Management Board

The Management Board comprises the following:

Helen Crofts, Chair

As a qualified actuary Helen spent the first 20 years of her career in life insurance and reinsurance. At Swiss Re she was Marketing Actuary and Business Development Manager for UK clients, before joining XL Re as Chief Actuary for the life reinsurance startup. Moving to Bermuda, she joined Scottish Re’s offshore team, and remains involved with the International business back in the UK, to ensure she doesn’t lose touch with her technical roots. Returning home in 2006 with a young family, she felt the time was right for a change in direction, and so joined insurance sector specialist executive search company ejsSearch to spearhead the development of the Life and Health Practice. Helen has strong links with the Institute of Actuaries, having organized and chaired a number of their conferences and seminars.

Karin Lloyd, Management Board Member

Karin has recently set up her own consultancy practice following 24 years in Underwriting and Claims in the direct market and as a reinsurer. She set up and managed Swiss Re UK's first dedicated Claims department and was a senior member of the Global Underwriting and Claims team, contributing to the development of Lifeguide and a number of innovative web-based tools to support Underwriters and Claims assessors worldwide.

Since branching out on her own in mid-2006, Karin has worked for companies based in the US, UK and Australia on a variety of projects including the development of an auditing framework, operational reviews, assisting a new life company and developing training materials.

Tracey Ashworth-Davies, Management Board Member

Tracey Ashworth-Davies is HR & Corporate Affairs Director of Royal London Group, responsible for HR, member & media relationships and industry affairs. She was previously Deputy Chief Executive and co-founder of Bright Grey. There, she developed and proved her belief that the right people have the power to make a massive difference to an organisation's commercial success.

Her passion for recruiting the right people was one of the core principles when creating Bright Grey and this is reflected in its market differentiation.

Tracey has multi-sector experience, having joined financial services from the chemical and utility sectors. She qualified as a Chartered Secretary after her degree in psychology.

Malcolm Small, Management Board Member

With a background in Law, Heavy Engineering, and public Administration, Malcolm has specialised in all aspects of management in Financial Services at senior level for the last 15 years. Classically trained in marketing at Marketing Centre Europe in Brussels, he has also operated as a Marketing Director in I.T., preparing software applications for market and following through to product delivery. A highly experienced Project Sponsor and Manager, he has delivered a number of high budget business-critical projects and new business operational builds. He has also worked at senior level in process led, system rich environments.

More recently, he has specialised in the regulatory, technical and operational aspects of pensions. A recent past Chair of the Investment and Life Assurance Group, a trade body, he also has a strong presence in public affairs and public policy work within Financial Services. He is a frequent speaker, and author, on industry topics.

Patricia McSherry - Business Manager

Patricia is the Net-Work Meetings Business Manager. She is the contact point regarding all of the logistical and financial elements of the Meetings. Patricia is also responsible for the production and collation of the meeting documentation and the running of the events. She has a wealth of experience gained through her commercial career history. Patricia's finely honed commercial and organisational skills are evident at the meetings!

In addition to the above each of our sponsors have a seat on the Management Board.