Anthony Fitzsimmons
Anthony read engineering at Cambridge, then became a solicitor specialising in international liability and insurance law.
He spent decades in a firm specialised in handling international disasters. He refined strategies to manage the legal fallout from crises whilst minimising reputational damage to clients. He advised major brands in the wake of severe adverse events.
Following his retirement from the law, Anthony founded Reputability, of which he is Chairman. Anthony is a co-author of ‘Roads to Ruin’, the seminal Cass Business School report for Airmic and, with the late Derek Atkins, of "Rethinking Reputational Risk: How to Manage the Risks that can Ruin Your Business, Your Reputation and You" Anthony is an regular speaker and participant in seminars in the field.
Jane Howard
After graduating in economics from the LSE, Jane joined a team, which sold into Saatchi and Saatchi. She went on to head the Leedex PR Group, joining the board of its parent company, Birkdale plc.
One of only a few Chartered Communicators, Jane has 30 years’ international and award-winning experience. Republic, the corporate communications business she founded was sold to Engine, the UK’s leading independent marketing services consultancy.
Jane is a partner at Reputability, a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Public Relations, a founding Fellow of the Public Relations Consultancies Association, a trustee of Fair Trials International and a Quantum NED.
John Tyce
After leaving Manchester University where he was a Research Fellow in Monetary Economics, John trained as an equity analyst at Philips and Drew, which later became UBS.
He has dedicated most of his working life as an investment analyst covering banks and financial companies. He was a partner at Laing and Cruickshank and was appointed as Head of European Research at Nomura, before moving on to Société Générale as senior bank analyst in London.
Today John is a partner at Reputability and Chairman of Blue Planet European Trust – a quoted Scottish Investment trust.
Peter Ayton
A Professor of Psychology at City University, Peter’s research centres on the psychological theories of judgement and discusses how people make decisions and judgements. His published books include ‘Subjective Probability’ and ‘Judgemental Forecasting’.
A member of the European Association for Decision Making, Peter has been a visiting Professor at the Anderson School of Business UCLA, Princeton and Carnegie-Mellon universities in the USA, as well as the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.
John Hurrell
John Hurrell has gained immense experience over nearly 40 years spent in the risk and insurance sector.John joined our team after 9 years as Chief Executive of Airmic, the renowned London-based association for everyone who has a responsibility for risk management and insurance in their organisation. Before that he spent nearly 30 years at Marsh and McLennan group companies, most recently as CEO of Marsh Risk Consulting for the UK and Europe.
At Airmic he commissioned several pieces of ground-breaking research, including ‘Roads to Ruin’ and ‘Roads to Resilience’ and is a regular speaker on risk governance.
John is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurer.
Vanessa Sharp
Vanessa started her professional life as a solicitor in a city firm specialising in handling multinational commercial and insurance issues.
She joined KPMG LLP as an in house lawyer and became General Counsel, a role she performed for 17 years. She advised on a wide range of legal, risk and reputational management issues, and as board secretary advised on, and managed board structures across UK and Europe.
She is now a Non Executive Director at ICE Futures Europe Limited, Companies House and Newable and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committees of each as well as being chair, or a member, of other board committees. She is also a charity trustee and a Council member and Chair of the Finance and Resources Committee at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In all of these positions she plays a role in governance and risk issues and board effectiveness.
Rethinking Reputational Risk
Rethinking Reputational Risk
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Reputability briefs Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris13. 11. 2013
On 13 November, Reputability Chairman Anthony Fitzsimmons gave a briefing on behavioural, organisational and reputational risk to the Corporate Governance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
The 45 minute briefing was followed by a question-and-answer session.Read more...
The meeting was attended by about 90 delegates from about 40 countries, with additional representatives from major international organisations.
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City University Seminar08. 11. 2013
Professor Derek Atkins and Anthony Fitzsimmons will be speaking on "Lessons from corporate catastrophes - The unrecognised risks of allowing people to run organisations" at a City University Seminar in London on 13 December.
The complete seminar panel is:
- Professor John Adams (University College London);
- Professor David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge);
- Anthony Fitzsimmons (Chairman Reputability LLP);
- Professor Derek Atkins (Cass Business School and Reputability LLP);
- Professor Larry Phillips (London School of Economics);
- Professor Ragnar Löfstedt (King's College London);
- Professor David Nutt (Imperial College London);
- Professor Mandeep Dhami (Middlesex University).
The conference is free of charge but you must register here: http://tinyurl.com/kjv9rwq .Read more... - Professor John Adams (University College London);
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Anthony Fitzsimmons to deliver lecture to the Insurance Institute of London03. 10. 2013
Anthony Fitzsimmons will deliver a lecture to the Insurance Institute of London on 20 March 2014.
The subject will be: "Why respected companies unexpectedly fail - Insights for liability and D&O underwriters and Chief Risk Officers"
The lecture will be chaird by Derek Thornton BSc(Hons) ACII, Chairman of Market Insurance Brokers Limited and of Amlin Insurance (UK) Limited.Read more...
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Board vulnerability: Practical steps for Chairmen and Boards02. 10. 2013
Governance, the international specialist magazine for corporate governance, has published an article by Anthony Fitzsimmons and Rob Haslam.
Reputability's latest report, 'Deconstructing failure - Insights for boards' identified board vulnerabilities that were widespread among companies that failed. The article focuses practical steps Chairmen can take to deal with these potentially lethal issues before they cause harm.
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Forthcoming workshop for insurance company NEDs02. 10. 2013
Two Reputability partners, Professor Derek Atkins and Anthony Fitzsimmons, will be among the four presenters at the forthcoming Insurance Non-executive Director Workshop that has been organised by Rick Hudson, the Master of the Worshipful Company of Insurers.
Dr Sandy Scott, Chief Executive of the Chartered Insurance Institute, will preside at the workshop which will take place on 14 October. The speakers will be the four authors of 'Roads to Ruin', the Cass Business School report for Airmic, Professor Derek Atkins, Anthony Fitzsimmons, Professor Chris Parsons and Professor Alan Punter, together with Rick Hudson.Read more...
The workshop will focus on the behavioural and organisational risks that 'Roads to Ruin' identified as potentially catastrophic but yet not within the scope of classic risk management. It will also concentrate on their board-level manifestations, an aspect that emerged more clearly from Reputability's latest report, 'Deconstructing failure - Insights for boards'.
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Reputability contributes to the Journal of the Insurance Institute of London01. 09. 2013
Reputability partners Professor Derek Atkins and Anthony Fitzsimmons have contributed an article to the 2013 edition of the 2013 London Journal of the Insurance Institute of London.
The article, written before the publication of 'Deconstructing failure - Insights for boards', summarises the findings of 'Roads to Ruin', the Cass Business School report for Airmic of which Derek Atkins and Anthony Fitzsimmons were two of the four authors.Read more...
You will find the article at page 30 of the Journal.