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Gary graduated with a degree in Geology and started his oil industry career as a mudlogger in the North Sea. This role included monitoring drilling parameters for the early detection of downhole problems and kicks. After completing a Master's degree at Camborne School of Mines, Gary returned to the oil industry onshore Venezuela and offshore Netherlands, UK and Norway. In 1999 Gary made the transition to loss adjusting joining MatthewsDaniel in London, returning again to London head office after a secondment to our Calgary operation.  Gary manages a wide range of claims, specialising in complex and high profile well control and drilling-related issues, with a focus on losses in the North Sea, Norway and North and West Africa.

Hugh Kennaway leads our global non-marine adjusting and risk assessment team. He is a Chartered Insurer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, with over 28 years' adjusting experience, principally in the London market, Middle East, North and West Africa, Europe, CIS Countries and the Russian Federation. During his career, Hugh has handled many high-profile claims on operational and construction policies, with a particular focus on the power, downstream oil and gas and petrochemical industry sectors, covering both property damage and consequential loss aspects. #MatDanMentions #riskmanagement #downstream

Jake graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Geology from Royal Holloway University of London. He joined

MatthewsDaniel after gaining experience in the oilfield, as a mudlogger with Baker Hughes in the UK sector of the North Sea. During this time he worked on jack-up and semi-submersible drilling rigs for various operators, where his responsibilities included well control monitoring duties, engineering and drilling data analysis, and geological and hydrocarbon evaluation. He has been involved on a number of geologically complex wells in the Southern North Sea, and has experience with high pressure/high temperature and horizontal well drilling.

Formerly Chief Executive of MatthewsDaniel for nearly 30 years, Kevin now has a role as Special Advisor to the Group, still very much involved in our business.  He has spent his adjusting career working primarily in our UK and Middle East operations, and is still actively leading major claims, particularly where there are business interruption aspects. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and, with his extensive market experience, is regularly in demand as a speaker at international industry events.

Leena graduated with a law degree from University of London in 1991 and completed her Masters in 1997. Initially based in her native Malaysia, her early career was as a legal executive for a major power generation company in the region, with responsibilities for handling insurance requirements. Leena then moved to the European oil and gas sector as a contract specialist in Italy, supporting detailed analysis of worldwide onshore and offshore tender proposals and advising on indemnity and insurance. In 2003, Leena joined MatthewsDaniel and has adjusted a variety of onshore and offshore energy related losses specialising in FPSO, energy construction and liability claims.

Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Insurance Practitioner with nearly three decades of experience in loss adjusting, underwriting, claims management and risk engineering. Areas of expertise: All forms of renewable energy as well as conventional power generation, transmission and distribution, submarine power cables, energy and carbon storage, upstream energy, and natural resources.  The “energy transition” is affecting all aspects of power and energy. Andrew’s breadth of experience is ideally suited to understanding and navigating these complex sectors. From mining the raw materials, to constructing and operating the insured assets, he has the technical, commercial and insurance knowledge, to effectively progress even the most complex claims from notification to resolution. 

Bader has significant experience in the survey and loss adjusting fields, particularly in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region dealing with marine, hull, aviation and non-marine claims and undertaking major risk improvement and loss minimization surveys, risk assessments and valuations. Prior to joining MatthewsDaniel, he successfully completed over 30 years as Branch Manager of the Lloyd’s Agency in Riyadh, responsible for managing all types of insurance claims and a team of Surveyors.

Andrew joined MatthewsDaniel in 1995 and is a recognised market specialist in drilling and well control worldwide. His involvement in high profile claims includes the Lapindo Brantas Indonesian mud volcano, and the Deepwater Horizon loss.  With a degree in Geology, Andrew began his career as a mudlogging and pressure control engineer, working on land and offshore units drilling exploration wells, where he was responsible for the early detection of drilling problems and kick situations. After six years' experience in the oil field, he made the transition to the insurance world, working for two major energy brokers, ultimately as an account executive.

Jim is a Master Mariner who joined our London Team in 2015. He represents the marine side of our business in London and works on marine risk assessments and claims that contain a strong maritime element. Prior to joining MatthewsDaniel his professional experience was at sea, for 17 years serving on a wide variety of vessels that included bulk carriers, product tankers to VLCCs and survey vessels. For the last 7 years of his career at sea Jim worked in the offshore oil and gas sector, and before coming ashore was the Master of a large PSV operating in the North Sea.

Lee graduated in Physics from the University of Sheffield and went on to earn his Masters and Doctorate in Engineering Materials. A natural career progression saw him join The Welding Institute as a project leader where he spent four years working on R&D and failure analysis for clients in a wide range of industries, including the oil and gas sector. Lee made the move to adjusting with MatthewsDaniel in 2005 and he is a key metallurgical specialist in our team, with his expertise contributing to resolving major losses where there are significant materials aspects. Lee also has extensive experience in physical damage claims on mobile drilling units, on a variety of policy forms, including the Norwegian Marine Insurance Plan.

Mark is a lead adjuster on major claims, particularly where there is a focus on CAR aspects. Mark's early career was in the merchant navy, coming ashore to study for a BEng in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering at Strathclyde University. After graduating in 1990, Mark joined MatthewsDaniel Cairo office, initially as a marine surveyor. During his time in Egypt he made the transition to loss adjusting and transferred to the London office in 1992, where his combination of experience and insight is called upon to engineer solutions to complex claims.

Clayton joined MatthewsDaniel in 2020 as Group Credit Control.  This is a significant new role within our organisation to coordinate and streamline our worldwide credit control functions.  His entire career has been involved with credit control on an international level in the financial services and internet security industries.  Clayton is your main point of contact for any questions regarding payment of our fees. 

Stewart joined Matthews Daniel in 2018 and brings 6 years of upstream oil and gas experience. After

graduating with a MEng Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, he joined oilfield services company Schlumberger as a measurements and logging engineer. During this time, he worked on many high profile drilling campaigns across Europe and Africa, where he was responsible for real-time data acquisition and interpretation. His experience ranges from directionally and geologically complex development wells in the North Sea, to deepwater exploration wells offshore Senegal.

Prior to joining MatthewsDaniel, Tom had graduated with an LLB (Hons) in Law and a BSc (Hons) in Exploration and Resource Geology. His early career was in the offshore oil and gas industry working as a Data Engineer for Baker Hughes in the North Sea, where he was responsible for the monitoring and interpretation of well conditions, drilling and engineering parameters, the evaluation of geological and hydrocarbon samples and data acquisition. During his time offshore Tom worked on numerous platforms, jack-ups and semi-submersibles around the North Sea but predominantly in the complex, deepwater oil and gas fields west of the Shetland Isles in the North Atlantic. Tom also has experience within the mining industry, working at the Kinsevere copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo as an Exploration Geologist.

Zoe joined MatthewsDaniel following her graduation from the University of Birmingham with First Class honors. Since joining, she has gained experience handling a diverse array of complex petrochemical, refining, power and renewable claims. Demonstrating her commitment to professional excellence, Zoe is currently working towards her Diploma with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). 

Elena joined MatthewsDaniel in 2006. She has over a decade's experience as an energy adjuster, handling oil and gas, power generation, utilities, construction and machinery breakdown claims, with specific focus on Russia and CIS. She holds an engineering degree in automation and instrumentation from Krasnodar Technical University, in her native Russia, is ACII qualified and speaks fluent Russian and English. Before entering the adjusting sector, Elena's career was in the Russian oil and gas industry, as an engineer responsible for the detailed design and implementation of various projects, in particular gas refineries.

Ian is a major and complex loss specialist for on-shore risks and started his career as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor in the construction sector, prior joining the loss adjusting profession.  He has over 30 years’ experience as a Chartered Loss Adjuster and Chartered Insurance Practitioner, and has handled a range of high value losses both in the UK and overseas.  Ian specialises in property damage and liability claims involving complex building structures, construction risks, industrial facilities, energy and plant.

Iris graduated in 2018 from University with a Bachelor of Business Administration, specialising in logistics.  Initially living and based in her native Netherlands, Iris started her career in airfreight and sales.  In October 2021, joined a claims and survey company in the Netherlands as a marine cargo surveyor, before moving to the United Kingdom in 2023 and making the transition to Loss Adjusting.  Iris joined Matthews Daniel in 2024, working in the London office and handling marine, cargo and renewable energy related claims. Iris successfully passed the international Global Wind Organization Basic Safety Training (GWO BST) course and is currently working towards her Certificate with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).

Marcus graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2012 with a Bachelor’s degree in History and Politics. He then served for 10 years as a Royal Marines Commando Officer working throughout the Baltic, Arctic and Middle East in operations and intelligence roles concerned with maritime security, nuclear security and counter-terrorism. He has joined the Matthews Daniel London office working on Downstream and Renewable Energy claims.  

Gruffydd joined Matthews Daniel in 2024 as an adjuster on the downstream team having studied International Relations and Arabic at the University of Leeds followed by gaining engineering experience in the commercial property sector. He is a polyglot, speaking Arabic, Nepali, Spanish and French.  Gruff is working towards his Diploma with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).