Nicholas Leighton - Chairman of the Board

Nick Leighton joined our Board of Directors in February 2004, and was appointed Chairman in February 2006. He is the Group Managing Director for Atlas Insurance Management, which provides insurance management services and alternative risk transfer solutions. Nick is in charge of the Atlas offices in Grand Cayman, the Bahamas, Nevis, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands.

Prior to Atlas, Nick was the Managing Director of Caledonian Insurance Services Limited. Before that, he was a Director at AON Insurance Managers Limited in the Channel Islands.

Nick is an Honors graduate in Economics from Leeds University (UK), a Masters graduate in Economics from Manchester University (UK), and a Scottish Chartered Accountant. He qualified with KMPG in Edinburgh in 1988, and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management, where he won the IAU prize for his dissertation “The Development of the Protected Cell Company.”