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Educated at Lycée Louis Le Grand and the Sorbonne in Paris. A historian he held the An-tonin Besse Senior Scholarship at Worcester college, Oxford and research assistant to Lord Briggs. Joining Christie’s Auction House 1984 and appointed in 1994 Director and Interna-tional Head of the Old Master Drawings Department. 2001 he joined Artemis Fine Arts created by Baron Lambert as one of its Four Directors.He worked with Richard Gray,Chicago as adviser to his Collection. 2004, he created Salamander Fine Arts. 2008, became an independant dealer.

Mark Bosshard joined Beazley Furlonge Ltd in November 2016 as an Underwriter for Fine Art and Specie lines specialising in Fine Art. Mark has 22 years of experience in the sector having started life as a broker with Marsh in 1995 placing fine art and specie business. He then joined AXA Art Insurance as an underwriter in 2000 before joining XL Catlin as an underwriter with the Fine Art & Specie team in 2005.

Now Managing Director of Classicus Ltd in the UK. Richard began his career in the Classic and Specialist Car market over 20 years ago. Since then he has personally handled the insurance of some of the world’s leading classic car collections and associated businesses.

Owen Carragher is a vastly experienced litigator, having served in both government and private practice over the course of his career.  His practice focuses upon insurance coverage, commercial litigation, investigations and privacy matters with a particular emphasis on the fine art and specie sectors.

Owen has successfully represented clients – prominent insurers, businesses and individuals – in matters throughout the United States. Many of the matters he handles are of a sensitive and commercially significant nature, and frequently involve working across multiple jurisdictions and national boundaries. Owen has received both industry and peer recognition for his work, and is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations.

Before joining Clyde & Co, Owen served as a founding partner of a distinguished New York law firm.  He began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in New York County, where he focused on the investigation and prosecution of sophisticated financial crimes, and both traditional and non-traditional organized crime groups.

Owen has been an avid supporter and sponsor of IFASIC from its earliest days.

Richard is an Associate at Clyde & Co LLP specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has been based in Dubai since 2015, and prior to this practised in London. He has handled numerous fine art and specie claims across multiple jurisdictions.

Simon Craig has over thirty years experience as a Fine Art Loss Adjuster and Risk Surveyor. His career began in the UK in 1979, and since moving to Milan in 1991 Simon has handled many complex and high profile claims across the world.

Founding partner of The ACME Loss Adjusting & Risk Survey Co. S.r.l., Simon established Untitled (1960) in 2014.

Filippo Emanuelli – Managing Director – BELFOR Italia S.r.l.

Managing Director of BELFOR Italia since 1997. Over the years he has followed among the most important after fire decontamination works in Italy including Mont Blanc Tunnel (2000), Michelin (1999), Coca Cola Tirana (1998), Rome Airport (2015), as well as post-flood interventions (1994/2000) Earthquake (Emilia 2012) and pollution (Iplom 2016).

In 2005, the design of a domestic pre-damage priority service was formulated in the Pronto Intervento Azienda program, a modular program that provides SME’s companies with after damage stand-by services from specialized technicians for emergency interventions and pre-damage training services on crisis management. Next to the Primary Insurance Companies and several Insurance Brokers today the program assists in Italy over 85,000 companies and 20,000 privates for fire, flood and environmental emergencies.

Lecturer and member of CDA CINEAS (Consortium in Insurance Engineering next to Politecnico di Milano), ALP teacher (ANRA Learning Path), teacher at the Risk Management Development Course at the University of Verona – Economics faculty. Plus training activities for years for the diffusion of risk management culture.

As claims manager for XL Catlin’s fine art, jewelry and specie business, Natasha helps XL Catlin’s specialty insurance clients – which include museums, private collectors, corporate collections, jewelers, mining and cash-in-transit operations–  address physical loss or damage to highly valued property and possessions.  Natasha’s responsibilities also include addressing the businesses’ reinsurance, financial reporting, reserving and compliance requirements.

Natasha joined XL in July 2004 from AXA Art Insurance Companies where she served as Claims Analyst and Legal Advisor and managed the resolution of complex fine art claims, which included supervising private investigations and retaining qualified conservators and appraisers.  Prior to her position at AXA, Natasha worked in the legal department of Sotheby’s Inc. where she negotiated settlement, consignment and consulting agreements, benefit auction contracts and authenticity and title claims.

Natasha earned her Bachelor of Arts and her Master of Arts in Medieval History from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.  She earned her Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and is a member of the New York Bar.

Sarah Giles joined Plowden & Smith in 1998, after graduating with a degree in History of Art and English, followed by a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art Valuation. A director of the company, Sarah currently heads up the Business Development department after more than a decade managing the Client Services team.

Luke Harris is a barrister at 5 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, whose practice covers all areas of commercial Chancery litigation and advice, with a particular emphasis on claims involving equity and trusts, chattels, bailment and personal property. Luke specialises in claims involving art and antiquities and frequently acts for and against states, public bodies, museums, galleries, auction houses and private individuals in claims involving objects of cultural and artistic value.

Itay Hendel is the CEO of ISPS.

Itay served in the Israeli security forces, and since then has been involved in the fields of loss prevention in the valuable’s industry including diamonds, jewelry, and CIT.

Since its establishment in 2005, ISPS specializes in providing unique and practical solutions to prevent loss and reduce possible damages. The Company’s all-round solutions combine security, operational and logistical aspects, in close cooperation with insurance companies, various business companies, shipping and logistics companies, and more.

ISPS provides its services in most countries around the world.

Camilla Hughes-Hunt is Managing Director of Plowden & Smith. Camilla joined the company in 2016 with over 25 years commercial experience gained in a number of blue chip companies including ICI, Royal Bank of Scotland, Diageo, Allied Domecq and Motorola.

For the past 12 years, Daniel has been a research geoscientist, working at leading universities all over the world studying diamonds. Since completing his PhD thesis “Quantifying stress and strain in diamonds” at University College London, he has published research papers on topics including how diamonds grow, the inclusions found within them, and the causes of certain colours.

Over the last year, Daniel has helped to setup the Diamond Durability Laboratory (DDL) with cofounders Thomas Gelb and Wolf Gluck. DDL has become the leading company in assessing the risk associated with processing and manufacturing diamonds.

D. Mark Lowers is a certified fraud examiner and President & CEO of Lowers Risk Group, a provider of risk mitigation, loss prevention, employment screening, and data-intelligence through its complementary companies: Lowers & Associates, Proforma Screening Solutions, and Wholesale Screening Solutions.

Mark is CEO of Lowers & Associates, which specializes in risk mitigation/management and loss prevention.

Starting his insurance career in Yachts, Jeremy soon found himself embracing the Cargo/Fine Art & Specie market at Zurich Insurance in London. Zurich’s international programs provided exposure to some of the largest auction houses, diamond wholesalers and CIT companies globally . Jeremy has recently joined RSA Insurance to further broaden his experience.

Started in 1971 as insurance agent specializing in JB.

1988 approved as Lloyd’s Coverholder for JB as well having treaties for continental companies.

Following “exist in 2002, carried on as consultant to re insurers-JB loss prevention scheme, as well as loss adjusting and surveyor mainly processing risks.

Consultancy services to Lloyd’s brokers

Re insurance auditing outsourced by the Israeli Insurance commissionaire as well as internal auditing to Israeli insurers and large companies.

Member of the Israeli Diamond Exchange since 1974 (third generation)

Was elected member and chairman of the Israeli Diamond Exchange control committee.

Resided as member of internal arbitrators of the Israeli Diamond Exchange where dealt with some of the largest cases in the trade.

Donald A. Palmieri, jewellery appraiser, forensic expert, consultant and broker, is President and founder of Gem Certification & Assurance Lab, Inc. (GCAL), an ISO 17025 Accredited Laboratory. Don is also the President of Gemological Appraisal Association, Inc., publisher of Palmieri’s Market Monitor®, Chairman of Gemprint Corporation, and is currently serving as Chapter 11 Trustee in a $40 million diamond manufacturer bankruptcy case, appointed by the US Trustee, New York Southern District.

Don has worked in all levels of the jewellery and gemstone profession during his 45-year career, attaining advanced gemological and appraisal certifications, including Master Gemologist Appraiser®.

After a 24 year career in the Lloyds insurance market Nigel Paxman moved to the secure logistics industry in 2002 joining the Malca-Amit Group as Global Risk and Operations Manager.
Nigel currently holds the position of President Malca-Amit Group and is stationed at the group’s head office in Hong Kong.

Nicholas Reynolds, a co-founder of Berkley Asset Protection in 2008,  is responsible for the fine art and commercial lines insurance portfolio’s,  having previously held positions of increasing responsibility within other leading fine arts insurers in the USA.

Nicholas started his career as a broker at Lloyd’s of London before moving to the USA in 1991, where he gained valuable experience in the retail brokerage market before moving on underwriting. With almost 30 years of experience in the fine arts insurance industry, his knowledge and unparalleled insights have made him a frequent speaker and panelist on this subject to insurance and trade groups.

Nicholas graduated with honors from the Queen Mary College, University of London, with an LLB specializing in intellectual property law.

As a 30-year veteran lawyer, Arnold specializes in sophisticated commercial litigation. Including judicial reviews of jurisdictional excesses of regulatory agencies and tribunals; interference with business and contractual relations between competitors; business disputes among shareholders and partners; employment law including prosecuting and defending wrongful dismissals; marketing, distribution and licensing; trade mark and copyright infringement actions and defences; complex breaches of contract, financial and negligence matters; insolvencies. He counsels a broad spectrum of highly successful and entrepreneurial businessmen. Arnold has appeared at all levels of the Ontario Courts, at the Federal Court’s Trial and Appeal Divisions and in the Supreme Court of Canada. He is one of Canada’s pre-eminent liquor-regulatory lawyers and its foremost specialist in jewellery, fine art and specie insurance defence litigation.

In August 2015, Arnold was trial counsel in R. v. Comeau, a successful constitutional challenge about trade barriers affecting the cross-provincial movement of liquor in Canada, which received major media attention domestically and abroad. R. v. Comeau has been appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which will hear the case on December 6 & 7, 2017, to be nationally broadcasted.

David Scully LL.B.  has 37 years’ specialty insurance experience, 26 in Fine Art & Specie.  He was Underwriting Manager at AXA Art UK and set up and ran XL Catlin’s market leading FAS Asian operation, working in Singapore for 7.5 years where he was heavily involved in Chinese FAS insurance.  He is now an independent consultant and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.