Meet the Team

Charles Eady 易帝

Charles Eady

Charles Eady is the Hong Kong General Manager of IPS Group Asia and oversees the entire range of services the company look to provide in Asia. He has been working with IPS Group in our offices in the City of London. Charles plays a leading role in developing our presence in Asia, as well as personally dealing with assignments in the Insurance and Financial Services sectors.

Charles has an extensive background in Human Capital Consulting to the Lloyd's, London & International Insurance Market, for Broking Houses and General Insurance Companies, as well as Financial Services. He started his career in the early 1990's working as a Placing Broker for a firm of Lloyd's Reinsurance Brokers.

Charles.Eady@IPSGroupAsia.com


Molly Wu 伍蓉梅

Molly Wu

Molly Wu is based in Shanghai. She has been appointed General Manager 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


Gareth Phillips

Molly Wu

Gareth Phillips works in our Singapore operation, having previously been based for IPS in London specialising in general insurance placements, at all levels, within the London insurance and reinsurance markets. He has spent considerable time in the South East Asian region, having been brought up, lived & worked in Singapore and Indonesia. With a BSc in Economics and International Development from Bath University it has always been Gareths' intention to return to the region to work where his Bahasa may be put to more use than it was in London!

Gareth.Phillips@IPSGroupAsia.com


Jimmy Ping 平津

Jimmy Ping

Ping Jin (Jimmy Ping) joined the IPS Asia team initially in London and is now in Shanghai, 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. Jimmy is particularly strong in the analytics and actuarial recruitment areas.

Jimmy.Ping@IPSGroupAsia.com


Nancy Hua 華燕

Nancy Hua

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@IPSGroupAsia.com


Alan Charlesworth 康逸夫

Alan Charlesworth

Alan Charlesworth is the Managing Director of IPS Group Limited and a major shareholder in the company. He joined IPS in 1989, became finance director in 1991 and then Managing Director in 1998. He is responsible for the group's Asian operations and played a key role in establishing the offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. He has a passion for building up our businesses in Asia. As a qualified Chartered Accountant, he came through the ranks at Ernst & Young before joining IPS.

Alan.Charlesworth@IPSGroupAsia.com


Sir David Brewer CMG 白乐威 爵士

David Brewer

Sir David Brewer CMG is a member of the IPS Group International Advisory Board and is currently Chairman of the China-Britain Business Council (CBBC is a partnership between the government and British trade to assist companies to develop business in China) and a Board Member of UK India Business Council; he is Non-Executive Vice Chairman of insurance broker Marsh; Consultant – Asia with International Financial Services, London and was the 678th Lord Mayor of The City of London (2005 - 2006). In 2007 Sir David was President of the Insurance Institute of London. Sir David is particularly well known in Asia; he went to Tokyo in 1976 to open the Sedgwick Group's Japan office as well as setting up Sedgwick's office in Beijing in 1981.

David.Brewer@IPSGroupAsia.com


Anthony Chitnis

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@IPSGroupAsia.com


Professor Gerry Dickinson 狄杰睿 教授

Gerry Dickinson

Professor Gerry Dickinson is a member of the IPS Group International Advisory Board and is the Emeritus Professor in International Insurance at Cass Business School, City University, London, and is Vice Secretary General and Head of Insurance & Finance at the Geneva Association. He maintains close links with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) in Basel, of which the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority in India (IRDA) are key members. Professor Dickinson serves as a member of the International Academic Advisory Board of the Institute of Insurance and Risk Management at the IRDA, Hyderabad, and on the Academic Advisory Board of Singapore Insurance Institute. He has been closely involved with education and training initiatives in many emerging insurance markets, including China, India, Russia, Poland, Malaysia, and the Gulf states. He also holds non-executive directorships in insurance enterprises and visiting professorships in the UK and overseas.

Gerry.Dickinson@IPSGroupAsia.com


Linda Wu 吳海英

Linda Wu

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@IPSGroupAsia.com


Edward Snell 斯愛德

Edward Snell

The Directors of the IPS Group regret to announce the tragic and premature death of our much respected colleague and fellow director Edward Snell on Christmas Day following a stroke. Edward made a substantial contribution to the growth and success of IPS over the past 24 years and will be sadly missed by many people including his colleagues, clients and members of his extensive network in the insurance industry both in the UK and internationally.

Our thoughts are with his wife Jenny, stepson Will and family at this most difficult time. A memorial service will be held at St Margaret's, Lothbury EC2R 7HH in the City of London on Friday 15th January at 3.00 PM. This will be followed by a reception at the Merchant Taylors' Hall, Threadneedle St., EC2R 8JB. Please do not send flowers; instead Jenny and the family have suggested donations to the Stroke Association and a Just Giving page has been set up for this purpose: www.justgiving.com/ed-snell.