About

Adam is our Founder and Group CEO. Prior to Brace, he was a Partner and served as the Head of Alternative Risk at Hiscox. He previously worked at Axis Capital and Allied World Assurance Company, with a focus on Global Property and MGA business.

Albert is the Chief Financial Officer at Brace Underwriting Limited. Prior to coming to Brace, Albert was responsible for insurance pricing and portfolio management, including remediation (Decile 10) at Lloyd’s. Before that, Albert held the position of Chief Economist at a large UK Consulting and Professional Services company.

Tom is the Head of Underwriting for Brace Underwriting Limited. Prior to joining Brace, Tom spent 10 years at Hiscox in a variety of roles spanning capital modelling, actuarial pricing with a focus on liability products, run-off management and underwriting. Since 2019 Tom held the role of senior underwriter within the Alternative Risk book at Hiscox which was a diversified portfolio of MGA partnerships writing specialty mono-line programmes or larger multi-line structures.

Martin is the Head of UK & Europe for Brace Underwriting Limited. Before joining Brace, Martin spent 18 years at Hiscox in a variety of leadership roles and as a Partner. For the past 10 years, he served as Head of Underwriting Partnerships for UK & Europe with a focus on MGAs writing alternative classes of business.

Mike joined Brace Underwriting Limited as a Senior Underwriter in 2024. Prior to joining Brace, Mike spent 13 years at Tokio Marine Kiln. After starting his career in Claims, he moved over to Underwriting in 2015, when he joined the Property team. During his time in Property, Mike wrote both international open market risks and international binding authorities. In recent years, Mike was responsible for the management of the Canadian binder book; overseeing business planning, portfolio management and various compliance duties.

Richard joined Brace in 2024 as a senior Underwriter, bringing over 15 years of insurance experience with him. Prior to this Richard worked as an underwriting data manager at Liberty Speciality, which he joined in 2008. Richard started his career as an underwriting assistant at Argenta Syndicate management in 2004. He also brings with him extensive knowledge of the international property sector and multi-line placements.

Glenn joined Brace in early 2022 as Head of Distribution for North America and is based in Boston.

Guy joined as Brace’s Head of Operations and Compliance during August 2022. Prior to working at Brace, Guy was Delegated Authority Manager at Tokio Marine HCC, and previously worked for Brit and Newline in various DUA operations and compliance roles.

Alex joined Brace as a Senior Operations Analyst in March 2024. Prior to joining Brace, he was a Broking Operations Executive at Superscript and previously worked at Newline Group. Before entering the insurance industry, Alex was an elite swimmer and still enjoys coaching swimming in his spare time. Additionally, Alex is ACII qualified.

Kashim joined the team in March 2023 as Operations Technician. He has completed 2 years of his Biomedical Science Degree at Middlesex University. In his own words, he “always intended to work in the city, and once I had found the opportunity to kickstart my insurance career at Brace, I did not hesitate to pounce.”

Isabell joined the team in November 2023 as an Operations Technician to aid with data automation procedures. She is a recent graduate from the University of Greenwich with a MSc in Data Science where her final project was focused on deep learning prediction models. Prior to that, she completed her BSc in Actuarial Science at the university of Kent. She is looking forward to growing in the Insurance industry.

Peter has worked in the London Market for over 40 years, 30 of which were spent working for a Lloyd’s broker where he was a Board Director and was responsible for Operations, Compliance, Internal Audit and Risk Management. Many years were spent dealing with Contract Wording issues, including speaking at overseas Conferences on wordings matters. He has also worked for the Corporation of Lloyd’s and most recently, Griffin Risk Managers. Peter is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Insurers and is a past Captain of Lloyd’s Football Club.

After completing a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from UCL, Sylvia started as an Intern at Brace and successfully transferred to a permanent role as the Pricing and Portfolio Management Data Analyst in 2021 and now is our Senior Actuarial analyst. She gained her Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Bath and UCL, respectively.

Rebecca joins Brace as a Pricing and Capital Analyst. Prior to Brace, she was employed at WTW as an Actuarial Analyst, working across the pricing, reserving and Solvency II teams. Rebecca graduated in 2020 from the University of Exeter with an integrated master’s degree in Mathematics. Alongside her role at Brace, Rebecca studies to become a qualified actuary with the IFoA.

Aaron joined Brace in January 2024 as an Actuarial Analyst, bringing valuable experience from his previous position at AmTrust, where he served as a Pricing Analyst, specializing in multiple General Insurance lines. Concurrently, he is actively pursuing an actuary qualification with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA).

Lisa joined the Brace team as the Head of Portfolio Management in 2023. Prior to joining Brace, she led the Portfolio Analytics and Pricing teams at the Corporation of Lloyd’s, driving uplift in pricing and portfolio management capabilities across the Lloyd’s market and within the corporation. She has also held a range of Portfolio Management and Pricing roles across property, casualty and specialty classes at RSA, ACE (Chubb) and Suncorp.

Steph joined Brace as an Executive Assistant to the CEO & CFO and Office Manager. Her career in the administration sector began at the Home Office before joining Marsh & McLennan Companies which included EA roles at Mercer Marsh Benefits and the Risk Management Practice at Marsh Ltd. In 2024 Steph was promoted to Business Operations Manager,

Jenny joined Brace in June 2024 as Executive Assistant to the CEO and CFO. Prior to joining Brace she worked at Hiscox for 16 years in various senior Executive Assistant roles. Jenny brings a wealth of experience with her.

Megan joined Brace in February 2023 as a Team administrator. Prior to this Megan completed her graduate studies at Queen Mary, University of London and graduated with a BSc degree in Psychology.

Jonathan joined from AEGIS London where he was Head of Claims operations. Jonathan has over 25 years’ experience handling claims in the Lloyd’s market across multiple lines of business. Jonathan currently co-chairs the LMA Delegated Authority Claims Group.