James joined the Specialty Lines Treaty team at Beazley in 2014 to underwrite working layer risk excess and catastrophe excess of loss contracts as well as to work on our embedded product offerings. James entered the London (re)insurance market as a US P&C broker in 2007 and prior to joining Beazley worked at a Lloyd’s syndicate underwriting similar US casualty treaty business. James graduated from the University of Sheffield and has acquired his ACII.