Linc Trimble

Head of US Casualty (US)

Linc is responsible for executing a country wide growth strategy for the US platform of Torus; expanding Torus’ brand and customer reach and building a regional infrastructure across the United States. He joined Torus in March 2009.

 

From 2005, he acted as President of Statehouse Casualty Managers, a nationwide managing general underwriting firm specializing in umbrella & excess liability products, prior to which he was at St. Paul Travelers as head of its US field operations for its Specialty Excess division, and also served as President of St. Paul (Bermuda) Ltd.

 

Linc began his career in 1986 with Chubb Corp, holding several management positions including Senior Vice President of Property & Casualty at Chubb Atlantic in Bermuda.

Rob Powell

Group Chief Claims Officer (UK)

As Group Chief Claims Officer, Rob is responsible for the delivery of Torus’ claims products worldwide, personally engaging in handling major property and energy claims, including business interruption.

 

Prior to joining Torus in August 2008, he worked at Xchanging, where he provided a range of services to the Lloyd’s market in London as Head of First Party Claims. He has worked as an Independent Loss Adjuster for much of his 29 year career, reaching the position of President of Cunningham Lindsey International (US) inc, based in New York.

 

He is qualified by examination as a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and has Chartered Insurer status. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters and a European Loss Adjusting Expert - FUEDI (European Federation of Loss Adjusting experts).

Steven Norcliffe

SVP, Head of Construction (UK)

Steven has a B.Sc. honours degree in engineering and is both a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

 

His working career commenced on a coal fired power station in South Africa in 1983 where he was an assistant commissioning engineer. In 1986 he worked as a commissioning engineer at Torness Nuclear Power Station in Scotland and from 1989 until 1994 he worked as a steam turbine sales and project engineer for Siemens in both England and Germany.

 

Steven commenced his underwriting career in 1994 with Munich Re in London. In the last 15 years he has underwritten some of the world’s major projects and has visited literally hundreds of sites to meet with clients and survey the risks that he has written. Steven was promoted to the position of engineering manager in 2003 and was responsible for a team of eight professionals whilst at Munich Re.

 

Steven joined Torus in October 2008

Chris Halm

Head of Engineering (UK)

Chris is a process safety engineer with over 15 years' experience in the onshore oil, gas & petrochemical industry.

Prior to joining Torus he worked for a globally operating Loss Adjusting firm as Regional Engineer based in Latin America on large engineering claims in refineries, natural gas liquefaction and petrochemical plants.

 

He started his career in the insurance industry as an Account Engineer with a Swiss insurance company. Chris is a native German speaker and fluent in both English and Spanish.

Marc van der Veer

CUO - Specialty Europe (UK/Amsterdam)

Marc has over 15 years of Specialty Insurance experience having most recently held the position of Managing Director for Hiscox Europe.

 

Prior to Hiscox, Marc was head of XL Capital’s Continental Professional Division.

David Ring

UK Head of General Property (UK)

David is responsible for managing and growing the UK and European general property underwriting portfolio.

 

Prior to Torus he was at RSA for over 20 years in a variety of property underwriting roles around the world, including the UK, Europe and North America. Most recently he was head of commercial lines underwriting for the insurer’s international businesses, which included Canada, Scandinavia, Italy and Ireland, having spent two years in Denmark as Global Property Portfolio Manager for the insurer’s Nordic business.

Jackie Richardson

SVP, Head of Human Resources (US)

Jackie is responsible for implementing the Human Resources strategy for the Group worldwide. She joined Tours in January 2010, bringing over 20 years of experience in Human Resources in the insurance industry to the role.

 

Prior to Torus, she was Executive VP, HR for the Americas at Synovate, a global market research firm. Her most recent role before Synovate was VP for Property and Casualty HR at CNA, where she oversaw HR strategies for their P&C operations globally.

 

In addition to an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, she holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard and her professional credentials include the successful completion of the Human Resources Executive Program at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Simon Urry

Senior Casualty Underwriter (UK)

Simon has over 30 years experience in liability insurance.

 

Prior to Torus he was at Markel International where he led the Global Marine and Energy Liability account of the company’s Lloyd’s syndicate following Markel’s purchase of Octavian in 1999. He has also worked at Aon Group Limited Energy and C.E Heath, now Heath Lambert.

Robert Allen

SVP Medical Professional Liability (US)

Robert has over 20 years of healthcare liability experience. He oversees all of Torus’ US medical professional liability underwriting reporting directly to Dermot O’Donohoe, Chief Underwriting Officer for Global Specialty.

 

Prior to Torus Robert was most recently Vice President of Healthcare with Allied World Assurance (US), where he was responsible for the medical professional liability product line. He has held senior underwriting positions at Zurich Insurance, U.S. RE and AIG. He has also held healthcare brokerage positions with Marsh and Johnson & Higgins.

 

Robert is a psychology graduate from the University of Virginia and an active member of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS).

David Message

SVP, Head of Offshore, Upstream and Onshore, Energy (UK)

With experience spanning over 23 years, David is no stranger to the intricacies of the Specialty Insurance Market.

 

Beginning his career in the late 1980’s at Willis, he quickly progressed and later moved into the Offshore Energy field with Hiscox.

 

By 2000, David was Global Head of Offshore Energy and Regional Head of Marine at XL before joining Torus in 2009.

David Turp

Senior Offshore Energy Underwriter (UK)

David has over 20 years’ energy and non marine insurance experience, both in underwriting and broking.

 

He joined Torus in October 2009 from SOVAG, the Russian-backed company specialising in writing Eastern European risk and a member of the Ingosstrakh Insurance Co & SOGAZ/Gazprom group(s) of companies, where he was Senior Energy and Non Marine Class Underwriter.

 

Prior to SOVAG he was Associate Director of Heath Lambert’s Energy Division.

Ben Wilson

Ben has worked in the London insurance market since 1990, joining Torus in June 2008 to build and lead the Global Power& Utilities platform, which currently has seven underwriters and engineers in London, Chicago and India.

 

Prior to Torus, Ben was most recently Deputy Business Group Leader for the Energy Team at Catlin, having joined Wellington originally as a Senior Underwriter for its Power & Utilities portfolio from Sedgwick/Price Forbes in 2001.

Jeff Grange

Jeff is a leading expert on management professional liability, directors & officers liability, operational risk, employee crime, unauthorized (rogue) trading, cyber crime and e-risk management.

 

He joined Torus from Chubb in October 2010 where he was Senior Vice President and worldwide manager for their professional liability businesses, which included legal, technology, life sciences, media/entertainment, healthcare industry and financial institution segments.

 

He is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he received a B.Sc., in Human Physiology in 1987 and a B.Arts, in Political Science in 1989.

Printhan Sothinathan

Chief Strategy Officer (UK)

Printhan began his insurance career in 1998 and joined Torus in April 2009 as Head of Underwriting Strategy & Ceded Reinsurance. He was promoted to his current position in February 2010 where he is now responsible for the identification and development of all strategic business and product opportunities across the Torus Group. He also oversees the structuring and purchasing of the Group’s outwards reinsurance program and supports Dermot O’Donohoe as Specialty Product Manager.

 

During his 12 year career he has worked in various actuarial and reinsurance purchasing roles at Navigators, Zurich and Tillinghast both in Lloyd’s and the London market.

Dermot O’Donohoe

CUO Global Speciality and COO Europe, (UK)

Dermot joined Torus in September 2009 to launch Torus’ Global Specialty division, which, currently offers D&O and Professional Indemnity insurance in Europe. He also serves as Chief Operating Officer for Torus UK & Europe.

 

He has over 25 years’ underwriting experience and is a former member of the Council of Lloyd’s. He joined Torus from XL, where he was most recently Chief Underwriting Officer of XL Insurance’s Global Specialty Operations managing its Aerospace, Environmental,

Equine, Marine, Offshore Energy and Program businesses globally. He was also CEO of its London market operations, assuming the role of Active Underwriter of its syndicate. Dermot joined XL Europe Ltd in 1991 as a D&O and Professional Lines underwriter and progressed to President and CEO of XL Europe and Chief Executive of XL Insurance Co. Ltd in December 2002.

 

He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and holds an MA from Dublin City University. He is also a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII) and the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MMII).