Board of Directors
strategy | innovation | expertiseMichael Smith
Non-Executive Director (UK)Michael Smith is a solicitor, having spent his professional career at city solicitors Titmuss Sainer & Webb (now international law firm Dechert) of which he was senior partner from 1990 to 1998, retiring from legal practice in 2001. He was a corporate lawyer, having specialised from the mid 1980’s in the London and international insurance markets, with a concentration on capital transactions of all types. He has been a non-executive director of a number of Lloyd’s Agencies, including ACE Underwriting Agencies Limited from 1998 until 2004 when he joined the main board of Brit Insurance Holdings plc, until stepping down in February 2010. In 2004 he was appointed as an independent non-executive director of R&Q Managing Agency Limited (formerly Cavell Managing Agency Limited), the managing agent of Syndicates 102 and 3330. In May 2010 he resigned as non-executive director of R&Q Managing Agency Limited to take on the role of Chairman of the Underwriting Management Division of the Company. He is also involved as a trustee of a number of UK charities.
