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Georges de Macedo: Chief exec promotes five pillar plan to keep Covéa Insurance in the black

2024-11-11T08:00:00+00:00By Katie Scott

Covéa Group sends Frenchman across the Channel to spearhead British business because ‘the situation in the UK required some action’

Nik Ellis: Tech Champion prize celebrates ‘edgy’ firm that is not afraid of failure

2024-11-04T08:00:00+00:00By Tim Evershed

Managing director says that to stay at the forefront of technology innovation and implementation, businesses must be ‘prepared to evolve’ and have ‘the nerve’ to try new things

Amrit Santhirasenan: Hyperexponential growing organically amid AI revolution

2024-10-22T07:00:00+01:00By Clare Ruel

’Technology has had massive leverage on different parts of society, but insurance is an area where it is still relatively early in modernisation compared to other sectors,’ says chief executive

Ian Summers: Insurance firms should ‘do the simple stuff first’ with data journeys

2024-10-21T10:30:00+01:00By Yiannis Kotoulas

’Long projects in technology have very bad track records,’ says global business leader

Robin Gilthorpe: Earnix continuing to grow organically as it deepens footprint

2024-10-15T07:00:00+01:00By Clare Ruel

’Our goal is to make our customers’ businesses run better. Helping insurers to underwrite the right risks for the right prices and the right offers,’ says chief executive

Paul Anscombe: Seventeen Group’s independence means culture is the ‘number one priority’

2024-10-08T07:00:00+01:00By Yiannis Kotoulas

After a healthy dose of M&A this year, the broker chief executive is keen to slow down purchases and showcase an organic growth focus alongside making larger, fewer buys

Jon Dye: Hiscox is third of way through ‘strategy for profitable growth’

2024-10-07T07:00:00+01:00By Katie Scott

UK chief executive flags ‘really good energy’ at the specialist insurer as it targets retail growth ‘between 5% and 15% at the right level of profit’ over four-year strategy duration

Nick Line: ‘Better representation’ at senior underwriter level needed

2024-09-26T07:00:00+01:00By Isobel Rafferty

Markel International’s chief underwriting officer talks attracting and retaining underwriting talent

Ronit Maor: Insurance needs more female CFOs

2024-09-23T07:00:00+01:00By Clare Ruel

’The CFO role has historically been perceived as a power role, [meaning] that in order to do it you need to be tough and aggressive,’ says chief financial officer

Martin Schultheiss: Uinsure actions ‘really high growth strategy’ following PE investment

2024-09-20T07:00:00+01:00By Katie Scott

A ‘suits and trainers’ organisational culture that embraces the ‘right talent’ is the ‘magic sauce’ underpinning insurtech’s comprehensive growth strategy, says group managing director

Ben Legg: Open GI homing in on ‘North Star’ of empowering brokers to write better business

2024-09-18T07:00:00+01:00By Clare Ruel

’We see our role in the market to empower our brokers to write more and better quality business, as well as improving the lives of anyone using insurance products,’ says chief product officer

Wayne Jefferson: ‘ETrading will ultimately become more complex’

2024-09-17T07:00:00+01:00By Clare Ruel

’We don’t want unwieldy question sets that become way too complicated for a customer and put them off eTrading,’ says head of eTrading

Insurers will need to take the pain if they are to make the most of AI – Esure

2024-09-10T07:00:00+01:00By Jon Guy

Having the right underlying systems in place to support AI functionality is crucial, according to insurer’s chief customer officer

Chris Rolland: ‘Doing the right thing’ as a competitive advantage

2024-09-09T07:00:00+01:00By Yiannis Kotoulas

’That flight to quality that we’ve seen across the insurance industry in the past few years has become more important, especially in travel insurance,’ says chief executive

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