Headquarters:
London
Year founded:
1995
Number of employees:
Approximately 850
Phone:
02038570000
Email:
marketing@thor.ca
Website:
britinsurance.com
LinkedIn:
ca.linkedin.com/company/thorsteinssons
“As leaders, we inspire our team, valuing collaboration and spearheading change while sharing our knowledge to mentor the upcoming legal minds”
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Brit Insurance
Adelle Gruber
Class Underwriter
Chika Austin
Underwriter
Camila Araya
Development Underwriter
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Adelle Gruber is a class underwriter for global cyber, privacy and technology and has been underwriting technology E&O and cyber insurance in the Lloyd’s and London markets since 2007.
Her experience is in developing cyber products, including blended PI and cyber wordings for technology, media and miscellaneous professions as well as developing business strategy, pricing, governance and distribution channels. Her team is committed to working closely with partners to deliver best-in-class solutions to clients.
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Adelle Gruber
Chika Austin’s experience with regional brokers and cyber claims has given her insights into brokers’ and clients’ nuanced needs, which complements her underwriting approach by bringing a well-rounded, claims-informed perspective.
Brit Insurance’s culture of agility and innovation and its commitment to empowering underwriters to underwrite effectively resonates with her, as does its collaborative, solution-oriented approach – an ethos that she values.
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Chika Austin
Camila Araya has always enjoyed getting to know and understand brokers, with her background being within the London market. Her role focuses on its cyber portal through a mixture of underwriting, trading and developing the firm’s proposition.
Brit Insurance is composed of forward thinkers and well established in the cyber market. The company genuinely has a solution-based approach, which also aligns with Araya’s own underwriting style.
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Camila Araya
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Shane Brown
Partner, Member of the Management Committee
Shane Brown’s practice focuses on domestic and international tax planning for individuals, trusts, corporations and charities, including estate planning, corporate reorganizations, divisive reorganizations, business structuring, property acquisitions, entering and exiting the Canadian tax net, and offshore and cross-border structures. He also advises non-residents, including persons planning to immigrate to Canada, and persons acquiring or selling “taxable Canadian property,” and represents clients who have disputes with the CRA.
Brown also lectures on various aspects of taxation law at conferences, meetings, and courses attended by tax advisors and other professionals regarding tax planning matters. He has authored and co-authored papers and articles and has presented at various events including the Canadian Tax Foundation National Tax Conference.
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Shane Brown
Brandon Wiener
Partner, Member of the Management Committee
Brandon Wiener’s practice focuses on personal, corporate and trust planning for high-net-worth individuals, professionals, executives, owner-managers and their businesses, both domestic and international, including corporate reorganizations; structuring of investments and businesses; purchases and sales of businesses and real estate; estate planning; immigration and emigration; and non-profit organizations and charities including private foundations.
Wiener also advises investment funds and their managers and advisors in connection with structuring and other fund-related tax issues. Having a strong background in tax litigation, he assists and represents clients in their dealings with the taxation authorities in the context of an audit or assessment or voluntary disclosure.
Wiener worked as a law clerk for the Honourable Mr. Justice Michel Bastarache at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has written and presented on a wide variety of tax topics in various publications and conferences, including the 2011 Annual National Tax Conference (in Montreal) and the 2014 and 2017 Ontario Tax Conference of the Canadian Tax Foundation. He has served on the Executive of the Taxation Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association and has been a member of the Program Committee for both the Annual National Tax Conference as well as the Ontario Tax Conference of the Canadian Tax Foundation.
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Brandon Wiener
Every business is a technology business, so every business needs cyber insurance. From agile start-ups to multinational corporations, Brit Insurance knows that the nature of cyber risk changes. One size does not fit all.
The company’s knowledge of the cyber risk landscape gives it a deeper understanding of the various types of cyber risk – whether it’s the physical damage exposure of big industry or the high volume of patient records stored by a hospital.
Whatever the type of company, Brit Insurance can offer an appropriate cyber insurance service backed by a solid track record of:
• delivering cyber insurance for over 20 years
• a claims team with experience in the most complex cyber incidents
• providing cover for 40% of Fortune 500 companies
Brit Insurance’s CPR service is for small to medium-sized businesses. Its appetite includes a wide variety of industries, and its cover includes three individual limits: incident response, notification services and insurance protection, with the ability to re-deploy the insurance protection limit if required.
Brit Insurance has developed a portal to provide brokers with fast, online access to class-leading underwriters, enabling them to quote and bind products within minutes. It has a simple submission process that only requires name, turnover and record count to generate a quote and the ability to bulk upload risks for efficient cross-sell.
“We’re committed to delivering the highest level of service, assuring clients that their welfare is the firm’s utmost priority”
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Ted Sutcliffe
Partner, Member of the Management Committee
Laura Zubot
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Josh Wozman
Senior Vice President, Communications
Liane Brown
Partner
Ted Sutcliffe is a partner practising out of the firm’s Vancouver office. His practice is focused on corporate and personal tax planning, estate planning, and representation of taxpayers in disputes with the CRA. He was called to the bars of Ontario and British Columbia in 1995 and the bar of Manitoba in 2004.
Sutcliffe is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation and the tax subsection of the BC Bar Association. He has lectured and published on a variety of tax topics.
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Ted Sutcliffe
Tandra Davis joined NFP in 2021 to lead the company’s procurement function. In this role, she develops strategies and guidelines that drive value, efficiency, and results. Davis excels at creating and executing solutions that increase cost savings and profitability, streamline processes, and mitigate risk with NFP’s key suppliers. Her experience leading transformational initiatives for large organizations and across industries drives her ability to collaborate effectively within NFP and enhance operational success.
Davis also has a diverse background that includes global strategic sourcing, category management, real estate portfolio management, complex contract and lease negotiations, and supplier relationship and risk management.
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Laura Zubot
Josh Wozman joined NFP in 2021 as a senior-level communications specialist and leads public relations efforts primarily through promoting and protecting the company’s reputation. In his role at NFP, he establishes comms strategies for the brand and business lines, advises executives, business leaders and key contributors on media relations best practices, and manages agency teams.
Wozman’s career trajectory includes tenures with well known-brands, both in-house and agency-side. He serves additional leadership roles at NFP as a member of the Marketing Leadership team, Coordinated Incident Response Team, and DEIB Advisory Board.
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Josh Wozman
Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Liane Brown
Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
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Ben Irantalab
On a larger scale, HSH handles class action and mass tort lawsuits representing groups of people injured by dangerous products, medications, medical devices, and negligent organizations.
The HSH team is known for providing caring and attentive service to clients, and is proud of the firm’s excellent reputation within the legal and medical communities.
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“We will continue to strengthen our service proposition and customer experience as a key differentiator, as we build on the momentum we have achieved to date across multiple business lines and territories,” says McLean. “Our im is to continue to grow our market relevance and strengthen our partnerships with our strategic brokers as we expand our leadership position in key sectors.
“We will also continue to invest in talent. We are committed to drawing from the broadest pools of talent, and to creating an environment that attracts and retains stellar employees. We recognise the importance of building teams that are diverse, collaborative, and innovative and are dedicated to cultivating a supportive and inclusive workplace culture in which all our employees can thrive.”
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Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
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Ben Irantalab
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Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
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Ben Irantalab
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Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Stephen Kerr
Chief Executive Officer, Asia
Nicki Dunn
Chief Client Officer
Nigel Cook
Chief Executive Officer, Singapore
Head of Major Complex Loss, Asia
John Law
Chief Executive Officer, China
Alexa Tang
Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong
Aldrin Wong
Chief Executive Officer and
Managing Director, Malaysia
Andri Dirgantara
President Director, Indonesia
Pam Chhabra
Manager – Residential Strata
Adam Basaldella
Manager – Claims
Adam Basaldella
Manager – Claims