Plenary speakers
Roy Chappell is CEO of SCOR Global Life UK Branch, covering UK and Ireland, and also responsible for SCOR’s Scandinavian operation.
Prior to moving into reinsurance Roy worked in direct office marketing and product development roles. Roy is a member of the ABI Protection Committee.
Married with 3 teenage children, Roy is passionate about Maidstone United Football Club and the music of Elvis Presley - a life size Elvis statue takes pride of place at the Chappell residence!
Tim Harford is a world renowned behavioural economist and award-winning Financial Times columnist. Frequently described as ‘Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell,’ his first two books, The Logic of Life and The Undercover Economist, have been translated into 30 languages and sold well over a million copies. He is also presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less. Tim’s most recent book is ADAPT: Why Success Always Starts With Failure. It shows how the challenges we face today can’t be solved with simple ready-made solutions; we must learn to improvise rather than plan. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, physics, maths and economics, Tim shows how adaptive, trial-and-error processes can help tackle everything from innovation to financial crises. Gillian Tett describes it as “required reading for anyone trying to navigate an increasingly complex world.”
But whilst he’s a ‘serious’ economist with a career spanning Oxford, Shell and the World Bank, Tim’s FT columns dwell on the economics of daily life and offer tongue-in-cheek solutions to readers’ problems. He used a similar, highly accessible style as presenter of the BBC2 series Trust Me, I’m an Economist.
Belden Menkus has over 25 years experience helping business leaders improve, innovate, and grow. He primarily works with businesses that are facing a disruption to their organisation or business model, sometimes both. In addition to his consulting work, he speaks regularly about what it takes to survive and thrive in today’s unpredictable, highly demanding environment.
Belden lives in London with his wife and four very energetic children.
Jamil Qureshi is one of today's foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology. As the founder of JQED and creator of Mind Shaping, Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people in the world.
- In 2006, he was appointed as the first-ever official golf psychologist to the European Ryder Cup team by captain Ian Woosnam. They made history in winning by a record-equalling margin.
- Jamil has worked with 22 golfers inside the top 50 in the world, including Colin Montgomerie, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke, Paul Casey, Thomas Bjorn, Sergio Garcia and current World Number 3, Lee Westwood.
- He has worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs, one of which reaching a record position from its halfway point in the season.
- Jamil has worked with talent across the board. As diverse as fighter pilots, medical teams, Formula 1 racing drivers, and the current England Ashes winning cricketers.
- In business and industry Jamil has worked with business leaders and companies in over 24 different countries last year alone helping teams to fulfil their potential by orchestrating change programmes
- He has developed and delivered change and leadership programmes at board level for Coca Cola, Emirates Airlines, Serco, Orange, and The Post Office.
Jamil also lectures on the prestigious WorldProgram, in the US, UK and China.He is a world recognised speaker on all aspects of the psychology of performance, psychology of leadership, leadership attitudes, and improving peopleInterestingly:
- He is one of only a few external psychologists ever to be allowed to study astronauts on the NASA Space Programme.
- Jamil use to be a regular at London’s prestigious Comedy Store and spent two years working with TV’s award winning mind reader, Derren Brown!
Daniel Ryan is Head Life & Health R&D at Swiss Re, having joined in August 2010. He was previously Head of Mortality Consulting and Research at Towers Watson, and was the principal investigator for 8 years of an innovative research group into mortality and morbidity. Daniel now leads a multi-disciplinary group at Swiss Re that produces research on a wide range of topics including infectious disease epidemiology, consumer behaviour, healthcare policy and future drivers of longevity. Daniel Ryan is a keen advocate of closer links between the actuarial and medical profession, and is a member of World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council for Ageing. He is also the Chair of the Operating Committee for the Life and Longevity Market Association, a non-profit venture to promote a liquid traded market in longevity and mortality risk that would assist pension funds that are interested in transferring risk to the wider capital markets.
Guy Shone is Head of Customer and Market Insight at the Money Advice Service. His team is leading the work to understand, define and measure the financial capability of UK citizens. Most recently Guy spent 6 years at Old Mutual Wealth Management where he was Head of Research. This involved managing customer insight programmes in UK, Europe, Asia and South America. Previously, Guy held a number of senior strategy, analysis and research roles at large organisations. He started his career as an analyst at Egg working on the launch of the business.
Darren has over 20 years experience of managing large-scale customer-facing operations. He joined Ageas Protect in 2011 as Operations Director and was promoted to Managing Director in March 2012 to lead the growth of the protection business.
Darren joined Ageas Protect from sister company and over 50s insurance specialist RIAS, and has always held positions with a focus on customer service and operational effectiveness. Prior to joining RIAS, Darren was Chief Operating Officer for direct broking at Equity Insurance while he also spent five years as Head of Customer Services at Old Mutual in Cape Town.
To relax, Darren enjoys watching and participating in all types of sport but continues to lose the fitness battle as he is also the chef in the family, and enjoys nothing better than an evening of rich food, fine wine and good company.