The latest GCP Short is the first podcast we have recorded entirely remotely as we all come to terms with the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on travel and our collective need to work from home.

In this episode we discuss Diversifying your captive with employee benefits and I am joined by three expert speakers (full bios found below):

Matthias Helmbold, Head of Technical & Services, MAXIS Global Benefits Network.

Barry Perkins, Placement Leader, Global Benefits, Mercer Marsh Benefits

Matthew Latham, Head of Global Programmes and Captives, AXA XL

MAXIS Global Benefits Network, a Friend of the Podcast for 2020, works in partnership with multinational clients to deliver the solutions they need to help them care for their people while meeting the strategic goals of their business.

The global network built on local expertise, with nearly 140 local member insurers in over 120 markets worldwide, MAXIS GBN was founded in 2016, and is backed to this day, by two of the world’s largest and most trusted insurers: MetLife and AXA.

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Full biographies:

Matthias Helmbold leads the technical and services division of MAXIS GBN which includes reinsurance, underwriting and client reporting functions. Matthias has more than 15 years of experience in employee benefits. Prior to joining the MAXIS Global Benefits Network, Matthias has worked both in consulting roles (as pension actuary and global benefits consult with a specialisation in M&A) as well as in corporate roles (as global benefits manager for Syngenta and international benefits director for the Coca-Cola Company).

Barry Perkins is the Global Benefits Placement Leader for MMB, based in London. MMB provides solutions to help global organizations to optimize and manage their employee benefit programs. In his role, Barry is responsible for creating new placement strategies and solutions global clients and improving the way that MMB interacts with insurance carriers.

Matthew Latham is Head of Global Programmes and Captives at AXA XL. In this role he is responsible for growing AXA XL’s global programmes and captive fronting business and for ensuring that clients get a high quality service. His remit is global and involves working with underwriters across all classes of risk. Before joining XL Catlin in 2014, now part of AXA XL, Matthew spent nine years at AIG. His roles there included leading AIG’s alternative risk financing team. Prior to AIG, he held roles at ACE and Willis and has been in the insurance industry for over 25 years.