Coversure nabs Darling

Former Close Premium Finance director Bob Darling has joined Coversure.

Darling's role will be to deliver its plan to increase its number of franchises from 86 to 120.

Before Close, Darling was managing director at Kaupthing Premium Finance. He officially joins Coversure on 15th June.

Coversure chairman Mark Coverdale said: “This is the time for Coversure to offer additional territories and expand our influence on the insurance market because we can still focus our minds on products and the customer. I am delighted to have entrusted this element of our growth plan to Bob."

Darling added: “I have known Mark Coverdale and group managing director John Hooper for many years and am really excited to be joining them. There will be a number of people in the Insurance world who are looking for a new home, and for whom the franchise model is perfect.

"Offering insurance brokers the opportunity to spend more time on selling and less on administration will be extremely attractive to the entrepreneurial insurance professional”