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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based VP’ operating in the Insurance space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Hélène Alunni-Botteri
Senior Vice President, Innovation Group 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.
Edward Axon
SVP Business Development of Trōv
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About Blackdog Creative, Trōv: Trov is the world’s leading insurance technology platform, enabling the new ways people live, work, and move.
Nikhil Kaithwal
VP – Group Chief Analytics Officer of Tryg
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About Tryg: Tryg is the second largest general insurer in the Nordic region present in Denmark.
Anna McIlreavy
Vice President of Sard Verbinnen & Co
Anna McIlreavy is a Vice President in SVC’s London office. She advises clients on a wide range of special situations, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, regulatory issues, executive leadership transitions, litigation, and crises. Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Anna worked in the MENA region for UK Trade & Investment, where she was based in Abu Dhabi and led the UK government’s business relations with investment entities from countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait. In this role, she worked on cross-border transactions and regulatory issues across a range of sectors, including infrastructure, energy and real estate.
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About Sard Verbinnen & Co: Sard Verbinnen & Co is a leading strategic corporate and financial communications firm.
Andrew Dyson
Executive Vice President & Head of Global Distribution of Affiliated Managers Group
Andrew Dyson joined AMG in 2011 as Executive Vice President responsible for managing the Company’s global distribution business. Prior to joining AMG, Dyson served as Head of BlackRock’s Global Institutional Client Business, following the merger of BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors. In prior roles at BlackRock and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), Dyson held senior distribution positions, including Head of the International Institutional Business, and, before that, Head of the Institutional Business for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Prior to joining MLIM, Dyson was Head of U.S. Multinational Investment Consulting for William M. Mercer, and also served as Head of U.K. Pension Fund Investment Consulting for the firm. Dyson is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He earned an M.A. degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University.
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About Affiliated Managers Group: Affiliated Managers Group is a asset management company with boutique investment management.
Sukhi Gill
VP, Fellow and CTO UKIIMEA of DXC Technology
Sukhi Gill is DXC.technology’s VP, Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for UK, Ireland, Israel, Middle East and Africa where he is responsible for overall technical direction, innovation and leading the senior client facing Account Chief Technologists. His role is responsible for directing the engagement of technologists with business leaders who are challenged with digital business transformation. Sukhi has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with very large scale IT services infrastructure modernisation and application delivery programmes. He also has extensive experience across many industry segments where he can collaborate with organizations to enable them to gain significant business advantage through the strategic deployment of technology and process innovation. Prior to the UK&I CTO role Sukhi was a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow leading on business led Digital Transformation initiatives. This was heavily influenced by a sabbatical role for 7 months in 2015 as the CTO and VP Engineering for a Sunnyvale, USA startup.
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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.
Richard Leftley
EVP Micro Insurance of Micro Insurance Company
Richard began working in microinsurance in January 2002 after leaving Benfield Greig, a leading reinsurance intermediary, where he worked as a reinsurance broker responsible for the African account and worked in a team covering the Middle East and South East Asia. Richard pioneered the introduction of insurance products within the Opportunity Network, which led to the establishment of the Micro Insurance Agency, which subsequently became MicroEnsure. He is an industry expert in the field of microinsurance and also serves on the steering committee of the ILO “Micro Insurance Innovation Fund,” a $35m fund provided by the Gates Foundation.
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About Micro Insurance Company: Micro Insurance Company is a provider of microinsurance products to the low and middle-income market.
Steven Malawer
Vice President – Senior Counsel of W. R. Berkley
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About W. R. Berkley: W. R. Berkley, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial lines writer in the United States and internationally.
Katya-yani Vyas
VP Product and Innovation of Azur Group
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About Azur Group: Azur is a Managing Digital Agency (MDA), in partnership with AIG, one of the world’s largest and best-respected insurance companies.
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.
Clare Cooper
Founder and Vice President of Storm3
Clare Cooper is the Founder and Vice President at Storm3.
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About Storm3: Storm3 are a global HealthTech talent marketplace, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
Ahmed Wagih Khalil
Vice President of Hamilton Lane
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About Hamilton Lane: Hamilton Lane is a firm that provides private equity investment management services.
Stephen Langlois
Vice President of Actuarial of Coverys
Steve Langlois has been with Coverys since 1989 and manages the actuarial function for the entire organization as the vice president of actuarial. Langlois first joined the organization as an underwriting assistant and has worked as an underwriter, a statistical analyst and actuarial analyst during his tenure with Coverys. Langlois received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Boston College and an associate degree in underwriting designation from the Insurance Institute of America.
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About Coverys: Coverys is a provider of medical professional liability insurance for physicians, hospitals, dentists and advanced practice providers.
Stephen Langlois
Vice President of Actuarial of Coverys
Steve Langlois has been with Coverys since 1989 and manages the actuarial function for the entire organization as the vice president of actuarial. Langlois first joined the organization as an underwriting assistant and has worked as an underwriter, a statistical analyst and actuarial analyst during his tenure with Coverys. Langlois received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Boston College and an associate degree in underwriting designation from the Insurance Institute of America.
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About Coverys: Coverys is a provider of medical professional liability insurance for physicians, hospitals, dentists and advanced practice providers.
Scott Smith
Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President of Vantis Life Insurance
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About Vantis Life Insurance: Vantis Life Insurance provides families affordable life insurance and annuity products.
Peter Erceg
Senior Vice President of Lockton
Peter joined Lockton from EE in June 2016, the largest telecommunications company in Britain. As the CISO he was responsible for the security of the companies and their customer’s information. He led a team that covered all areas of Information and Cyber Security, Technology Risk Management and Business Continuity for the company. Prior to joining EE Peter was the VP of Information Security at Visa Europe, responsible for the protection for Visa’s sensitive data for the company which had a turnover of over €1 trillion per year.
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About Lockton: Clients across the globe count on Lockton for risk management, insurance and employee benefits.
