Educates and Empowers Boards To Deliver Enhanced Value

Regenesis Boardroom Review

The CWC / Regenesis Partnership

Is Your Board and Its Directors at Risk?

Directing a Captive or SME insurer was never a walk in the park.

Globally, Regulatory Expectations and Codes of Practice continue their advance. Boards, Committees, Chairs and Directors now subject to regular, formal and rigorous, evaluation. Action to protect your Directors from risk can start here.

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Regenesis Boardroom Risk Analysis

  • This will give you an instant risk score
  • We will call you to walk you through the detail.
  • It’s Instant, Online, Confidential & Free

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Our Vision

To Educate and Empower Boards To Deliver Enhanced Value.

Our Action

Helps: Captives and SME Insurers respond to the new Regulations and Codes of Practice.

Teams-Up: with You and leading Boardroom Development Specialist Thomas Welsh

Provides: You with Regenesis Boardroom Review. An affordable, simple, effective way to check your Boards performance.

Regenesis Boardroom Review:

  1. Shows you what you do well.
  2. Identifies areas for development.
  3. Furnishes the board with insightful recommendations.

Your Choices

Regenesis Boardroom Review is all about choice:

  • Provides your Board with a comprehensive review of performance.
  • Explores your functioning and ways of working.
  • Sees your Board Members and Board from within and outside
  • Compares with what excellence looks like
  • Chooses when and how to change and improve.
  • Decides how, when and to what extent, your Board regenerates itself.
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Compares Your Board With What Really Great Looks Like

The good news is, dealing with your highest risk regulations also gives your
Board and organisation the biggest gains. The intention of compliance tasks
and standards is really to prevent failure. RBR allows you view this another
way to

✅  Define what yours as a really great Board looks like.

✅  Confidently pursue the outputs to prove minimized risk and
sustained compliance.

✅   Improve your regulatory reputation bydemonstrating how
good practice eliminates risk, secures compliance, and ensures
great results.

Discover

Discovers Exactly What to Change and How

✅  Enables you to simplify your system to ensure all your boards moving
parts optimize outputs, demonstrate core compliance, and give your
board more confidence in its overview, controls, and testing of issues.

✅  Shows you how to systematically and progressively test every aspect
of your Board and Committee functioning to identify beneficial
improvement through improved regulatory alignment?

✅  Creates coordinated proof of how good governance, risk reduction, and
regulatory compliance drives sustainable performance.

Motivate

Motivates Board Members to Create the Biggest Gains to
Reduce Biggest Risks

✅  All too often multiple information requests can make your team
defensive and weary . Regenesis Boardroom Review enables you
to turn this round and be pleased to share examples of good results
and effective systems arising from compliance by design.

✅  So often a simple change of system can apply the benefits from
multiple regulations giving rise to integrated and credible responses
to inquiries and real time support to needed innovations and changes

✅  Coordinating compliance with a simple shift of how your board is
structured provides the mechanism for creating better whole system
inherent and residual risk evaluations, controls documentation
and evidence.

Quality

Proves The Quality and Integrity of the Boards Work and
Systems to Regulators and Legislators

✅  Transforming external compliance and regulatory visits can be an
opportunity to showcase and improve you boards compliance
process and make all your stakeholder engagement much simpler

✅  All stakeholders, regulators and other external third parties are at
heart seeking assurance their interests are being looked after.
The Directors as their trusted fiduciaries can find it much easier to
adjust the Board’s systems to more directly create these outputs.

✅  Moreover, just as this approach simultaneously provides ongoing
confirmation of Board Good Practice to others, it also in so doing
greatly reduces the exposure to risks to which they and their
personal assets could otherwise be exposed.

Regenesis Boardroom Risk Analysis

  • This will give you an instant risk score
  • We will call you to walk you through the detail.
  • It’s Instant, Online, Confidential & Free

Read more on the Regenesis Boardroom Review 

Is Your Captive board performing to its fullest potential?

Here’s some recent survey results from the Risk Management Institute,
SRS3 and PWC:

  • “77% reported no annual Board and committee evaluation processes.”
  • “Half of management think that their Board falls short in overall effectiveness”

Recommendations included:

  • Reassessing Board (and committee) self-evaluation processes:
    • How the Board as a whole is adding value
    • Areas it may need to improve or spend more time on.
  •  Focusing on succession planning:
    • The Board should know where it is going
    • Determining what skills are needed in the future.
  • Providing feedback to management:
    • How agenda, Board papers and presentations could be improved.
    • Make it easier for the Board to fully engage.

How Do You Respond?

Regenesis Boardroom Review” enables your Board to:

  • See what they do well
  • Identify where opportunity exists for your Captive to reach its full potential.

At its heart is an assessment tool that provides evidence-based output. It is not an onerous exercise. It simply requires:

  1. Your captive manager and company secretary to provide certain documentation and records, and;
  2. Your Board Members to complete an on-line questionnaire.

From this you receive an insightful report identifying:

  • Core documentation
  • Collective Board capabilities
  • Declarations of suitabiity for each Board Member
  • Declarations and confirmations of Board compliance
  • Opportunities for improved performance and development.

You can access a Short Workshop to help your Board explore these opportunities. You also receive “Building the Future”. A Development Guide for Boards and their Members

Regenesis Boardroom Risk Analysis

  • This will give you an instant risk score
  • We will call you to walk you through the detail.
  • It’s Instant, Online, Confidential & Free

About the Team

Please contact Malcolm to discuss your evaluation and
your Board’s requirements.

The CWC / Regenesis Partnership

Here's what clients say:

  • “Enhanced strategic focus and clarity of purpose”
  • “Improved board development”
  • “Greater clarity of the board’s role and the governance framework”
  • “Better operational focus related to strategic objectives”
  • “Stronger core documentation”
  • “Helps us see the headroom to grow and develop as a Board”
Enables Boards to contribute much greater value to their organisation, their clients and the world by checking and confirming their own regulatory and functional integrity, and completeness:
  • RBR is a means of evaluating a captive board’s performance and competencies.
  • More importantly it identifies “headroom” – areas ripe for development that will lead to the biggest gains
  • It also enables the board, collectively and individually, to make declarations with confidence about the governance of the captive
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  • BRB is a means of evaluating a captive board’s performance and identifying “headspace” – areas ripe for development that will lead to the biggest gains
  • It also enables the board, collectively and individually, to make declarations with confidence about the governance of the captive
  • It is not intrusive, delivers findings based on documented outputs/outcomes rather than aspirational inputs
  • Findings are laid out in an easy to navigate report structure with suggested areas of development for the board’s consideration.
  • Can participate in a subsequent workshop to explore “headroom” opportunities
Checks the presence of required outputs necessary to fulfil its present potential to add maximum value to its stakeholders:
  • At the heart of RBR is an assessment tool that provides evidence-based outputs
  • Review of core documents
  • On line self-assessment questionnaire that directors complete in 30 mins
  • It is not intrusive, delivers findings based on documented outputs/outcomes rather than aspirational inputs
  • Findings are laid out in an easy to navigate report structure with suggested areas of development for the board’s consideration
  • Can participate in a subsequent workshop to explore “headroom” opportunities
  • Board remains in control at all times

  • At the heart of RBR is an assessment tool that provides evidence based outputs
  • Review of core documents
  • On line self assessment questionnaire that directors complete in 30 mins
  • Board remains in control at all times

Ensures the Board and Board Members can continue to grow and develop their efficiency and effectiveness throughout their lifecycle of service:

  • Any time of a board’s life cycle is suitable. But given tough market conditions, emerging risk and pandemic, never been a better time to conduct RBR
  • Takes 6 weeks in all. Simple time line is followed

  • Any time of a board’s life cycle is suitable. But given tough market conditions, emerging risk and pandemic, never been a better time to conduct RBR
  • Takes 6 weeks in all. Simple time line is followed

Behoves every Board Member to uphold their ambassadorial role to advocate and be lo be loyal to the extant mission, vision, values, and decisions of the Board, publicly and privately:

  • Can be undertaken remotely. Directors complete self-assessment on-line
  • Manager & Co Sec provide core documentation
  • RBR work handled remotely, report issued via email

  • Can be undertaken remotely. Directors complete self assessment on-line
  • Manager & Co Sec provide core documentation
  • RBR work handled remotely, report issued via email

Includes all who serve on the Board and Committees: Chair, Exec, Non-Exec, , Management team, Company Secretarial, or any person who has a substantive role in service to the Board:

  • Directors and Manager &Co Sec contribute
  • CWC (captive industry experts) and Thomas Welsh (board development coach) conduct the review and issue the report of findings

  • Directors and Manager &Co Sec contribute
  • CWC (captive industry experts) and Thomas Welsh (business coach) conduct the review and issue the report of findings

Guarantees Board Members are able to deliver their Fiduciary Duty (in law as professionals) to give of their best by giving them the tools to continuously develop themselves and their Board:

  • Developed in response to unique challenges of today
    • Scrutiny from regulator, shareholder and other stakeholders
    • Need to demonstrate board is aligned to business strategy, delivering value
    • Need to evidence effective governance
    • Hard market, covid 19, new risks (e.g. climate change, cyber)
  • RBR is proportionate to the scale and complexity of the captive. Affordable
  • Applies board best practice to captive industry market standards, other products are generic, subjective & lack rigour or over-engineered

 
Developed in response to unique challenges of today

  • Scrutiny from regulator, shareholder and other stakeholders
  • Need to demonstrate board is aligned to business strategy, delivering value
  • Need to evidence effective governance
  • Hard market, covid 19, new risks (eg climate change, cyber)

RBR is proportionate to the scale and complexity of the captive. Affordable

Applies business coaching best practice to captive industry market standards, other products are generic, subjective & lack rigour or over-engineered

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Industry Engagement

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To continue to offer, or to create, a compelling and competitive captive offering, domicile authorities need to understand the global captive marketplace, changing stakeholder demands and threats or opportunities for the business. It can be a challenge for these bodies to be able to access independent, insightful advice upon which to base their strategic planning and resource allocation.

Examples of CWC services for Industry Engagement:

  • Advising regulators on pragmatic implementation of regulatory change.
  • Recommend to promotional agencies how to enhance their domicile proposition and advance their strategic thinking.
  • Assist governmental bodies on the needs of the captive industry to facilitate the delivery of enabling legislation to allow the local captive business to flourish.

Short Term Consignment

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To continue to offer, or to create, a compelling and competitive captive offering, domicile authorities need to understand the global captive marketplace, changing stakeholder demands and threats or opportunities for the business. It can be a challenge for these bodies to be able to access independent, insightful advice upon which to base their strategic planning and resource allocation.

Examples of CWC services for Short Term Consignment:

  • Advising regulators on pragmatic implementation of regulatory change.
  • Recommend to promotional agencies how to enhance their domicile proposition and advance their strategic thinking.
  • Assist governmental bodies on the needs of the captive industry to facilitate the delivery of enabling legislation to allow the local captive business to flourish.

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To continue to offer, or to create, a compelling and competitive captive offering, domicile authorities need to understand the global captive marketplace, changing stakeholder demands and threats or opportunities for the business. It can be a challenge for these bodies to be able to access independent, insightful advice upon which to base their strategic planning and resource allocation.

Examples of CWC Consultant held Non-Executive Directorships:

  • Advising regulators on pragmatic implementation of regulatory change.
  • Recommend to promotional agencies how to enhance their domicile proposition and advance their strategic thinking.
  • Assist governmental bodies on the needs of the captive industry to facilitate the delivery of enabling legislation to allow the local captive business to flourish.

Thomas Welsh

Board Development Coach

39+ years cross sector experience in releasing potential of boards, organisations, and their managers and leaders. Author of ‘Building the Future’ acclaimed development guide for boards and their members.

Thomas Welsh

Board Development Coach

39+ years cross sector experience in releasing potential of boards, organisations, and their managers and leaders. Author of ‘Building the Future’ acclaimed development guide for boards and their members.

Board Development

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The Board, and individual Board Members, face a growing array of stakeholders’ scrutiny whilst directing a captive or SME insurer. Increasingly, they are looking to external independent counsel to ensure, and provide evidence, that they are a high performing and soundly governed caucus.

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Examples of CWC services for our Commitment to Board Development:

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We offer an objective and confidential service to talent wishing to assess their career opportunities. We can draw upon many years of experience and offer detached advice on your career path and learning development
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Examples of CWC services for our Commitment to Career Development:

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We offer an objective and confidential service to talent wishing to assess their career opportunities. We can draw upon many years of experience and offer detached advice on your career path and learning development
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Examples of CWC services for our Commitment to Career Development:

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As part of our commitment to develop the talent in the captive industry, we host various educational events. Recent examples include the 2015 UK Insurance Act and management of assets in a Solvency II world.

We also run an Advanced Captive Training programme as we have identified there is little structured educational resource in the industry beyond introductory courses.

Our consultants are frequent speakers at industry events covering technical topics as well as offering their outlook on the current and future captive landscape.

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Examples of CWC services for our Commitment to Education:

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Domicile Regulators, Governments &
Promotional Agencies

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To continue to offer, or to create, a compelling and competitive captive offering, domicile authorities need to understand the global captive marketplace, changing stakeholder demands and threats or opportunities for the business. It can be a challenge for these bodies to be able to access independent, insightful advice upon which to base their strategic planning and resource allocation.

Examples of CWC services for Domicile Regulators & Promotional Agencies:

  • Advising regulators on pragmatic implementation of regulatory change.
  • Recommend to promotional agencies how to enhance their domicile proposition and advance their strategic thinking.
  • Assist governmental bodies on the needs of the captive industry to facilitate the delivery of enabling legislation to allow the local captive business to flourish.

Insurers & Reinsurers

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The market typically interacts with a captive in the following ways:

  • Underwriting the risk of the insured and then reinsuring all or part of the risk to the captive (“fronting”).
  • Acting as a reinsurer of the captive to accept excess risk above the captive’s risk bearing appetite. The captive may have assumed risk on a direct basis from the insured or via a fronting arrangement.


In all situations (re)insurance industry stakeholders should interact with the captive on the same terms as they would with any other market participant yet recognising the unique characteristics of the captive arrangement.

Examples of CWC services for Insurers & Reinsurers:

  • Conduct In-house workshops to ensure full understanding of the captive model, the roles and relationship of all parties in a captive arrangement and flow of funds and documentation.
  • Advise on captive participation; programme design, operational processes and procedures, collateral, and reporting requirements.
  • Inform of the needs of the captive industry in respect of fronting services and reinsurance protection.
  • Advise on developments and trends in the captive industry such as governance and regulatory changes and explain the impact on the captive and on your involvement.
  • Act as your in-house captive centre of excellence, either remotely or participate in discussions with the insured and their advisers.
  • Introduce you to key captive stakeholders and influencers.
  • Assist and participate in marketing activities.
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Captive Health Check

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If you are looking to create, enhance or take to market your captive proposition we can advise you on the best way to proceed. CWC is wholly independently owned and not associated with another broking or insurance company, giving it complete independence and flexibility. This allows us to work with you to deliver to the captive market a best in class offering that benefits from our combined accumulated knowledge and wisdom.

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Captive Feasibility Study

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If you are looking to create, enhance or take to market your captive proposition we can advise you on the best way to proceed. CWC is wholly independently owned and not associated with another broking or insurance company, giving it complete independence and flexibility. This allows us to work with you to deliver to the captive market a best in class offering that benefits from our combined accumulated knowledge and wisdom.

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Captive Strategic Review

- for Captive Owners-

If you are looking to create, enhance or take to market your captive proposition we can advise you on the best way to proceed. CWC is wholly independently owned and not associated with another broking or insurance company, giving it complete independence and flexibility. This allows us to work with you to deliver to the captive market a best in class offering that benefits from our combined accumulated knowledge and wisdom.

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Service Providers

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If you are looking to create, enhance or take to market your captive proposition we can advise you on the best way to proceed. CWC is wholly independently owned and not associated with another broking or insurance company, giving it complete independence and flexibility. This allows us to work with you to deliver to the captive market a best in class offering that benefits from our combined accumulated knowledge and wisdom.

Examples of CWC services for Service Providers:

We maintain close links with captive industry globally and so are able to guide you through market dynamics, culture & accepted practice, trends and emerging developments. Our extensive network of contacts ensures honest feedback and access to key influencers and decision makers in the domiciles.

We can contribute to your marketing and sales planning and facilitate product launches, or simply be a sounding board for your ideas.

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If you are considering captive insurance for the first time or need quality independent advice on change management, CWC can assist you ensuring the captive insurance vehicle is right for your organisation.

Examples of CWC services for Captive Owners:

  • Strategic review. Is your captive business plan still relevant and delivering real value?Creation of a strategic road map to optimise the captive’s effectiveness and meet key drivers.
  • Domicile review. Could your captive objectives be better achieved in another location?
  • Exit strategies. If your captive has run its course, what is the best means to exit the business?
  • Health check. Are you comfortable your captive is operating efficiently and in line with industry best practice?
  • Bespoke consulting to respond to particular issues your captive faces.

CWC Products for Captive Owners:

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Captive Managers

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We do not seek to assume or duplicate responsibilities and activities performed by a Captive Manager. Rather, we look to bring added value to client service and/or assist the Captive Manager’s management of their own business. We bring extensive experience of running a captive management business including strengthening a value proposition, winning business, innovative thinking and developing staff.

Examples of CWC services for Captive Managers:

  • Act as a Non Executive Director of clients under management.
  • Assist in responding to RFP’s.
  • Review internal processes and procedures.
  • Facilitate internal workshops or away days to set strategy, establish plans or solve a particular problem.
  • Assist in staff training and education.
  • Assist in development and delivery of marketing and sales plans.
  • Act as challenger or ‘Devil’s Advocate’ to test strategy.
  • Undertake client and employee surveys.
  • Provide market intelligence.
  • Advise on complex or unusual issues or situations that captive managers may not have encountered before.
  • Assist in identifying, and recruitment of, suitable candidates for vacant or newly created senior positions.

Captive Managers

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We do not seek to assume or duplicate responsibilities and activities performed by a Captive Manager. Rather, we look to bring added value to client service and/or assist the Captive Manager’s management of their own business. We bring extensive experience of running a captive management business including strengthening a value proposition, winning business, innovative thinking and developing staff.

Examples of CWC services for Captive Managers:

  • Act as a Non Executive Director of clients under management.
  • Assist in responding to RFP’s.
  • Review internal processes and procedures.
  • Facilitate internal workshops or away days to set strategy, establish plans or solve a particular problem.
  • Assist in staff training and education.
  • Assist in development and delivery of marketing and sales plans.
  • Act as challenger or ‘Devil’s Advocate’ to test strategy.
  • Undertake client and employee surveys.
  • Provide market intelligence.
  • Advise on complex or unusual issues or situations that captive managers may not have encountered before.
  • Assist in identifying, and recruitment of, suitable candidates for vacant or newly created senior positions.

Our CWC Products designed for Captive Managers:

  • xxxxxxxx.

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For taking the time to fill in the survey. If you would like to speak to one of the team feel free to contact us at CWC

James Portelli

Consultant

A seasoned chartered insurance risk manager with 3 decades of insurance and reinsurance experience in conventional and captive sectors across Europe and the Middle East.
James has been involved in financial services, initially in banking, since 1986 and joining insurance in 1990. 
 
A chartered insurance risk manager, James is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Risk Management and also holds an MSc in Risk Management from Glasgow Caledonian University. 
 
He started his insurance career with Middlesea Insurance plc (now part of the Grupo Mapfre conglomerate) in Malta later worked in London, Central Europe , the Middle East (Bahrain, UAE and Qatar) and East Africa with a career spanning commercial and industrial insurance underwriting, distribution, outward reinsurance, broking, risk management, captive management, consulting and training.
 
He is now an non-executive director on a portfolio of insurance companies in Malta operating across Europe by virtue of the EU Freedom of Services Directive, is also active in one company in an executive capacity and lectures insurance part-time at the University of Malta. 

James Portelli

Consultant

A seasoned chartered insurance risk manager with 3 decades of insurance and reinsurance experience in conventional and captive sectors across Europe and the Middle East

James has been involved in financial services, initially in banking, since 1986 and joining insurance in 1990. 
 
A chartered insurance risk manager, James is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Risk Management and also holds an MSc in Risk Management from Glasgow Caledonian University. 
 
He started his insurance career with Middlesea Insurance plc (now part of the Grupo Mapfre conglomerate) in Malta later worked in London, Central Europe , the Middle East (Bahrain, UAE and Qatar) and East Africa with a career spanning commercial and industrial insurance underwriting, distribution, outward reinsurance, broking, risk management, captive management, consulting and training.
 
He is now an non-executive director on a portfolio of insurance companies in Malta operating across Europe by virtue of the EU Freedom of Services Directive, is also active in one company in an executive capacity and lectures insurance part-time at the University of Malta. 

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Dom Wheatley

Managing Director

A seasoned captive practitioner and consultant, finance industry experience with over 25 years  world class knowledge.

Exiting Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for Guernsey’s finance industry.

His role included business development and the promotion of Guernsey’s finance industry in the Island’s target markets including Europe, the US and the emerging markets, technical research to support promotional activities and liaison with industry associations and government.

Previously Chief Marketing Officer of the Willis Global Captive Practice and Managing Director of its Guernsey business. Over 25 years of finance experience in London and, for the past 19 years in Guernsey.

A member of the Institute of Directors and serve as a non-executive director on a number of local boards. A fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and holds an M.B.A from Warwick University.

Dom Wheatley

Managing Director

A seasoned captive practitioner and consultant, finance industry experience with over 25 years  world class knowledge.

Exiting Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for Guernsey’s finance industry.

His role included business development and the promotion of Guernsey’s finance industry in the Island’s target markets including Europe, the US and the emerging markets, technical research to support promotional activities and liaison with industry associations and government.

Previously Chief Marketing Officer of the Willis Global Captive Practice and Managing Director of its Guernsey business. Over 25 years of finance experience in London and, for the past 19 years in Guernsey.

A member of the Institute of Directors and serve as a non-executive director on a number of local boards. A fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and holds an M.B.A from Warwick University.

Ashley Paxton FCA

Project Consultant

Guernsey based chartered accountant with c30 years’ experience spent in practice.

Recently retired as partner and head of Advisory for KPMG in the Channel Islands.

Guernsey based chartered accountant with c30 years’ experience spent in practice.

Unique blend of operational and client experience split between audit and advisory latterly focused on providing transactional support across the insurance, funds, fiduciary and banking sectors as well as local government.

Led a number of high profile and innovative engagements for the States of Guernsey including:

2017 – States bond issue commissioned by the Scrutiny Management Committee
2017 – Guernsey housing market review
2016 – Strategic review of the Guernsey fiduciary industry
2015 – Financial mitigation for milk distributors
2015 – International Capital Flows (funds sector)
Various other confidential engagements

Qualifications
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
BSc (Hons) Economics, University of Warwick

Ashley Paxton FCA​

Project Consultant

Guernsey based chartered accountant with c30 years’ experience spent in practice.

Recently retired as partner and head of Advisory for KPMG in the Channel Islands.

Guernsey based chartered accountant with c30 years’ experience spent in practice.

Unique blend of operational and client experience split between audit and advisory latterly focused on providing transactional support across the insurance, funds, fiduciary and banking sectors as well as local government.

Led a number of high profile and innovative engagements for the States of Guernsey including:

2017 – States bond issue commissioned by the Scrutiny Management Committee
2017 – Guernsey housing market review
2016 – Strategic review of the Guernsey fiduciary industry
2015 – Financial mitigation for milk distributors
2015 – International Capital Flows (funds sector)
Various other confidential engagements

Qualifications
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
BSc (Hons) Economics, University of Warwick

Graham Powell

Head of Consulting

Graham has spent four decades working in the insurance industry. He has a wealth of experience in all aspects of an insurer’s life cycle including feasibility, formation, management, revalidation and de-risking. In recent years Graham has specialized more on regulatory and compliance work for commercial insurers.

Based in Guernsey, Graham brings his unique skill set to CWC working centrally with the team as it responds to the diverse and ever-changing needs of its clients.

As a result of so many years at the “coal face” Graham has a unique insight into every aspect of insurance management. This wealth of experience is now channeled into helping CWC’s clients realise the full potential of their insurers.
This in-depth knowledge came into its own when CWC was commissioned to carry out a strategic review of the Guernsey insurance sector by the States of Guernsey. Graham acted as the project manager for this major piece of work.

Outside of CWC, Graham acts as an independent non-executive director on a number of Guernsey (re)insurers for groups operating in a wide range of industries. The owners of these entities range from private individuals to constituents of the FTSE 100 and Nasdaq.

Graham is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute by examination. He is registered and approved as a Director with the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Graham Powell

Head of Consulting

Graham has spent four decades working in the insurance industry. He has a wealth of experience in all aspects of an insurer’s life cycle including feasibility, formation, management, revalidation and de-risking. In recent years Graham has specialized more on regulatory and compliance work for commercial insurers.

Based in Guernsey, Graham brings his unique skill set to CWC working centrally with the team as it responds to the diverse and ever-changing needs of its clients.

As a result of so many years at the “coal face” Graham has a unique insight into every aspect of insurance management. This wealth of experience is now channeled into helping CWC’s clients realise the full potential of their insurers.

This in-depth knowledge came into its own when CWC was commissioned to carry out a strategic review of the Guernsey insurance sector by the States of Guernsey. Graham acted as the project manager for this major piece of work.   

Outside of CWC, Graham acts as an independent non-executive director on a number of Guernsey (re)insurers for groups operating in a wide range of industries. The owners of these entities range from private individuals to constituents of the FTSE 100 and Nasdaq.

Graham is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute by examination. He is registered and approved as a Director with the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Paul Wakefield

Consultant

Longstanding experience in on & offshore environments most recently as a Non Executive Director with a London market insurance Company. Experienced in feasibility studies, regulatory matters and the set up of insurance subsidiaries for global multi national corporations.

Paul delivers his own in-depth market knowledge of, and insight into, the captive insurance world.

Paul brings longstanding experience of working in both onshore and offshore environments, most recently as a Non Executive Director with a London market insurance company.

He is also currently a Non Executive Director of a number of Guernsey based insurance companies. He provides CWC clients with further valuable knowledge and a proven track record of strategic and operational consulting.

Paul has undertaken numerous feasibility studies and set up insurance subsidiaries for multi- national corporations across the globe.

As part of the work with captives he has overseen portfolio transfers, novations, redomiciliation of captives, Protected Cell Company formation and the design and implementation of multi-year multi-line reinsurance programmes. He also has undertaken various consultancy work on the regulatory side of insurance.

Paul is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute. He is registered and approved as a Director with the UK Prudential Regulatory Authority and the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Paul Wakefield

Consultant

Longstanding experience in on & offshore environments most recently as a Non Executive Director with a London market insurance Company. Experienced in feasibility studies, regulatory matters and the set up of insurance subsidiaries for global multi national corporations.

Paul delivers his own in-depth market knowledge of, and insight into, the captive insurance world.

Paul brings longstanding experience of working in both onshore and offshore environments, most recently as a Non Executive Director with a London market insurance company.

He is also currently a Non Executive Director of a number of Guernsey based insurance companies. He provides CWC clients with further valuable knowledge and a proven track record of strategic and operational consulting.

Paul has undertaken numerous feasibility studies and set up insurance subsidiaries for multi- national corporations across the globe.

As part of the work with captives he has overseen portfolio transfers, novations, redomiciliation of captives, Protected Cell Company formation and the design and implementation of multi-year multi-line reinsurance programmes. He also has undertaken various consultancy work on the regulatory side of insurance.

Paul is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute. He is registered and approved as a Director with the UK Prudential Regulatory Authority and the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Niall Lucas

COO / FD

Niall has spent most of his professional career in the captive insurance industry. Holds the ACII, FPC & Chartered Insurer along with various accounting, marketing & computer vocations.

Niall has spent most of his professional career in the captive insurance industry.

He started in Guernsey in 1996, where he provided underwriting support the UK Post Office captive.

During his career, Niall has advised captive stakeholders on underwriting, strategic, operational and governance matters across a broad range of industries and jurisdictions.

He has lead difficult consulting projects requiring innovative thinking, high quality communication skills and perseverance.

Niall has exceptional marketing and up to date IT knowledge with highly developed research and analytical skills. He qualified as a Chartered Insurer and Financial Planner. These attributes together with his vast captive experience allows Niall to fulfil his role as Chief Operating Officer of CWC.

Niall joined CWC in 2015 to support Malcolm in the development of the company. In 2016 he was promoted to COO and continues to support CWC as it holds its place as the global Captive Consultants of choice.

Niall Lucas

COO / FD

Niall has spent most of his professional career in the captive insurance industry. Holds the ACII, FPC & Chartered Insurer along with various accounting, marketing & computer vocations.

He started in Guernsey in 1996, where he provided underwriting support the UK Post Office captive.

During his career, Niall has advised captive stakeholders on underwriting, strategic, operational and governance matters across a broad range of industries and jurisdictions.

He has lead difficult consulting projects requiring innovative thinking, high quality communication skills and perseverance.

Niall has exceptional marketing & up to date IT knowledge with highly developed research and analytical skills.  He qualified as a Chartered Insurer and Financial Planner. These attributes together with his vast captive experience allows Niall to fulfil his role as Chief Operating Officer of CWC.

Niall joined CWC in 2015 to support Malcolm in the development of the company. In 2016 he was promoted to COO and continues to support CWC as it holds its position in the industry as the global Captive Consultants of choice.

Conor Jennings

Consultant

Conor Jennings FCII, FIRM, TEP is an insurance and risk management professional of many years’ experience.

He has lived and worked in Ireland, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore, Guernsey, BVI and more recently in the Cayman Islands.

During this time Conor has managed and directed captive insurance companies for clients ranging from small, family-held businesses to US Fortune 500 companies encompassing a whole host of industries.


Having, most recently, spent over a decade in the Caribbean managing mainly North and South American captive insurance clients Conor leverages his deep global knowledge and skills set to provide creative risk financing solutions to clients from all over the world.

Conor Jennings

Consultant

Conor Jennings FCII, FIRM, TEP is an insurance and risk management professional of many years’ experience.

He has lived and worked in Ireland, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore, Guernsey, BVI and more recently in the Cayman Islands

During this time Conor has managed and directed captive insurance companies for clients ranging from small, family-held businesses to US Fortune 500 companies encompassing a whole host of industries.

Having, most recently, spent over a decade in the Caribbean managing mainly North and South American captive insurance clients Conor leverages his deep global knowledge and skills set to provide creative risk financing solutions to clients from all over the world.

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Malcolm Cutts-Watson

Founder & Chairman

A seasoned captive practitioner and consultant, Malcolm has gathered vast experience over 4 decades working in different domiciles and advising companies and regulatory bodies across the world.

Malcolm Cutts-Watson has spent most of his professional career in the captive insurance industry.

He started in Bermuda in 1982, was in the vanguard of the development of Vermont captive business and then worked in Guernsey. During his career, Malcolm has advised captive stakeholders on strategic, operational and governance matters across a broad range of industries and jurisdictions . He also advises governmental and regulatory bodies on legislative and regulatory change.

He has served, and continues to serve, as a director on a variety of captive insurers and is an approved person in many captive domiciles. He qualified as an accountant in 1982.

Malcolm was a member of the Captive Review Power 50 and in 2015 received the industry’s outstanding contribution by an individual award.

In 2017 he became an inaugural inductee into the Captive Hall of Fame which recognises the most influential figures in the captive industry over the past 50 years.

He has acted as industry partner to AIRMIC’s Captive Special Interest Group. He is a regular contributor to industry debate and is a passionate advocate for the raising of standards in the captive industry.

Malcolm founded CWC in 2015 to allow organisations access to the accumulated knowledge, insight and solutions that he, and the rest of the CWC team of captive insurance experts, have gathered over their lifetimes.

Malcolm Cutts-Watson

Founder & Chairman

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A seasoned captive practitioner and consultant, Malcolm has gathered vast experience over 4 decades working in different domiciles and advising companies and regulatory bodies across the world.

Malcolm Cutts-Watson has spent most of his professional career in the captive insurance industry.

He started in Bermuda in 1982, was in the vanguard of the development of Vermont captive business and then worked in Guernsey. During his career, Malcolm has advised captive stakeholders on strategic, operational and governance matters across a broad range of industries and jurisdictions . He also advises governmental and regulatory bodies on legislative and regulatory change.

He has served, and continues to serve, as a director as a director on a variety of captive insurers and is an approved person in many captive domiciles. He qualified as an accountant in 1982.

Malcolm was a member of the Captive Review Power 50 and in 2015 received the industry’s outstanding contribution by an individual award.

In 2017 he became an inaugural inductee into the Captive Hall of Fame which recognises the most influential figures in the captive industry over the past 50 years.

He has acted as industry partner to AIRMIC’s Captive Special Interest Group. He is a regular contributor to industry debate and is a passionate advocate for the raising of standards in the captive industry.

Malcolm founded CWC in 2015 to allow organisations access to the accumulated knowledge, insight and solutions that he, and the rest of the CWC team of captive insurance experts, have gathered over their lifetimes.