Job Moves and Senior Appointments 01.12.2025

Bridget Tatham, Partner at Browne Jacobson, has been elected President of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL) for 2026, taking over from Howard Dean, Partner at Keoghs. Bridget is an Employer’s Liability and Public Liability specialist with more than 30 years’ experience supporting clients on complex claims ranging from occupational disease to life changing brain and spinal injuries. Bridget also currently chairs FOIL’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, and this will be a key area of focus for her during her presidency.

Bridget’s appointment comes at a pivotal time for the insurance industry, with geopolitical, financial and environmental challenges all influencing its landscape. Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, alongside persistent inflation, continue to characterise the nature, volume and frequency of claims. Meanwhile, the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and evolving technology regulation are transforming the sector, bringing data security, cyber risk and AI governance to the forefront for insurers and their clients.

Fairer Finance has appointed Charles Randell CBE to its independent Consumer Advisory Board, strengthening its external challenge and oversight of the consumer group.

Randell is the former chair of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator and has previously served as a member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority. He was a partner at Slaughter and May for over 20 years specialising in corporate finance law, and is currently Commissioner at the Financial Inclusion Committee. He brings decades of experience across financial regulation, public policy and corporate finance law.

With a heritage spanning over a decade, Fairer Finance is an independent consumer group, consultancy, and ratings provider whose mission is to help create a financial services market that is fair for consumers as well as the companies that serve them. The Fairer Finance Consumer Advisory Board oversees the consumer group’s research, ratings, commercial relationships, policy work and public commentary, to ensure that its independence and consumer focus are maintained. The board is chaired by Helene Brichet.

TMK

Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), a leading specialist insurer, announces it has appointed Harry Gregory as an underwriter within its Liability team. He takes up his new role with immediate effect and will report to Oliver Delaney, Departmental Head of Liability.

Gregory joins from Marsh where he served, most recently, as a Vice President working with clients across its global network. In this role, he was responsible for the design and placement of Liability programmes for both national and multinational companies across the Energy, Power and Renewables sectors.

PEN UNDERWRITING

Pen Underwriting, the multi-class multi-territory managing general agent (MGA), has made a series of leadership appointments within its specialist Marine practice and announced structural changes to support strategic growth and future expansion.

All roles will be effective 1 January 2026 and report into Seb Simmonds, Managing Director of Pen Underwriting’s Public Sector & International division, within which the specialist Marine practice sits.

• Tom Batterbury, as Managing Director, will head up and take responsibility for Pen’s marine war and marine professional indemnity businesses, which trade respectively as Vessel Protect and Freeboard, leading their teams of underwriters
• Jack Buchan, as Managing Director, will assume leadership of and responsibility for Pen’s brown water hull specialist, Fortify, and its team of underwriters
• James King, as Managing Director, will head up and hold responsibility for Pen’s specialist ports & terminals facility and its underwriters, which trade as BMM Ports & Terminals
• Stephen Loader, as Managing Director, will assume leadership of and take sole responsibility for Pen’s specialist marine trades business TMT, which provides tailored property and liability cover solutions for everything from boat builders, repairers and suppliers to equipment manufacturers, clubs and marinas.

Additionally, Munro Anderson (currently Director of Operations for Vessel Protect) has been promoted to Director of Strategy & Operations for Pen’s Marine practice. Munro’s new pan-practice role will see him tasked with executing on the strategic vision for growth and driving operational excellence and consistency across the different underwriting specialisms.

James Kent (currently senior marine underwriter) will also take on a new pan-practice role in the new structure to reflect the breadth of his marine experience across underwriting, claims and broking over the past 25 years in the sector. As Commercial Director he will support the development of new products and solutions, strategic distribution and carrier relationships across the breadth of Pen’s marine specialisms.

SWEDISH CLUB

The Swedish Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Terri Jay as Head, Charterers & Traders, a move that reinforces the Club’s strategic ambition to expand its global footprint and deliver enhanced value to members across the charterers’ and traders’ segment.

Terri Jay joins The Swedish Club from Gard AS following a distinguished three-decade career where she has held a series of senior underwriting and leadership positions, most recently as Vice President, Traders responsible for Gard’s worldwide charterers’ and traders’ portfolio. She has led an international team and played a pivotal role in developing and managing specialist P&I products for Gard.  

ARCH INSURANCE

Arch Insurance International (Arch) has announced the appointment of Beth Jenkins as a Senior Casualty Underwriter, with immediate effect.

In this role, Jenkins is responsible for supporting the expansion of Arch’s casualty portfolio, with a focus on developing its UK risk managed retail platform and wholesale EEA business. Based in London, she reports to Marie-Claire Bessada, Head of Retail, General Liability.

Jenkins joins Arch from Allied World, where she was most recently a Casualty Underwriter and has previously held underwriting roles at Munich Re.

DAVIES

Davies, the leading specialist professional services and technology firm serving insurance and highly regulated markets, has announced the appointment of Reshma Jose as Vice President and finance lead of its captive management business.  Jose will be based in Guernsey and report directly to Christina Bell, Head of the Guernsey office.

Jose is a chartered accountant with more than a decade of experience in financial strategy and reporting, regulatory compliance, investment oversight and audit within the insurance industry. She joins from AON Insurance Managers, where she held the role of financial account manager, responsible for financial strategy and performance analysis for a diverse portfolio of captive insurance clients. Jose has also held roles at EY and Deloitte.

GRI SUPERVISORY BOARD

Jane Diplock is appointed Chair of the Supervisory Board – the decision-making body responsible for overseeing organizational priorities and strategy. Jane, a former Chair of IOSCO, steps up following two years as a Supervisory Board Member, with Jessica Fries to stand down as her term as Chair ends, and after six years on the Board.

Bola Adeeko continues as Vice Chair for the remainder of his second term on the Supervisory Board, while Jyrki Raina will depart after six years’ service. Two new members are appointed:

• Peiyuan Guo, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance – China
• Sue Longley, former General Secretary of the IUF (Academic Institute of France) – Switzerland

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