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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 United Kingdom based Product operating in the Insurance space. If you think a Product 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.
George Berkowski
Chief Product Officer of Gocompare.com
George is currently the CPO at GoCompare, and Founder of DeepAR.ai Formerly CPO for HAILO – the international Taxi App (acquired by Daimler) Co-founder and CPO of dating site WooMe.com (acquired by Zoosk.com) Head of Internet Strategy & eCommerce at BT.com VP Marketing and Business Development at MirCorp (facilitated the first 2 space tourist flights with Rosaviakosmos). Has a masters from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris Rocket science @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology. George is the author of the new best-selling book (Little, Brown), ‘How to Build a Billion Dollar App’.
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About DeepAR, Gocompare.com: Gocompare.com is a British financial services comparison website provides comparison details for vehicle, home and pet insurance.
Rachel Robinson
Head of Digital Strategy & Product Development of Nationwide Building Society
Rachel is Head of Digital Strategy and Product Development at Nationwide Building Society, where she shapes Nationwide’s digital vision and roadmap and works with teams to set clear, value orientated goals. Rachel started her career in consultancy at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, before moving into digital product development. She’s worked with a wide variety of organisations, from start-ups and scale-ups to listed companies in retail, travel and housing/financial services, before joining Nationwide in 2013. Since joining the Building Society she has worked in a variety of leadership roles across digital banking, innovation and product development – and played a lead role in Nationwide’s agile transformation story over the last 18 months.
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About Nationwide Building Society: Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the UK.
Valeria Hodgkinson
Data Landscape Product Owner of MetLife
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About MetLife: MetLife is a provider of insurance, employee benefits, and financial services .
Phoebe Hugh
Head of New Products of Direct Line Insurance
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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.
Jean-Luc Crowther
Product Manager of Superscript
Jean-Luc Crowther is a account executive at Digital Risks.
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About Superscript: Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses.
Alex Rohloff
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Laybuy
Alex Rohloff is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Laybuy.
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About Laybuy: Laybuy is a technology-driven payments business that makes desirable and affordable payments.
Oliver Baxter
Head of Brand & Product of By Miles
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About By Miles: By Miles is reinventing car insurance – pay an annual cost to cover your car while it’s parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month.
Josh Hart
Co-Founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer of YuLife
An experienced executive and entrepreneur, creating value in a digital world, helping big businesses adapt leveraging the power of web, mobile and data. Inspiring and enthusing teams to push the boundaries of what has been done before, creating award winning digital and mobile strategy, managing through to execution both within the UK and Internationally.
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About YuLife: YuLife is a provider of life insurance and policies providing income in the event of critical illness.
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.
Kenny Leitch
Product & Pricing Director of RSA Insurance Group
Kenny Leitch is a Product & Pricing Director at RSA.
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About RSA Insurance Group: RSA is a multinational insurance group.
Kenny Leitch
Product & Pricing Director of RSA Insurance Group
Kenny Leitch is a Product & Pricing Director at RSA.
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About RSA Insurance Group: RSA is a multinational insurance group.
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.
Dickie Smith
Product Manager of Nimbla
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About Nimbla: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Jackie Basham
Chief Trading and Product Officer of Endsleigh Insurance
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About Endsleigh Insurance: A Cheltenham-based UK insurance intermediary specialising in the student, education and graduate markets.
Deirdre Donovan
Head of Products of UK General Insurance
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About UK General Insurance: UK General Insurance provides personal lines insurance products and services for brokers.
Ed Rochfort
Chief Product Officer of IMS – Part of Trak Global Group
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About IMS – Part of Trak Global Group: IMS (Insurance & Mobility Solutions) is a global provider of connected car solutions, services, and analytics.
Vandana Bangera
Product Portfolio Manager of Charles Taylor
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About Charles Taylor: Charles Taylor is a provider of professional services to clients across the global insurance market.
Joanne Butler
Product Portfolio Manager of Charles Taylor
Joanne Butler has over 20 years’ experience in software spanning multiple roles and industries from writing computer programs for banks, to managing a portfolio of Enterprise Risk and Compliance software products. Her current role as Product Portfolio Manager for an InsureTech start up involves managing a wide range of Insurance software products, spread across different technologies and brining new products to the Insurance space. Her areas of expertise are “all things product”; gathering requirements, product roadmaps, market analysis and much more.
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About Charles Taylor: Charles Taylor is a provider of professional services to clients across the global insurance market.
Nicholas Blewden
Head of Data Products of Lloyd’s
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About Lloyd’s: Lloyd’s provides leadership and insight to anticipate risk, and the knowledge to develop relevant, new, and innovative forms of insurance.
