Lockton has appointed Mr Jeremie Deschamps as Regional Head of Cyber Advisory for Asia; Mr Martin Allain as Head of Wholesale for Lockton Asia's Regional Placement Team; and Mr Michael "Mike" Griffiths as Regional Director, Healthcare, for the company's Professional and Executive Risk and Credit Team. All three are based in Singapore.
In his new role, Mr Deschamps leads Lockton’s cyber advisory proposition across the region, helping clients strengthen cyber resilience, quantifying cyber exposures and making informed decisions on risk management and risk transfer strategies.
Mr Deschamps brings nearly 20 years of experience spanning traditional cyber security engineering and industrial cyber resilience programmes, business risk management, cyber risk quantification economic modelling, OT/ICS security and cyber insurance advisory.
Prior to his new role, Mr Deschamps held cyber advisory and technology risk roles at leading professional services firms in Asia and Europe. He joins Lockton from Marsh Asia.
Mr Allain returns to the workforce after a brief retirement. He brings broad international experience spanning North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
He began his career with Marsh UK. In 1995, he joined Reinsurance Australia Corporation as Property Underwriting Manager. Since relocating to Singapore in 2003, Mr Allain has held several senior roles, including Managing Director for Facultative Business for APAC. He later joined Howden’s wholesale broking team in Singapore in 2015.
Mr Allain’s expertise covers a wide range of specialty lines, including property, power, mining, manufacturing, multinational programme placement, alternative risk transfer and captives, construction (including project cargo), financial lines and marine.
He also brings deep technical knowledge in mining, heavy industry, downstream energy, and power and utilities.
In his new role, Mr Griffiths leads Lockton’s regional healthcare portfolio, ensuring clients receive tailored, forward-looking solutions that address the increasingly complex risk environment facing healthcare providers.
He is also a regular speaker at medical conferences and a contributor to content on malpractice-related developments, supporting industry-wide risk awareness and education.
With more than 30 years of experience as an insurance broker, Mr Griffiths brings deep sector expertise and a longstanding focus on healthcare risk. Since relocating to Singapore in 2006, he has worked exclusively with hospitals, clinics and individual healthcare practitioners, specialising in medical malpractice insurance and clinical trials insurance.
He has been involved in resolving some of Singapore’s largest and most complex malpractice claims, earning a strong reputation for technical insight and client advocacy.