ALARM South East seminar - Navigating change: Risk, resilience and readiness in an uncertain world

Adam Bayliss

Managing Director, Maven Public Sector

Adam has over 22 years of insurance experience, primarily supporting the delivery of a wide range of public sector insurance programmes. Since joining Maven Public Sector in 2018, Adam became Managing Director in January 2025. With his sector experience spanning key areas such as technical underwriting, risk control, and claims management, Adam is well-positioned to oversee the delivery of services to the public sector. Through understanding the unique needs of public sector organisations, Maven has the capability to offer bespoke, flexible, and tailor-made solutions.

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Paul Dudley

Paul is an experienced, qualified and successful public sector risk manager with a proven track record of achievement in enterprise and project risk management, health & safety, and business continuity management skills. Paul has effective communication skills and demonstrable leadership and management abilities.

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Andy Jeffrey

Head of Resilience and Emergency Planning, Kent County Council

Andy Jeffery is the Head of Resilience and Emergency Planning at Kent County Council. A geographer by training, he began his career in resilience on the ground as one of Canterbury City Council’s Duty Engineers during the 2013/14 winter floods. Since being given the opportunity to revitalise their emergency planning workstream, he has continued to support communities across the county at all levels of local government as well as within the secretariat of the Kent & Medway Resilience Forum.

Shaped by his experiences in the floods, he is a keen advocate of the human aspects to incident response, whether that is driving the planning for driver welfare as part of Kent’s preparations for EU Exit, or as an experienced commander leading the multi-agency tactical response to a range of incidents from high temperatures to high-rise buildings.

He lives with his wife Claire and three young daughters in the Kentish countryside.

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Endy Mckay

Lead Specialist Coach, Drama, Guildhall Ignite

Endy is an experienced facilitator and acting coach, a resident tutor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a Barbican Mentor Artist. She has a BA in Performance (Acting) and has 
completed the Enhanced Optimist Producer Course as well as training on Guildhall Ignite’s EMCC accredited Core Skills in Coaching and Mentoring for Advisors, Mentors and Teachers. 
Endy trained as an actor and continues to work nationally and internationally in theatre, television, film, radio and voiceover, working for companies such as the RSC, The National 
Theatre, Universal Studios and ITV. She was a regular in Channel 4’s Bafta award winning comedy series Peep Show and has just finished filming the upcoming new Charlie Brooker 
crime comedy series or Netflix. As a practitioner Endy has devised, written and directed numerous theatre and film projects, often with marginalised groups. She has worked with 
institutions including Lyric Hammersmith, Arcola Theatre, The RSC, Barbican and Hackney Empire, using theatre and film to respond to social issues and spark change.

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Mark Sacks

Head of Risk & Resilience, HM Land Registry

Mark is the Head of Risk & Resilience at HM Land Registry, leading the organisation’s second-line risk management, business continuity and crisis management functions. He has over 15 years’ experience in risk management and has led the development of HMLR’s risk and assurance framework, principal risk approach and organisational resilience arrangements. He is a Government Accredited Risk Manager, holds the Institute of Risk Management Certificate in Risk Management and is a certified member of the Business Continuity Institute. He has a particular interest in risk culture, risk appetite and the practical use of data and AI to improve risk insight and decision-making.

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Mark Scrivener

Head of Risk & Delivery Assurance, Kent County Council

Mark heads up the Integrated Risk & Delivery Assurance Team at Kent County Council that develops and implements the risk management framework across the Council. He has over ten years’ experience in strategic risk management and has previously held several business planning, business information and performance management related roles. He has been a member of ALARM for ten years and joined the ALARM South East Committee in September 2023. He is a certified member of the Institute of Risk Management, as well as a Management of Risk and Better Business Cases Practitioner. 

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Steven Simonds

Steven Simonds has spent his career helping organisations make practical and informed decisions about insurance, risk financing and organisational change. With 30 years’ experience spanning insurers, public sector organisations and specialist broking roles, Steven combines technical insurance knowledge with a first-hand understanding of the pressures facing local government.

Steven spent 16 years with a large metropolitan council, latterly as Insurance Manager. During this time, he modernised the council’s insurance arrangements, led major insurance procurements, introduced an in-house claims service and developed one of England’s largest school academy insurance frameworks.

Since joining Gallagher in 2022, Steven has advised councils, police and fire services, together with complex public sector organisations in the Channel Islands, on insurance strategy, programme design, procurement and the management of complex risks. Now an Executive Director within Gallagher’s Public Sector practice, he leads a team of Client Directors supporting organisations across the Midlands, South of England and South Wales.

As local government considers the implications of reorganisation, Steven supports affected authorities in understanding what change could mean for their insurance arrangements, assets, claims, contracts, liabilities and future procurement. His approach is to help clients plan early, improve the quality of their information and focus on practical steps that remain valuable while future structures and timescales continue to develop.

Despite the uncertainty surrounding local government change, Steven remains a pragmatist. He believes insurance and risk management should give organisations greater clarity and confidence, helping them navigate change rather than adding further complication.

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Andrew Tomkins

Technical Account Consultant – GCS Corporate & Multinational Property, Aviva

Andrew specialises in commercial property risk engineering with 30 years’ experience in the insurance industry. Account and senior risk engineer on key corporate accounts, he helps Aviva's clients to reduce risk to their people and assets whilst increasing business resilience through a range of risk management services, solutions and strategies.

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Tilden Watson

Regional Strategic Risk Advisor, Gallagher

Tilden has spent a career embedding practical risk, resilience and internal control solutions within organisations. As a qualified accountant (CIPFA), Internal Auditor (IIA), and member of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), Tilden has dedicated nearly two decades to the public sector, serving in senior roles in local and central government. His notable roles included audit management and whilst working in central government shaping government risk policy and embedding risk management into significant government initiatives including building schools for the future.

In his tenure with a major public sector insurer, Tilden successfully supported over a hundred public sector clients in integrating robust risk management strategies and developing comprehensive resilience plans. Whilst managing the UK strategic risk team for Zurich he regularly presented at conferences on a range of topical risk issues.

Before joining Gallagher, Tilden spent ten years in a senior leadership role for Zurich, where he demonstrated a track record for innovation, delivering results and enhancing risk and resilience frameworks.

Despite many years in the risk profession, he remains both a pragmatist and an optimist. His passion is to ensure risk management truly supports organisations in achieving their goals in challenging circumstances.

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