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 Fidelis MGU. 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]
    Phone: +44 203 846 6072

  • Simon Crone
    HEAD OF PARTNERSHIP UNDERWRITING & EEA CUO

    Simon Head of Partnership Underwriting and EEA CUO at Fidelis MGU. 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]
    Phone: +44 7710 513217

  • Key contact
    Gary Redmond
    HEAD OF TERRORISM

    Gary is Head of Terrosim at Fidelis MGU. 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]
    Phone: +353 1 566 8097, +353 87 172 8009

  • Christine Penny
    ASSISTANT UNDERWRITER

    Christine is an Assistant Underwriter at Fidelis MGU. Christine joined Fidelis Insurance in July 2021, from Hamilton Insurance, where she worked in their Underwriting Operations team. Christine graduated from the University of Limerick in 2020 with a Bachelor of Business and French degree, majoring in Risk Management and Insurance.

    Email: [email protected]
    Phone: +353 1 582 2324

  • Matthew Norman
    ASSISTANT UNDERWRITER

    Matthew is an Assistant Underwriter at Fidelis MGU. 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]
    Phone: +44 750 149 7427

     

  • Sinéad Cunningham 
    ASSISTANT UNDERWRITER

    Sinéad is an Assistant Underwriter at Fidelis MGU. 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]
    Phone:  +353 1 566 8020 

  • Cathal Ruane
    UNDERWRITING ASSISTANT

    Cathal is an Underwriting Assistant at Fidelis MGU. 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 Fidelis MGU. 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
    UNDERWRITING ASSISTANT

    Phoebe is an Underwriting Assistant at Fidelis MGU. 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]
    Phone: +44 203 948 8241

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