UL Foundation recently welcomed representatives from The Fidelis Partnership and Brindle Foundation teams in Dublin and London to University of Limerick for the annual Fidelis and Brindle Scholarship Event. The gathering marked the third year of the Scholarship programme, celebrating four new award recipients as they embark on the first year of their scholarship journey.
The event brought together new and existing scholarship students, their families, representatives from Fidelis Partnership and Brindle Foundation, UL Foundation and UL staff, to celebrate student success and the impact of the programme. In addition to recognising the newest cohort, who were presented with scholarship certificates, the event provided an opportunity for attendees to connect with students in the second and third years of the programme and hear first-hand about their academic achievements, personal growth, and experiences since becoming Fidelis and Brindle scholarship awardees.
The Scholarship Programme offers far more than financial support. In addition to helping remove financial barriers to higher education, students benefit from ongoing mentoring, access to industry professionals, networking opportunities, industry events, and work placement and co-operative education opportunities. The programme supports students across a range of disciplines, including Business Studies and International Business with a specialisation in Risk and Insurance, Cyber Security and IT Forensics, and Computer Science.
Drawing on more than four decades of industry expertise, The Fidelis Partnership has established itself as a high-growth, diversified leader in underwriting, risk origination, and risk allocation. With its European headquarters in Dublin, the company is one of the world’s leading specialty insurers and reinsurers, underwriting property, bespoke, and specialty insurance and reinsurance products through its subsidiaries.
The continued partnership between Fidelis Partnership, Brindle Foundation, and UL is helping to create life-changing educational opportunities for talented students while supporting the development of future leaders across the insurance, technology, and business sectors.
Back row Left to right: Julian Platford, Senior Underwriting Excellence Manager; David Woods, Group Head of Portfolio & Exposure & Ireland CEO; Cathal Ruane, Senior Underwriting Analyst (Marine); Nicole Bleakely, EA to Chairman & Group CEO; Natalie Gillespie, Group Communications Manager and Head of Charity Partnerships;
Front row Left to right: Fergal Meade, Head of QA Dublin; Scholarship recipients Andrea Cahill, Ciara Nolan, Stacey Conway & Maeve Rouse; John McGuinness, Actuarial Analyst;
Picture by Alan Place