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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Insurance space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Thierry Edde
Director of Investor Relations of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Tobias Borkowski
Director of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Markus Noe-Nordberg
Managing Director and Head of Europe mid-market Private Equity of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Kenneth Borton
Managing Director of WhiteHorse Capital of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Joe Nathan
Director of Digital & Data Services of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Zhomart Tleuzhanov
Director – Asset Backed Finance & Securitization of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Paul Morris
Non Executive Director of Willis Towers Watson
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About : Willis Towers Watson is a global advisory and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
Andrew England
Director and Head – Strategy, Intellect Global Transaction Banking of Intellect Design Arena
Andrew currently serves as Director of Intellect’s subsidiary Intellect Design Arena Limited, UK and Head of Strategy iGTB. He joins us from McKinsey, where he was the External Senior Advisor of Transaction Banking. Andrew brings a host of experience running transaction banking in leading global banks. He has held the positions of Managing Director and Head of Transaction Banking at Lloyds Banking Group, Head of CEE Global Transaction Banking at Unicredit Group and Head of Cash & Trade Product at Deutsche Bank, where he was also an Executive Committee member for Global Transaction Banking. These roles followed on from a successful career of various leadership positions at Citi and Lloyds.
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About Intellect Design Arena: Intellect Design Arena Ltd, is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services.
Charlie Cantlay
Executive Director of Ascot Underwriting
Charlie is Executive Director at Ascot and a member of the Board. He began his insurance career in the broking sector in 1976 and joined Ascot 2011.
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About Ascot Underwriting: Ascot Underwriting is a Lloyd’s of London syndicate and a leading global specialty insurance underwriter.
Douglas Calegari
Director – Architecture and Strategic Development of Travelers Insurance
Douglas Calegari is the director of architecture and strategic development with Travelers. In a career that has spanned several decades, Doug has worked for multiple startup companies, insurance, and financial services institutions.
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About Travelers Insurance: Travelers Insurance is an insurance company, committed to keeping pace with the ever-changing needs of its customers.
Kathryn Mikells
Board Of Director of The Hartford
Ms. Mikells is the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the board of directors of Diageo plc, a position she has held since November 2015. Previously, Ms. Mikells served as Chief Financial Officer of Xerox Corporation from May 2013 to November 2015, ADT Security Services from April 2012 to May 2013 and Nalco Company from October 2010 to December 2011. From 1994 to October 2010, Ms. Mikells served in roles of increasing responsibility for UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines, including Vice President of Investor Relations for United, Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis, Vice President and Treasurer, Vice President of Corporate Real Estate, Director of Corporate Planning and Chief Financial Officer of Mileage Plus. Most recently, Ms. Mikells served as UAL Corporation’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, positions she was appointed to in July 2009 and named to in August 2008, respectively. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Ravina Festival Association in Chicago. Ms. Mikells has demonstrated the ability to lead the financial management of multi-national, complex organizations. Her extensive experience as a senior leader in corporate finance has provided her with skills in key management disciplines that are relevant to the oversight of the Company’s business, including strategic planning, financial reporting, capital markets, investor relations, regulatory affairs, talent development and risk management.
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About ExxonMobil: The Hartford is an industry leading provider of property and casualty insurance, group benefits and mutual funds.
Suzy Black
Group HR Director of The Guardian US
Suzy Black is the Director of Diversity at Barclays.
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About Barclays, The Guardian US: The Guardian US is a British national daily newspaper that covers news, sports, business, opinion, analysis, reviews, and much more.
Amanda Michel
Global Director of Contributions of The Guardian US
Amanda Michel is a global director of contributions at The Guardian.
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About The Guardian US: The Guardian US is a British national daily newspaper that covers news, sports, business, opinion, analysis, reviews, and much more.
Amanda Michel
Global Director of Contributions of The Guardian US
Amanda Michel is a global director of contributions at The Guardian.
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About The Guardian US: The Guardian US is a British national daily newspaper that covers news, sports, business, opinion, analysis, reviews, and much more.
Ronald L. Thompson
Board Of Director of TIAA
RONALD L. THOMPSON, 66, has served as Chairman of the TIAA Board since 2008. He has been the Senior Independent Director of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles since 2014; he was a director of Chrysler Group LLC from 2009 to 2014 and Lead Director from 2011 to 2014. He has also been a member of the advisory board of Plymouth Ventures Partnership II since 2010 and a director of the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation since 2013. Dr. Thompson serves on the board of Washington University in St. Louis. He earned a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Dr. Thompson provides extensive business management experience, understanding of higher education, and leadership skills.
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About : TIAA is a financial services company that specializes in providing retirement plans, IRAs, mutual funds, and life insurance.
Paul Heydon
Director of Unity Capital
30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR, Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.
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About Unity Capital: Personal holding company for Paul Heydon (early investor in Supercell, Unity & many others)
Robert Lumley
Director and Co-Founder of Insurtech Gateway
Robert joined Hambro Perks in 2016 to build and lead the InsurTech Gateway, the Hambro Perks InsurTech incubator. He has worked in the insurance sector since 1984 concentrating on niche products, in particular designing engagement strategies through the application of innovative ideas to help insurers build long term productive relationships with their customers. Robert started with the development of a Film and Television Insurance Unit out of Edward Lumley & Sons’ Colchester Office before moving to London to launch the first Rent and Legal protection and property insurance offering for let properties. After a 3-year visit to Lumley Life in Australia, Robert returned to establish Richmunds Insurance which specialised in the Letting Sector. Premium income grew to £30m by the time the business was sold in 1991. Robert grew up in an insurance family and has experience in many product areas including Specialist Motor, Classic Car, Let Property, Life Insurance and Bloodstock. Robert is Chairman of Lumley Jacobs and continues his work with niche insurance businesses through the Lumleys.net investments.
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About FloodFlash, Insurtech Gateway: The only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund, the Insurtech Gateway is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.
Stephen Brittain
Director and Co-Founder of Insurtech Gateway
Stephen is an experienced innovation consultant with a deep understanding of startups, design, strategic innovation and translating this to investors. As Hambro Perks first Creative Director, he supported their growing portfolio (including Sipsmiths, Laundrapp, Takumi, TheDots) through early stage development and testing. He is now applying his experience to disruptive InsurTech businesses, getting to market – fast!
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About Insurtech Gateway: The only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund, the Insurtech Gateway is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.
Annabel Venner
Global Brand Director and Hiscox Partner of Hiscox
Annabel is Global Brand Director at Hiscox, and CMO of DirectAsia. In this role Annabel is responsible for driving marketing effectiveness across the business units in UK, Europe, USA and Asia. Her key deliverables are; running and sustaining the ‘Hiscox Marketing Excellence’ programme, owning the brand architecture and ensuring its local activation, and providing technical support, guidance and best practice to all markets. Annabel joined Hiscox in January 2009, and prior to her current Global role was UK Marketing Director. Previous to her time at Hiscox, Annabel was at Coca-Cola for nine years working across a number of brands including; Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero, Powerade and Oasis, and on both GB and European projects. Annabel holds a chemistry degree from the University of Bristol and is a Fellow of the Marketing Society, member of The Financial Services Forum and CII.
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About Hiscox: Hiscox is an insurer, offering property and casualty insurance aimed at companies and high-net-worth individuals.
Michael Phair
Founder, Director & CEO of REG
REG’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Phair, is a banking veteran with links to World Bank, N M Rothschild and UBS. Michael is a private equity investor with over 40 years’ experience in the financial markets.
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About REG: REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market.
James Tootell
Investment Director of Eos Venture Partners
James joined Eos in January 2017 and focusses on the sourcing, evaluation and execution of investments. Prior to joining Eos, James was an Associate Director at KPMG within the Insurance Deal Advisory team where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. James has extensive transaction related experience in the insurance sector, including general, life, Lloyds and distribution.
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About Eos Venture Partners: Eos Venture Partners is a Strategic Venture Capital Fund Focused Exclusively on Insurance
Peter Schofield
WW Applications Transformation Director of DXC Technology
Peter Schofield is a Global Director for DXC’s Applications Modernisation and Transformation business. In this role Peter is responsible for the growth of DXC’s strategic application business in key clients and strategic business areas. Peter is also responsible for applying and accelerating deployment of DXC’s cloud applications migration and transformation engineering investments. In this role over the last five years Peter has been working directly with some of DXC’s largest global manufacturing and financial services clients to deliver IT and business transformation. Peter previously led DXC’s Cloud Professional Services initiative for Application Transformation to Cloud (AT2C) and the joint engineering work with the applications, software and infrastructure teams. Before this Peter led the EMEA Apps Modernisation Consulting practice delivering Applications Transformation, Modernisation and Technology Consulting Services to DXC’s clients across EMEA. Before this Peter also had the privilege of leading HP’s global initiative to develop innovative solutions and value propositions for Cloud & Mobile – based Application services and kick-starting the work on Apps Dev & Management for Cloud.
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About DXC Technology: DXC Technology is a end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change.
Robert Jan Teuwissen
Company Director & Co-Founder – Head of Investor Relations of Chelton Wealth
A progressive investment professional with 29 years of experience in trading the financial markets, combined with running an independent trading & advisory business for the last 2 decades. Having a consistent track record including managing trading desks and advising globally on interest rates and FX risk. Furthermore specialist in taking risk to generate above-average returns. Head of Trading management team running two different currency investment processes: an Absolute return discretionary forex process and a higher vol target systematic forex strategy. Products included absolute return funds and managed accounts, as well as active and passive currency overlay mandates. As a 29 year veteran of the commodity future & foreign exchange markets, I have been responsible for currency strategy and trading for several high profile clients who are allocated within the currency space. I have managed an alpha driven portfolio of G10 currencies, as well as a number of other hedging programmes and strategies. I have been responsible building out the Currency Desk, including infrastructure, technology, and reporting. Having started trading commodities futures & currencies on the ICE, LME, CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX in the early 90’s, I have gained the expertise to manage risk through times of calm, as well as times of extreme market stress, My years of experience have helped me model and analyse risk in both short and long-term time horizons, studying market fundamentals, and correlations across currencies. Specialties: Commodity & Currency Strategy, Trader Selection, Multi Strategies. Knowledge of Modern Portfolio Theory & Behavioral finance, skilled in applying the investment process across portfolio structures and investment vehicles.
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About Chelton Wealth: Effective Intraday Asset Management
Gerard van Loon
Director of ANV Holdings
Gerard is ANV’s Group Chief Underwriting Officer. Prior to joining ANV, Gerard was a Senior Vice President and Board and Executive Committee Member of Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe Ltd (LMIE). Gerard held the product line management responsibility for D&O and Financial Institutions for ten years within the EMEA region with gross annual revenues above USD 175 million through a team of 40 underwriters. In addition to his financial lines role, Gerard held the position of Managing Director of LMIE’s Continental European Operations across first and third party specialty product classes. This 50 person group became a pan-European branch network generating more than USD 100 million in gross annual revenues. Before joining LMIE, Gerard was the Financial Lines Manager for AXA Global Risks UK and Director, France and Benelux for UAP Executive Partners. Gerard speaks English, Dutch and French fluently.
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About ANV Holdings: ANV Holdings is an insurance and reinsurance company.
Adine Grate
Board of Directors of Sampo Group
An executive with extensive TMT and Financial services background. Adine has operated at the top tiers of Nordic based international business for the past two decades. Former Chairperson of NASDAQ OMX Swedish Listing Committee. Vice Chairperson of AP7, a Swedish pension and savings asset management company. A Board member of Sky Plc, Three (Scandinavia), a mobile telecommunications and broadband operator; Sampo OY, a leading financial and insurance institution and Swedavia AB, an airport operator. Formerly Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Investor AB, owner of a number of Nordic based international companies.
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About : Sampo plc is Sampo Group’s parent company and it administers the insurance subsidiaries.
Mark Evans
Marketing Director of Direct Line Insurance
Mark started his Marketing career in Mars Inc and for 10 years worked on a number of their global brands across sectors and geographies. Subsequently Mark worked at 118118 and then HSBC. He joined Direct Line Group in 2012 in the build up to an IPO process and in the past 4.5 years has overseen the transformation of DLG’s brands and marketing approach, including the multi-award winning reinvigoration of the flagship Direct Line brand. Mark was in the 2016 Marketing Power 100 and the 2016 Marketing Week Vision 100 and was also the Financial Services Forum marketer of the year in 2015
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About Direct Line Insurance: Direct Line Group is an organization with a clear mission: to make insurance much easier and better value for customers.
Annabel Mekelenkamp
Operations Director of Superscript
Annabel Mekelenkamp is Operations Director at Superscript.
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About Superscript: Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses.
Gary Rohloff
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Laybuy
Gary Rohloff is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Laybuy. He attended Massey University.
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About Laybuy: Laybuy is a technology-driven payments business that makes desirable and affordable payments.
Tahir Farooqui
Seed Investor & Non-Executive Director of Canopy
Tahir Farooqui is the Seed Investor and Non-Executive Director of Canopy.
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About Canopy, InsureStreet Ltd.: Canopy is a financial health startup helping Renters build credit, save money, improve rental affordability and achieve financial freedom.
Paul Cuddon
Director, Healthcare Equity Research of Numis Securities
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About Numis Securities: Numis Securities is an investment banking and stockbroking business for corporate and institutional clients.
David Kelnar
Managing Director, Head of Growth Capital Solutions of Numis Securities
David has eight years of entrepreneurial leadership experience in early stage companies, having served as the founding CEO and CFO, respectively, of two consumer service technology companies, and is an advisor to a range of early stage ventures. Previously, David was an equity research analyst and investor in the European technology sector, at Goldman Sachs in London and a hedge fund in New York. David graduated with double First Class Honours in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
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About Numis Securities: Numis Securities is an investment banking and stockbroking business for corporate and institutional clients.
Beatriz Montoya
Marketing Channels Director of Simply Business
Bea’s responsible for innovation across our marketing strategies, with data, technology and personalisation at the core. Since joining in 2015, Bea’s successfully integrated key technologies across our market-leading CRM (customer relationship management) and PPC (pay-per-click) channels, driving customer engagement and marketing efficiency. Before Simply Business, Bea spent time at Euromoney, and more recently, Time Inc. as Consumer Marketing Director.
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About Simply Business, Simply Business: Simply Business is a business insurance broker that offers tailored business insurance quotes to its clients.
Laura Winter
Director of Insurance Product of Simply Business
Laura joined Simply Business in 2008 from Ageas, taking on her role as Director of Insurance Product in 2016. Managing a team of product specialists, Laura helps the business understand our customers’ needs through data and insight, before designing and building flexible, tailored products.
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About Simply Business: Simply Business is a business insurance broker that offers tailored business insurance quotes to its clients.
Jeffrey Fredrick
Managing Director of TIM Group
Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognised expert on software development. He joined TIM Group in 2011 as a 20-year veteran with experience across the software development lifecycle. An early adopter of XP and Agile software development, he has consistently been at the forefront of software development. Jeffrey joined TIM Group from Urbancode where as Chief Evangelist he was a regular speaker and coach on Agile development. Before Urbancode Jeffrey was an independent consultant for software companies on topics including corporate strategy, product management, and interaction design. Jeffrey’s Silicon Valley experience includes time at Agitar where he was VP of Product Management, and Alphablox where he was a pioneer in modern continuous integration practices. Jeffrey was also founder and VP of Engineering at OpenAvenue, an early software-as-service company offering web hosted development tools. Jeffrey began his career at Borland International where he was manager of online services and then a founding member of the JBuilder development team. In addition to his role at TIM Group Jeffrey is also indulging his passion for improving how software is made as a Technical Advisor to SauceLabs and as the Co-Organiser of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON).
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About Citcon, Open Information Foundation, TIM Group: TIM Group is a provider of alpha-generating information technologies for the financial services industry.
Andy McClure
Marketing and Proposition Director of AXA PPP Healthcare
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About AXA PPP Healthcare: AXA PPP Healthcare aim is to help people in every aspect of their health.
William Cooper
Managing Director of Stanhope Cooper
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About Stanhope Cooper: Stanhope Cooper is an insurance broker for private clients, family businesses/offices, SMEs, property developers, renovators & contractors.
Jose Maria Carbajo
Co-Founder and Director of Nucoro
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About EtsFactory, Nucoro: Nucoro enables financial institutions to build digital savings, investment and wealth management propositions at speed and scale.
Simon Taylor
Founder & Managing Director of Get Indemnity
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About Get Indemnity: Get Indemnity is a Digital Insurance Broker for UK business
Pascal Keutgens
Managing Director of CPP Investments
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About CPP Investments: CPP Investments helps and provides a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement.
Jeff McCracken
Sales & Marketing Director of Acturis
Jeff joined Acturis in 2012 with 20 years of industry experience with Close Premium Finance where he specialised in business development and e-commerce. He has a vast experience of managing strategic business relationships and heads up the Acturis sales and Marketing function as well as managing a number of key insurer, broker and partner relationships.
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About Acturis: Acturis is a Software as a Service provider to the insurance industry.
Alan Wallace
Director of Katalyst Ventures Ltd
As Senior Investment Director in Octopus, Alan brings over 30 years of experience in marketing, general management and strategic planning to the selection and development of management teams. Prior to founding Katalyst with his colleagues and its subsequent sale to Octopus Investments, he held senior marketing positions in fast moving consumer goods companies: Sara Lee, Rank Hovis McDougal, Cambridge Nutrition and Great Universal Stores. His experience as a general manager includes Managing Director of Cambridge Nutrition, Dairy Crest and Premier Brands. Alan has also been a Non-Executive Director of Lingarden. With over twenty five years’ experience of investing into early stage companies as a Business Angel and Venture Capitalist, Alan is sector agnostic preferring to primarily invest in business that are led by outstanding entrepreneurs who have a clear vision, creativity, energy and commitment to building large businesses at full pace. As an Octopus Board Observer Alan has worked with the senior management teams in LoveFilm, Zoopla, Secret Escapes and Vyre amongst many others. Currently he sits on the Boards of LifeBook, Coal Restaurants and Artesian Solutions. Alan holds a B.A.(Hons) in Economics (Liverpool University) and a PhD in Business Administration (University of Manchester).
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About Katalyst Ventures Ltd, Octopus Ventures: Katalyst Ventures is a Financial Company which gives advice about Venture Capital and provides Accounting services.
Richard Lowes
Finance Director of Hansteen Holdings PLC
Richard Lowes, Finance Director, joined Hansteen on 1 January 2006 as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. Prior to this he worked in a similar role for Ashtenne Holdings PLC between 1997 and 2005 and as Finance Director of Trafalgar House Property Limited and a director of Ideal Homes Holdings PLC from 1988 to 1995.
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About Hansteen Holdings PLC: Hansteen Holdings PLC industrial REIT that invests in properties.
Jude Greer
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director of Reposit
Jude Greer is a Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director at Reposit.
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About Guardian Angel, Reposit: The tenancy deposit alternative. A new way of renting without the hassle of a deposit
Brendan Short
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director of Reposit
Brendan Short is the Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director at Reposit.
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About Atom Learning, Reposit: The tenancy deposit alternative. A new way of renting without the hassle of a deposit
Camilla Stowell
Managing Director, Head of Wealth and Investment Management of Coutts
Camilla Stowell is the Managing Director and Head of Wealth and Investment Management at Coutts International and Private Office.
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About Coutts: Private bank and wealth manager owned by the RBS Group. It is the seventh oldest bank in the world.
Robert Davison
Programme Director of Charles Taylor
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About Charles Taylor, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA): Charles Taylor is a provider of professional services to clients across the global insurance market.
Marcus de Wilde
Business Development Director of ThreatInformer
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About ThreatInformer: ThreatInformer provide advanced security metrics tailored for cyber insurance underwriters.
Steve Baldry
Director, Underwriting of UnderwriteMe
Steve has a 20 year career in both insurance and reinsurance. He was involved in the design and implementation of the award winning systems and processes at Ageas Protect (now AIG Life) and latterly at Swiss Re with Magnum.
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About UnderwriteMe: UnderwriteMe is rebooting the Protection market by harnessing the power of digital.
Vicky Banks
Legal Director of DAC Beachcroft
Vicky Banks specialises in commercial real estate work. Her expertise includes advising on investment, management and development matters where she has acted for investor landlords, pension funds, small commercial landlords, developers and occupiers. This has included acting on disposals, acquisitions and management matters of investment portfolios and individual sites (including retail and industrial sites, shopping centres, office buildings in the City and throughout the UK, leisure facilities and mixed use sites) and also advising occupiers on lettings. Vicky’s work has included the negotiation of sale/purchase and development agreements, assisting in the purchase of and dealing with occupational lettings of large regional shopping centres, dealing with the sale/purchase and occupational lettings of retail and industrial units and dealing with the purchase, redevelopment, subsequent management and subsequent sale of large City offices and City office developments. Vicky has written articles on property matters published in external publications and newsletters and has previously contributed to the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook.
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About DAC Beachcroft: DAC Beachcroft is an international law firm specialising in insurance, health and real estate.
Dan Fiehn
Group IT Director / CIO of Markerstudy Group
With over 20 year’s experience in insurance and IT, Dan Fiehn has full responsibility for all IT at the Markerstudy Group. Since joining Markerstudy in 2010, Dan has revolutionised the daily operations of the IT department, enabling the rapid growth of the business, increasing from 500 in 2011 to over 4000 staff in 2015, based all over the UK. His role at Markerstudy Group, as a leader and strategist, puts him at the cutting edge of driving transformational change in order to make a positive lasting difference, underpinning the growth of the Group. His team have achieved recognition and numerous industry awards as a result of successfully implementing big data and insurer-hosted rating hub initiatives, establishing a new capability for the business to transform its operational efficiency.
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About Markerstudy Group: Markerstudy Group is an energetic and innovative company.
Richard Grainger
Broking Director of Centor Insurance and Risk Management
Richard has 20 years’ experience in commercial and corporate insurance and has dealt with larger risks including global programmes across a wide range of sectors. He is responsible for dealing with the growth and strategy of the business, as well as insurer relationships. He enjoys golf, music and travelling.
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About Centor Insurance and Risk Management: Centor is an insurance and risk management solutions provider.
Paul Field
Claims & Support Director of Centor Insurance and Risk Management
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About Centor Insurance and Risk Management: Centor is an insurance and risk management solutions provider.
Stuart Rootham
Group Managing Director of AstonLark
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About AstonLark: AstonLark is an Industry leading and completely independent insurance broker.
David Foster
Director of AstonLark
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About AstonLark: AstonLark is an Industry leading and completely independent insurance broker.
Malcolm Hyde
Executive Director of The Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
Malcolm is the Executive Director of the Institute. Previously he has worked as a Chartered Loss Adjuster in loss adjusting practices. Malcolm’s main loss adjusting experience has been in Property Claims. In addition, since 1994 he has been involved in the education and training of Loss Adjusters. Malcolm recently wrote, with two co-authors, the text book Property Insurance Law and Claims and produced much of the learning material for the CILA Certificate level qualification. Outside of work Malcolm enjoys cycling an interest that has seen him to the top of the infamous Alpe d’Huez twenty one bends, from Paris to Nice and a return trip from Calais to Amsterdam.
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About The Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters: CILA is a globally recognised membership organisation for claims professionals.
Oliver Ramsden
Director of Aspen Woolf
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About : Aspen Woolf is an award-winning property investment company established in 2005 with offices in the UK and the UAE.
Russell Midgley
Director of Aspen Woolf
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About : Aspen Woolf is an award-winning property investment company established in 2005 with offices in the UK and the UAE.
Sam Blackie
Non Executive Director, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee Chair of British Friendly
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About British Friendly: British Friendly helps to seek as many individuals as possible with income protection insurance.
Nigel Minett
Managing Director of McLarens Aviation
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About McLarens Aviation: McLarens Aviation is a privately held company that operates as a provider of claims, risk, and asset management services.
Trehane Oliver
Managing Director of McLarens Aviation
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About McLarens Aviation: McLarens Aviation is a privately held company that operates as a provider of claims, risk, and asset management services.
Denise Judge
Managing Director of Ellis David
Denise arrived at Ellis David in 2003, when she joined as a broker. Since then, she has worked her way up through the business, before being appointed as Managing Director in 2012. While being managing director means responsibility for running the business generally, Denise still enjoys spending time with customers and ensuring they have the right protection in place for their assets – whether business or personal.
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About Ellis David: Ellis David is an independent general insurance broker.
Lesley Wise
Managing Director of Wise Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management
Lesley Wise has more than 15 years of experience in pharmacovigilance both in medicines regulation at at the MHRA, and in the pharmaceutical industry as vice-president and global head of Risk Management Centre of Excellence and Pharmacoepidemiology where she worked closely with colleagues to ensure a companywide approach to Benefit – Risk Management and to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements. Lesley has liaised regularly with regulators, including meetings with PRAC, CHMP and FDA.
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About Wise Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management: Wise Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Ltd is a consultancy service for all pharmaceutical companies.
Matthew Reed
Founder and Managing Director of Equipsme
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About Equipsme: Equipsme provides health insurance for UK business.
Andy Santoni
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Equipsme
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About AXA PPP Healthcare, Equipsme: Equipsme provides health insurance for UK business.
Toni Vallen
Managing Director & President of Seton Services Ltd.
Toni Vallen served as Managing Director and President of Seton Services Ltd. since 1988. Before joining Seton, Toni served as Vice President for Manufactures Hanover, a International Private Banking Deparment, and she also worked in Citicorp a Latin American Department and the Mexican Government as an U.S. representative officer for the Public Works Bank. Toni Vallen has a Master of Business Administration degree from Fordham University, New York City and Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Literature at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Toni aims to help small and mid-sized companies to portray their investments and financial state in the best possible light. She is an expert in integrating finance, investment management and other financial responsibilities.
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About Seton Services Ltd.: Offers international small-cap companies access to all aspects of financial public relations in regard to building an investor network.
Phil Jeynes
Director Of Corporate Strategy of Reassured
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Director of FE Trustnet
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Chris Brooke
Director of FE Trustnet
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About : FE Trustnet is a leader in fund research
