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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 Kent 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.
Ashley Hale
Managing Director of iPipeline
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About iPipeline, TCP LifeSystems: Pipeline is an on-demand service providing suite of sales distribution software to insurance and financial services markets.
Richard Smith
Managing Director of tifgroup
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About tifgroup: tifgroup is the second largest UK Travel Insurance Provider.
Charlotte Field
Director Of Insurance of tifgroup
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About tifgroup: tifgroup is the second largest UK Travel Insurance Provider.
Tony Brown
Director of Underwriting of tifgroup
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About tifgroup: tifgroup is the second largest UK Travel Insurance Provider.
Sarah Adams
Director of Operations of tifgroup
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About tifgroup: tifgroup is the second largest UK Travel Insurance Provider.
Ian Maxey
Director of IT of tifgroup
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About tifgroup: tifgroup is the second largest UK Travel Insurance Provider.
Penny Cuthbert
Group Projects and Corporate Planning Director of Hastings Direct
Penny joined Hastings Direct (“Hastings”) in 2014 on a short term contract to develop a project assurance approach for the Project Management Office (PMO). Penny enjoyed being at Hastings so much that she stuck around and in 2017 was promoted to Group Projects and Planning Director. This role included the responsibility for the governance and delivery of the Hastings change portfolio across phases of analysis, development, testing and deployment. Over the past two years, Penny and her team have transformed the way Hastings work in this space, moving to the Scaled Agile framework and now venturing into DevOps, further automation and “infrastructure as code”. Penny has over 15 years’ experience in delivering technology enabled transformation and previously worked in similar roles at Tesco.com, Expedia Affiliate Network and as a consultant for PwC, KPMG and Accenture.
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About Hastings Direct: Hastings Direct is a general insurance provider.
