Shaun Tarbuck
Chief Executive
Shaun Tarbuck was appointed Chief Executive of ICMIF in 2005, 10 years after joining the organisation. Shaun is a regular conference speaker on strategic issues affecting the mutual/cooperative insurance sector; has written a number of articles and been involved in several research projects about the value that mutuals/cooperatives bring to the insurance market. He is President of Allnations Inc, a US-based capital support vehicle for ICMIF’s developing members and a Board member of Regis Mutual Management, a company which focuses on the set up of new mutual insurers.
He set up the UK mutual trade association, AMI, and was its Chief Executive from 2004 to 2009 when it merged to form AFM. He was a director of AMICE from 2008-2009 and was instrumental in bringing about the existence of AMICE through the merger of ACME and AISAM.
Shaun qualified as a chartered accountant in 1987 in Liverpool. He worked for Coopers & Lybrand in Bermuda for three years to 1990, managing a department dealing with insurance, reinsurance, mutual funds and trusts in the US, Canada and UK. On returning to the UK in 1990 he then worked in corporate finance for Stoy Haywood chartered accountants before moving to Templeton Life Assurance as Finance Director in 1991. In 1994 he set up his own financial and consultancy practice, before joining ICMIF in March 1995 as Vice-President, Membership and Finance.
Liz Green
Senior Vice-President, Communications
Liz Green joined ICMIF as Senior Vice-President, Communications in 2012. She was previously Head of Corporate Affairs for Royal Liver Group where she headed an award-winning team, working with key stakeholders to successfully transform delegate and employee engagement and communications strategies. During her term as Deputy Chair of AMI she led the development of the mutual sector’s CSR programme, ‘Fun to Save’, which focused on financial education in primary schools in addition to Royal Liver’s multi-award winning primary school financial education resource, ‘A Bird’s Eye View’.
Liz is a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Certified Practitioner and is currently working toward Master Practitioner status.
Sabbir Patel
Senior Vice-President & CFO
Sabbir joined ICMIF in 1996 and qualified as a chartered certified account (FCCA) in 2001. In 2002 he completed his Masters degree at the Institute of Development and Policy Management (IDPM) and holds a CII Diploma. As well as the finance department he is responsible for the ICMIF Development function (www.microinsurance.coop) and works closely with new/emerging member organisations providing technical assistance, regular newsletters and an annual microinsurance workshop.
As Vice-President and Treasurer of Allnations Inc (www.allnations.coop) he has overseen the restructuring of the organisation since 2004 and provided capital support to members in Uruguay, Ecuador and Ghana.
In addition Sabbir is spearheading the Federations support to the Takaful (Islamic Insurance) sector since 2001, setting up the ICMIF Takaful web site www.takaful.coop, Takaful newsletter, annual workshop and assisting the establishment of cooperative based Takaful schemes in developing and developed insurance markets, as a result ICMIF now has twenty-one Takaful operators as member organisations.
Faye Lageu
Vice-President, Head of Shared Intelligence, ICMIF
Faye joined ICMIF in 1995, and is Vice-President Shared Intelligence. She has been leading ICMIF’s sustainability work, including two global research reports, over the last six years. She holds an MBA from Nottingham University Business School, with specializations in insurance, sustainability and corporate governance; and is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute.
