The Team

James is responsible for the medical malpractice portfolio at MCI.

James started his insurance career in 2010 at Lloyd’s of London and in 2011 moved to QBE to work as an Underwriter within the Medical Liability team where he was responsible for the day to day underwriting of medical malpractice, clinical trials and pharmaceutical liability. In 2014 James became responsible for the medical malpractice portfolio.

Lauren worked with our Infectious Disease team through 2021 helping develop our IDL product and in January 2022 joined the team as our Infectious Disease Practice Leader.

She has 11 years of scientific laboratory-based research experience and previously worked at King’s College London as an immunologist studying Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2. Lauren has a BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Arizona and a PhD in Immunology from King’s College London.

Eleanor joined MCI in December 2020 as an Underwriting Assistant under the auspices of the Life Sciences Head of Class. She also works closely as an analyst on the Infectious Disease Liability project. Eleanor completed her Undergraduate Degree in Medical Microbiology and Virology at the University of Warwick, later continuing on to attain her Master’s Degree investigating the Epidemiology of, and Risk Factors associated with Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis infection in Brazil.

Andy started his insurance career in 1998, and joins MCI for the 2025 year of account, leaving Arch after approaching 3 years. Prior to Arch, Andy spent 23 years at Chaucer Syndicate, firstly working within the Treaty and Political Risk underwriting teams for 10 years, then subsequently focusing on the Political Violence and Crisis Management market. Andy has twice built two of the largest and most profitable portfolios in the Lloyd’s market, during a period of substantial market change, and served as LMA Political Violence Chairperson for 5 years prior to departing Chaucer in 2021.

Dev brings nearly 15 years of broking experience with Lloyd’s brokers in the London market, following few years in the technology sector within banking in Mumbai. He gained valuable cross-class experience at a niche independent broker specializing in Marine, Energy, Political Violence and Reinsurance for almost five years. In 2015, Dev joined Willis Crisis Management, where he progressed to Executive Director and Deputy Head of the Terrorism and Political Violence Team. In this capacity, he held global responsibility for a substantial team of brokers, overall strategy, managing distribution, business production, thought leadership initiatives and operational functions.

Mark has over 15 years’ experience underwriting Political Violence and select Crisis Management sub classes. Mark joined Aspen Insurance in 2011, worked for several successful start-up MGA arrangements, before joining Markel as a Senior Underwriter in 2022. Mark’s experience of niche MGA sector, and large corporate underwriting, coupled with long term broking relationships in the London market will be an invaluable addition for MCI.

Louis has been in the Lloyd’s market for 20 years having joined Willis in 2004. After 7 successful years working within the Fine Art, Jewellery & Specie team he moved to Watkins Syndicate to begin his underwriting career. In 2015 he moved to Tokio Marine Kiln to establish a Fine Art & Specie book and over a period of 9 years, this became a market leading portfolio until Louis joined MCI in April 2025.

Chris started his insurance career in 2007 and joins MCI for the 2025 year of account. He previously spent 13 years at Apollo where he was part of the team which built the original Marine portfolio and later headed up the Cargo account. Prior to that, he worked at Chaucer Syndicates as an underwriter within the Cargo & Specie team. Chris has a track record of outperforming Lloyd’s market average profitability and has been involved with several market committees and initiatives during the last 18 years.

Catherine brings nearly a decade of specialised experience in Fine Art & Specie in the Lloyd’s insurance market. Her career began in 2016 as a wholesale broker at Gallagher, where she developed a strong foundation in placement and relationship management.

In 2021 she transitioned into Underwriting at Chubb Global Markets where she honed her skills across all Fine Art & Specie disciplines, and then joined MCI in June 2025.

Olivia joined the Specialty division at MCI in July 2025 after four years in the insurance market. She began her career in 2021 working in the Terrorism and Political Violence team at SCOR before moving to Arch Insurance International in 2023 as an Underwriter for that class. Prior to her underwriting career, she undertook a master’s degree in international security from UCL gaining specialised expertise in terrorism and cyber threats. Olivia will focus on bespoke solutions and collaborative opportunities within the Political Violence, Political Risk and Cargo War / Logistics lines.

Siri joined MCI as an Underwriting Assistant within the Short Tail team in November 2024. She holds an MSc in Security Studies from UCL, as well as a BSc in Intelligence Analysis and second BSc in Strategic Communication, both from Lund University.

Before joining MCI as an Underwriting Assistant in 2025, Cam worked as an Account Exec in Southern China and Hong Kong. Cam has a BA in Human Geography specialising in Arab and Islamic studies from the University of Exeter.

Jorge started his career at Aon Spain in 2003 as a Junior Underwriter. He moved to Scotland in 2007 were he completed an MBA and continued his career in insurance joining Gallagher as an Accounts Technician.

After several internal promotions, he then transitioned to London in 2015 where he has grown his career in different insurance brokers and MGAs performing various roles within Operations, DUA, Technical Accounts, Credit Control and MI areas.

Bhanu joined MCI in August 2022 as an Analyst Developer and is leveraging his data engineering skills in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data infrastructure and systems in cloud technologies.

He has extensive experience as a technical lead on property and casualty, as well as healthcare insurance projects. He has successfully managed large-scale transformation projects, transitioning from legacy to cloud technologies. He shifted his career focus to the field of data technologies and possesses extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization. Bhanu has Masters Degree in Data Science and Analytics from the University of Hertfordshire.

Alvin joined MCI in May 2021 training as an Underwriting Assistant in the General Liability division.

Alvin completed his Undergraduate Degree in Mathematics at the University of Nottingham.