Speakers
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John Beadle, Chairman, Insurance Fraud Bureau
John Beadle completed a successful career in the Metropolitan Police in 1996. John then transferred his experience to the private commercial sector, firstly as a Director in Capitol Group. More recently, since 2000, John has been the Counter Fraud Manager of RSA. John is also the Chairman of the Insurance Fraud Bureau and with his colleagues, he is looking forward to helping steer the IFB to becoming the cutting edge of the industry's fight against organised fraud. |
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Anita Bradshaw, Consulting Director, Logica
Anita is a Consulting Director for Logica's Financial Services division in the UK. She is currently responsible for the White Collar crime proposition, having run Group Compliance for Capita, as well as their Risk & Compliance Advisory Services team. Anita has a full range of banking experience covering wholesale, retail and capital markets disciplines |
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Paul Gribbon, Consultant, Logica
Paul is a Consultant for the commercial Governance, Risk and Security team within Logica. He specialises in consultancy on identity management, data loss and authentication solutions and services that suit the needs of Enterprise-scale organisations. Recently, Paul assisted the Logica group to define the global Security strategy for the CEO. |
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James Heath, Director of Counter-Fraud Strategy, Keoghs LLP
James is an experienced fraud lawyer. He has worked with many insurers and companies at an operational and strategic level, helping them to define, implement and improve their counter-fraud strategies. He has also played a central role in coordinating a number of major cross-insurer fraud rings exceeding £30million in value. James is also secretary of the Insurance Fraud Investigators Group (IFIG). |
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David Hicks, Head of Forensic Insurance Services, KPMG
David heads up KPMG Forensics' services to the insurance sector. He has led many national and international assignments covering the provision of insurance advisory services to non-insurance entities, as well as guidance and due diligence work for insurers. David has audited several major insurers and is also an industry-recognised thought leader and lecturer. |
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Scott Horwitz, senior director, decision management analytics, Fair Isaac Corporation
Scott has nearly 20 years experience in analytics working with Fair Isaac. He has worked across the organisation in delivery, product management, R&D and sales support roles. Most of that time has been spent working with companies to generate analytic and decision science solutions for the financial services and insurance industries. During the 1990's, Scott led the research for the first pooled property and casualty insurance underwriting risk scores using credit data. Scott has worked with companies in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Canada, and Brazil. |
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Glen Marr, vice president, financial crime, AIG
After serving as a Police Officer, Glen entered the general insurance industry in 1989, in Sydney, Australia, where he commenced a career in fraud specific roles within insurers, at both operational and strategic level, and has operated in the UK and Europe. In his current role with AIG UK, Glen is responsible for the management of financial crime across the general insurance operation. At an industry level, Glen is a member of the ABI General Insurance Anti-Fraud Committee. |
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Thomas C. Ormerod, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Lancaster University
Tom is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and currently Head of the Psychology Department at Lancaster University. He has published over 100 refereed articles and books on expert decision-making, and has been PI on a number of large research projects including a DTI/EPSRC funded project on detecting and investigating insurance fraud (2001-2004). He regularly advises government and industry on criminal investigation and security screening, including both psychological and technological and design aspects of expertise support. |
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Mihir Pandya, Fraud Manager, Allianz
Mihir joined Allianz as Fraud Manager in 2001, bringing with him an extensive fraud investigation background. In his current role he is responsible for identifying and managing fraud risks across Allianz's Claims Division as well as playing a vital role in formulating a wider corporate and group anti-fraud strategy across the Allianz Group. Mihir represents Allianz on the ABI General Insurance Anti-Fraud Committee as well as the IFB Board of Directors and is a regular speaker at industry seminars and contributor to trade press articles. |
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Julie Smith, claims director, InsureandGo
With over 30 years of insurance experience Julie Smith is currently Claims Director at Travel Claims Services (TCS), the claims arm of InsureandGo. Julie founded TCS in 2003 and has successfully grown the company to employ 50 members of staff, handling over 65,000 claims per year. |
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Damian Ward, partner and head of Fraud, Halliwells
Damian has specialised in personal injury litigation throughout his career with a strong focus on fraud for more than ten years. He works with a wide range of insurers to help them define and implement anti-fraud strategies and work processes. Working with his insurer clients together with their own customers to improve detection, front-load the investigation and make early decisions in cases has already generated measurable results. |
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Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Wilmott, QPM, Head of Economic Crime, City of London Police
Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Wilmott is currently Head of the Economic Crime Department of the City of London Police. He is also the Chair of the National Working Group on Fraud and manages the ACPO portfolio for Overseas Corruption and Bribery. He sits on numerous boards and groups associated with the financial services industry. Prior to his most recent appointment he spent three years as Head of Crime Investigation for the City of London Police. He was recently awarded the Queen's Police Medal. |

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