Meet the Team

Patrick Ho 何炳良

Patrick Ho

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

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

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@IPSGroup.co.uk


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@IPSGroup.co.uk


Jimmy Ping 平津

Jimmy Ping

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

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

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