Limited in the Bermuda office.  After consulting roles as Head of Group Finance with Argus Insurance, and Treasury Manager at PIMCO, Andrea joined Fidelis Insurance as a consultant in January 2020 and joined permanently in 2021 as Treasury Manager.

    Andrea is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Andrew Coffey
    FIID CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Andrew is the Chief Executive Officer of FIID. Prior to assuming his executive position, Andrew was a consultant to FIID and brings three decades of management, risk, regulatory and underwriting experience. Andrew was previously Deputy Group CRO at the Standard Club, a specialty marine mutual, and held a number of regulatory approved roles at Standard Club Ireland. Prior to 2019, Andrew spent 13 years with the Central Bank of Ireland in a variety of supervisory leadership roles with a focus on the reinsurance and specialty insurance sector, including as group and EU supervisor for several of the largest reinsurers and specialty insurers with operations in Ireland. Andrew started his career in reinsurance with 11 years of senior underwriting experience. Andrew has an Honours Maths and Economics degree from Trinity College Dublin.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Ash Bailey
    IT SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT 

    Ash initially joined Fidelis in 2015 as the Head of Infrastructure and returned in 2022 as an IT Solutions Architect. With 15 years of experience in providing IT infrastructure and support in the financial sector, Ash has a strong background in the field. Prior to working at Fidelis, Ash worked at Lancashire Insurance.

    Email: [email protected]

     

  • Avril Murphy
    COMPLIANCE ANALYST

    Avril joined Fidelis in 2021 as a Compliance Analyst. Prior to joining Fidelis she spent 2.5 years at PartnerRe as a Compliance executive. She began her compliance career in 2014 in general insurance and is a Licentiate of the Compliance Institute of Ireland. She holds a law degree from Griffith College in Dublin.  

    Email: [email protected] 

     

  • Bennet Gibson
    FIBL CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Bennet continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Bennet joined Fidelis Insurance in June 2019 as a Financial controller and was promoted to FIBL CFO in 2022. Before joining Fidelis Insurance, Bennet worked at Tokio Millennium Re Ag for 7 years and at KPMG for 5 years before that. He holds a degree in Accounting from the University of Glasgow and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Craig Marsden
    RESERVING MANAGER

    Craig continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Craig joined Fidelis Insurance in 2020 as a Reserving Actuary and later becoming a Reserving manager. He has over 15 years of experience as an Actuarial Anaylst. Prior to joining Fidelis Insurance, Craig worked at Everest Re as a Reserving Manager and Senior Actuarial analyst. He holds a PhD and Bsc in Mathematics.

    Email: [email protected]

     

  • Dan Burrows
    GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Dan is a market veteran of 35 years having joined Fidelis Insurance as UK CEO, CUO, and founding member in 2015 before being promoted to Group Managing Director. Dan was also a member of the Fidelis Insurance Executive team and a director of the FIHL Board. He was instrumental in helping to build out the Fidelis Underwriting portfolio through his market connections. Before joining Fidelis, Dan spent his career in the Broking sector having held many senior posts including the head of Global Retrocession at the Benfield group and CEO of Aon's Global Specialty division in 2008. His career has seen him work closely with many of the worlds leading global entities specializing in areas such as non-marine retrocession, aviation, marine, energy, and much more. Dan was also a member of the Benfield Footprint Management program and is an alumni of the Chicago Booth University Aon sponsored Pinnacle program.

    Email: [email protected]

  • David McCormack
    FIID HEAD OF COMPLIANCE

     

    David joined Fidelis Insurance Group in February 2023 as Head of Compliance for FIID. Prior to joining, David was International Head of Compliance and CoSec for Hamilton Insurance Group (previously Ironshore), having spent six years there in various Risk and Compliance roles covering both the Dublin and London markets. David also spent two years at the Central Bank of Ireland as a Senior Supervisor on the domestic (High Impact) general insurance team. David started his career with PwC and is a qualified chartered accountant, as well as being a Licentiate of the Compliance Institute of Ireland.

    Email: [email protected]

  • David Smith
    GROUP CHIEF INVESTMENTS OFFICER

    David continues his role at Fidelis Insurance Group. David joined Fidelis Insurance in 2019 as Group Chief Investment Officer. David started his career with KPMG in Bermuda and spent time in Dublin before moving back to Bermuda to join Harbor Point in 2007 where he was VP of Investments & Treasury. When Harbor Point merged with Max Capital In 2010, David moved to the UK to work for Alterra at Lloyd’s and remained as Assistant Director of Investments until 2013. David was most recently at Chaucer Syndicates Limited where he held the position of Head of Risk and Investments. David is a member of The Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2004 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Dee Pang
    GROUP CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER & CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER 

    Dee joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as the Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Prior to joining Fidelis, Dee was the CISO of Slaughter and May and before that, he headed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's global cyber security function. With many years of experience in all aspects of building and operating information security programs, Dee has implemented and operated cutting-edge cyber security technologies, managed vulnerability and penetration testing programs, ensured technical and administrative security controls worked as intended, and maintained industry-standard information and cyber security accreditations. He graduated with a BSc in Marine and Freshwater Biology from Queen Mary, University of London.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Denise Bareford
    BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGER

    Denise continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group as a Business Process Manager, having initially joined the company as a Business Process Analyst. She has amassed extensive experience in the insurance sector, focusing on roles delivering operational excellence, vendor management, and process re-engineering. Denise holds a Ba(Hons) in Business Studies.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Denise Brown-Branch
    GROUP CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER AND FUL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Denise brings her expertise to Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023. Denise Brown-Branch joined Fidelis Insurance in 2015 and has over 25 years’ experience in Strategic Programme Delivery and Business Change Management. Denise’s career started in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods industry, where she focused on Marketing IT and Global Service Delivery.
    In 2011, she joined Bluefin Solutions, a niche consultancy, where she managed a programme of work for Catlin Insurance.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Elaine Dainty
    HR MANAGER

    Elaine joined Fidelis Insurance Group as HR Manager in April 2023 following a year of HR consulting for the Fidelis MGU. Prior to her consultancy, Elaine was HR Manager for Fidelis’ Bermuda entity working closely with key stakeholders to ensure HR practices aligned with business strategy. Elaine holds a BA(Hons) in History from the University of Kent, an MSc in Management and HR from the London School of Economics, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Elizabeth Kear 
    BUSINESS SUPPORT AND ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVE

    Elizabeth joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as a Business Support and Executive Assistant, providing support to the FUL CEO. With a background in Executive Assistance and Chief of Staff roles, Elizabeth brings extensive experience primarily from the media industry. Having spent five years in New York at a multinational media and digital marketing communications company, Eizabeth has gained valuable international exposure to add to her already impressive portfolio. More recently, Elizabeth worked with the Chairman at The Premier League.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Emma Carroll
    SENIOR INTERNAL AUDITOR

    Emma continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Emma joined Fidelis Insurance as a member of the Audit Team helping to manage audit portfolios, review audit actions and manage relationships with internal stakeholders. She is an experienced internal auditor specializing in risk, finance, compliance, HR, and marketing. Before joining Fidelis Insurance, Emma worked within domestic and international banks such as AIB and Well Fargo. She qualified as a member of the ACCA in 2019 and holds a BA in International Business and Italian.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Emma M Carroll
    REGULATORY REPORTING ACCOUNTANT

    Emma continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Emma joined Fidelis Insurance as a Regulatory Reporting Accountant. Before joining Fidelis Insurance, Emma worked as a Regulatory Reporting Accountant at Liberty Speciality Markets (LSM) and as a Finance Executive within Captive solutions at Aon Ireland. She holds a degree in Accounting and Finance.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Emre Kucuk
    SENIOR BUSINESS OPERATIONAL AND IMPROVEMENTAL LEAD 

    Emre continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group and has since assumed the role of  Business and Operational Improvement Lead. With over 15 years of experience across aviation, water, and insurance sectors, he brings a unique blend of industry insights to enhance business performance and the value proposition of the Fidelis Insurance Group. His previous tenures include notable insurers like QBE, Talbot [AIG], and Lloyd’s of London, where he was predominantly involved within a Business Improvement capacity. Emre is a certified Lean & Six Sigma Black Belt from the University of Michigan and holds a Green Belt from General Electric, demonstrating his commitment to Operational Excellence and Business Improvement. He also possesses a BEng (Hons) in Aerospace Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London. His multifaceted skill set, and industry experience positively contributes to Fidelis’ ongoing development and success. 

    Email: [email protected]

  • Eva Shahim
    ASSISTANT FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

    Eva joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as an Assistant Financial Controller. She is a qualified chartered accountant with over 8 years of work experience, with a strong expertise in finance.  Her experience spans companies and business units at varying stages of growth, from private start-ups to listed multinational organizations. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce and is a member of The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Fiona Durnin
    BUSINESS SUPPORT AND ADMINISTRATION

    Fiona joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 in the Business Support and Administration role for the Fidelis Insurance Ireland DAC (FIID) team. Fiona has extensive national and international experience focusing on executive support, financial administration, project co-ordination and training. Prior to Fidelis, she worked in Office Management and Operations for a training and recruitment company in Galway, ICE Group. Her other more recent experience was in the engineering and construction sectors, as a Project Co-ordinator in New Zealand (Tonkin + Taylor) and a Cost Engineer in London (Crossrail - TfL).

    Email: [email protected]

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    Fergus O'Sullivan
    REGULATORY REPORTING MANAGER

    Fergus joined Fidelis in 2023 as Regulatory reporting manager. Prior to joining Fidelis, Fergus worked for New Ireland Assurance for 13 years. Fergus has been working in regulatory reporting since 2015 and in his most role with New Ireland was the regulatory & statutory reporting manager. Fergus is a Chartered Tax Advisor with the Irish Tax Institute and is also a Global Chartered Management Accountant with CIMA.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Frederique Wagener
    INVESTMENT REPORTING MANAGER

    Frederique continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Frederique joined Fidelis Insurance in 2019 as a member the Treasury and Investments team in Bermuda. He spent five years with a leading private audit firm in South Africa in a role that involved assurance, audit and tax. He went on to a role where he was involved in the finance team for a company with operations across Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

    Frederique is a member of The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2019.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Gabriela Dobra
    SENIOR TREASURY ANALYST
    *Subject to immigration

    Gabriela continues her role at Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023. Gabriela moved in 2019 to Bermuda from Ireland (where she worked as a CA for variety of clients) for an Account Executive role with an Insurance Management Company. Gabriela joined Fidelis Insurance in 2021 as part of the Treasury and Investment team. Gabriela is an experienced qualified accountant (ACCA).

    Email: [email protected]

  • Hannah Greenwood
    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Hannah joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as the Chief of Staff to CEO Dan Burrows. Prior to joining Fidelis, Hannah worked in the broking sector, most recently for the Ardonagh Group. At Ardonagh, Hannah served as the Chief of Staff for the CEO of Capital Solutions. In this role, she closely collaborated with the executive leadership team to drive strategy and execution across various specialty and reinsurance product lines and initiatives. Before her time at Ardonagh, Hannah worked as an Energy Broker for seven years, handling complex placements for a global client base. Hannah is a graduate of the University of Durham, where she obtained a BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. She has also completed her ACII and more recently, obtained an MBA from Warwick Business School.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Harry Utton
    SENIOR RISK ANALYST

    Harry joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as a Senior Risk Analyst. Prior to this, Harry worked for three and a half years in risk management at Tokio Marine Kiln. Harry has obtained a BSc (Hons) from Canterbury Christ Church University and is currently studying toward the completion of his ACII.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Heather McKenna
    FUL CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Heather continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Heather joined Fidelis Insurance in November 2015 and has over 20 years’ industry experience. Before joining Fidelis Insurance, she spent 3.5 years at Markel and prior to this, 6 years at Arch Re in Bermuda. Heather started her career with Ernst & Young in their Insurance audit practice, first in London and then later in Bermuda. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, and qualified in 2004.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Iain Lever
    FIID CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 

    Iain joined Fidelis Insurance Group in February 2023 as Chief Financial Officer of FIID.  Iain has worked in the international (re)insurance industry since 2000 and has held CFO positions since 2007.  Previously he was Chief Financial Officer of AmTrust International Underwriters in Dublin and prior to that spent 8 years with Ironshore International, where he held the role as Chief Financial Officer for the International division.  He has previous career experience working with Travelers Insurance Company Limited and with Aon Corporation and spent 5 years working in Bermuda.  Iain started his career with Deloitte in Glasgow and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland since 1997.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Ian Houston
    GROUP AND FUL CHIEF UNDERWRITING OFFICER

    Ian joined Fidelis Insurance Group in January 2023. He is the Group and UK Chief Underwriting Officer. Ian is a highly experienced and qualified professional in the insurance industry with an employment history spanning over two decades. Before joining Fidelis, he worked as the Technical Director of Speciality Lines and Head of Group Retrocession at PartnerRe. In this role, he is responsible for the strategy, risk appetite framework, portfolio shaping, and transaction referrals for the Speciality Lines portfolio which includes Agriculture, Aviation, Financial Lines, Specialty Property, Upstream and Downstream Energy, Marine and Property, and Downstream Facultative portfolio. He holds an Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute and has attended various training courses such as the ZFS EXED Training course at IBM in Lausanne and Converium's Executive management course in Vitznau and Washington D.C.

    Email: [email protected]

  • James Collinson
    FUL HEAD OF CLAIMS

    James joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as the Head of Claims IG FUL. Prior to joining Fidelis, James worked at MS Amlin as the Head of Claims. James has 34 years technical and operational claims experience. He has led strategic reviews, large change/integration programmes and provided advisory/consultancy services to both live and run-off insurance entities. James has also spent some time at Lloyd’s where he implemented a number of transformation project for the claims community. James has held Board positions and is an Approved Person. James is an ACII Chartered Insurer.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Janice Weidenborner
    GROUP CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER

    Janice joined Fidelis Insurance Group in January 2023 as the Group Chief Legal Officer and a member of the Group’s Executive Leadership Team. With over 35 years of industry experience, Janice leads the Group’s legal, compliance and governance functions.  Janice has led the legal, compliance and human resource functions at a number of international companies. She served as Group General Counsel and Head of Human Resources at Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., General Counsel at Ariel Reinsurance Ltd., and in several Senior legal roles at the ACE Group of Companies, including as General Counsel of ACE Financial Solutions International, prior to the combination with Chubb.  Janice is a US licensed Attorney and holds a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University, a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

    Email: [email protected]

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    Jaun Merchant
    RESERVING ANALYST

    Jaun joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as a Reserving Actuary in the Actuarial team. Prior to joining Fidelis, Jaun worked as an Actuarial Consultant at Lane Clark & Peacock, where he gained significant experience in reserving and capital modeling across a variety of Lloyd’s syndicates, commercial, and personal lines insurers. He also successfully completed his actuarial exams during this period. Jaun holds a master’s degree in Actuarial Management from Cass Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science and Mathematics from the University of Manchester.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Jillian Benson
    GROUP HEAD OF REPORTING

    Jillian joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as the Group Head of Reporting. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing the reporting process to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She works closely with the executive leadership and board members to effectively communicate financial results to investors and stakeholders. With over 10 years of experience in Financial Reporting, Jillian brings a wealth of expertise, particularly in SEC reporting and strategic projects. Prior to joining Fidelis, Jillian served as the Financial Controller at SiriusPoint Ltd. for 8 years. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (Chartered Accountant).


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    Joe Togneri
    HEAD OF CAPITAL

    Joe joined the Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as Head of Capital. He is an Actuary with 13 years of experience in the insurance market, starting in consultancy before working in house with a number of retail and speciality insurers. Prior to Fidelis he spent 2 years working for Aspen Insurance in capital management, and before that 4 years as a Senior Manager at Lloyds Banking Group.  Joe holds a BSc in Actuarial Science.

    Email: [email protected]

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    John Iles
    GROUP HEAD AND FUL HEAD OF COMPLIANCE 

    John joined the Fidelis Insurance Group in July 2023 as the Group Head of Compliance. Prior to joining, he spent 5 years at MS Amlin, where he served as the Head of Compliance for its Lloyd's syndicate and associated international businesses. Additionally, John has held senior compliance roles in the Lloyd's specialty broking sector. He worked for 4 years as the Compliance Director for Arthur J. Gallagher's UK Specialty business and spent 3 years as the Head of Compliance at Cooper Gay. In addition to his compliance expertise, John brings regulatory and accounting experience to the table. He has previously worked as a supervisor in the FSA's Life insurance division and held a position as a management accountant earlier in his career.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Jonathan Strickle
    GROUP CHIEF ACTUARIAL OFFICER

    Jonny continues in his role as Group Chief Actuarial Officer at Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023. Previously, he held the position of UK Chief Actuary and Group Head of Reserving at Fidelis Insurance, which he joined in 2020. Before that, he served as Head of Reserving for China Re's Syndicate at Lloyds for three years. Prior to that, he spent eight years as a consultant at EY, working on various actuarial projects, primarily in the London market. Jonny is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the University of Warwick.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Joseph Gallagher
    RISK ANALYST

    Jospeh continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Joseph joined Fidelis Insurance in 2022 as a Group Risk Analyst. After graduating from the University of Limerick with a MSc in Financial Services, Joseph when on to work as a Risk Management Specialist at Pramerica System Ireland Ltd and at Am Trust Underwriters DAC. He also holds an H Dip and MA in Compliance, Governance, and Data Protection in Financial Services from the Atlantic Technological University.

    Email: [email protected]

  • LeChe Simmons
    ACCOUNTING MANAGER (NON-TECHNICAL)

    LeChé joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as a Non-Technical Accounting Manager. She is a seasoned accountant having worked at several globally leading firms such as Procter & Gamble and Audi. LeChé is a qualified ACCA Accountant and holds a BA(Hons) in Accounting and Finance from the University of Sunderland.

    Email: [email protected]

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    Marcus Li 
    UNDERWRITING ANALYST AND PORTFOLIO MANAGER

    Marcus joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as an Underwriting Analyst and Portfolio Manager. Within his role, Marcus is responsible for supporting the Group CUO and the Head of Strategic Analysis in setting, articulating, and executing the underwriting strategy for the balance sheet entity. Prior to joining Fidelis, Marcus worked at Aon’s Strategy and Technology Group, where he was a Senior Associate, advising (re)insurance clients on topics from corporate strategy, market entry, TOM designs, to alternative capital structures. Marcus holds a degree in Medieval and Modern Languages from Oxford University. He is passionate about I&D and corporate culture and regularly contributes to industry-wide networks to promote diversity in (re)insurance.   

    Email: [email protected]

  • Michele Chan
    INTERNAL AUDITOR

    Michele joined Fidelis Insurance in 2023 as an Internal Auditor. Prior to joining Fidelis, she worked at KPMG and Sompo International as part of their auditing team. She holds a degree in Economics & Finance and is an ICAEW chartered accountant.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Michelle Dunne
    FIID CHIEF RISK OFFICER

    Michelle continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Michelle joined Fidelis Insurance as a Risk Manager in 2021 and was then promoted to FIID Chief Risk Officer in 2022. Michelle previously worked at Everest Insurance as a Risk Manager and at the Central Bank of Ireland as an Insurance Supervision Manager. She is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Accountants Ireland and holds a Bachelors in Business and Legal Studies.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Michael Smith

    Michael Smith
    REGULATORY REPORTING ACCOUNTANT

    Michael continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Michael joined Fidelis Insurance as a Regulatory Reporting Accountant. Prior to joining Fidelis Insurance, Michael worked as a Senior Financial Accountant at SEB Life international for 4 years. He attended the University of Glasgow and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Mike Pearson
    GROUP CHIEF RISK OFFICER

    Mike Pearson is the Chief Risk Officer for Fidelis Insurance Group. Mike has over 35 years’ experience in the insurance industry and was the Chief Risk Officer at Lancashire Insurance Company from 2010 until 2013. Mike has held roles as Head of Internal Audit in both the Lloyd’s and company markets and Chief Risk Officer roles in the UK and abroad. He is a chartered accountant and a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. 

    Email: [email protected]

  • Nekeasha Thompson
    BUSINESS SUPPORT & EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

    Nekeasha continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Nekeasha joined Fidelis Insurance with over 13 years of professional office Executive Assistant experience.

    Prior to joining Fidelis Insurance, Nekeasha served as Executive Assistant to Underwriting - Credit and Financial Lines and Casualty and Specialty teams at Renaissance Reinsurance. Prior to her executive assistant career, she held positions as Fund Accounting Specialist at JPMorgan Chase and Assistant Accountant and Audit Assistant at EY, formally Ernst & Young.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Niall Garner
    RESERVING ANALYST

    Niall continues his role as a Reserving Analyst at Fidelis Insurance Group, having joined Fidelis Insurance in November 2022. He holds a Master's degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Manchester and has 3 years prior experience in reserving and capital modelling, obtained through his role as an Actuarial Analyst at Thomas Miller.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Nicola Ferreira
    INVESTMENT & TREASURY ANALYST

    Nicola continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Nicola joined the Fidelis Bermuda office in November 2022 in the Treasury department as a Treasury and Investment Analyst. Prior to joining Fidelis, Nicola worked in the finance department at MS Reinsurance for 5 years. She worked on a variety of tasks including claim payments and reconciliation.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Padraig Sheehan
    INVESTMENT ACCOUNTANT

    Padraig continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Pádraig joined the Fidelis Insurance Investments team (Dublin Office) as an Investment Accountant in July 2022 after working in a similar role for 3 years with IPB Insurance. Pádraig is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland, qualifying in 2019 while working with the PwC Risk Assurance Department. Padraig is also currently enrolled in the CFA Program.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Paul Element
    CHIEF RISK OFFICER  

    Paul continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Paul Element joined Fidelis as the UK Chief Risk Officer. He has over 25 years experience in insurance implementing global compliance, risk and capital frameworks for firms including Gallagher, Catlin and Lloyd’s. He holds an ACII and BA(Hons) from the University of Lancaster.

    Email: [email protected] 

  • Pippa Kelly
    BUSINESS SUPPORT AND EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

    Pippa joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as an Executive Assistant and Business Support for our Underwriting, Actuarial, and London Risk teams. Holding a degree in English Language and Linguistic Science from the University of York, her academic foundation has empowered her with exceptional communication skills and an analytical mindset. With a dynamic background that blends academia and professional expertise, Pippa leverages her diverse experience, including a managerial role in registry operations within Higher Education, to seamlessly transition into the private sector, embracing new challenges and opportunities with enthusiasm. Her role at Fidelis allows her to contribute significantly to the success and growth of our teams.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Rachel Cheeseman
    LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

    Rachel joined Fidelis Insurance Group in August 2023 as the Legal Administrative Assistant, providing support to the Legal team and the Company Secretary. Prior to joining, she spent a year with Milbank as a Legal Secretary in their Capital Markets department. She has over nine years of experience in law, with two years in real estate, and has worked for three of the five Golden Circle law firms, including Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Robert Herron
    HEAD OF INTERNAL AUDIT


    Rob continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Rob is the Group Head of Internal Audit and has performed this role since the inception of Fidelis Insurance in 2015. Rob has worked in Internal Audit in insurance for the last 20 years in a variety of insurance companies and Lloyds syndicates in both the London and Bermuda market. Prior to Fidelis Insurance, Rob worked for the prior 7 years at Lancashire Insurance. Rob attended the University of London Queen Mary College where he obtained a BSc in Economics. After this Rob completed the ACCA exams and is a chartered accountant.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Ryan Moyles
    INTERNAL AUDITOR

    Ryan joined Fidelis Insurance in 2023 as an Internal Auditor. Prior to joining Fidelis, he completed a graduate program with Moore Ireland as part of their Governance, Risk & Assurance team. He holds a BA in Finance from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Ryan is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and is in the final stage of becoming a Certified Internal Auditor. He is also in the process of becoming a Chartered Accountant with the ACCA.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Sarah Johnson
    FINANCE MANAGER (REGULATORY REPORTING)

    Sarah continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Sarah joined Fidelis Insurance in 2018 as a Regulatory Reporting Accountant. She is a qualified chartered accountant with over 15 years of experience. Before joining Fidelis Insurance, Sarah worked as a contract accountant holding positions within the Insurance, Re-insurance market, and legal services. In addition, she also worked at Bacardi Limited as a Senior Manager of the Global Finance division in Bermuda.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Shane O'Donovan
    FIID HEAD OF ACTUARIAL FUNCTION

    Shane continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Shane joined Fidelis Insurance in 2020 as Ireland Head of Actuarial Function. He previously worked in Reserving and Pricing and lead the London Reinsurance Pricing team at Aspen where he worked for 10 years. He holds an Honours Degree in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin and an MSc in Actuarial Science from Cass Business School London. Shane has been a fellow of the Insitute and Faculty of Actuaries since 2013.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Simon Giles
    FINANCIAL CONTROLLER (REGULATORY REPORTING) 

    Simon continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Simon joined Fidelis Insurance in 2015 as a reporting Manager and is responsible for all of the regulatory reporting and tax submissions for Fidelis Insurance Group. Prior to joining Fidelis Insurance, Simon worked at Catlin (now AxaXl) as an external Reporting Accountant, and before that he spent 12 years as a Co-op management accountant. 

    Email: [email protected]

  • Sofia Vicente
    SENIOR BUSINESS OPERATIONS ANALYST

    Sofia joined Fidelis Insurance Group in June 2023 as a Senior Business Operations Analyst. With 7 years of experience in Business Operations, Sofia has worked in various industries, including Fintech, Renewables, and Investment Banking. She completed her undergraduate degree in Classical Studies at King's College London in 2015. Later, she obtained the ICAEW's Certificate of Finance and Business (CFAB) and received her Business and Finance Professional designation from the ICAEW in 2021. Sofia has also completed courses in project management and data analytics to enhance her skills in supporting her previous roles in Business Operations.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Stuart Forbes
    COMPLIANCE MANAGER

    Stuart joined Fidelis Insurance Group in January 2023 as the IG Compliance Manager. Stuart has worked in the Lloyd’s market for 28 years initially within the Corporation of Lloyd’s Regulatory Division and then for the latter 20 years for Talbot Underwriting Ltd in various Compliance roles including as Head of Compliance. Stuart attended the University of St Andrews where he obtained an MA in Ancient History, and completed his ACII qualification whilst at Lloyd’s.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Sylvia Lenzen
    GROUP HEAD OF CLAIMS AND FUL HEAD OF CLAIMS

    Sylvia continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Sylvia joined Fidelis Insurance in 2022 having spent 39 years in the London Market Claims Broking community, the last 19 of which were at Aon. Sylvia was Head of Claims for the London Americas team for 14 years moving to Head of Operations for the Americas team London in 2017. Sylvia has claims experience in multiple classes of business across multiple territories. She has a strong business operational background which compliments a focus for exceptional Client claims experience and operational excellence. 

    Sylvia has served on a number of external London and International claims committees.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Titus Evans
    HEAD OF STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

    Titus joined Fidelis Insurance Group in February 2023 as the Head of Strategic Analysis, having previously held a contract role at Fidelis in the Business Transformation team, leading the Outwards Reinsurance TOM project. In his current role, Titus reports to the Group Chief Underwriting Officer and is responsible for supporting leadership in defining and articulating the future direction of the business, as well as oversight of underwriting performance, risk appetite, portfolio shaping, and transaction referrals. Titus is a Fellow of the Institute of Charted Accountants in England and Wales, and has over 12 years of experience in the specialty (re)insurance sector, having held a variety of roles in Finance, Operations and Outwards Reinsurance at Aspen, Munich Re Specialty Group, Catlin and Pacific Life Re.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Tolulope Akinwande
    SENIOR GROUP REPORTING ACCOUNTANT

    Tolulope continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Tolulope joined Fidelis Insurance in 2020 as a Group Reporting Accountant. Prior to joining Fidelis Insurance, Tolulope worked as an FS Audit Assistant Manager at Grant Thortons. She holds an ACA certificate in Accounting.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Valeriya Noel Storr
    SENIOR INTERNAL AUDITOR

    Valeriya continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Valeriya joined Fidelis Insurance in 2019 as an Internal Auditor and brings over 10 years of experience in Internal Audit.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Warrick Beaver
    CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

    Warrick continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group as the new Chief People Officer, following his delivery of the HR component of the landmark Fidelis bifurcation deal. Previously, Warrick provided consultancy to private equity backed specialty (re)insurance brokers for 5 years. Prior to consulting, Warrick worked for 8 years at Thomson Reuters where he also led Financial Crime and Reputational Risk propositions. Warrick has over 2 decades of Global HR leadership with a track record in implementing scalable strategies for rapid growth and transformation. Warrick attended the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA in Psychology and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Daniel Burrows
    GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Dan is a market veteran of 35 years having joined Fidelis Insurance as UK CEO, CUO, and founding member in 2015 before being promoted to Group Managing Director. Dan was also a member of the Fidelis Insurance Executive team and a director of the FIHL Board. He was instrumental in helping to build out the Fidelis Underwriting portfolio through his market connections. Before joining Fidelis, Dan spent his career in the Broking sector having held many senior posts including the head of Global Retrocession at the Benfield group and CEO of Aon's Global Specialty division in 2008. His career has seen him work closely with many of the worlds leading global entities specializing in areas such as non-marine retrocession, aviation, marine, energy, and much more. Dan was also a member of the Benfield Footprint Management program and is an alumni of the Chicago Booth University Aon sponsored Pinnacle program.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Warrick Beaver
    CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

    Warrick continues his role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group as the new Chief People Officer, following his delivery of the HR component of the landmark Fidelis bifurcation deal. Previously, Warrick provided consultancy to private equity backed specialty (re)insurance brokers for 5 years. Prior to consulting, Warrick worked for 8 years at Thomson Reuters where he also led Financial Crime and Reputational Risk propositions. Warrick has over 2 decades of Global HR leadership with a track record in implementing scalable strategies for rapid growth and transformation. Warrick attended the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA in Psychology and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Denise Brown-Branch
    GROUP CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER AND FUL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Denise brings her expertise to Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023. Denise Brown-Branch joined Fidelis Insurance in 2015 and has over 25 years’ experience in Strategic Programme Delivery and Business Change Management. Denise’s career started in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods industry, where she focused on Marketing IT and Global Service Delivery.
    In 2011, she joined Bluefin Solutions, a niche consultancy, where she managed a programme of work for Catlin Insurance.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Andrew Coffey
    FIID CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Andrew is the Chief Executive Officer of FIID. Prior to assuming his executive position, Andrew was a consultant to FIID and brings three decades of management, risk, regulatory and underwriting experience. Andrew was previously Deputy Group CRO at the Standard Club, a specialty marine mutual, and held a number of regulatory approved roles at Standard Club Ireland. Prior to 2019, Andrew spent 13 years with the Central Bank of Ireland in a variety of supervisory leadership roles with a focus on the reinsurance and specialty insurance sector, including as group and EU supervisor for several of the largest reinsurers and specialty insurers with operations in Ireland. Andrew started his career in reinsurance with 11 years of senior underwriting experience. Andrew has an Honours Maths and Economics degree from Trinity College Dublin.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Allan Decleir
    GROUP CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND FIBL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Allan is the Chief Financial Officer of FIHL and the Chief Executive Officer of FIBL. Prior to assuming these executive positions, Mr. Decleir was a consultant to FIBL since June 1, 2022. He has over 26 years of experience in the (re)insurance industry. Since June 2015, Mr. Decleir has been an independent consultant for ThreeSeas Consulting Ltd, providing management consulting services in the Bermuda (re)insurance market. Mr. Decleir was also a Listings Manager at the Canadian Securities Exchange from February 2019 until March 2022. Prior to this, he was Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. (“Platinum”) from June 2010 until March 2015, overseeing SEC, financial and regulatory reporting. He first joined Platinum’s Class 4 reinsurance subsidiary, Platinum Underwriters Bermuda, Ltd., in 2003, and, from 2005 until his promotion to Platinum’s Group CFO, served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Platinum Bermuda, Mr. Decleir was the Chief Financial Officer of Stockton Reinsurance Limited from June 1996 to May 2003. He began his career at Ernst & Young in 1988, taking on various positions in Canada and Bermuda. Mr. Decleir was granted a National Association of Corporate Directors governance fellowship in 2017 and achieved the “Directorship Certified” designation in 2022, and earned the Associate in Reinsurance designation from the Insurance Institute of America in 2000. Mr. Decleir holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (Chartered Accountant).

    Email: [email protected]

  • Ian Houston
    GROUP AND FUL CHIEF UNDERWRITING OFFICER

    Ian joined Fidelis Insurance Group in January 2023. He is the Group and UK Chief Underwriting Officer. Ian is a highly experienced and qualified professional in the insurance industry with an employment history spanning over two decades. Before joining Fidelis, he worked as the Technical Director of Speciality Lines and Head of Group Retrocession at PartnerRe. In this role, he is responsible for the strategy, risk appetite framework, portfolio shaping, and transaction referrals for the Speciality Lines portfolio which includes Agriculture, Aviation, Financial Lines, Specialty Property, Upstream and Downstream Energy, Marine and Property, and Downstream Facultative portfolio. He holds an Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute and has attended various training courses such as the ZFS EXED Training course at IBM in Lausanne and Converium's Executive management course in Vitznau and Washington D.C.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Sylvia Lenzen
    GROUP HEAD OF CLAIMS AND FUL HEAD OF CLAIMS

    Sylvia continues her role in 2023 at Fidelis Insurance Group. Sylvia joined Fidelis Insurance in 2022 having spent 39 years in the London Market Claims Broking community, the last 19 of which were at Aon. Sylvia was Head of Claims for the London Americas team for 14 years moving to Head of Operations for the Americas team London in 2017. Sylvia has claims experience in multiple classes of business across multiple territories. She has a strong business operational background which compliments a focus for exceptional Client claims experience and operational excellence. 

    Sylvia has served on a number of external London and International claims committees.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Dee Pang
    GROUP CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER & CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER 

    Dee joined Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023 as the Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Prior to joining Fidelis, Dee was the CISO of Slaughter and May and before that, he headed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's global cyber security function. With many years of experience in all aspects of building and operating information security programs, Dee has implemented and operated cutting-edge cyber security technologies, managed vulnerability and penetration testing programs, ensured technical and administrative security controls worked as intended, and maintained industry-standard information and cyber security accreditations. He graduated with a BSc in Marine and Freshwater Biology from Queen Mary, University of London.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Mike Pearson
    GROUP CHIEF RISK OFFICER

    Mike Pearson is the Chief Risk Officer for Fidelis Insurance Group. Mike has over 35 years’ experience in the insurance industry and was the Chief Risk Officer at Lancashire Insurance Company from 2010 until 2013. Mike has held roles as Head of Internal Audit in both the Lloyd’s and company markets and Chief Risk Officer roles in the UK and abroad. He is a chartered accountant and a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. 

    Email: [email protected]

  • David Smith
    GROUP CHIEF INVESTMENTS OFFICER

    David continues his role at Fidelis Insurance Group. David joined Fidelis Insurance in 2019 as Group Chief Investment Officer. David started his career with KPMG in Bermuda and spent time in Dublin before moving back to Bermuda to join Harbor Point in 2007 where he was VP of Investments & Treasury. When Harbor Point merged with Max Capital In 2010, David moved to the UK to work for Alterra at Lloyd’s and remained as Assistant Director of Investments until 2013. David was most recently at Chaucer Syndicates Limited where he held the position of Head of Risk and Investments. David is a member of The Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2004 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Jonathan Strickle
    GROUP CHIEF ACTUARIAL OFFICER

    Jonny continues in his role as Group Chief Actuarial Officer at Fidelis Insurance Group in 2023. Previously, he held the position of UK Chief Actuary and Group Head of Reserving at Fidelis Insurance, which he joined in 2020. Before that, he served as Head of Reserving for China Re's Syndicate at Lloyds for three years. Prior to that, he spent eight years as a consultant at EY, working on various actuarial projects, primarily in the London market. Jonny is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the University of Warwick.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Janice Weidenborner
    GROUP CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER

    Janice joined Fidelis Insurance Group in January 2023 as the Group Chief Legal Officer and a member of the Group’s Executive Leadership Team. With over 35 years of industry experience, Janice leads the Group’s legal, compliance and governance functions.  Janice has led the legal, compliance and human resource functions at a number of international companies. She served as Group General Counsel and Head of Human Resources at Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., General Counsel at Ariel Reinsurance Ltd., and in several Senior legal roles at the ACE Group of Companies, including as General Counsel of ACE Financial Solutions International, prior to the combination with Chubb.  Janice is a US licensed Attorney and holds a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University, a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

    Email: [email protected]

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