The CEO

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JEREMY CHRISTOPHER CAMPS
Born in London on 6th October 1943 Jeremy was educated at Marlborough College Wiltshire. He has an Associateship from the Chartered Insurance Institute in London and is a UK Chartered Insurer/Insurance Practitioner.

After 2 years working for insurers and reinsurers in Europe as a student employee primarily to improve his languages , Jeremy Joined Victory Insurance one of the foremost reinsurers as a trainee underwriter in 1963 rising to be Chief Underwriter for the German speaking territories,
serving also as Personal Assistant to the Companys General Manager, as Jeremy has often commented Victory was the best reinsurance training ground.

In 1971 to broaden his outlook Jeremy Joined R K Harrison Reinsurance Brokers to increase their account of reinsurance business by his own production to add to the brokers book of business, successfully developing an account amongst others of Dutch Mutual companies.
Jeremy was promoted to the composite insurance board and subsequently to the Holding Board which managed Lloyds syndicates and introduced Members to Lloyds. As was expected Jeremy became a Lloyds Name.

When in March 1998 RK Harrison Group merged with another dissimilar broker, Jeremy resigned and accepted a position of Managing Director of Gil Carvajal and Partners Ltd in a joint venture reinsurance broker between Gil Y Carvajal the largest and most powerful insurance brokers in Spain and Lloyds Brokers Hogg Robinson with a view to developing their non Spanish business , Jeremys Germanic attitude did not fit well with different Spanish methods and after 5 years he departed by mutual agreement.

In March 1998 Jeremy joined Cameron Richard and Smith Insurance Services a young London market reinsurance broker who wished to broaden their business base with his European and Asian client base, under the relative freedom and backing Jeremy developed a major account of German Mutual insurers as well as business in Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

As CRS London changed Jeremy was offered and accepted the opportunity to purchase CRS Malaysian based broking operation which he had established in the offshore financial center of Labuan moving to live in KL.

Jeremy was elected Chairman of the Labuan International Insurance Association which he served for a 5-year term.

Eventually lacking a successor JCC Re as the successor to CRS who had sold their 10% share and subsequently collapsed was sold to a combination of Lloyds Brokers Amwyns and the shareholders of PWS who in Asia (Singapore) were facultative specialists.

Jeremy remained as Chairman and Principal Officer before recommending a replacement whose first action was to terminate his contract. the only one of Jeremys clients to insist he continue to handle their business was Southern Cross Assurance in PNG a company he has helped to set up. This led to his appointment as a Director and Technical Director of the Company; this was done through Jeremys Consultancy company JCC Consultants. Jeremy advised on all technical particularly the claims and reinsurance accounting, but his main role was design and facilitate the company’s reinsurance program achieving a good capacity, necessary in a small market like PNG.

In March 2025 Jeremy was surprised to receive a nicely worded email letter from SCAL’s Chairman and Principle Shareholder terminating his Directorship and his consultancy role, reasons given age and health were flimsy and more likely the fact that he had after meeting a close contact of Jeremy s during a visit to KL participated in setting up a new reinsurance broker in Labuan.

Jeremy felt he still had much more to contribute. His interest in reinsurance is not just a vocation, but a life interest and he feel it is waste of his experience not to continue in the business which has kept him interested over the years.

His concept is to provide similar services to an insurance company probably a new foundation or one entering the area of business where under his guidance his previous clients was so successful to the extent, they no longer needed him, that’s property and casualty who would
benefit from his technical PNG experience.

This relates in fact depends on having suitable and adequate reinsurance. in a broker market where capacity is king, credibility depends on having enough automatic capacity not to have to seek facultative reinsurance which in an unpopular territory like PNG is very difficult.

Any automatic reinsurance facility depends on the insurance company’s credibility and its presentation to its reinsurers our speciality.

We also have an agreement with a strong and reputable firm of reinsurance brokers to assist with this.