Helen Steadman

Head of Cargo

Helen is the Head of Cargo at AXIS. She began her career in Cargo insurance in 1997 as a graduate trainee with Willis Faber & Dumas. After ten years on the broking side, she switched to underwriting in 2007. She joined Novae Underwriting as Head of Cargo in 2016, which was then bought by AXIS in 2017.

Specialties include:

  • Satellite and pre-launch risks
  • Project Cargo

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