
MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd is an insurer and reinsurer focussing on clients with complex (re)insurance needs. We operate through our Lloyd’s Syndicate 2001 and can trace our roots in the London market back over 100 years. For our clients we offer broad a spectrum of (re)insurance classes, blending our market knowledge and underwriting expertise, with a practical desire to deliver solutions.
Leadership Team

Andrew Carrier
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew has over two decades of leadership experience in international (re)insurance markets. He joined MS Amlin Underwriting Limited in September 2020 as Chief Underwriting Officer and became Chief Executive Officer in January 2023.
Prior to his role at MS Amlin, Andrew spent six years at Everest Re, where he was responsible for the firm’s London Market, Continental Europe, and Asia Pacific reinsurance operations. His career also includes serving as Group CUO at Argo for seven years and 23 years on the underwriting side at Kiln.

Martyn Rodden
Director of Strategy and Transformation
Martyn was appointed Director of Strategy and Transformation in December 2020. Prior to this, he held the positions of Deputy CEO, and Director and Chief Risk Officer.
Martyn serves as non-executive director of London Insurance Market Operations & Strategic Sourcing (LIMOSS), a body vital to the modernisation of the London Insurance Market through the provision and management of market services.
Before joining MS Amlin in 2016, Martyn was a member of the executive management team at Faraday, where he held the position of Chief Risk Officer for the Lloyd’s and company market platforms. During his tenure, Martyn established the risk and validation team from the ground up and had responsibility for regulatory affairs. He was involved in several high profile projects, including Solvency II and the development of a single operational and governance structure for the business.
Prior to his time at Faraday, Martyn was Head of Risk with Chaucer Syndicates Limited.

Phil Green
Chief Financial Officer
Phil has been Chief Financial Officer of MS Amlin Underwriting Limited since rejoining the company in October 2017, and has over 20 years of experience working in the Lloyd's market.
Phil held the position of Group Financial Controller at Amlin plc until 2004. Between his two Amlin roles, Phil spent nearly 10 years as Finance Director at Advent, in addition to working at Aegis and as Finance Director at ProSight.
Phil is a qualified Chartered Accountant, qualifying with Pannell Kerr Forster in 1993. He is a member of the LMA Finance Committee.

Alberto Verga
Chief Operating Officer
Alberto joined Amlin in 2015, becoming Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the global Marine and Aviation business and then COO for MS Amlin Underwriting Limited.
Before joining MS Amlin, Alberto briefly worked for banks including Barclays and Lloyd’s primarily in IT, change management and operations. Prior to that, Alberto spent 10 years in Accenture's UK Financial Services practice.
During his career as a management consultant, he worked with leading financial services institutions in the UK and mainland Europe across banking, insurance and capital markets. He has a wealth of experience in operations, IT, large-scale business and systems transformations, organisation restructuring, change management and merger integration.
Alberto holds a Masters Degree in Information and Communications Technology with honours from Politecnico di Milano.

Martin Burke
Director of Underwriting Performance
Martin is the Director of Underwriting Performance for MS Amlin Underwriting Limited. Martin’s previous roles with MS Amlin since 2016 include Director of Underwriting Services, Director of Group Underwriting and Deputy Chief Risk Officer. Before the acquisition of Amlin by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Japan, Martin held the role of Director and Chief Risk Officer of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Underwriting at Lloyd’s, joining in 2012. Martin has always worked in the Lloyd’s and London Market, having previously worked in Catlin Group’s Enterprise Risk Management team, served as Head of UK Reporting and the Catlin Syndicate’s Finance Director. Prior to the merger of Catlin with Wellington Underwriting, Martin held a number of actuarial roles. Martin read Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University and qualified as an actuary in 2001, he is also a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.

Louise Musgrove
Chief People Officer
Louise has been Chief People Officer of MS Amlin Underwriting Limited since April 2021, having joined MS Amlin in March 2020. Louise has over 25 years of experience working in global PLCs in the technology and professional services sectors, as well as across a number of financial services institutions and more recently specifically Insurance.
Louise has held a number of senior leadership roles in Human Resources leading and driving cultural change, business transformations, organisation effectiveness, leadership and talent development.

Vishal Desai
Chief Risk Officer
Vishal was appointed Chief Risk Officer of MS Amlin Underwriting Limited in May 2021.
He joined MS Amlin from the Bank of England where he held the role of Acting Head of Division General Insurance Risk Specialists & Chief Actuary. He held responsibility for risk and actuarial oversight of 300+ regulated entities across wholesale and retail general insurance business, including Lloyd’s of London and its syndicate population.
Vishal has c.19 years’ financial services industry experience, gained both in the U.K and internationally across corporate, consultancy and regulatory roles. This includes time spent at UBS, PwC, and Hiscox alongside the Bank of England. He is also a past member of the General Insurance Board of the UK’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Vishal currently sits on the Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board for both the Insurance Insider and LINK, the network promoting LGBT+ inclusion in the insurance sector.

Fred Foreman
General Counsel