Agora completes senior team
Skuld is pleased to announce the completion of the senior team at Agora, the special purpose arrangement (SPA) of Skuld Syndicate 1897 specialising in the property D&F and treaty markets. The SPA started trading in January 2016.
Agora, led by Mike Pritchard, has quickly established itself in the D&F and binder arenas with Neil Wren and Anthony Strain as the key underwriters. The team will be completed with the arrival of Peter Coleman as head of D&F in early December.
James Blackwell, who joined in June as head of treaty, leads the treaty team with Mathew Storr recently appointed as his deputy. The treaty team’s main areas of focus are international and specialty treaty.
The senior team is completed by Sean Sawyer as managing director.
With the full team in place for the 2017 year the SPA is well placed to capitalise on the strong start this year and recently gained Lloyd’s approval for its 2017 business plan with a stamp of £60m.
Contacts:
Damian Beeley
Haggie Partners
+44 (0)20 7562 4444
damian.beeley@haggie.co.uk
Skuld
Skuld is a world leading marine insurance provider with a strong financial position and an ‘A’ rating with Standard & Poor’s. We cater to the needs of shipowners, the offshore and energy sector, charterers and traders, ports and terminals, cargo and the superyacht community.
Skuld was established in 1897 as a P&I club for Scandinavian shipowners. Since then, we have grown into a diversified marine insurer and now offer bespoke covers through Skuld P&I and Skuld 1897, a syndicate at Lloyd’s.
With headquarters in Oslo and a worldwide office network of around 250 highly skilled employees, we provide our members and clients with service and competence they can rely on, 24 hours a day.
Asta
Asta Managing Agency Ltd is the leading third party managing agent at Lloyd’s and is responsible for nine syndicates with capacity under management in 2016 of approximately UK£1bn:
Syndicate 1686 (Axis)
Syndicate 1729 (Dale Underwriting Partners)
Syndicate 1897 (Skuld), SPA 6126 (Agora)
Syndicate 1910 (Ariel), SPA 6117 (Ariel)
Syndicate 2357 (Nephila)
Syndicate 2525 (DL Dale & Others)
Syndicate 2786 (Everest)
Syndicate 4242 (ICAT), SPA 6123 (ICAT)
Syndicate 5886 (Blenheim)