London's 28 Most Impressive & Successful Partners in the Insurance Space

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This list showcases the top London based Partner operating in the Insurance space. If you think a Partner 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.

Andrew Rear

Chief Executive & Digital Partners of Munich Reinsurance

Andrew Rear is the Chief Executive of Munich Re Digital Partners. He joined Munich Re in 2010, leading the Asia, Africa and UK life businesses until May 2016 when he took up his current role. Digital Partners is a global business working with, and investing in, start-ups, digital verticals and the sharing economy, with the ambition of building a more engaged proposition for insurance customers. Prior to joining Munich Re, Andrew was a partner and head of the EMEA insurance practice at Oliver Wyman.

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About Munich Reinsurance: Munich Reinsurance is a risk management group that offers insurance and reinsurance.

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H. Casper Ager-Hanssen

Partner & Head of Venture Capital of Custos Group

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About Custos Group, Custos Group: Custos creates a unique platform that targets world-beaters and tomorrow’s enterprising disruptive innovators.

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.

Carl Bauer

Founding Partner of Eos Venture Partners

Carl joined Eos as a member of the investment committee in 2016 before also joining as a General Partner in early 2017. Carl has spent his career as financial services investment banker mostly focused on insurance. He has held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Greenhill over a 25 year period. On the InsurTech/Fintech front, Carl has advised clients in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, France and Scandinavia including as a member of associated advisory boards. He is also an active venture capital investor and sits on a number of advisory boards.

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About Eos Venture Partners, JP Morgan Chase: Eos Venture Partners is a Strategic Venture Capital Fund Focused Exclusively on Insurance

Sam Evans

Founding Partner of Eos Venture Partners

Sam runs Eos Venture Partners, an independent, specialist investment and advisory businesses for leading InsurTech innovators. Eos was established in 2016 to facilitate investment for the growing number of InsurTech start-ups. Prior to establishing Eos, Sam was a partner at KPMG where he led the Global Deal Advisory business for insurance. During his career, Sam has worked on over $75bn of insurance related transactions and has worked in many of the large mature and high growth insurance markets around the globe having lived in Australia, Hong Kong, Switzerland and the UK.

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About Eos Venture Partners: Eos Venture Partners is a Strategic Venture Capital Fund Focused Exclusively on Insurance

Michael Niddam

Executive Partner of Kamet

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About Kamet: Kamet is an insurtech start-up studio in the health, protection, and assistance space.

Jeff Tijssen

Head of FinTech and Partnerships of Capco

Jeff is the Head of FinTech and Partnerships at Capco, a leading global management and technology consulting firm helping clients to transform the future of finance. He sits on the FinTech Advisory Board for the City of London, and is the Chair of the FinTech Working Group as well as the China Working Group at Tech London Advocates, an unrivalled collection of tech leaders, experts and investors uniting to form the most influential independent, private sector group in London. Jeff advises a number of technology startups, is a mentor at several accelerator programmes such as Virgin Startup and Startupbootcamp, and sits on the Advisory Board of CodeFirst:Girls, a multi-award winning social enterprise with the aim to help increase the number of women in tech. He is a Committee Member at the Institute of Directors in the City of London, the UK’s leading organisation for business leaders, and mentors a team of young professionals at BeyondMe, a UK-based charity empowering future leaders to create a better society. He is a member of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, the 48 Group Club and the Aldgate Ward Club, and became Freeman of the City of London in 2015. Jeff is also a regular speaker at tech conferences and events in the UK and abroad.

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About Bain & Company, Capco: Capco provides consulting for the financial services and energy industries.

Vincent Bonnet

Chief Commercial Officer, SVP, International Sales & Strategic Partnership of Octo Telematics

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About Octo Telematics: Octo Telematics researches, develops, and manages telematics applications and systems for the insurance and automotive markets.

Colin Berthoud

Founding Partner of TIM Group

Founder of two financial technology companies, establishing market leadership in multiple nascent markets. Specialties:Transformation of financial markets using emerging techology and processes.

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About TIM Group: TIM Group is a provider of alpha-generating information technologies for the financial services industry.

Gavin Orpin

Partner of Lane Clark & Peacock LLP

I am Head of LCP Trustee Investment Consulting, our specialist practice focusing on investment issues from a Trustee perspective. I advise the pension schemes of several high-profile companies on all aspects of their investment arrangements, including setting strategy and selecting fund managers. My specialist area is advising on innovative risk management solutions utilising interest rate swaps and equity derivatives which have successfully helped protect schemes over the long term. I also lead LCP’s research into alternative asset classes. I am a regular contributor to pensions and other financial publications and often speak at high-profile industry conferences.

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