This one day event will provide representatives from the Miami and Lloyd’s insurance market with the chance to network and discuss future business opportunities.

The ‘Meet the Market’ will recreate the famous Lloyd’s Underwriting Room with a series of ‘boxes’ hosted by syndicate underwriters representing multiple classes of business at Lloyd’s. New for this year will be some workshops for you to attend, more details to follow.

To help plan your visit to the event, download the event programme where you can find contact details of all the boxholders to book meetings as well as key timings etc.

This year’s event is sponsored by Beazley, Brit Insurance, Liberty Specialty Markets and Chaucer

Attendance to the event is free of charge.

Place:

The Alfred duPont Building
169 East Flagler Street
Miami
Florida 33131

Agenda

15.00 – 17.00 Registration and refreshments
15.20 Welcome to Meet the Market 2019 in the North Ballroom
Daniel Revilla – Regional Head of Latin America, Lloyd’s
15.30 Keynote address in the North Ballroom
Hank Watkins – Regional Director and President, Lloyd’s Americas
15.45 Meet the Market opens
15.50 – 16.20 Active Assailant Insurance presentation hosted by
Peter Bransden, Aspen
16.20 – 16.50 War and Terrorism presentation hosted by Georgina Rennie,
Talbot
17.00 Networking Reception in the South Ballroom
18.00 Meet the Market closes and event ends

Speaker biographies

Hank Watkins
Regional Director & President, Lloyd’s Americas.

Hank is responsible for Lloyd’s market development activities in the US, Canada and Latin America. From offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfort KY, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Bogota, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro, Lloyd’s is actively engaged in educational and marketing outreach to retail, wholesale and reinsurance intermediaries,
risk managers, managing general agents, risk management programs at colleges & universities and other stakeholders in the Lloyd’s market.

Hank has more than 35 years of experience in the insurance industry and has held a range of underwriting, client management and leadership positions in the United States and Europe at Chubb, Johnson & Higgins, Marsh and HRH. Hank received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and has completed an executive leadership program at The Wharton School. He’s a member of the Board of Overseers at St. John’s University’s School of Risk Management and is on the boards of the Insurance Information Institute and Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (NY/Northeast Division).

With more than 55% of Lloyd’s global premium in 2018, the Americas region is Lloyd’s largest market for insurance (E&S in the US) and reinsurance. In addition to market development, Lloyd’s colleagues in the Americas provide media relations and regulatory support to the managing agents / syndicates and operational oversight of the licensed platforms in Illinois, Kentucky, the USVI and our Lineage system in Montreal.

Daniel Revilla
Regional Head of Latin America, Lloyd’s

Since January 2016, Daniel assumed the role of Lloyd’s Regional Head for Latin America, previously serving as Head of Operations and Strategy for Global Markets (since January 2014). In both roles he has supported Lloyd’s growth in international markets and the implementation of Lloyd’s strategy and vision.

Prior to joining Lloyd’s, Daniel worked for nine years at Zurich Insurance (Switzerland), in strategy and business development roles, and spent the last three years as Head of Strategy for General Insurance. He previously worked for UBS Investment Bank in London (2001-2005) in M&A Advisory and Strategy. In Peru, his country of origin, Daniel worked for Telefónica Sistemas as Financial Director (1996-1999) and began his career at AFP Integra (a mutual fund) as Investment and Financial Planning Analyst (1995).

He holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) and studied Business Administration and Accounting at the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima.

Related events: LLoyd´s second annual Miami Meet the Market 2018