Meet the Team
Charles Eady 易帝
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 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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.