Headquarters:

9th floor, 30 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BD

Year founded:

1864

Number of employees:

32,000+ globally, 848 in the UK and Ireland

Phone:

020 3207 6000

Email:

marketing@thor.ca

Website:

travelers.co.uk

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/TravelersEurope

“This award is recognition of the amazing work done by the Travelers team. We are proud to be providing our clients with valuable cyber underwriting, risk and claims solutions”

Matt Waller, Travelers

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Matt Waller

Assistant Vice President, Head of Cyber

Chris McMurray

Managing Director, Cyber

Camila Araya

Development Underwriter

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Matt Waller has over 15 years of cyber insurance experience. He has held leadership positions at London syndicates and MGAs specializing in cyber insurance, where he has overseen the profitable growth of global cyber insurance portfolios. Waller was head of underwriting, London Markets at Corvus, and joined Travelers via the acquisition in January 2024. He is responsible for underwriting Travelers Europe’s cyber portfolio.

Head of Underwriting, Cyber

Matt Waller

Chris McMurray has been in the insurance industry for 20 years, working with some of the largest specialist carriers in the market. Prior to joining Travelers, he was a cyber product manager covering UKI, Continental Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, providing expertise and gaining insight into cyber insurance markets worldwide. McMurray joined Travelers Europe as cyber lead in 2022 and has advanced to his new role as managing director for cyber. He is responsible for growing the cyber portfolio, ensuring its place in offering a market-leading product supported by first-class incident response and pre-loss service proposition.

Managing Director, Cyber

Chris McMurray

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

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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

Over the past 165 years, Travelers Europe has rightly earned a reputation as one of the best insurers in the industry due to its extraordinary dedication to customers, colleagues and communities. The company’s deep segment expertise is an advantage to brokers, allowing them to tackle clients’ unique risk challenges with confidence. This approach has kept Travelers at the forefront of the industry with a talented team of people who take pride in creating and delivering insurance solutions and a superior in-house claims service that make a difference. Through the leadership of managing director, cyber, Chris McMurray, Travelers cyber underwriting team has developed an expansive market proposition from SME to corporate. Joining the company in 2022, he is responsible for growing the cyber portfolio, ensuring its place in offering a market leading product supported by first-class incident response and pre-loss service proposition.

“The success itself, I think, is made up of many parts, but ultimately it’s putting the insured at the heart of what we do”

Chris McMurray, Travelers

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

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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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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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

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Manager – Claims

Adam Basaldella

Manager – Claims

In 2024, Travelers completed the acquisition of Corvus London Markets, an industry-leading cyber insurance managing general underwriter powered by proprietary technology, allowing the firm to gain a stronger foothold in the market. The acquisition brings additional knowledge through Assistant Vice President, Head of Cyber, Matt Waller, on the international and Lloyd’s markets. Waller brings over 15 years of experience in cyber insurance to Travelers. The company designs insurance solutions and risk management guidance around each business it insures. Whether clients are a sole trader, a medium-sized business or a large multinational corporation, Travelers can protect their business as it evolves. Travelers covers businesses in sectors as diverse as financial institutions and solicitors, healthcare and technology, underwriting each risk individually. Its sector-specific expertise helps brokers and clients manage current risks while empowering them to minimise emerging ones. Travelers offers a host of pre-loss services including its own dedicated senior risk control engineer for cyber and technology who they deploy at no charge to their clients to get a better understanding of their risk and be a real value add outside of the core product offering. Travelers has a suite of pre-loss services available free of charge to their insureds, including HCL Security Consultant Hotline, discount on products such as Endpoint Protection, free access to an employee training platform with 30+ modules, 60 days free access to SentinelOne EDR, and full access to eRiskHub.

Travelers also recognises that preventing a cyber event is mutually advantageous. Under some circumstances, they may notify their policyholders if the Travelers risk management team identifies critical cybersecurity risks impacting their policyholder’s environment. This is accomplished through their own threat intelligence as well as partnerships with trusted cybersecurity firms – also known as ‘active insurance’. Even when clients have the best protection in place, things don’t always go to plan. Travelers’ expert in-house claims team is always on hand to help – 24/7/365. Clients benefit from Travelers’ highly skilled, in-house claim professionals with strong legal and technical knowledge, ready to work with customers to minimise the impact of any loss. They also have an in-house law firm handling actions against policyholders and representing their interests every step of the way. Acknowledging the company’s 5-Star Cyber accolade, Waller says, “This award is recognition of the amazing work done by the Travelers team. We are proud to be providing our clients with valuable cyber underwriting, risk and claims solutions.”