JAMES BEAN

LLB in Law from the University of Wales, Swansea in 2000 and post-graduate legal practitioners course with commendation at Cardiff Law School in 2002.
Completed training contract with leading London shipping law firm and admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2004.
Joined Charles Taylor in 2005 as a claims executive.
Appointed claims director of Syndicate B in September 2008.
Appointed director of Mediterranean syndicate in June 2012.
Appointed director of Offshore syndicate in April 2014.

Appointed managing director of Standard Europe in September 2015