Michael Gatt is the Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Insurance PCC Limited and Chairman of Ark Insurance Management PCC Limited. He has been in the insurance industry for over 40 years, setting up an agency that represented Eagle Star and AXA in Malta. Following a merger in 2000, he became sales director for Atlas Insurance Agency Limited, which held a major share of the Maltese insurance market and leading in commercial lines. When the agency became a fully-fledged Maltese insurance company in 2004, he was soon appointed Managing Director and saw it through its conversion to a Protected Cell Company in 2006 thereby expanding services into international business. He is also a director of Atlas Healthcare Insurance Agency Limited, Jesmond Mizzi Financial Advisors Limited and other companies within the Atlas Group.