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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 Managing Director operating in the Insurance space. If you think a Managing 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.
Markus Noe-Nordberg
Managing Director and Head of Europe mid-market Private Equity of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Kenneth Borton
Managing Director of WhiteHorse Capital of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Duncan Anderson
Managing Director of Willis Towers Watson
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About Willis Towers Watson: Willis Towers Watson is a global advisory and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
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.
Gary Rohloff
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Laybuy
Gary Rohloff is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Laybuy. He attended Massey University.
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About Laybuy: Laybuy is a technology-driven payments business that makes desirable and affordable payments.
Richard Smith
Managing Director of tifgroup
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About tifgroup: tifgroup is the second largest UK Travel Insurance Provider.
Adam Stretton
Managing Director of The Right Mortgage
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About The Right Mortgage: The Right Mortgage is a completely independent Network for mortgage and protection brokers.
David Kelnar
Managing Director, Head of Growth Capital Solutions of Numis Securities
David has eight years of entrepreneurial leadership experience in early stage companies, having served as the founding CEO and CFO, respectively, of two consumer service technology companies, and is an advisor to a range of early stage ventures. Previously, David was an equity research analyst and investor in the European technology sector, at Goldman Sachs in London and a hedge fund in New York. David graduated with double First Class Honours in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
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About Numis Securities: Numis Securities is an investment banking and stockbroking business for corporate and institutional clients.
Maurice Craft
Managing Director of Regency Factors
Maurice formed Regency Factors with his wife Hilary over 20 years ago, recognising the need for the SME market to have a factoring company that clients could work closely with, one that offered excellent service for an affordable fee. This ethos has continued throughout the development of Regency, and through this Maurice has strived to create a bastion of financial support for all manner of businesses. Maurice’s own efforts were recognised by the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA) in 2009/10, when they honoured him with the Chair of the Association. He still serves on its Board of Directors and is an active member of its Educational Committee today. He is recognised as one of the sector’s leading figures – an ‘elder’ in his profession.
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About Regency Factors: Regency Factors is one of the oldest independently owned invoice factors and asset based lenders in the UK.
Jeffrey Fredrick
Managing Director of TIM Group
Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognised expert on software development. He joined TIM Group in 2011 as a 20-year veteran with experience across the software development lifecycle. An early adopter of XP and Agile software development, he has consistently been at the forefront of software development. Jeffrey joined TIM Group from Urbancode where as Chief Evangelist he was a regular speaker and coach on Agile development. Before Urbancode Jeffrey was an independent consultant for software companies on topics including corporate strategy, product management, and interaction design. Jeffrey’s Silicon Valley experience includes time at Agitar where he was VP of Product Management, and Alphablox where he was a pioneer in modern continuous integration practices. Jeffrey was also founder and VP of Engineering at OpenAvenue, an early software-as-service company offering web hosted development tools. Jeffrey began his career at Borland International where he was manager of online services and then a founding member of the JBuilder development team. In addition to his role at TIM Group Jeffrey is also indulging his passion for improving how software is made as a Technical Advisor to SauceLabs and as the Co-Organiser of the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON).
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About Citcon, Open Information Foundation, TIM Group: TIM Group is a provider of alpha-generating information technologies for the financial services industry.
William Cooper
Managing Director of Stanhope Cooper
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About Stanhope Cooper: Stanhope Cooper is an insurance broker for private clients, family businesses/offices, SMEs, property developers, renovators & contractors.
Simon Taylor
Founder & Managing Director of Get Indemnity
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About Get Indemnity: Get Indemnity is a Digital Insurance Broker for UK business
Nick Corrie
CEO, Founder and Managing Director of Trak Global Group
An economics graduate, former RAF officer and experienced businessman. Founded Trak Global in 2009 and Carrot in 2011 and has led both businesses to market leading positions. Passionate about using technology to create real value for their partners and customers.
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About IMS – Part of Trak Global Group, Trak Global Group: Trak Global Group provides its partners with the very latest in technology to enable and support telematics insurance propositions.
Pascal Keutgens
Managing Director of CPP Investments
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About CPP Investments: CPP Investments helps and provides a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement.
James Blyth
Managing Director – Claims Division of Coplus
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About Coplus: Coplus is a leading motor, legal and property claims handling providers.
Camilla Stowell
Managing Director, Head of Wealth and Investment Management of Coutts
Camilla Stowell is the Managing Director and Head of Wealth and Investment Management at Coutts International and Private Office.
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About Coutts: Private bank and wealth manager owned by the RBS Group. It is the seventh oldest bank in the world.
Stuart Rootham
Group Managing Director of AstonLark
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About AstonLark: AstonLark is an Industry leading and completely independent insurance broker.
Julie Walker
Managing Director of BHIB Insurance Brokers
Julie’s passion is about looking after the customer, and focusing on our customers’ needs and requirements. She is experienced in all aspects of General Insurance from SME to Corporate clients, covering a wide range of industrial and commercial sectors. Her career began with Eagle Star Insurance Company in Nottingham as an office junior, and she has worked her way up to the position she holds with BHIB today.
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About BHIB Insurance Brokers: BHIB Insurance Brokers provides insurance brokerage services.
Nigel Minett
Managing Director of McLarens Aviation
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About McLarens Aviation: McLarens Aviation is a privately held company that operates as a provider of claims, risk, and asset management services.
Trehane Oliver
Managing Director of McLarens Aviation
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About McLarens Aviation: McLarens Aviation is a privately held company that operates as a provider of claims, risk, and asset management services.
Denise Judge
Managing Director of Ellis David
Denise arrived at Ellis David in 2003, when she joined as a broker. Since then, she has worked her way up through the business, before being appointed as Managing Director in 2012. While being managing director means responsibility for running the business generally, Denise still enjoys spending time with customers and ensuring they have the right protection in place for their assets – whether business or personal.
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About Ellis David: Ellis David is an independent general insurance broker.
Lesley Wise
Managing Director of Wise Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management
Lesley Wise has more than 15 years of experience in pharmacovigilance both in medicines regulation at at the MHRA, and in the pharmaceutical industry as vice-president and global head of Risk Management Centre of Excellence and Pharmacoepidemiology where she worked closely with colleagues to ensure a companywide approach to Benefit – Risk Management and to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements. Lesley has liaised regularly with regulators, including meetings with PRAC, CHMP and FDA.
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About Wise Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management: Wise Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Ltd is a consultancy service for all pharmaceutical companies.
Matthew Reed
Founder and Managing Director of Equipsme
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About Equipsme: Equipsme provides health insurance for UK business.
Adrian Coupland
Customer and Marketing Managing Director of SSP
Adrian joined SSP in 2005 and has over 20 years’ experience in the market across broking, distribution, business development and technology. This includes 15 years in the broking industry, ten of which were with A-Plan. As Customer and Marketing Managing Director, he is part of the executive team, and his expertise in data and innovation ensure SSP‘s customers are at the leading edge of advancements in the insurance industry. Adrian has been instrumental in developing SSP’s real-time pricing and telematics strategies and shaping its data strategy across all territories.
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About SSP: SSP is a provider of technology systems and solutions for the insurance industry.
Martin Weaver-Parker
Managing Director of Lockyers
Martin Weaver-Parker is the managing director at Lockyer Insurance.
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About Lockyers: Lockyers is an independent insurance broker that specializes in business insurance and insurance for commercial and residential landlords.
Toni Vallen
Managing Director & President of Seton Services Ltd.
Toni Vallen served as Managing Director and President of Seton Services Ltd. since 1988. Before joining Seton, Toni served as Vice President for Manufactures Hanover, a International Private Banking Deparment, and she also worked in Citicorp a Latin American Department and the Mexican Government as an U.S. representative officer for the Public Works Bank. Toni Vallen has a Master of Business Administration degree from Fordham University, New York City and Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Literature at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Toni aims to help small and mid-sized companies to portray their investments and financial state in the best possible light. She is an expert in integrating finance, investment management and other financial responsibilities.
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About Seton Services Ltd.: Offers international small-cap companies access to all aspects of financial public relations in regard to building an investor network.
Simon Mabb
Managing Director | Commercial Insurance – Protecting Assets & Minimising Risks of Romero Insurance Brokers
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About Booking Protect, Romero Insurance Brokers: Romero Insurance Brokers is a chartered independent insurance broker specialising in bespoke solutions to protect, reassure .
Matthew Mawson
Managing Director of The Burley Group
Matthew is a co-owner of The Burley Group and joined Burleys in 1990 after serving his ‘apprenticeship’ with General Accident. He is passionate about the family roots of the business and is proud to be taking the business forward in its thirds generation. Day to day Matt is responsible for the overall running and management of the business along with its development and takes a personal interest in our complex clients and new business generation. Matt specialises in complicated risk where he can utilise his expertise in non standard risk and non conventional underwriting programmes. Making the most of his personal relationships with many of the significant underwriters in these complex classes. He has placed numerous multifaceted portfolios offering non standard solutions with comprehensive risk profiling and management. This expertise led Matt to place the insurance programme for the first deep mine to be insured in the open market for many years taking it from Captive placement. When leading the business Matthew engenders within his staff the core ethos of our business, passed down the generations from Joseph Burley. Simply, service and customers come first and we will always go the extra mile. Matt is a qualified cricket coach and Chairman of his local club, he coaches 2 junior teams and helps run the South Yorkshire Girls and South Sheffield Ladies cricket teams where his daughter plays. In the winter he can be found either watching his daughter play Hockey or his son playing flanker for Sheffield Rugby Club.
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About The Burley Group: The Burley Group is an Insurance Brokerage service provider.
