Meet the Team
Patrick Ho 何炳良
Patrick Ho joined IPS as Head of Asia Pacific
concentrating on working with clients in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan,
Malaysia, Indonesia, India and the Middle East. Patrick
takes a leading role in company's broader consulting business providing a range
of largely technical and analytical consulting advice to a range of insurance and
financial services clients. He is currently working from the London office but will
be returning to Hong Kong in early January 2008.
Patrick possesses a BSc in Statistics from City University, London and an
MSc in Operational Research from the London School of Economics. Patrick has twenty-two
years experience of working in the insurance / reinsurance industry as a senior
analyst in pricing, credit risk rating and dynamic financial analysis (DFA) modelling.
His previous employers include an international healthcare insurer, a large UK composite
insurer, an international rating agency and a global reinsurance broker.
Patrick.Ho@IPSGroupAsia.com
Molly Wu 伍蓉梅
Molly Wu is based in Shanghai. She has been appointed
China Chief Representative to oversee the entire range of services
the company look to provide in China.
Molly received her English Bachelor degree from the Shanghai Institute
of Foreign Trade. She has worked within the legal and insurance markets. She worked
for GAB Robins China, the biggest loss adjusting company in China for 6 years, where
she was responsible for translating and interpreting complex claims and legal insurance
documents.
She then helped establish another international firm of loss adjusters in China.
Molly joined IPS from King & Wood (China's largest law firm) where she was HR
Manager in Shanghai responsible for all recruitment and HR management.
Molly.Wu@IPSGroupAsia.com
Nancy Hua 華燕
Hua Yan (Nancy Hua) is a Chinese national born
in Beijing and now living in London. As one of our leading and most experienced
associates, Nancy provides clients with confidential advice in a number
of areas. Nancy is a science graduate from a Beijing university
and after an initial period as a scientific researcher she joined an international
firm of insurance brokers in Beijing in their newly established representative
office. Nancy also worked for a major British insurance company as Assistant
Representative.
After five years in the insurance industry, Nancy joined an international
executive search consultancy in the mid 1990's initially as a researcher and then
as a consultant handling a number of high-level search assignments in a variety
of industries including insurance and financial services.
Nancy joined IPS in London to take a leading role handling extensive search
and recruitment projects in Greater China.
Nancy.Hua@IPSGroup.co.uk
Linda Wu 吳海英
Wu Haiying (Linda Wu) is our Chinese coordinator based
in London. She is a Chinese national, fluent in Mandarin, English
and German and possesses degrees in Chinese and Business Information Technology
from universities in China and the UK.
Linda has lived and worked in a number of cities in China, Thailand,
Switzerland, Germany and the UK. Linda started her
career as an English and Chinese teacher in China before moving into Media,
IT consulting, Project Management, Interpreting and most recently as the IPS Asia
link person in London. She coordinates our Greater China business, servicing
and growing our Chinese client base.
Linda.Wu@IPSGroup.co.uk
Jimmy Ping 平津
Ping Jin (Jimmy Ping) joined the IPS Asia
team having spent over ten years in the Actuarial and Consulting areas. He has worked
for a well-known banking group, a fund manager, a pensions consultancy and a global
life assurer. Jimmy possesses a BSc in Banking and International Finance
from Cass Business School in London and is a part qualified actuary.
As a Chinese - British citizen, Jimmy has spent equal amounts of time in
China and the UK. Mandarin is Jimmy's first language
but he also speaks fluent Cantonese and English. He travels regularly
to China and Asia. As a consultant, Jimmy works in the analytics
unit of the IPS Group.
Jimmy.Ping@IPSGroup.co.uk
Edward Snell 斯愛德
Edward Snell is a main board director and a principle shareholder
of the IPS Group. He has been with the company twenty-two years
having worked in the Lloyd's market as an underwriter.
Edward leads the company's executive search practice in Asia and personally
handles assignments in the property and casualty (general insurance / reinsurance)
area. He regularly travels to the USA, Europe and Asia to conduct
client projects and assignments.
Edward.Snell@IPSGroup.co.uk
Anthony Chitnis
Anthony Chitnis is a principal shareholder and the Director responsible
for the Financial Services Practice across the IPS Group. He has been with
the company almost 20 years and specialises in advising management and individuals
on executive appointments across life assurance, pensions, retail financial services
and investment industries and general management, distribution, actuarial and marketing
functions. He has also worked on assignments in executive compensation and broader
reward consulting.
Anthony.Chitnis@IPSGroup.co.uk