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Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund Board of Trustees

The Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund is an independent charity managed by a board of trustees that support the governance and operations of the charity. Trustees are supported by the Global Community Engagement team at Lloyd’s.

Ed Butler CBE DSO

Ed has nearly 40 years of experience leading and delivering high value outcomes in extremely challenging environments, both in the military and commercially and has worked with some of the leading FTSE companies, law firms and family offices. Ed was privileged to command 22 SAS Regiment over 9/11 and led British forces in Afghanistan in 2001, 2002 and 2006. He sits on a number of advisory boards, including: Northcourt, the Nuclear Risk Specialists; Gallos Technologies which invests in security technology companies; and the Cyber Risk and Security Committees for EDF Energy Generation, the operating company for UK’s nuclear industry. He has been part of the leadership team that built two successful small risk consulting businesses and spent 7 years as Chief Resilience Officer at Pool Re, the Government backed terrorism reinsurance scheme. As well as chairing the Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund, he chairs the Development Committee of the Clocktower Foundation and is a Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Ed speaks regularly on leadership in high performance organisations, managing risk and complexity as well as geo-political and security matters. He has been formally recognised by His Majesty's Government on six occasions for his service to the nation.

William Roscoe

Will Roscoe undertook a Short Service Commission in the British Army between 1998 – 2003, having trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. During this time, he rose to the rank of Captain and served in the UK, France, Germany, Kuwait and Iraq. After his time in service, Will worked at Willis Ltd, holding the roles of Divisional Director, Executive Director and Director of Broking. Since 2019, he has been Head of Alternative Portfolio Underwriting at Beazley Group, having previously held a number of managerial roles at the same firm including Head of Broker Relations for UK & Europe, and Property underwriting manager based in Atlanta, GA.

Sean McGovern

Sean is CEO of AXA XL in the UK, part of the AXA Group. Sean is also a member of the Council of Lloyd’s, Chair and a member of the Board of the Lloyd’s Market Group, Director and Board member of the Lloyd’s Market Association.In 2016 Sean joined XL Catlin as Global Head of Regulatory & Government Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer. Following AXA’s acquisition of XL Catlin, Sean became Global General Counsel of AXA XL. In 2020 Sean stepped into his current CEO role.Prior to working at AXA XL, Sean worked at the Lloyd’s of London for 20 years where he held leadership positions including Chief Risk Officer & General Counsel and was previously a member of the Lloyd’s of London Franchise Board from 2014-2016.

Warren Clegg

Warren is the Head of Private Assets within Lloyd’s Treasury and Investment Management. He initially worked in the House of Commons as a Parliamentary Researcher before he joined the Army. He served for five years in the Queen’s Gurkha Engineers and Royal Engineers where he served in Iraq and on disaster relief operations in Nepal. He remains an Army Reservist where he serves as a Liaison Officer at Headquarters London District and is also Chair of the Corporation of Lloyd’s Military Community. He has a degree in Natural Sciences form the University of Cambridge, holds the CFA chartership from the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, has the CAIA designation from the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association and is an Incorporated Engineer with the Institution of Royal Engineers.

Neil Maidment

Neil Maidment has worked in the Lloyd’s market for over 35 years. He was previously a Director and was Chief Underwriting Officer of Beazley plc and was an Active Underwriter for its Lloyd’s syndicates from 2008 to 2018. He was Chairman of the Lloyd’s Market Association from 2016 to 2018 and served as a working member of the Council of Lloyd’s during the same period. He is a Non-Executive Director of Benefact Group plc.

Wendy Rothery

Air Commodore Wendy Rothery is Head of Defence Diversity and Inclusion, leading strategy and plans aimed at enhancing operational capability and improving the employee experience for the Armed Forces and Defence civil servants. A specialist Human Resources officer by background, she has commanded teams of up to 350 personnel and is qualified and experienced in all aspects of People strategy, policy and delivery, from recruitment and selection to career management, welfare policy and infrastructure delivery. She has also served as Military Assistant to Chief of Defence People and managed media activity across joint overseas theatres at the Permanent Joint Headquarters. Throughout her career she has completed operational deployments in Gioia del Colle, Al Udeid and Afghanistan. A History graduate of the University of York, she holds Masters degrees in Business Administration, Defence Studies, and Strategic Human Resource Management. She has been a Trustee of the Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund since 2016.

Caroline Sandeman-Allen

Caroline Sandeman-Allen is a solicitor and chartered company secretary. After leaving private practice as a commercial litigation solicitor specialising in marine insurance, she joined Lloyd’s in 2007 where she has held a number of leadership roles including most recently as the Secretary to the Council. She assumed her current appointment as Head of Market Governance in 2024, where she leads the oversight of the governance, risk management and operational resilience of the managing agents operating in the Lloyd’s market. Caroline has been a Trustee of the Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund since 2019.

Duncan Welham

Duncan Welham served for 27 years in the Royal Air Force as a helicopter pilot and officer. He held the position of Station Commander of Royal Air Force Benson and worked alongside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the British Embassy in Washington DC. As well as this, he commanded 72 Squadron in Northern Ireland and worked in the Ministry of Defence. After retiring from the military in 2007, Duncan worked for a year at Network Rail as Customer Relationship Executive to Virgin Trains before moving to Aon Inpoint, where he became Managing Director in 2011. In 2016, he became Head of Insurer Relationship Management at JLT Specialty. Following Marsh’s acquisition of JLT in 2019 he assumed the role of Global Insurer Consulting Leader at Marsh.

Mark Keville

Mark’s career has spanned the military, insurance and charity sectors. He served in Germany and Northern Ireland during 7 years with The Light Infantry leaving as a Captain to pursue a career at Lloyd’s where he spent the following 25 years broking treaty reinsurance and then energy at Marsh, HSBC and AAA. Leaving the City in 2014, Mark founded Robbie’s Rehab; a charitable trust which has funded therapists for children with Acquired Brain Injury and the building of the new ‘Robbie’s’ rehabilitation ward at Southampton Hospital. Mark sits on the North Hampshire bench as a magistrate. He holds an MSc in Risk Management from London’s Cass Business School, an ACII from the Chartered Insurance Institute, is a Chartered Insurance Broker and sits on the insurance-advisory board of a new Cyber Resilience company based in the City.

Dr Paul Hughes MBBS MBA FRCGP DRCOG DFFP

Dr Paul Hughes is qualified in Medicine from St Thomas’s Hospital, London in 1985. A qualified General Practitioner and Trainer he served as commissioned officer in the Royal Navy for 31 years leaving in the rank of Surgeon Commodore. He has worked as a MRCGP Examiner and as an Examination Development Adviser for the MRCGP International. He joined We Are With You (formerly Addaction), a leading UK charity providing Drugs and Alcohol services across the UK as the Executive Medical Director in 2017, and was responsible for clinical leadership, clinical governance and the development of clinical services. His current role is with the Operose Health as the National Medical Director. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, he obtained an MBA in Health Services Management, with Distinction.

Simon Maxwell

Simon Maxwell formally served as an officer in the Royal Marines. In 2011, whilst deployed as a Troop Commander to Helmand Province (Afghanistan), he was seriously injured after standing on an improvised explosive device. Simon used sport as a vehicle throughout his rehabilitation process; completing a full Ironman triathlon as well as a solo swim across the English Channel. In 2013 he received the ‘Millie’ award for ‘Overcoming Adversity’. Having since qualified as a solicitor, Simon is a member of HFW's global Complex Environments and Admiralty teams. He specialises in advising those working within hostile environments and in handling major marine casualties.