Ant Gould

Group editor in chief, Post Magazine

David Clarke

Detective superintendent, City of London Police

David was the deputy head of the City Police's Economic Crime Department and was a member of the original Fraud Review Team. He now leads the projects for the National Fraud Reporting Centre, Intelligence Bureau and Lead Force for Fraud, which have emanated from the Fraud Review. He started his policing career in 1980, serving with the RAF Provost. He joined the City Police in 1987. He was involved in policing operations following the terrorist attacks in the City in the early 1990s and 7/7 bombings in 2005. He has worked on the drugs and vice unit and in 2001 was seconded to the UN in Bosnia Herzegovina investigating human rights and corruption allegations. As a senior investigator, he has managed a variety of serious crime investigations.

Kent Chaplin

Head of claims, Lloyd's

Kent Chaplin qualified with honours as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand, specialising in insurance and commercial litigation.

Relocating to the United Kingdom in 1996, Kent practised as an insurance solicitor for leading London law firm Herbert Smith, before his appointment as claims director for Aon Limited’s Professional Risks division, specialising in financial institutions, professional indemnity and directors & officers’ liability.

Kent joined Lloyd's in October 2004 as the head of claims to implement Lloyd's claims management strategy and to provide leadership on market-wide claims issues. In this role, he is responsible for defining and implementing the performance management framework for the Lloyd’s market, including claims management principles and minimum standards and all aspects of claims operational reform, including, but not limited to the successful introduction and ongoing management of the electronic claim file initiative.

Colin Farley

Chairman, CILA Anti-Fraud Special Interest Group

Following his earlier occupation as a CID officer in the Kent Police Force, Colin first entered the Loss Adjusting / Claims Investigation profession in January 1975 with Ellis & Buckle, throughout his insurance related career, he has initiated many innovations which have led to a well publicized award by the ABI in November 1973 in relation to successes in fraud investigation and the provision of anti-fraud training videos. He is the managing director of CFA Solutions Ltd. a company specialising in motor liability and fraud related investigations and is the chairman of the CILA Anti-Fraud Special Interest Group.

Sue Jones

Head of unit - Insurance Fraud Bureau

Sue Jones has enjoyed a 22 year career as an insurance claims and fraud practitioner. She holds a post graduate qualification in Fraud Management and is an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Sue has worked in Commercial and Personal Lines insurance in both an investigative and claims management capacity and has sat on a number of industry committees and panels during that time.

Sue was a founder member of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Anti-Fraud Committee and worked with fellow Committee members to progress the Insurance Fraud Bureau initiative from concept to delivery, joining the Bureau as Head of Unit in October 2006.

Prior to taking up her role with the Insurance Fraud Bureau, Sue held the post of head of counter-fraud with RBS Insurance.

John MacKenzie

ACII, policy advisor, Financial Crime

John is the ABI’s policy adviser for financial crime. He previously spent more than 20 years in the insurance industry. John represents the ABI on the board of the economic crime portfolio of ACPO and programme boards of SOCA. He is an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and is a chartered insurer.

Peter Staddon

Head of technical services, BIBA

Peter began his insurance career in 1971 and has worked for a number of insurance brokers covering most general insurance disciplines. He joined BIBA in 1996 to establish, what is now regarded as a highly successful technical services department. He was responsible for raising key technical issues with the media - gaining significant broadcast and print coverage for leading insurance issues.
Peter has executive responsibility for all non regulatory technical committees and plays a significant role in some of the major issues of the day including Travel Insurance and Environmental Liability Insurance. He has been intrinsically involved in Terms of Business Agreements and Contract Certainty and continues to developed ongoing relationships with government departments and other stakeholders.

Jonathan Swift

Editor, Post Magazine

Jonathan Swift was an award winning junior trapeze artist before an injury led him to a career in origami. Looked over for the 1997 world paper folding tournament in China, he changed career tact again electing to enter journalism and in 1998 a move to Post, a magazine his great great grandfather had worked for in the late 1870s. On becoming editor in 2004 both he and his long dead relation Benedict Reginald Swift created history with the longest gap (132 years) between two members of the same family running the same journal.

Stephen Wilmott

Head of fraud and intelligence - Solicitors Regulation Authority

Steve Wilmott has recently been appointed as the head of fraud and intelligence for the Solicitors Regulation Authority following his retirement from the City of London Police in October 2008. Steve held a number of senior appointments in the force the last being the head of the economic crime department a post he held for over 3 1/2 years.

During this time he was a member of the government's fraud review steering group, chair the ACPO national working group on fraud and held the ACPO portfolio for overseas corruption and bribery. In the New Years Honours list for 2007 Steve was awarded the Queen's police Medal.