FERMA European Risk Management Seminar 2018

Founder and Managing Director at Lineon, in charge of Strategic consulting on cybersecurity and R&D director, I provide awareness and advices mainly on: cybersecurity governance and strategy, cybersecurity risk financial exposure assessment, data privacy governance and management, cybersecurity incident detection (SOC with SIEM or Big Data Analytics) and business continuity and recovery.

From 1994 to 1997, I held a position as security and safety auditor for industrial environment then I move in various IT companies where I was in charge of IT support and project management for industrial clients. I have been working in cybersecurity since 2000 and exploring all the field’s competencies like audit, architecture design, SOC implementation and operation and cybersecurity consulting. With two partners, we set up Lineon in 2011. Aside from my managing and consulting activities, I participate in workgroups and seminaries within the CLUSIF and the IRT SystemX.

Laurent BERNAT is policy analyst at the OECD Secretariat in the Digital Economy Policy Division. He works on digital security and privacy risk.

Laurent supports the activities of the Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy (SPDE) and Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP). He led the development of the 2015 OECD Recommendation on Digital Security Risk Management for Economic and Social Prosperity which forms the basis for current OECD work to develop statistical indicators of digital security risk management practices in business. Laurent is also working on the revision of the 2008 OECD Recommendation on the protection of critical information infrastructures. Laurent worked on many different trust-related policy issues including national cybersecurity strategies, digital identity management, RFID, cryptography policy and the protection of children online.

Prior to joining the OECD in 2003, he worked at the French data protection agency, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) and was associate director in an Internet consulting firm. Laurent Bernat has a master in political science and international relations.

Sebastian Bregning is Head of Captive Operations and Risk Analytics for A.P. Møller – Mærsk.  He has 20 years of experience within insurance and risk management, including leadership, portfolio management, risk mitigation, compliance, underwriting and claims handling. Sebastian holds degrees from universities in Switzerland, Denmark and the United States in finance, insurance and law. 

Tobias is a dynamic risk professional with advanced knowledge in insurance disciplines based on
international standards.  He holds the position of group experte at E.ON with a special focus on cyber and previously was the insurance specialist for the BASF Group.  He's got a strong ability to combine a strategic with an organizational approach and people as well as record of implementing compliant conform international insurance programs in different industries.

Gilbert Canameras is Secretary General of FERMA, the Federation of European Risk Management Associations, since 2015. He was President of French risk management associations AMRAE from 2011 to May 2015.

Gilbert Canameras was Group Risk and Insurance Chief Office and Vice President Finance for Eramet Group (metals and mining). In April 2015, he was appointed special advisor to the group on insurance matters. Gilbert began his career with French media companies and in medical research. From 1980, he worked in a number of industry sectors in finance and risk functions. Gilbert joined Eramet in 2002 to ensure implementation of the corporate functions of treasury, funding, insurance and risk management.

Philippe Cotelle is the Head of Insurance and Risk Management of Airbus Defence & Space since 2014, gathering all Airbus activities in Space, Defence and Military Transport Aviation belonging to the former Divisions Astrium, Cassidian and Airbus Military.

Since 2006, he was in charge of Insurance Risk Management for Astrium, gathering  the Space activities of Airbus including the 3 business units EADS Astrium Satellites, EADS Astrium Space Transportation and EADS Astrium Services.

Since 2004/2005 Philippe Cotelle was in charge of the Risk Management and Insurance of major programs such as Paradigm, the largest UK MOD PFI contract and the first of the space industry,

or Satcom BW, the procurement of a turn key military communication system and services for German Bundeswehr . He was also leading the negotiation for insurance and risk management with the European Commission in the name of the European Consortium bidding for the Concession of the Galileo project.

From 2000 to 2004, he was Senior Space Risk Underwriter at SCOR one of leading company of the space insurance market. He was member of the Space Study Group of the Federation Francaise des Sociétés d’Assurance (FFSA) and representative of the French Reinsurance Association at the IUAI.

Philippe Cotelle is graduated Engineer from Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace and Executive MBA from Essec & Mannheim 2007.

Aurélie holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development and a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences in partnership with the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris and the University of Rennes.

She started in 2003 in the industry as environmental engineer at Lafarge in Morocco, then at Vicat where she set up the first environmental management system ISO 14001v2004 certified, then integrated Quality, Safety, Environment. From 2006 to 2008, she was with the Suez Environnement Group, as Quality, Safety and Environment Manager of its STAR subsidiary, based in the Réunion Island and for the Indian Ocean region. In particular, she implemented ISO 9001 and 14001 quality management and environmental management systems at the Mayotte landfill and also obtained the INRS Safety Medal for the efforts made to improve the Health and Safety work conditions within the company.

Since 2008 in the insurance industry, first as an environmental risks underwriter at Axa Corporate Solutions, she joined in 2011 Ace (now Chubb) where she held the roles of environmental risks senior underwriter then Environmental risks line Manager until March 2018. She focused on offering its Insureds optimal solutions in terms of wording but also services such as prevention, crisis management and loss first class dedicated offer.

In June 2018, she joined the XL Catlin team as a senior environmental risks underwriter and Client and Distribution leader.

After studying psychology at Manchester University, Paul Gisby qualified as a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser and spent 20 years in the North West of England working in private practice. As a general practice partner, he gained a wide experience of accounting, auditing, and providing financial advice.

After moving to Brussels, he joined Accountancy Europe - an international organisation representing nearly 1 million professional accountants through its 50 member bodies, in all sectors of the profession.

His primary focus is on tax policy and he is Accountancy Europe’s designated alternate for the European Commission’s Tax Good Governance Platform. He uses his long experience of SMPs to contribute to the Accountancy Europe’s SMP Forum, which promotes the views of the small and medium-sized accounting practices and of their SME clients.

He leads Accountancy Europe’s work on public sector accounting standards and is a member of the Consultative Advisory Group of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board. Apart from being involved in financial reporting issues, he is also responsible for Accountancy Europe’s ESG Reporting activities.

Nick Kitching is Chief Risk Officer of Swiss Re Europe S.A., Swiss Re's Luxembourg based carrier for reinsurance operations in Europe. 

Before joining Swiss Re in 2013, Nick worked at Aviva plc, the UK Financial Services Authority (now part of the UK Prudential Regulation Authority) and Berwin Leighton Paisner. 

In his roles, Nick has participated a number of industry bodies, particularly the CRO Forum (www.thecroforum.org) on a variety of risk management topics.  At the CRO Forum, Nick has led the work on cyber risk since 2014 including the publication of three papers 'Cyber Resilience and the role of insurance' in 2014 and 'The CRO Forum concept paper on a proposed categorisation methodology for cyber risk' in 2016. In February 2018, the CRO Forum published 'Supporting on-going capture and sharing of digital event data' following an 18 month trial by CRO Forum members of the methodology set out in the 2016 paper. 

Gaëtan is an engineer by background having qualified as a civil mining engineer at the University of Liège. He studied management and administration at the Catholic University of Louvain and risk and insurance management at the University of Mons.

Before joining Group CMI, Gaëtan worked in engineering and production for Group Lhoist. He then joined Insurance Company AG and held various roles linked to corporate risks before moving to Group InBev as risk and insurance manager for BeNeLux and France. He joined Group CMI in 2007.

Arthur Lu is the Head of Global Environmental Impairment Liability, part of the Chief Underwriting Office Global Liability team. His responsibilities include growing the worldwide EIL practice, and steering the global portfolio. He has been with AGCS since 2014, and is based in New York.

Arthur has spent over 20 years in the insurance industry, focusing entirely on environmental liability. His experience includes managing global underwriters and underwriting complex risk for many of the world's largest companies. Arthur earned his B.S. in Environmental Toxicology and J.D. from Whittier Law School.

Augusto Perez is part of Telefonica Group since 1997. He had different responsibilities, initially in Pleyade Peninsular (Telefonica inhouse broker) and afterwards in Telefonica S.A. Always within Corporate Risk and Insurance Area of the Group.

In July 2014 he was apointed director of corporate risk and insurance. This new position implies the role of Risk Manager of Telefonica Group regarding insurable risks, the affinity insurance development, as well as the management of various Telefonica´s Insurance Subsidiaries. He's a  member of the board of Casiopea Re, Telefonica Insurance and Pleyade Group (Spain, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Mexico) as well as the president of the Spanish risk management association IGREA.

Ali Shahkarami has over ten years of experience in Catastrophe Risk Management, developing models and tools for improved assessment and impact of catastrophes. With a PhD in Structural Engineering and a strong technical background, his main expertise is on the assessment and development of the vulnerability of structures among other aspects of Cat modeling.

Ali joined AGCS in 2012 to lead the Catastrophe Research team in Munich, and later moved to his current role in the XSE team in June 2018. Prior to that, he worked at the market leading company Risk Management Solutions (RMS), where he was a part of the team developing Cat models for windstorm and earthquake perils. Since joining AGCS, Ali has developed several solutions with the help of his expert team to deal with natural and man-made catastrophes at AGCS aimed to help underwriters and portfolio managers, as well as successfully creating customized products aiming to assist external clients assess their Cat risk.

Jo Willaert is in charge of the design of worldwide enterprise risk management and insurance programmes for imaging solutions group Agfa-Gevaert.

A law graduate, he spent the first part of his career in broking with companies which eventually became part of Marsh and later with Aon. He joined Agfa-Gevaert in 2001.

He is a board member of the Belgian risk management association BELRIM and President of FERMA.