A record-breaking attendance of over 900 program professionals took advantage of opportunities to grow and improve their business by attending the 19th Annual Summit. The meeting featured an inspiring message from former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, the results of the 2019 Program Business Study and Prem Watsa, Chairman and CEO of Fairfax Financial Holdings, speaking to the group about successful strategies of running a business and important industry trends. As with all TMPAA events, the Summit provided attendees unique access to decision-makers in this growing industry segment. 

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Prem Watsa is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, a holding company which, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and investment management.

In 1985 Prem took control of Markel Financial which was controlled by the Virginia based Markel family. In 1987 he then re‐organized and renamed it Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. He has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception.

Since 1985, Fairfax has compounded book value and stock price by about 19%. Fairfax has total assets of approximately US$68 billion, revenues of approximately US$18 billion and common shareholders’ equity of approximately US$12 billion. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

He holds a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India and obtained his MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Western Ontario, an Honorary Doctorate of Sacred Letters from Wycliff College of the University of Toronto and an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Tyndale College.

He is a member of the Sick Children’s Hospital Foundation and is Chairman of their Investment Committee, member of the Advisory Board for the Richard Ivey School of Business, member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation, Lead Director on the Board of Blackberry and Chairman of the Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Toronto. He is on the Board of Horatio Alger Association U.S. and President of Horatio Alger Association of Canada. He is Chairman of Fairfax India. He was formerly Chancellor of the University of Waterloo and on the Boards of the Bank of Ireland and of ICICI Bank. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada.

Nikki R. Haley is the former United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations. She served as a member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet and the National Security Council.

At the United Nations, Ambassador Haley ensured the American people saw value for their investment, introducing reforms that made the organization more efficient, transparent, and accountable. In a two year period, she negotiated over $1.3 billion in savings, including rightsizing UN peacekeeping missions to make them more effective and targeted while improving their ability to protect civilians.

In the UN Security Council, Ambassador Haley worked to defend Americans' interests and keep our country safe. She spearheaded negotiations for the passage of the strongest set of sanctions ever placed on North Korea for its nuclear weapons program, cutting off the regime's exports by 90 percent and its access to oil by 30 percent.

As UN Ambassador Haley championed human rights. She challenged human rights violators across the globe, standing up to oppressive regimes in Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and Russia. During the U.S presidency of the UN Security Council, she hosted the first-ever session devoted solely to promoting human rights. She traveled the world visiting people oppressed by their own governments to see firsthand the challenges they face and to work with them directly on life-improving solutions—from Syrian refugees in Jordan and Turkey, to internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, to Venezuelan migrants walking miles every day to cross the Colombian border for food and medicine.

During her time as ambassador, the United States stood proudly with its allies, repeatedly taking a strong and principled stand against the chronic anti-Israel bias at the United Nations. In the UN Security Council, she proudly issued the first American veto in six years defending the United States’ sovereign right to move our Embassy to Jerusalem—Israel’s true capital.

Prior to becoming the twenty-ninth U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Haley was elected in 2010 as the first female and first minority Governor of South Carolina. Reelected in 2014, she served as Governor until confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in January of 2017.

Under Governor Haley’s leadership, South Carolina was a national leader in economic development. Known as the “Beast of the Southeast,” South Carolina’s unemployment rate hit a 15 year low, it saw over $20 billion in new capital investment, and her administration announced new jobs in every county in the state, over 85,000 total.

Governor Haley also ushered in the state's largest education reform in decades—making education funding more equitable for schools in the state's poorest communities, prioritizing reading in early grades, and equipping classrooms with the latest technology.

Born in Bamberg, South Carolina, she is the daughter of Indian immigrants and a proud graduate of Clemson University. In her first job, Ambassador Haley kept the books for her family's clothing store—at the age of 13.

Ambassador Haley and her husband, Michael, a Captain in the South Carolina Army National Guard and combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan's Helmand Province, have two children, Rena, 20, and Nalin, 17.

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Sunday, October 20

1:00 p.m. TMPAA Charities Networking Golf Tournament (dinner to follow)–Sponsored by Rough Notes  REGISTER

Monday, October 21

8:00 a.m. Networking Lounge Opens–Sponsored by Allianz

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Carrier Meeting Lounge Open-Sponsored by Great American

8:30-10:30 a.m Continental Breakfast-Sponsored by AAIS

11:00 a.m. Trade Show Opens–Sponsored by NetRate

12:00 p.m. Networking Lunch–Sponsored by ValueMomentum

2:00-3:00 p.m. 2019 State of Program Business Study Results Presentation

4:00-5:00 p.m. INDUSTRY SPEAKER: Prem Watsa, CEO, Fairfax Financial Holdings–Sponsored by Hudson Insurance

5:00–6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception–Sponsored by Hudson Insurance

PLEASE NOTE:  Off-site evening activities should not be scheduled prior to 7pm.

Tuesday, October 22

7:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast-Sponsored by Old Republic Specialty Insurance Underwriters

8:00 a.m. Networking Lounge Opens

8:00 a.m. Trade Show Opens–Sponsored by NetRate

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Carrier Meeting Lounge Open 

8:30 a.m. General Session: Announcements/Best Practice Awards
               KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2017-2019)–Sponsored by Zurich 

10:30 a.m. –12:00 p.m. Lloyd's Open House with Opening Remarks by Andrew Brooks, CEO, Ascot Group–Sponsored by Lloyd's 

12:00 p.m. Networking Lunch–Sponsored by Ascot Group

2:00–3:00 p.m. Workshop: Cognitive Bias Is Impacting Your Decisions and Bottom-Line

4:00–5:00 p.m. Workshop: The Compelling Case for Independent Actuarial Analysis

5:00–6:30 p.m. Networking Reception–Sponsored by Sedgwick

9:00–11:30 p.m 10th Annual Charities Casino Night–Presented by Sedgwick

PLEASE NOTE:  Off-site evening activities should not be scheduled prior to 7pm.

Wednesday, October 23

7:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast-Sponsored by CNA

8:30–10:00 a.m. General Session: Announcements, Presentation of CPLs
                           INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: The Changing Carrier Model – PA Access to Third Party Capital Partners

10:30 a.m. Workshop: The Management Discipline of Listening

11:30 a.m. Box Lunch-Sponsored by AmTrust Underwriters, Inc.

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