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Peter Coates
Founder and Managing DirectoPrincipal
Peter spent 15 years working at Wellington Underwriting in the Lloyd’s market, with responsibilities for UW, Claims and internal management support and review, before moving to Australia where he has held senior management roles with reinsurance and insurance companies, as well as leading CGEY’s Insurance practice for ANZ, before taking over the Axiom AP business in 2005, which he then purchased from the Charles Taylor Group in 2010.
For the past 19 years, he has developed a team that specialises in UW Agency and TPA audits and related reviews in Australia, NZ, Hong Kong, Canada and SE Asia and the Pacific Rim for a large number of Lloyd’s and Company insurers, and International Reinsurers – being involved in around 50 Agency and Claims audits each year, covering up to 200 Binders / TPA portfolios in all.
Peter has also been involved in a number of Catastrophe Analysis claim reviews for several Reinsurers in relation to the NZ Earthquakes in 2010/11 and more recently the Kaikoura Earthquake of 2016.
More recently he has assisted a number of UW Agencies in developing and implementing Peer Review functions for their UW and Claims operations, as well as providing external Underwriting and Claims review services, and training sessions for Coverholders around the audit and peer review functions..
Charles Allenby
Audit Director
Charles is the newest addition to the Axiom team, joining in June 2024 as full-time Audit Director, following 5 years with QBE in Australia as a DUA Governance Manager, who worked to create a centralised DUA Audit function working across the business operations to support the governance and audit requirements of the more than 60 Agency partners managing over A$2 billion in GWP.
This included the development and implementation of a dedicated DUA audit process and scope, and managing the training and oversight of the audit team.
Before moving to Australia Charles spent 6 years working as a DUA Auditor for QBE's London Market operations, undertaking audits in the UK, Canada, Europe and Australia under both Lloyd's and QBE Company security.
Joanne Cox
Associate
Jo joined the team in early 2017 after a short career-break, with a long career in the Australian corporate insurance market as a broker with Millers and JLT, specialising in Construction Insurance, including a spell in Thailand as a senior account manager. She has also more recently undertaken a number of part-time roles with small brokers and agents in the Australian market.
She acts as a sub-contractor to Axiom AP, based in Melbourne, and has been closely involved in 15 – 25 audits per year of both Coverholders and TPAs, working alone on audits or with others in the team on larger audit engagements.
Stuart Warden
Associate
Stuart joined Axiom in 2021 after 20 years in the Risk Management and Insurance industry, with a background in Mining Risk Engineering, large corporate risk management and Commercial Property underwriting in Australia, with both Lloyd's and company insurers. He has a unique combination of large scale commercial risk management understanding, and commercial property underwriting which offers a good basis for Property underwriting and claims audit work.
Alongside his work for Axiom AP, he undertakes complex Risk Surveys in Australia and NZ, providing reports on all aspects of the property risk for the Insured or other partners.
Stuart is a sub-contractor to Axiom AP based in Sydney, and has been working on combined audits with the team, and in some stand-alone audits.
Anne Durkin
Associate
Anne is an experienced Australian Insurance lawyer who has recently returned home after 20 years working in the London insurance market, having joined Marketform in 2000 on a contract claims role handling worldwide liability claims, after which she was retained as General Counsel and Company Secretary, retaining an oversight of the claims and internal audit functions, as well as governance, policy wordings and regulatory responsibilities within the Lloyd’s market.
She then spent 18 months within the Lloyd’s Performance Management team, before roles with Allied World and MSAmlin as Legal Counsel / Company Secretary functions. She then spent 5 years working with the National House Building Council in the UK as General Counsel & Company Secretary managing claims, reinsurance and corporate governance.
Anne joined Axiom in 2022 and is a sub-contractor to Axiom AP based in Melbourne, and has been working on combined audits with the team, and in some stand-alone audits.
Paul Mackay
Associate
Paul spent over 20 years as a reinsurance broker and client manager at Aon in Australia & New Zealand before setting up an independent consultancy business offering technical expertise and analytical consulting support to general insurers and reinsurers in Australia.
He acts as a sub-contractor to Axiom AP, based in Sydney, and over the past 15 years has carried out between 15 and 25 audits of Agencies and TPAs each year, either alone, or alongside Peter and the other Associates on the larger businesses and reviews.