John R. Charman has been Chief Executive Officer and President and a director since our inception. He also is Chief Executive Officer and President of AXIS Specialty Limited. Mr. Charman has over 38 years of experience in the insurance industry and has been in a senior underwriting position since 1975. From 2000 to 2001, he served as deputy chairman of ACE INA Holdings and President of ACE International. Mr. Charman also was Chief Executive Officer at ACE Global Markets from 1998 to 2001. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Tarquin plc (a joint venture company among Insurance Partners, Harvard University and the Charman Group), the parent company of the Charman Underwriting Agencies at Lloyd's. He was a deputy chairman of the Council of Lloyd's and a member of the Lloyd's Core Management Group and Lloyd's Market Board between 1995 and 1997. Mr. Charman is a director of the Bank of Bermuda, a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc. He also is a board member of the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.