Executive Directors

Richard Tolliday (aged 47) — Chief Executive Officer
Richard Tolliday joined the Omega Group in 2002 as Chief Executive Officer. His insurance career spans 28 years during which he has held a number of senior positions both in management and underwriting. Between 1982 and 2000, he held various positions with Amlin plc (formerly Murray Lawrence & Partners Limited). As group operations director, he was responsible for the strategic leadership of Amlin’s operations. Prior to that, he held positions as group information systems director, and syndicate manager and deputy underwriter on Syndicate 40. Before joining the Omega Group, he served as chief operating officer of the commercial division of Cox Insurance Holdings plc. He was awarded an MBA with distinction from the London Business School in 1999.

John Robinson (aged 54) — Chief Underwriting Officer
John Robinson has been an underwriter for Syndicate 958 since it commenced underwriting in 1980 and has spent 35 years of his career as an underwriter in the Lloyd’s market. In 1979, John Robinson and Graeme Christensen established the Syndicate. He has been the Active Underwriter on the Syndicate since 1995, prior to which he was the Syndicate’s deputy underwriter. He joined the Lloyd’s community in 1972 when he took a position of underwriting assistant with C.E. Heath, a London-based insurance broker and underwriter. He is a founder shareholder and director of the Omega Group. He is also a director of Omega Underwriting Agents.

Penny James (aged 38) — Group Finance Director
Penny James joined Omega as Group Finance Director in May 2007. She has 13 years of finance related experience in the insurance industry. Between 1995 and 2007, she held various finance positions within Zurich Financial Services, most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of the UK Financial Insurance Division with responsibility for the financial management of Zurich’s Commercial and Personal lines businesses in the UK. Previously she worked with Coopers & Lybrand, being admitted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1994. She holds an Honours degree in Statistics from the University of Bath.

Walter Fiederowicz (aged 61) — Non-Executive Chairman
Walter Fiederowicz has been underwriting as a Name at Lloyd’s on various syndicates since 1996, and specifically as a Name on Syndicate 958 since 1996. He joined the Board of Omega Underwriting Holdings in 2003. He currently serves as chairman of the board of Meacock Capital plc, a Lloyd’s-based underwriting entity. He also serves as a managing director of the Painter Hill Venture Fund I, L.P., and serves on the boards of directors of Photronics, Inc., and Quadlogic Controls Corporation, and previously served as chairman of the board of Conning & Company, a firm specialising in the analysis of insurance companies, and Heritage Underwriting Agency plc (a Lloyd’s managing agency) and CDT Corporation. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law. His career as an attorney included service as a partner of Cummings & Lockwood where he represented venture capital firms and other financial institutions and capital providers.

Christopher Clarke (aged 62) — Non-Executive Director
Christopher Clarke was appointed a Non-executive director of the Group in March 2005. He has been a Non-executive director of The Weir Group PLC since 1999 where he is also a member of the audit and remuneration committees. He has been a Deputy Chairman of the Competition Commission since 2004, having been a member since 2001. Formerly an investment banker, he was a director of Samuel Montagu & Co. Limited from 1982 to 1996 and of HSBC Investment Banking until 1998. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and of the London Business School.

Clifford Palmer (aged 59) — Non-Executive Director
Clifford Palmer was appointed a Non-executive director of Omega Underwriting Agents in 1998 and he was appointed a Non-executive director of the Group in 2003. He has been actively involved in the management of Lloyd’s related companies for over 20 years, including service as a syndicate active underwriter and executive director of Ashley Palmer Holdings Limited and companies within the same group, as well as an independent director of Vesta Insurance Group, Inc. from immediately following their IPO until 2001. Until April 2004, he also served on the board of directors of S.A. Meacock & Co. Limited, a Lloyd’s underwriting agency. He is currently non-executive chairman of Bell & Clements (London) Limited, the parent company of Lloyd’s broker Bell & Clements Limited and a wholly owned subsidiary of Munich Re. He is also the President of Henley Consulting Inc., a family-owned consulting company.

Nicholas Warren (aged 55) — Non-Executive Director
Nicholas Warren was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Omega Insurance Holdings on 28 August 2006. He has spent 29 years in the insurance and investment sectors in Bermuda and currently serves as Senior Vice President of International Advisory Services (IAS), an insurance management company. His previous appointments include being president and CEO of the SDI Group from 2000 to 2004, holding a number of positions in the Argus Group from 1986 to 1999 and he was vice president of Marsh & McLennan between 1983 and 1986. He is currently a board member and chairman of the audit committee of the First Bermuda Group. He was admitted as an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1978 and as a Fellow in 1983. He holds an Honours degree in Economics and Politics from the University of London.