Gavin is a qualified chartered accountant who trained in PwC’s Dublin and Vancouver offices from 1994 to 2001. He joined Charles Taylor in 2002 as the Financial Controller for Charles Taylor’s Bermuda office. From 2006 to 2016 he was responsible for managing the company’s Dublin-based non-life run-off operation and was appointed as Charles Taylor’s Non-Life Group Director. Gavin was appointed CEO of Beech Hill Insurance Limited, an Irish regulated non-life run-off insurer in 2008 and also Finance Director of two of Charles Taylor’s UK-based non-life run-off companies in 2012. He moved to the UK in 2017 to assume his role with the management of The Strike Club.

Background

• Professional Qualification: Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (FCA)
• Joined Charles Taylor Bermuda in 2002
• Appointed as Managing Director of CT Insurance Services (Ireland) Ltd in 2006 Became CEO of Beech Hill Insurance Limited in 2008
• Appointed CT Group Non-Life Finance Director in 2012
• Became Head of Finance of Charles Taylor’s London-based management team for The Strike Club

Special Experience

• Solvency II expertise – ORSA preparation and effectively embedding corporate governance
• Managed the successful completion of a Part VII Transfer (UK) and a Section 13 Transfer (Ireland) of insurance portfolios to a UK insurer
• Overall responsibility for running a Charles Taylor company office
• Diploma in Insurance (CIP) – graduate member of the Insurance Institute of Ireland
• Diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)