John joined Peat Marwick, now KPMG, in 1965 and became a Partner in 1983. Since leaving KPMG in 1993 to form Hustler Venture Partners Limited, he has advised and been a director of a number of growing companies. He is presently Chairman of Northern 3 VCT PLC, a director of Northern Venture Trust PLC and Hygea VCT plc. He was a Director of Crowe Insurance Group from 1994 - 2002. He is also a member of the Audit Committee of UCL and was a member of the Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and Chairman of its Corporate Finance Faculty from 1997 - 2000. He has also been a member of the Council of the British Venture Capital Association, a member of the Valuation Committee of the European Venture Capital Association and an adviser to HM Government's Small Firms Ministers from 1986 - 1990.

Mike has worked in the Lloyd's Insurance Market for over 17 years. He is one of the founding shareholders of Spectrum Syndicate Management, for whom he acted as Finance Director at its formation in April 2002. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer in February 2004. As well as running a major Lloyd's run-off, Mike is heavily involved in piloting the first Part IV transfer at Lloyd's. Mike is also a member of the LMA Run-Off Group.

Prior to joining Spectrum and it's predecessor company, Mike spent 7 years as the Finance Director at Whittington Syndicate Management Limited responsible for syndicate accounting and reporting for up to 100 syndicates in run-off and 2 live syndicates. He also held the position of Compliance Officer for the Lloyd's managing agency arm until December 1997. Mike started his accounting career with Touche Ross and was involved in insurance business from 1980. Having reached a senior management position in Touche Ross Mike joined the Merrett Group in 1987 where he held various positions including Director of Group Services, Company Secretary and Compliance Officer.

Richard has been involved in the London Insurance Market for over 18 years. He is one of the founding shareholders of Spectrum Syndicate Management and was appointed Chief Executive Officer at its formation in April 2002. Spectrum group has built £6.7m net assets over that period. Richard is also Chief Executive Officer of Aviation& General Insurance company (AGIC). As well as running a major Lloyd's run-off, for which Richard is the Lloyd's appointed run-off manager, Spectrum has successfully executed a solvent scheme of arrangement for AGIC as an investor and manager as well as piloting the first part VII transfer at Lloyds. Richard is a regular contributor to the insurance press and speaks at conferences on London Market issues.

Prior to Spectrum and its predecessor company Richard worked at Lloyd's for 12 years. During his time with Lloyd's Richard held a number of positions including responsibility for the majority of regulatory operations as a General Manager, and in the early part of his career as Executive Assistant to Lloyd's Director of Finance. Prior to Lloyd's, Richard spent 4 years with the Audit Commission and, after University, 5 years in the Home Civil Service.

Kim has worked in the Lloyd's Market for 22 years. She was appointed Compliance Director of Spectrum Syndicate Management Limited at its formation in April 2002 having previously held the same position with Crowe Syndicate Management Limited since September 1999. Prior to joining Crowe Kim worked for the Corporation of Lloyd's for 17 years, 8 of which were in the Members' Services Unit looking after the administration of Names' affairs and 9 of which were in the Regulatory Division with responsibility for reviewing Lloyd's underwriting agents, syndicates and brokers. On leaving the Corporation in August 1999 Kim held the position of Assistant Manager, Monitoring Department and was responsible for managing 25 staff carrying out market supervision on the various Lloyd's agents and syndicates.

David joined as Group Finance Manager in June 2000. Prior to that he had worked for over twenty years as a Senior Manager in the Financial Services division at Ernst & Young. During this period he specialised in services to the firm's clients in the insurance industry, both syndicate, corporate names, managing agents and broking clients within the Lloyd's market and also both life and non-life companies. These services included statutory audits and also advising on acquisitions, disposals and reconstructions and included providing expert witness evidence in reinsurance disputes.

Stavros was appointed Chief Actuary of Spectrum Syndicate Management Limited in April 2002 having previously been an actuarial analyst within the Actuarial Department of Crowe Syndicate Management Limited since April 2001.

After completing an MSc in actuarial science at Heriot-Watt University, Stavros joined Tillinghast-Towers Perrin's General Insurance Division in September 1997 as an actuarial trainee. There he was involved in a variety of projects such as mergers and acquisitions, reserve reviews and valuations for London Market & European companies & Lloyd's syndicates, across a variety of classes of business.

In July 2000 Stavros joined Allianz Cornhill as a team leader for the London Market Division.

Stavros holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Athens.

Jim Mann is Spectrum's Director of Underwriting. He was previously the Actuarial Executive for the Bank of America Reinsurance Division and his group was responsible for actuarial analyses, monitoring of financial metrics, and final approval of pricing. Prior to this role, Jim served as Chief Actuary for the Bank of America Insurance Group, where he established the first actuarial department. Jim's twelve years of experience in the insurance industry include roles as a reinsurance actuary, underwriter and corporate reserving actuary. Within the industry, Jim serves as co-chairperson of the ABIA Reinsurance Best Practices Panel and he is a regular presenter on reinsurance at industry seminars, most recently the ABIA and SOA. Jim holds a Master’s in Applied Mathematics and is both an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the MAAA.

Jerome Breslin is the Executive for the Bank of America Reinsurance and Specialty Risk Group. In this capacity, Jerome is responsible for leading the development and continued profitability of the Reinsurance and Specialty Risk line of business for Bank of America. Prior to this role, Jerome served as the Senior Risk Manager for Bank of America's Insurance Services Group where his primary responsibility was balancing market, operational, regulatory, reputation and product risk for the core Bank of America insurance products.

Jerome has over 14 years of Insurance Industry experience prior to joining Bank of America in June of 2003. In his tenure, Jerome has served as senior regulatory insurance attorney with Funk and Bolton P.A. as well as insurance and reinsurance Compliance Counsel for the AIG’s Accident and Health Division. Jerome has also held positions with MetLife and Standard Insurance Company related to insurance compliance and operational risk.
Jerome earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and his Law degree from Creighton University School of Law.