Guernsey Champagne Reception

Hotel Hermitage Monte-Carlo

9 September 2025

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Guernsey Champagne Reception

Hotel Hermitage Monte-Carlo

9 September 2025

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Save the date for our annual Champagne reception in Monte Carlo, a core event in the Les Rendez-Vous de Septembre line up.

Representatives from Guernsey's specialist insurance industry are looking forward to updating you on developments within the sector.

A welcome address will be delivered by Paul Sykes, Chair of the Guernsey International Business Assocation and Managing Director of Aon Guernsey. We are delighted to welcome Paul Brand, CEO of Convex Group, who will be the event’s keynote speaker. The reception will offer insights into how the latest trends in the sector are impacting global insurance markets, and how Guernsey’s role is adapting to meet market needs.

Guernsey’s insurance sector is pioneering and innovative, with the jurisdiction boasting a position of leadership in the structuring and execution of alternative risk transfer.

The reception takes place in the same week as the 67th Les Rendez-Vous de Septembre (6 - 10 September), when representatives from the global reinsurance market meet to hold bilateral discussions ahead of the renewal of insurance treaties.

Date

16:00 - 19:00 CEST

Tuesday 09

September 2025

Location

Hotel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
Square Beaumarchais
Monte Carlo City Centre
98000 Monte Carlo
Monaco

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If you have any queries on this event, please contact Leanne Cuttill

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Event Programme - Tuesday 9 September 2025

16:00

Registration

16:30

Welcome Address

Paul Sykes

Chair

Aon

16:45

Networking Drinks

17:30

Introduction & Keynote Address

Paul Sykes

Chair

Aon

Paul Brand

CEO

Convex Group

17:50

Networking Drinks

19:00

Event Close

Welcome Address

Paul Sykes

Chair Aon

Paul is responsible for Aon Insurance Managers in Guernsey – Europe’s largest (re)insurance management company – which also includes the White Rock PCC and ICC companies. He has been instrumental in the development of Guernsey’s insurance industry spanning captive solutions, Insurance Linked Securities and Guernsey’s emerging reinsurance sector. He originally trained with Royal Insurance (RSA), before setting up Aon’s operations in Malta and Gibraltar. Paul has chaired most of the insurance trade association and professional bodies in Guernsey and is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Guernsey International Business Association (GIBA). He holds a master’s degree in Corporate Governance, is a Chartered Insurer and a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. Most recently he also became a Chartered Director with the Institute of Directors.

Keynote Address

Paul Brand

CEO Convex Group

Paul Brand is the CEO of Convex Group and has more than 35 years of insurance industry experience, including 31 years at Catlin and XL Catlin. He joined Catlin in 1987 becoming chief underwriting officer between 2003 and 2015. Following the merger between XL Group and Catlin, Brand became chief underwriting officer of the insurance division of XL Group between 2015 and 2017. He was also chairman of Accelerate, XL Catlin’s in-house innovation team between 2016 and 2018. Brand founded Convex with Stephen Catlin in 2019, with $1.7bn of initial committed capital to underwrite insurance and reinsurance for complex specialty risks.

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Guernsey Champagne Reception

Guernsey Champagne Reception

If you have any queries on this event, please contact Leanne Cuttill

Code of Conduct at Events

Paul Sykes

Paul Brand

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Why Guernsey for Insurance?

Europe's Premier Captive Domicile

Reinsurance and ILS

Guernsey: Europe's premier ILS domicile

Guernsey: Home to Run-off Specialists

Guernsey: an emerging centre for Managing General Agents

Guernsey's Market Access

Check out the gallery below from Guernsey Champagne Reception 2024. Photos by Ed Wright.