SOLVENCY II SOLUTIONS - Key Persons
Adrian has 25 year experience managing software development projects, mostly within the finance and insurance sectors. Adrian originally trained as a management consultant with PwC after completing a BSc at Bristol University.
John has 20+ years of experience in the insurance industry having worked for a leading rating agency specializing in the insurance sector and for a Lloyds Syndicate and global (re)insurer in Solvency II focused roles.
He brings an understanding of the regulatory requirements and also the practical challenges facing insurance companies' Solvency II implementation efforts.
John has been involved with Solvency II from a number of perspectives.
In his role as technical expert within the BestESP (Solvency I reporting software for the UK) development team, John was the subject matter expert on the UK insurance regulations. His responsibilities included working with the FSA (as it was) to design the validation rules used by the FSA in reviewing firms' annual regulatory submissions.
After five years in this role, John moved to the ratings division within A.M. Best as a financial analyst. Analysing insurers' implementation of the Solvency II requirements, and particularly the capital implications, was a main part of the role. Moreover, John was the primary analyst responsible for Solvency II and contributed to A.M. Best's response to Solvency II and a number of market reports.
In his last role, John worked as a technical lead on several projects implementing the Solvency II framework requirements, focusing on reporting and system and process changes. John holds a BSc in Mathematics from York University and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Chairman
- Non - Executive Chairman of ISDX
Richard brings twenty years' experience of working in the financial sector in a variety of executive and non-Executive roles.
Richard is currently Non-Executive Chairman of ISDX, a FCA Regulated Investment Exchange owned by ICAP Plc. In addition, he is Chief Executive Officer of The KlickEx Group, a regulated automated clearing utility for high frequency, immediate multi-currency domestic and cross border payments across the entire banking participant eco-system from Central Banks through to Retail consumers.
Prior to this Richard was Group CFO for Chi-X Global, an industry leader in operating Regulated Stock Exchanges around the world. And before this, he was Co-founder and CFO of Staccato Communications Inc (formerly Artimi), a venture capital funded wireless semiconductor company that raised over $90m in six years before exit in 2008. Prior to this, an investment banker for a number of years with BZW and then ABN AMRO, working in both New Zealand and Australia in M&A and Equity Capital Markets.
Richard holds an MBA from Cambridge University and is qualified as a barrister and solicitor, and chartered accountant.