Canopius hire Victoria Phillips for Asia Pacific energy role
Canopius today announces the appointment of Victoria Phillips as energy underwriter. Phillips joins from Marsh in Singapore. She will continue to be based in Singapore, reporting to Geoff Tin, head of energy, and working closely with the London team as well as the renewable energy team in the Netherlands.
Mark Newman, head of AsiaPac MENA said: “We pride ourselves on our joined-up approach to energy across our global offices, and our common strategy across our platforms ensures we offer a seamless energy product to our brokers. Victoria’s enthusiasm and passion for finding excellent solutions to our clients’ challenges, as well as her significant broking experience, will be a great asset to the team.”
The Canopius energy offering is predominantly an upstream energy account, incorporating renewable energy, with limited midstream and downstream components. It offers protection for energy property physical damage, offshore construction all risks, excess third party liability and operators’ extra expense / control of well risks. The renewable energy offering includes coverage for construction all risks, contingent delay in start-up, operational all risks, contingent business interruption and third party liabilities.
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For further information please contact:
Caroline Klein, Canopius +44 20 3750 2815
David Haggie / Richard Adams, Haggie Partners +44 20 7562 4444
Biography:
Victoria Phillips brings more than a decade of broking experience to her role. She began her career at Miller in London as a facultative reinsurance broker, before moving to Marsh in Singapore. Having joined in 2011 as offshore construction broker, she became leader of that team, before being promoted to lead the combined Upstream Operational and Offshore Construction teams in 2016, most recently as senior vice president.
About Canopius
Canopius AG (Canopius) is a global specialty (re)insurer with underwriting operations in the UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bermuda, US and Singapore. It underwrites through Lloyd’s Syndicate 4444 (managed by Canopius Managing Agents Limited) and a US surplus lines insurer, Canopius US Insurance, Inc.