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Captive Insurance: Helping Businesses Create and Preserve Assets in an Uncertain World Speaker Bios |
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Ms. Westover is President of Captive Advisory Services, an Argonaut Group Company. She provides consulting and captive program structuring services for insureds and their brokers, insurers, or reinsurers. She also serves as Barbados International Business Representative. In this capacity she works with insureds and their service providers, as well as insurers, reinsurers, banks, and other financial institutions. She structures enterprise risk management programs and other alternative risk transfer solutions that can benefit from the advantages Barbados’ international financial services sector offers, both for the US, and for businesses and individuals on a world wide basis. Ms. Westover has over fifteen years experience in the captive insurance industry. Before forming Captive Advisory Services, Ms. Westover was Chief Operating Officer of Strategic Risk Solutions Vermont, a subsidiary of Strategic Risk Solutions (“SRS”), a Credit Suisse group company. Prior to that she was President of American Risk Management, one of the leading captive management companies in Vermont, now part of AON. Ms. Westover has a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, England. She earned her CPCU designation in 1991. Ms. Westover is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association, served on the Vermont Captive Advisory Board, and has served as an advisor to the Washington DC Department of Insurance and Securities. She has taught insurance courses for the Vermont Insurance Institute at Champlain College, and is a frequent speaker at a number of industry conferences and workshops. Her publications include “Direct Aggregate Excess Liability Policies (Captive Insurance Company Reports, February 1992); “Risk Manager and Reinsurer - a Common Destiny”, (Captive Insurance Company Reports, June 1992); “Managing Retention Capacity”, (Captive Insurance Company Reports, July 1995); “Financial Modeling for Risk Managers - Calculating Risk Management Value Added” (The Risk Financing Newsletter); Special Purpose Vehicles (The Risk Financing Newsletter). She authored the chapter on Terrorism Issues for Captive Insurance Companies in the IRMI publication “Terrorism Insurance: What Risk and Insurance Professionals Must Know.” Her book “Captives and the Management of Risk” was published by the International Risk Management Institute in March 2002. Wayne Fields, is an Assurance Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Eastern Caribbean with over thirty-five years of experience. Since 1985, Wayne has specialized in the financial services sector and has responsibility as lead partner for a number of the firm’s major insurance and banking clients. Wayne’s knowledge of the regulatory environment has permitted him to assist clients in the insurance and banking sectors with their application to the regulators to obtain the appropriate licenses. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom, and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Barbados. He has presented several papers at conferences and written articles on the financial services sector.
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