Simon W. Leathes serves as Independent Director of the Company. He joined the Board of AGL in May 2013. From 2012 to 2017, Mr. Leathes was a non-executive director of HSBC Bank plc and was a member of its Risk Committee and its Audit Committee; he was also a non-executive director and member of the Audit and Risk Committees of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG. In December 2011, he became an independent, non-executive director of our Company’s U.K. insurance subsidiary, Assured Guaranty (Europe) plc. Mr. Leathes also served as an independent, non-executive director of our Company’s two other U.K. insurance subsidiaries: Assured Guaranty (UK) plc and Assured Guaranty (London) plc, until November 7, 2018 when they were consolidated into Assured Guaranty (Europe) plc. From 1996 to 2018, Mr. Leathes served as a non-executive director of HSB-Engineering Insurance Ltd., a U.K. subsidiary of Munich Re, where he was the chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee. Mr. Leathes served as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Barclays Capital, the investment banking subsidiary of Barclays plc, from January 2001 until his retirement in December 2006. In addition, he served from 2001 to 2010 as a non-executive director of Kier Group plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, where he also served as chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Nominations committees. Until June 2014, Mr. Leathes served as the chairman of the trustees of the Kier Group Pension Scheme. Mr. Leathes’ considerable experience in investment and risk management, as well the institutional knowledge gained through his directorship of our Company’s U.K. affiliate, is valuable to the Board and its committees.
As the Independent Director of Assured Guaranty Ltd, the total compensation of Simon Leathes at Assured Guaranty Ltd is $418,654. There are 10 executives at Assured Guaranty Ltd getting paid more, with Dominic Frederico having the highest compensation of $12,153,500.
Simon Leathes is 72, he's been the Independent Director of Assured Guaranty Ltd since 2013. There are 3 older and 20 younger executives at Assured Guaranty Ltd. The oldest executive at Assured Guaranty Ltd is Patrick Kenny, 77, who is the Independent Director.
Simon's mailing address filed with the SEC is 30 WOODBOURNE AVENUE, 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON, D0, HM 08.
Over the last 21 years, insiders at Assured Guaranty Ltd have traded over $745,139,805 worth of Assured Guaranty Ltd stock and bought 4,699,513 units worth $76,458,088 . The most active insiders traders include Wilbur L Jr Ross, Vedado, Llcwlr Recovery Fun... oraz Ross Group, L.P.Wlr Recover.... On average, Assured Guaranty Ltd executives and independent directors trade stock every 30 days with the average trade being worth of $18,528,222. The most recent stock trade was executed by Dominic Frederico on 4 September 2024, trading 31,000 units of AGO stock currently worth $2,480,310.
assured guaranty is the leading provider of municipal bond insurance and other applications of financial guaranty insurance. we guarantee scheduled principal and interest payments when due on municipal, public infrastructure and structured financings. for more information, visit assuredguaranty.com
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