Our Story

Peter has worked in the Lloyd’s marketplace for over thirty years and co-founded the White Bear Capital Group in 2016. Peter is Chief Executive Officer of Blenheim Partnerships Limited and a Director of Blenheim Underwriting Limited. In 2000 Peter was appointed CEO and one of the founders of Cathedral Capital Limited from start up to the sale to Lancashire Holdings Limited in 2013, remaining as CEO of Cathedral within the Lancashire Group until 2016. Prior to joining Cathedral, Peter had 14 years of Insurance Industry experience including being appointed to Managing Director of Wren Lloyd’s Advisors in 1995, working on establishing the first generation of Lloyd’s Corporate Capital Vehicles. Peter holds a BSC (Econ) in Economics and Geography from University College London.

Director of White Bear Capital Limited

John has over thirty years’ experience within the Lloyd’s market and co-founded the White Bear Capital Group in 2016. John is Chief Executive Officer of Blenheim Underwriting Limited and a director of Blenheim Partnerships Limited. John was one of the founders and Chief Financial Officer of Cathedral Underwriting Limited from start up in 2000 to sale to Lancashire Insurance PLC in 2013, remaining as CFO of Cathedral until 2016.

John joined the White Bear Group in 2018 to establish the Specialty Reinsurance Account for Blenheim and is also Chief Underwriting Officer of White Bear Managers. John has worked for over 30 years in both the Lloyd’s and Company markets, focusing on all classes of reinsurance business as well as supporting and setting up MGA platforms. Before joining White Bear Group in 2018, John was Head of Treaty Underwriting at Talbot Syndicate 1183 where he worked for 19 years. Prior to this he was a Treaty Underwriter at Reliance National UK and from the start an Assistant Underwriter at R. C. Barber Syndicate 512 working across both insurance and reinsurance lines.

Nick joined the White bear Group in 2016 to help establish Syndicate 5886 at Lloyd’s of which he is now Active Underwriter. Prior to this Nick worked for over 35 years in both the Lloyds and Company markets, focusing on primarily US Treaty reinsurance. Before joining White Bear Group in 2016, Nick was the US Treaty Underwriter for Cathedral Syndicate from 2002. Prior to that he was head of the Treaty reinsurance team at SVB Syndicates. He started his career as an underwriting assistant in 1985 at the Excess Ins Co.

Simon started his career at MSF Pritchard as an underwriter at the property team. He then joined WRB Underwriting and was promoted to the Head of Property. Simon joined Blenheim in 2020 to assist in the development of the Direct & Facultative Property portfolio and in 2024 he was appointed as Head of Direct & Facultative Property. Simon holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of York and has achieved the Advanced Diploma in Insurance.

Sharon joined the White Bear Group in 2019 to head up the Group Operations function. Prior to joining White Bear, Sharon was at Aon for over 30 years where she held a number of key Operational roles, most recently as Head of Operations, Global Re Specialty.