Fusion Specialty
Samuel Shirley has a diverse work experience that spans multiple industries. Samuel is currently serving as the Chief Underwriting Officer, M&A at Fusion Specialty since June 2023. Prior to this, they held positions at Aviva as a Senior Underwriter from November 2018 to June 2022, and at Arch Insurance Europe as a W&I Underwriter from June 2017 to November 2018. Samuel also gained experience in financial services at Deutsche Bank as a Transaction Structurer and Manager from December 2013 to June 2017. Earlier in their career, they worked as a Solicitor at Travers Smith from April 2012 to December 2013 and at Osborne Clarke from March 2009 to April 2012. Samuel also briefly served as a Legal Executive at RAB Capital from March 2010 to September 2010. Furthermore, they have experience in the leisure industry as a Ski Instructor at Intrawest in 2003.
Samuel Shirley attended Taunton School from 1992 to 2003, where they studied History, Biology, Chemistry, and Geography. Samuel then went on to UCL from 2004 to 2007, graduating with a 2:1 degree in Law. In 2007, they attended the College of Law, where they obtained a Distinction.
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Fusion Specialty
Financial Lines | M&A | SME FUSION Specialty MGA's - (FUSION), which is part of the POP Group is an MGA platform for expert specialty and specialist insurance sector entrepreneurs across USA, Europe and APAC. FUSION is attracting market leading Specialist Underwriting Teams and well rated re/insurance paper and capacity. Fusion has established a market leading position in the SME M&A insurance segment across the APAC region, and is now expanding its products + services globally, enabled by data + technology. Fusion launched our M&A business in partnership with AGCS, a division of Allianz in 2018 for W&I, Tax and Contingent across APAC. In 2019, we expanded our ecosystem with a partnership agreement with Rakuten in Japan and we entered into a partnership with Zurich for business across APAC. Fusion became a coverholder @ Lloyd's when we partnered with Markel Syndicate 3000 mid 2019. We expanded with HDI Global Specialty in Australia and Ping An for China in 2020. We partnered with Antares Syndicate 1274 in 2022. Through our partnerships, we can can provide clients with admitted paper in South Korea, Japan, India, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, USA and the UK and Europe as well as certain non-admitted countries. Fusion launched our Financial Lines business in 2021 with a global insurance partner in Australia, and launch across Asia with global partners in 2022. Fusion UK writes the world's first parametric digital business interruption through our partnership with Chaucer. Fusion has a global partnership with Markel for M&A Insurance focused on SME transactions and launched in USA in Q4 2021, and UK & Europe end Q1 2022. Fusion's principals are Killian McDermott and David Rogers, who have fifty years’ collective experience and a successful track record of building profitable specialty insurance businesses, including re/insurers and MGAs in APAC, Europe, Latam and the US.