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Our experienced war and terrorism underwriters together with our significant linesize provide confidence in the face of ongoing threats, shaping bespoke insurance solutions for clients from corporates to governments. With war, terror and political violence posing significant and diverse risks to assets, we reduce exposure through a broad range of tailored damage and non-damage coverages.


Our Team

  • Richard Coulson
    DEPUTY GROUP CUO AND CEO OF INSURANCE

    Richard is Deputy Group CUO and CEO of Insurance at The Fidelis Partnership. Rich Coulson joined Fidelis Insurance in 2015. With fifteen years of insurance industry experience, including both underwriting and broking, Rich joined Fidelis Insurance from RK Harrison, where he was Executive Director of Political Risk, Structured Credit and Surety. His early career was spent at MMC Capital and Marsh, where he focused on structuring alternative risk transfer, and captive solutions. After Marsh, Rich spent three years at Hiscox underwriting the company’s space and satellite and offshore energy books – winning the Hiscox Award for Innovation whilst there, before returning to broking and serving as a partner at JLT, specialising in Credit and Political Risk. Rich was elected a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Insurers and Chartered Institute of Risk Management eleven years ago and during his career has also won the IRM Award for Risk Analysis excellence and an ABI Young Insurer of the Year award – recognising his work on developing innovative new products within the insurance industry. Rich is a member of the Executive Committee.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Simon Crone
    HEAD OF PARTNERSHIP UNDERWRITING & EEA CUO

    Simon Head of Partnership Underwriting and EEA CUO at The Fidelis Partnership. Simon joined Fidelis Insurance in 2019 from AmTrust where he was the Chief Underwriting Officer for the Mortgage & Credit division. Simon has over 20 years of experience in insurance in a variety of roles ranging from underwriting to operations to project management. Previously he was at General Electric and Genworth Financial. Simon holds a Masters of Engineering from the University of Cape Town.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Key contact
    Gary Redmond
    HEAD OF TERRORISM

    Gary is Head of Terrosim at The Fidelis Partnership. Gary Redmond joined Fidelis Insurance in 2020 from Zurich where he worked in New Business Underwriting dealing primarily with Property & Casualty lines. Prior to this he worked for Aon in their Global Inwards Team where he held a position on their EMEA Board of “Millennials”. He graduated from DIT with a BA in International Business & Chinese Language.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Matthew Norman
    ASSISTANT UNDERWRITER

    Matthew is an Assistant Underwriter at The Fidelis Partnership. Matthew joined Fidelis Insurance in November 2021 as an Underwriting Assistant. Prior to joining to Fidelis Insurance, Matthew worked as an Underwriting Assistant for a Motor Fleet Insurer working in the Renewals and Mid-Term Adjustment teams. 

    Email: [email protected]

  • Sinéad Cunningham 
    UNDERWRITER

    Sinéad is an Assistant Underwriter at The Fidelis Partnership. Sinéad Cunningham joined Fidelis Insurance in June 2021 as an Underwriting Assistant. Prior to this, Sinéad worked at AXIS Capital in Dublin as an Underwriting and Operations Intern. Sinéad graduated from the University of Limerick in 2021 with a Bachelor of Business Studies honours degree with a major in Risk Management and Insurance.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Leo Tal
    UNDERWRITING ASSISTANT

    Leo is an Underwriting Assistant at The Fidelis Partnership. He joined The Fidelis Partnership in October 2023 and works on the Political Risk team. Leo graduated from the University of Reading with Bachelors in Politics and International Relations in 2022 and a Masters in International Relations in 2023.

     

    Email: [email protected]

  • Samuel Poynder
    UNDERWRITER


    Samuel is a Terrorism & Political Violence Underwriter at The Fidelis Partnership. He joined from CFC where he worked for six years most recently as a Terrorism and Political Violence Assistant Underwriter and before that as a cross-class Underwriting Assistant covering nine Specialty classes ranging from Transactional Liability and Intellectual Property to Kidnap & Ransom and Terrorism & Political Violence. He graduated from Lancaster University in 2017 with a Masters in Conflict, Security & Development with a focus on Counter Terrorism and has a BScEcon (Hons) in International Politics & Military History from Aberystwyth University.

     

    Email: [email protected]

  • Jamie Toms
    ASSISTANT UNDERWRITER

    John is Head of Outwards Reinsurance at The Fidelis Partnership. John joined Fidelis Insurance in January 2020 as Head of Outwards Reinsurance and brings over 30 years of insurance and reinsurance market experience. Prior to joining Fidelis Insurance, he was the Reinsurance Manager for Talbot Underwriting from 2004 to 2019, placing and managing reinsurance for the syndicate across numerous lines of business. Prior to this he spent 10 years at Reliance National where he carried out a number of underwriting, reinsurance management and reinsurance purchasing roles. John started his career at English and American on their turn-key business in the late .

    Email: [email protected]

  • Cathal Ruane
    UNDERWRITING ASSISTANT

    Cathal is an Underwriting Assistant at The Fidelis Partnership. Cathal joined Fidelis Insurance in 2022. Prior to joining Fidelis, Cathal worked in the renewals team at Arachas Corporate Brokers. Cathal holds an honours degree in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Limerick.   

    Email: [email protected]

  • Conor Pearson
    UNDERWRITING ASSISTANT

    Conor is an Underwriting Assistant at The Fidelis Partnership. Conor joined Fidelis Insurance in 2022. Prior to Fidelis Insurance, he worked for Axis Capital as a control operations and DUA intern. Conor graduated from the University of Limerick with a Bachelor of Business, majoring in Insurance and Risk Management.

    Email: [email protected]  

     

  • Phoebe Burns
    ASSISTANT UNDERWRITER

    Phoebe is an Underwriting Assistant at The Fidelis Partnership. Phoebe joined Fidelis Insurance in September 2022 as an Underwriting Assistant on the Crisis Management team. Phoebe graduated from The University of Manchester with BA Hons in Politics and Philosophy.

    Email: [email protected]

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