Graham has over 30 years experience in the
insurance industry. He started his career with Guardian Royal
Exchange and progressed with a number of established Lloyd's
Broking firms before joining Tysers in 1984 where he is Director
responsible for business development.
He specialises in the property and
construction sectors where we have an enviable array of clients
such as property owners and developers, surveyors, engineers,
project managers and specialist contractors. He is a member of the
Project Insurance Working Group set up to deliver the
recommendations of the Strategic Forum for Construction.
He is a Member of the Society of
Construction Law.
Graham was responsible for developing our
environmental risk capability. Tysers are the foremost independent
broker in the contaminated land sector and Graham is regarded as a
specialist in this field.
He has been involved many recent activities
and initiatives in the environmental sector:-
He was the sole representative of the
Insurance Industry on the Contaminated Land Working Group set up to
deliver the recommendations of the Urban Task Force chaired by Lord
Rogers of Riverside (1999-2001). He is an active member of the
Environmental Industry Commission's Contaminated Land and
Integrated Waste Management Working Groups.
He is an active member of the United Kingdom
Environmental Law Association's (UKELA) Liability and Insurance and
Contaminated Land Working Groups.
He was the principal insurance industry
contributor to the Construction Industry Research and Information
Association's (CIRIA) Research Project "Brownfields: Managing the
Development of Previously Developed Land: A Client's Guide"
(2002).
He was the sole insurance industry
contributor to English Partnerships’ The Brownfield Guide – A
Practitioners Guide to Land Reuse in England (2006).
He is the principal representative of the
insurance industry on the "Single Regeneration Permit" Working
Group currently reporting to DEFRA on the need to replace the
current contaminated land licensing regime.
He was a principal member of the insurance
industry on the Price Waterhouse Coopers/Environment Agency
consultee group on the "Management and Funding of Long Term
Liabilities Associated with Landfill Sites" (2003/04).
He speaks regularly at conferences and
seminars and contributes to insurance, property, construction and
environmental publications.