Executive Management Committee

Dane Douetil CBEChief Executive Officer

Dane began his career in the insurance sector in 1982 having graduated from Birmingham University with an Honours Degree in Commerce.

He spent the first twelve years as a broker, then a short period as a risk consultant to several financial institutions before moving into the underwriting side of the industry on his appointment as Chief Executive of Brit Insurance Limited, the FSA regulated insurance company subsidary of Brit Insurance Group.

Having joined the Brit Holdings Board in 1999, Dane became Group Chief Executive of Brit Insurance Group in April 2005.

Dane joined the Board of the ABI in 2009, was on the Board of the Lloyd’s Market Association from 2004-2006 the last year of which was as chairman, chaired the Market Reform Group until the beginning of 2008 and chaired the industry’s Contract Certainty Steering Group from 2005 to 2007.

In June 2007 Dane was recognised for his services to business by being appointed as a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Matthew ScalesFinance Director

Matthew joined the Board as Finance Director in 1999.

He has been Finance Director of Brit Insurance Limited since its establishment in 1993 and was appointed Finance Director of Brit Syndicates Limited in August 2004.

Matthew is a fellow of the Institute Chartered Accountants and joined the C T Bowring Group in 1979, transferring within that group to English & American Group in 1982. He was the finance director of English & American Group plc from 1991 to 1993 and was Group Financial Controller of Benfield Group plc from 1996 to 1999.

He is a member of the Finance Committee of the Lloyd’s Market Association.

Peter GoddardCompany Secretary

Peter graduated in Economics and Philosophy and, after law school, went into media. In 1986 he joined a former Bowring subsidiary – English & American Group - becoming Group Secretary in 1988. In 1991 Peter transferred to Head Companies LLC and became a founding Director of the insurance outsourcer, TSS Eastgate Group (now Capita Insurance Services), responsible for claims and legal. In 2000 Peter joined Brit as Group Secretary.

He is a member of the Risk Management Committee of the Lloyd’s Market Association.

Peter BurrowsCEO of Brit UK

Peter was appointed CEO of Brit UK on 1 July 2006. Prior to this, he was Managing Director, UK Commercial of Zurich Financial Services for just over five years.

The bulk of his career has been spent at RSA (Sun Alliance) where he held a number of senior positions with responsibility for sales, marketing, underwriting, distribution and risk services. During this period, he also had a spell as Managing Director of National Vulcan, the engineering insurance and inspection subsidiary of Sun Alliance. Prior to joining Zurich he was Director, UK Regions of RSA.

Jonathan TurnerCEO of Brit Reinsurance

Having graduated from University College Oxford with a degree in Modern History, Jonathan joined Allstate Reinsurance as part of the Underwriting team in 1990. Specialising in Motor and Casualty Excess of Loss reinsurance, Jonathan was part of QBE’s acquisition of Allstate in late 1996. Thereafter, he held various underwriting management roles, most recently as the Director of Underwriting of the Reinsurance division, QBE Re, a role that covered the various class specialist underwriting teams across the London and Dublin company locations.

Jonathan joined Brit in June 2005 as Reinsurance Underwriting Director. He joined Brit’s Executive Management Committee in April 2006 and, following a change of structure, he became CEO of Brit Reinsurance in May 2007. In May 2008 he was appointed Active Underwriter of Syndicate 2987 at Lloyd's of London, managed by Brit Syndicates Limited.

Matthew WilsonCEO of Brit Global Markets

Matthew began his career in 1988 working for a Lloyd’s syndicate, Sturge 204 (now assumed by ACE), rising to class underwriter for property in 1997. 

He joined Brit in 1999 to start the International Property division, becoming Divisional Director in 2001. In addition to his responsibilities for the property account, Matthew became Divisional Director for Brit’s Space and Accident and Health Divisions in 2005 and 2007 respectively. 

Matthew was promoted to CEO of Brit Global Markets in April 2008 and became a member of the EMC with effect from January 2009.

Malcolm BeaneChief Operations Officer

Malcolm joined Brit Insurance as Chief Operations Officer in September 2009, prior to this he had worked at XL Capital since 2001

Malcolm was appointed Chief Operating Officer for XL Insurance in March 2004 responsible for Operations, Information Technology, Human resources and Internal Communications. In 2006 Malcolm relinquished his HR responsibilities and was appointed Chief Processing Officer and Executive Vice President, prior to leaving XL to join Brit he was leading a significant Operational Transformation Programme.

Malcolm joined XL Capital in November 2001 as Senior Vice President and head of HR for Europe, Africa and the Far East. 

Prior to joining XL Capital Malcolm had worked for JP Morgan where he held a  number or posts in Finance, Internal Audit, Operations, Global Trading, and Corporate Finance/M and A. During his career with JP Morgan Malcolm was assigned to Italy, the Channel Islands and the USA. Malcolm joined XL from the Human Resources function at JP Morgan where he was Managing Director and European Head.