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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Life Insurance space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Simon Pearson
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global Life of Scor
Simon Pearson, a British citizen, is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. After graduating in 1987 with an Honours degree in Economics from the University of York Simon started his actuarial career with a mid-sized UK mutual life insurer, NPI. Qualifying as an Actuary in 1992 Simon held a number of actuarial management positions covering pricing & product development, reserving, embedded value & financial reporting. Simon joined the UK life subsidiary of Gerling Global Re in 1999, becoming the Appointed Actuary in 2001. At the beginning of 2004 Simon became the CEO of the UK subsidiary of the newly established Revios. Upon the integration of Revios into SCOR he became a member of the SCOR Global Life senior management team at the end of 2006. In 2008 Simon was promoted to manage SGL’s Northern Europe region covering UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. In August 2011 Simon was appointed SGL Head of EMEAA covering Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In November 2014, he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global Life and CEO of SCOR Global Life Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA).
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About Scor: SCOR is a reinsurance company that provides financial solutions, analytics tools, and services to control and manage risk.
Sammy Rubin
Founder & CEO of YuLife
Sammy Rubin is CEO at yu life
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About YuLife: YuLife is a provider of life insurance and policies providing income in the event of critical illness.
James Buckley-Thorp
CEO – Co-Founder of Bequest
James Buckley-Thorp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bequest.
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About Bequest: We’re building an advanced way for millions of people to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Tim Berry
Co-Founder & CEO of Inzurer
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About Inzurer: Insurance advisory and sales with AI Chat Bot, automatic underwriting and pricing, and data analysis
Josif Grace
Founder & CEO of Legado
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About Legado: Securely and easily organise, store and share your most important documents, files, wishes and memories.
