About us

James Masterton is Chief Executive Officer of Price Forbes & Partners Ltd and has over 25 years’ experience in the insurance market.

Prior to the purchase of the business, assets and ‘Price Forbes’ brand by the management of Price Forbes & Partners Limited, James led the combined non marine groups for the merged Price Forbes Limited and Prentis Donegan & Partners Limited under the ownership of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Previously, James joined Prentis Donegan & Partners Limited in 1998 to help develop and subsequently lead its non-marine group.

James started his career in 1983 in London at Sedgwick, joining as a broker of property programmes for North American corporations, placing business into Lloyd’s and European markets and became a Director of Sedgwick North America Limited before moving to Prentis Donegan.

David Baxter is the Chairman of the Marine, Energy & Natural Resources team at Price Forbes & Partners Ltd, and he joined the company in September 2009. He has over 40 years’ experience in insurance.

Prior to joining Price Forbes & Partners, David was head of the energy practice at HSBC Insurance Brokers. In 1989 David joined Heaths as a Divisional Director of Heath Oil and Gas Limited and in 1996 he became Joint Managing Director of the team.

From 1983 – 1989 David worked for Sedgwick Offshore Resources where he was a member of the technical client team involved in handling, broking and servicing oil and gas clients worldwide and later became Director of the 10-strong technical team.

David began his career in 1970 at C.E. Heath and Co, working within the technical and broking areas both in London and regionally.

David is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII) and was awarded the CII EA Kingsmill Prize for Marine Underwriting and Claims in 1974.

Paul Kearns is Managing Director of the Marine, Energy & Natural Resources US team at Price Forbes & Partners and joined the company in 2006.

He has over 30 years’ marine insurance and reinsurance experience and, prior to joining Price Forbes & Partners, he was Divisional Director of Marine at Roberts Donegan Ltd. Paul began his career in 1984 at Leslie & Godwin Ltd, before moving to become an Associate Director at Bain Clarkson Ltd.

Richard Peers is Managing Director of the Non-Marine US team at Price Forbes & Partners.

Richard has over 25 years’ experience in marketing of complex North American liability accounts, with specialty underwriters in London, Bermuda and the USA.

Prior to the formation of Price Forbes & Partners Limited, Richard was a Board Member of Prentis Donegan & Partners, with responsibility for the Casualty team.

Previously, Richard spent 13 years at Sedgwick North America Limited, where he started his career in their claims department. He progressed to policy work; Casualty Placing, Production; and latterly was a Director of Sedgwick North America. Richard was instrumental in the creation of Sedgwick’s transportation practice.

Having joined Price Forbes in September 2015, Greg is Managing Director of the Non-Marine International Division. He is responsible for leading the strategic growth of Price Forbes on the International stage. Greg is also a member of the Price Forbes Executive Committee and sits on the Digital Board.

He has over 20 years’ experience in the London market, working as both a Lloyd’s underwriter and broker in a wide variety of specialisms. His most recent role before joining Price Forbes was Managing Director of Global Casualty at Howden.

Greg has travelled extensively for most of his career, developing and working with clients in Latin America, Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and parts of Africa. He has worked in the retail, wholesale, and reinsurance markets, along with building Captive solutions and the placing of their reinsurance programmes. His experience has crossed most product lines and he specialises in large, complex client solutions, including working with a number of Fortune 500 listed clients.

Alex Gilmore is an Executive Director of Price Forbes. He joined the company 20 years ago to form the International Division, with previous experience including seven years in Germany as well as time working for Sedgwick in London.

Alex is now responsible for the Asia Pacific regional strategy as well as continuing to oversee some major clients from that region. He also represents Price Forbes at the Worldwide Broker Network (WBN) via his voluntary Board role as Treasurer.

Tim Savill is Head of Claims at Price Forbes & Partners, and has over 34 years’ claims experience as a broker, negotiator and manager. He is responsible for heading up the 30-strong claims team and has significant experience in; non-marine property and casualty; marine hull, P&I liabilities, energy and power, nuclear and construction claims.

Previously, Tim was Claims Manager at Gibbs Hartley Cooper and prior to that, Claims Assistant at Frizzell Bolton Hicks, where he started his career.