Women in reinsurance
PrOFILE Name:
Julia Mather
Company: Miller Job:
Head of Bermuda
Timeline: 2011—Awarded IDC Volunteer Recognition Award
2003—Relocated to Bermuda office 2002—Joined Miller
Julia Mather is head of Bermuda operations at Miller. She joined in 2002 as a broker on the D&O team and is now responsible for facilitating the placing of all lines of Miller business into the Bermuda market.
Before joining Miller, Mather worked as an underwriter for Euler Trade Indemnity and prior to that with a Lloyd’s syndicate. She has worked in Madrid, London and now Bermuda.
Mather is on the committee of four organisations based in
Bermuda: as broker representative for the Risk Management Society (RIMS) committee of the Bermuda Insurance Development Council (IDC), secretary of the Bermuda Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers Association (BIRBA), tour leader of Bermuda U40s re/insurance and committee member of WiRe.
Mather was presented with the IDC Volunteer Recognition
Award 2011 for her services provided to Bermuda by volunteers in the insurance industry during the RIMS Conference in Vancouver.
An influential member of the industry at a young age, Mather pinpoints her appointment at Miller as her career highlight. “I suspect the fact that Miller took such a chance on me at the age of just 27 by asking me to go and open their new operation in Bermuda will always be a career highlight for me,” she says. “I think it speaks volumes about the company and the opportunities afforded to people by working in a smaller operation.”
Mather is also proud of her committee work in Bermuda.
“I always get a kick out of placing business with the young underwriters who come on the U40s tours as they ascend through the ranks. I enjoy seeing them all doing well, taking the opportunities and living up to their potential,” she says.
Noting that career challenges can be both good and bad, Mather describes two moments that have stood out in her career.
“At the start of my career when I was terribly enthusiastic and wanted to learn everything I possibly could, I wasn’t afraid of hard work or long hours—I knew that I had to put my time in at the photocopier on the box at Lloyd’s, but I was not prepared for the boss who had no interest in training me,” she says.
“But that in itself was a lesson and for the next job I had a training
clause put into my contract. Then when I joined Miller my boss on the D&O side was extremely generous with his knowledge and support and gave me faith that hard work can pay off.
“The largest ‘good’ challenge I have faced would be when I started in Bermuda—it was the most vertical of learning curves as I’d gone from the relative confines of the London professional lines world to representing all specialty lines of insurance and reinsurance on a very small island with some very big fish!”
Going forward, Mather plans to continue her career in
Bermuda. “I love living in Bermuda and working in the Bermuda market for the company. My aim is always to see both Bermuda and Miller succeed and my aspiration is merely to do whatever I can to further both.”
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