Our BOARD

Board Members

Dr. Tim Stone, CBE

Chair

Dr. Tim Stone, CBE

Chairman

Date appointed to the Board: 1 October 2015

Skills, experience and contribution: Tim has a wealth of experience in Nuclear Power and received a CBE in 2010 for services to the energy industry. He has held positions as the senior adviser to five successive Secretaries of State responsible for Energy.

Other roles past and present: Previously Tim was Chair of KPMG’s Global and infrastructure Projects Group. He held executive roles as a Managing Director of SG Warburg and later, Chase Manhattan Bank. Tim is a former Non-Executive Director of Arup Group and Anglian Water. Tim holds a DPhil in Physical Chemistry from Oxford University. He is a Visiting Professor at University College, London.

Committee membership: Nominations (Chair)

Chief Finance Officer

Angela Alecock

Chief Financial Officer

Date appointed to the Board: 25 January 2020

Skills, experience and contribution: Angela has spent most of her career in insurance and specifically, the London market. She holds a degree in Economics and Politics from University College Dublin.

Other roles past and present: Angela was previously CFO at Amtrust Europe and before that was involved as Finance Director, in establishing Stratstone’s Lloyd’s Managing Agency. Earlier in her career Angela held finance roles at Hiscox and RSA.

Deputy Chair and an Appointed Director

Michael Dawson

Deputy Chair and an Appointed Director

Date appointed to the Board: 9 May 2003

Skills, experience and contribution: Michael has more than 41 years’ experience in the insurance industry, having started his career at Lloyd’s in 1979. He joined Cox Insurance in 1986 where he was the Chief Executive from 1995 to 2002. In 1991, Michael formed and became the underwriter of Cox’s and subsequently Chaucer’s specialist nuclear syndicate 1176 and was later appointed to the board of the company in 1994.

Other roles past and present: Michael was formerly a Non-executive Director of Lancashire Holdings Ltd. He has served on the Council of Lloyd's from 1998-2001 and on the Lloyd’s Market board from 1998 to 2002.

Managing Director

Mark Popplewell

Managing Director

Date appointed to the Board: 29 August 2014

Skills, experience and contribution: Mark has been Managing Director of NRI since 2014, as part of a 35-year career in the insurance industry. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Other roles past and present: Mark was previously Risk Management Practice Leader - Middle East at Marsh. Before that Mark led Marsh’s UK power and utilities practice. Mark represents NRI on the International Nuclear Pooling System’s Committee and is an insurance representative on OECD Nuclear Energy Association’s Nuclear Law Committee. Mark is Vice-Chair of the Maritime Nuclear Liability Working Group and a member of the IAEA's International Nuclear Law Experts Group (INLEX).

Elected Director

Luis Prato

Elected Director

Date appointed to the Board: 1 January 2024

Skills, experience and contribution: Luis is President of LSM UK and MENA and CEO of Liberty Managing Agency Limited. He has over 30 years’ insurance experience, specialising in Energy risks. Luis holds an MSc and an MBA from Cambridge University Business School.

Other roles past and present: Luis was previously CUO UK & Lloyd’s for AXA XL and before that a Senior Underwriter for Catlin.

Committee membership: Nominations

Elected Director

Melanie Raven

Elected Director

Date appointed to the Board: 1 July 2024

Skills, experience and contribution: Melanie is Active Underwriter at Ark Syndicate Management Limited, Chair of the Offshore Energy Committee of IUMI and a Committee Member of the Lloyd’s Market Association.

Other roles past and present: Melanie was previously a senior underwriter at Ark and earlier in her career, an Energy Underwriter at Cigna.

Committee membership: Nominations

Appointed Director

Jonathan Salter

Appointed Director

Date appointed to the Board: 13 September 2023

Skills, experience and contribution: Jonathan is Head of Risk Consulting at AXA XL, having previously served as Interim Chief Underwriting Officer for XL Catlin Insurance Company (UK) Limited.

Other roles past and present: Jonathan’s previous roles have been as Head of Property Risk Engineering for XL Catlin and Director, Global Consulting for RSA. Jonathan holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.

Committee membership: Risk & Audit

Appointed Director

Julian Samuel

Appointed Director

Date appointed to the Board: 25 April 2023

Skills, experience and contribution: Julian will be taking up a new role as the International Head of Marine, Energy and Industrial Risk at The Hartford Insurance Group as of January 2026, after stepping down from his role as Head of Natural Resources for MS Amlin.

Other roles past and present: Previously, Julian spent more than 20 years at Markel International, becoming Managing Director - Energy.

Committee membership: Nominations

Elected Director

Matthew Wilson

Elected Director

Date appointed to the Board: 1 July 2024

Skills, experience and contribution: Matthew is the UK Chief Financial Officer for Convex Group. In this role, he currently serves as the CFO of both Convex Insurance UK Limited and Convex UK Services Limited, as well as holding a number of responsibilities across Group Finance.

Other roles past and present: Previously Matthew spent 14 years as an Actuarial & Insurance consultant for Deloitte UK. He holds a degree in Mathematics from Oxford University, and is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

Committee membership: Risk & Audit (Chair)

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