Wayne A. Bates joined the industry in 1988 when he went to work with a Lloyd’s syndicate where he had an entry-level underwriting Role that focused on US Property & Casualty business.
In 1994 he took a more advanced position with a London-based insurance company again focusing on US P&C.
6 years later he relocated from England to the United States and joined the Kaufman Financial Group, working for Burns & Wilcox Ltd in their in-house underwriting division (Special Risks Department (SRD) International). Here Wayne underwrote risks referred from B&W offices and responsible for B&W’s London placed binding authority portfolio.
In 2007 Wayne joined a start-up Chicago-based excess & surplus carrier as President. He then returned to the Kaufman Financial Group as President of Atain Insurance Companies in 2015.
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