5th Edition IFRS 17 Forum 2020

Brian has worked as an accountant or consultant in General, Life, Reinsurance and Lloyd’s since 1994. He has worked on five IFRS 17 and fifteen Solvency II projects in consulting, software development and project management.

Strategy consulting, finance-systems advisory, software implementation, technical accounting, insurance accounting and finance transformation.

As Director and Co-founder, Matt leads the VantagePoint team by drawing upon his extensive experience implementing finance solutions across multiple sectors. He is a CIMA-qualified chartered accountant with comprehensive experience across varying finance systems as a solutions architect.

Matt maintains an in-depth understanding of the insurance industry, including current regulatory & compliance requirements

Experienced Head Of Health Actuarial and Corporate Underwriting with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Strong healthcare services professional skilled in Portfolio Management,Product Development, Enterprise Risk Management, Health Insurance, and Risk Management.

Jo Clube is the Accounting Policy Development Lead and Technical Accounting Director at Aviva PLC, responsible for IFRS policy and developments, focusing particularly on IFRS 17, the new standard for insurance contracts. Jo represents the UK industry on the IASB’s Transition Resource Group which seeks to support the Global implementation of IFRS 17.

Peter is a Senior Project Director in the secretariat of the UK Endorsement Board. He leads the project to assess IFRS 17 against the endorsement criteria set out in UK legislation for the adoption of IFRS for use in the UK.

Previously Peter worked for HMRC, advising tax and policy specialists on accounting practice and developments, and was part of the team that developed the current life tax regime. Peter trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers and immediately before joining HMRC he worked for PwC in London as a Director in Transaction Services.

Oscar is Chief Actuary at the UAE Insurance Authority, leading the implementation of IFRS 17 and risk-based regulation. He has spoken about IFRS 17 matters and its challenges at many events in Europe and the Gulf. He was previously Chief Actuary at Legal & General’s non-life insurance business, has 20 years’ experience in insurance and holds an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School.

EeLain is a finance professional who has specialised in the in/reinsurance industry for 25 years. She currently co-manages the insurance function of Deutsche Post DHL, a DAX-30 listed logistics group of €65bn turnover – with an insurable footprint spanning assets in 220 countries, 550,000 staff, and a huge fleet of aircraft/vehicles. Having been in successive leadership positions with various re/insurers – ERS, Tokio Millennium, CNA and XL – she launched her career as a chartered accountant at Deloitte/Mazars, where she rotated across the disciplines of audits, flotations, mergers/acquisitions, and a regulatory secondment to the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.

EeLain specialises in startups, having overseen the birth of 3 in/reinsurance entities and built their finance functions from first principles. Her wide-ranging experiences span pricing retro/prospective deals in conjunction with underwriters/actuaries, delivering business plan targets, investor relations messaging, maximising treasury yields, optimising investment asset allocations, mitigating in/direct taxes, streamlining monthly close processes, building data lakes/warehouses and latterly, digitalising processes through RPAs.

EeLain actively volunteers as a business mentor to graduates of her alma mater, Hull University, and continues to provide financial and governance expertise to a Mayan land rights charity. She previously served on a property management’s board advising on financial and legal transactions.

As Head of Valuation Life I have been responsible for the cash flow, valuation and risk model development, its application and the reporting in local and IFRS reserving, solvency, MCEV, as well as ALM.
I helped shaping the regulatory framework within the industry’s working groups for local reservation, SST and am doing now so for IFRS 17.
Now I am driving the IFRS 17 development within the financial transformation project on group level, where I am responsible for the methodology, the implementation of the IFRS 17 calculation engine and the posting rules of the results.
I advise my co-project leads in financial steering, presentation, and process matters as far as IFRS 17 is concerned.