The IFB today announced the members of the newly structured Supervisory and Technical Boards. The new structure is a part of its recently agreed three year strategy.
The board members are:
Supervisory Board
David Neave, Director of General Insurance, Co Operative Insurance Society General Insurance Ltd (Chairman)
Steve Hardy, Chief Executive, AXA
Tim Holliday, UKGI Chief Underwriting Officer, Zurich
Steve Maddock, Managing Director of Claims, RBS
David Newman, Chief Executive, Carole Nash
John O’Roarke, Managing Director of General Insurance, LV
Martin Saunders, Head of Technical, Allianz
Rob Smale, Claims & Operations Director, Ageas
Ashton West, Chief Executive, MIB
Technical Board members
Mihir Pandya, Fraud Manager – Claims Division, Allianz (Interim Chairman)
John Beadle, Head of Counter Fraud, RSA
David Berry, Senior Technical Fraud Manager, Lloyds
Scott Clayton, Claims Fraud & Investigations Manager, Zurich
Ursula Coulibaly, Head of GI Financial Crime Operations, LV
Richard Davies, Group Fraud Risk Manager – Group Operational Risk, AXA
Matt Gilham, Head of Financial Crime, Esure
Steph Griffiths, Counter Fraud Controller / Glen Marr, Director of Fraud, First Central
Paul Hubbard, Head of Counter Fraud Operations, RBS
Steve McDonald, Counter-Fraud Manager, Sabre
Andy Pagett, Counter Fraud Manager, Groupama
Rob Spiegelhalter, Claims Fraud Manager, NFU
Stephen Thorndyke, Claims Fraud & Leakage Manager, Aviva
The Boards will work together and guide the governance and operations of the IFB, in particular to uplift activity in tackling organised motor fraud, increased resources to investigate fraud and rolling out a service model to address application fraud.
The Supervisory Board will focus on strategic decision making, governance, finance and engagement with senior members of IFB’s stakeholders. The new Directors, taken from a cross section of the industry, are responsible for executive level relationships across the industry and will reflect the strategic needs of IFB’s customers.
The Technical Board, taken from a range of leading fraud practitioners in the industry, will focus on providing help and support to the IFB initiatives and operations as well as communications between the IFB and the Customer Fraud units.
The profile of insurance fraud across the industry and with the wider public has never been higher and these steps are being taken to address key priorities to improve the prevention and detection of fraud which costs the industry in excess of £2bn per year.
Nominations closed in early November and have been agreed by the ABI and nominated members of the current IFB Board. The appointments will be effective from the first IFB Board meeting of the New Year and until then the current Board remains in place.
Source : IFB
