Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001628280-25-020463
Chunk: 273

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: F-1/A
Chunk 273
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 Capital Markets. Before joining Aspen, Mr. Tobben was at Partner Reinsurance for almost 10 years, most recently as Head of Insurance Linked Securities, where he managed a portfolio of catastrophe ILS, life ILS, weather and commodity investments. Prior to his time at Partner Reinsurance, Mr. Tobben was at Aquila Energy where he held a number of roles, including Vice President, Business Development, Weather.

John Welch . Mr. Welch was appointed Chief Underwriting Officer, Reinsurance in June 2023. Mr. Welch has over 30 years of global experience in reinsurance and insurance, including executive roles across global companies. Most recently, from January 2020 to August 2022, Mr. Welch was Chief Executive, Domestic Markets at AXA XL Re, where he led local reinsurance underwriting teams around the world. Mr. Welch previously held a number of senior roles at AXA XL, XL Catlin Group and XL Group.

#### Director Independence
As a foreign private issuer, under the listing requirements and rules of the NYSE we are not required to have independent directors on the Board, except to the extent that our Audit Committee is required to consist fully of independent directors. The listing standards of the NYSE applicable to U.S. domestic issuers require that, subject to specified exceptions, each member of a listed company’s audit, compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees be independent, following a phase-in period. In addition, the listing standards of the NYSE require that audit committee members satisfy independence criteria set forth in Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act and that compensation committee members satisfy independence criteria set forth in the NYSE Listed Company Manual. Nevertheless, the listing standards further provide that a director will only qualify as an “independent director” if, in the opinion of that company’s board of directors, that person does not have a

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relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

The Board has affirmatively determined that each of David Altmaier, Albert Beer, Theresa Froehlich, Richard Lightowler and Tammy L. Richardson-Augustus meet the definition of “independent director” under the applicable rules of the NYSE Listed Company Manual. In making this determination, the Board considered the relationships that each such non-employee director has with the Company and all other facts and circumstances that the Board deemed relevant in determining such director’s independence, including beneficial ownership of ordinary shares. Accordingly