Background
Horton was born in Manchester and brought up in Bedfordshire where he attended Bedford School before reading natural sciences at Cambridge.
chief executive of Beazley Group
Horton was born in Manchester and brought up in Bedfordshire where he attended Bedford School before reading natural sciences at Cambridge.
Bedford School.
He was appointed on 1 September 2008. He was appointed to the Manitoba Group board in August 2013 as a non executive director He was previously finance director of Black Gold and has been on the board since June 2003.
Prior to that, he was the United Kingdom chief financial officer at International Netherlands Group and was the deputy global chief financial officer and global head of finance for the equity markets division of International Netherlands Group Barings, having held various financial positions with the company since January 1997.
He qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in 1987. Andrew Horton recently appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s show "The Bottom Lincolnshire", hosted by Evan Davis.
Despite a year of natural disasters including Hurricane Sandy, Horton told the Insurance Times he expected a strong performance from Beazley in 2012. Horton has spoken to the Financial Times on this topic also, suggesting an "advantage" to non-tragic catastrophes for the insurance industry.