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Steven Burns
Chief Executive Officer, QBE European Operations
Steven Burns, became Chief Executive Officer of QBE European Operations in 2004. Steven, a chartered accountant, joined the Lloyd’s market with the Janson Green agency in 1987 (subsequently acquired in 1996 by Limit, at that time the largest corporate capital provider to the market). He became Managing Director of Limit in 1999. In 2000 the QBE group acquired Limit and merged its own Lloyd’s operations into the Limit brand with Steven as Chief Executive Officer. In 2004, the QBE Lloyd’s, London and European Company market operations were integrated into a single division as QBE European Operations with Steven appointed as Chief Executive Officer.
Steven was also a member of the Council of Lloyd’s for the 2003 to 2005 years and a non-executive director of the Lloyd’s Franchise Board from 2004 to 2007.
Phil Dodridge
Chief Risk Officer, QBE European Operations
Phil joined QBE in 2000 as Chief Actuary of the Major Risks Division and became Chief Actuary of QBE Insurance (Europe) in 2004. He was appointed as Operations Director of QBE Insurance (Europe) in 2005 and joined the board of Limit in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed Chief Actuarial Officer for QBE European Operations, and in 2009 his role was extended to that of Chief Risk Officer. Prior to QBE, he spent 10 years as a consultant actuary within the general insurance practice of Watson Wyatt. Phil has accumulated experience in a wide range of areas including business planning, capital modelling, reserving, catastrophe aggregate management, reinsurance, acquisitions, pricing and performance monitoring.
Mo Kang
Chief Human Resources Officer, QBE European Operations
Mo joined QBE in September 2003 after spending seven years at Zurich Financial Services in a number of senior positions on the UK management team, including claims operations director, director - organisation development and innovation and head of HR. He previously worked for the Civil Service and he has held HR management roles at HBOS, State Street Bank and Trust and Peugeot Citroen.
David Winkett
Chief Financial Officer, QBE European Operations
David joined QBE in 2000 and was appointed Finance Director of Limit later that year when it was acquired by QBE. He was chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association Finance Committee from 2008 to 2010 and is a member of the Lloyd’s Investment Committee. He is a chartered accountant and spent 10 years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers working extensively with Lloyd’s, London market and international insurance companies. David was appointed Chief Financial Officer of QBE’s European Operations in September 2004.