Ben Busfield

Ben started working in insurance in 2012 on the Zurich Graduate program. He has since experienced a number of functions throughout his career to date including Underwriting, Claims and Business Analysis.  Ben is ACII accredited and prior to joining the MGAA qualified as a Chartered Insurer. In addition to this Ben has also passed the PRINCE2 Foundation Project Management course. Previously, he worked at a CII local institute as Careers Secretary where he also supported educational events throughout the year. Ben is currently the Operations Manager at the MGAA having moved from Zurich in October 2019.

Jim Bryce

Dominic Christian 

He is a member of the Global Executive of Aon.

Prior to this he was co-CEO of Aon Benfield and CEO of Aon UK Limited.  He was a Group Board Director of Benfield Group plc, CEO of its International Division and CEO of Benfield Ltd. Dominic began his career in the mid-1980s at specialist broker JK Buckenham, joined broker Greig Fester in 1989 and became a director in 1994. He has spent a significant portion of his career broking retrocession business and, when his colleagues allow, he endeavours to continue to do so.

Dominic is a Director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a Director of The Bermuda Society, Chairman of the Lloyd's Tercentenary Research Foundation and Chairman of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA). In 2014 he was honoured to be elected as a Member of the Council of Lloyd’s. For 2015/16 he was President of the Insurance Institute of London. He was recently re-elected to the Court of Common Council of The City of London. He leads the Inclusion@Lloyd's Group – a contemporary approach to Diversity and Inclusion being in his view central to future business success.  He was recently appointed Chair of ClimateWise.

Dominic holds an Honours Degree in History from the University of East Anglia and an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law.

His children describe his interests as family, conversation, history, architecture, football, tennis, lakes, cats and over-working.  Not all are approved of.

David Constable 

David joined the Sun Alliance group in 1976 straight from school as a Professional Trainee which was a training programme to fast track certain employees into senior positions. On transfer to London in 1978 and joined the Head Office team in 1982 to further his career opportunities.

This resulted in a management position at the Regional office in Watford in 1984 and in 1987 a transfer to London, underwriting within the International Risk Department with a subsequent promotion to the Home Foreign Department in 1988 as the Manager of International Liability, Home & Foreign.

He joined M W Payne Syndicate 386.( Syndicate 386 is a specialist worldwide (excluding US) non-marine liability syndicate in Lloyds),  in 1991 when it was part of the Janson Green Managing Agency in  Lloyd’s. The syndicate was renamed R J Wallace Syndicate in 1993.He wrote mainly International Casualty business. In 1997 he assumed responsibility for the International Account and joined the syndicate Board.

Limit Ltd bought the Janson Green Agency in the mid-nineties and the QBE bought Limit Ltd in 1999. David became the Deputy Underwriter of Syndicate 386 in 2002 and then Active Underwriter in 2003; a position he held until March 2011.

In 2007, David was appointed joint MD of QBE Casualty following the integration of the QBE Casualty businesses and the following year, he stepped down as MD but was appointed Chair of the QBE European Operations Casualty division's executive committee and also as Director of Underwriting and Operations. David also represented the QBE on the LMA Board at Lloyd’s from 2009.

After a sabbatical David joined the R J Kiln Board as a non-executive director with effect from 1^st July 2013 and undertook Peer Review and Expert Witness work at the same time at a variety of other Lloyd’s syndicates. David retired from the Tokio Marine Board in March 2019 but continued with involvement on Peer Review and currently is on a fixed term Contract with Asta at Syndicate 2525 which commenced in January 2020.

David Croom-Johnson 

David is Managing Director of AEGIS London

He joined in 2000 as Head of Casualty from the Janson Green Syndicate and was appointed Active Underwriting in 2007. In 2015 he became Managing Director.

He has been instrumental in the diversification that has taken place within AEGIS London since 2007 and in developing many new and innovative products.

He is a member of the LMA Board and has chaired the Lloyd's Marine and joint Liability Committees.

He is a Chartered Insurer and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute

Karen Graves

Karen has been working in the Lloyd’s and London market for over 30 years, starting her career in the compliance arena, moving on to a COO and then a CEO role within the Lloyd’s market for an established Lloyd’s Managing Agency. She is also the Senior Independent Director for the USAA Limited and USAA SA and Vice Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust.
SCOR SE was her first Global Reinsurance role and within scope fall operational matters, oversight and coordination of EMEA satellite offices (Madrid, Milan, Stockholm, Dublin, Moscow, Amsterdam, South Africa and Brussels),  Internal Controls, Operational Risk Management, Regulatory Relationships, Property Affairs, Hub Compliance and working with the business divisions on new projects from a strategic perspective. Her experience, prior to SCOR SE, has included establishing offices overseas, taking part in EU College of Supervisors meetings and rolling out compliance processes, with a particular emphasis on corporate governance.
Karen is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers and Chair of the Independent Women in Insurance Committee (iWIN). A Founder Member of European Council for the Advancement of Women in Leadership and addition to this a supporter of the Lloyd’s Military Network for senior officers leaving the Armed Forces. As a supporter of educational diversity Karen is Vice Chair of the Burnt Mill Academy Trust, and as a keen painter a member of Lloyd’s Art Group. Age and educational diversity are of particular interest and she often takes part in presentations and conferences on these topics, along with being an ally to LGBTQ colleagues.

Steve McGill

Steve has over 40 years’ experience in the insurance industry. He started at Bland Payne and Willis Faber before moving to JLT where he undertook a variety of leadership roles until he was appointed CEO in 2001. He left JLT for Aon, where most recently he was Group President. He is the founder and CEO of McGill and Partners.

Suneeta Padda 

Suneeta founded Padda Consulting in 2012 – established to support the insurance market achieve and maintain compliance with UK and international regulatory requirements.

Suneeta started her career at the Financial Conduct Authority in 2005 and has since undertaken and managed a wide range of regulatory engagements for numerous firms across the insurance sector, holding senior positions within a number of these firms, previous roles include: Head of Group Compliance and Risk at Howden Broking Group, Head of Compliance for Amlin UK, Interim Head of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at XL Catlin and her most recent position as Interim Head of Compliance at Lloyd’s of London.

Suneeta is a fellow Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers and a Freeman of the City of London. She is also a committee member of the independent Women in Insurance (iWIN).