Neil serves as Chief Financial Officer for Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP Global Re & Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP Americas Re, with overall responsibility for their financial management, as well as heading the financial operations of Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP's Bermuda office. He joined Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP permanently in 2023, originally as Chief Compliance Officer of the Bermuda companies, after previously serving for two years as Financial Controller of Langhorne Re, a joint-venture part-owned by Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP.
A member of the ICAEW since 1998, Neil has over 25 years’ post-qualification experience as a Chartered Accountant in the insurance and reinsurance industry, including 16 years in Bermuda. He has a broad knowledge of insurance and reinsurance products and markets, and has amassed a deep understanding of the Bermuda’s financial, regulatory, compliance and legal environments, as well as US GAAP and BMA reporting requirements.
Neil’s previous roles in Bermuda include four years as a management consultant advising a suite of large licensed reinsurer clients in a variety of executive roles including CFO, Financial Controller and Chief Compliance Officer; a founder and co-owner of a start-up insurance management company; leading the local insurance restructuring advisory practice of a global consulting firm; and serving as an audit manager in the insurance practice of a Big-4 global audit firm. He has also served on the Board of Directors for numerous clients throughout his career, as well as sitting as a volunteer on the executive committees of various Bermuda not-for-profit organizations and charities.
Outside of Bermuda, Neil also spent ten years working for a leading restructuring and advisory firm in Sydney, Australia, performing senior management roles in the high-profile liquidation of the country’s second largest general insurer.