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Diary of an Insurer: Charles Taylor Adjusting's Adam Donovan
Adam Donovan, head of major loss at Charles Taylor Adjusting, heads to Vietnam to help a hotel resort damaged by typhoons and manages to buy some souvenirs for his children.
Diary of an Insurer: Clear Group’s Jodie Horgan
Jodie Horgan, group sales and marketing director of Clear Group, wakes her daughter up with party poppers and brings together individuals at the start of their insurance careers.
Diary of an Insurer: K2 International’s Zach Cohen
Zach Cohen, catastrophe modeller at K2 International, troubleshoots code, deals with muddy paw prints and helps underwriters grasp the implications of earthquakes.
60 seconds with... Nick Giddings, Open GI
Nick Giddings, director of brokers and MGAs for Open GI, tells Insurance Post which "loveable rogue" he would like to be for a day, and how he has a slight obsession with the 1990s Manchester music scene.
Diary of an Insurer: Fortegra’s Debbie Calderbank
Debbie Calderbank, chief operating officer of portfolio risks at Fortegra Europe, prepares to expand lines of the specialty insurer’s underwriting capacity and gets addicted to Kevin Costner drama Yellowstone.
Diary of an Insurer: Markel’s Josh Brown
Josh Brown, head of technology PI at Markel International, proves working in insurance can be fun and games by talking to brokers about a product created for video game developers as well as spending time playing with his two young sons.
Diary of an Insurer: Markerstudy’s Amanda Fox
Amanda Fox, head of broker management and product governance at Markerstudy Group, strives to overcome industry-wide challenges such as shortage of parts and gets the ideas flowing with a sugar rush.
Diary of an Insurer: Financial and Legal Insurance's Karen Beales
Karen Beales, managing director of Financial and Legal Insurance Ltd, reveals she gets hangry if she isn't fed on time, loves walking her two border terriers and learns about data security in risk management.
Diary of a Insurer: Aon’s Bethany Jackson
Bethany Jackson, associate director of Aon, begins her working week with jet lag, meets with underwriters online and at Lloyds, and explores ways to foster and promote innovation.
Diary of an Insurer: McGill and Partners’ Hakim
Sufian Hakim, currently an apprentice treaty reinsurance broker working within claims at McGill and Partners, reads the trade press, passes his CII exams, and hears about the racism a colleague encounters.
Diary of an Insurer: Raji
Ola Jacob Raji, former broker success manager at Flood Flash Ltd, spreads the gospel on parametric and explores ways to attract more women to the industry.
Diary of an Insurer: Markel’s Nick Rugg
Nick Rugg, head of fintech and investment management insurance at Markel International, trains for a half marathon, sings karaoke and encourages younger team members to really understand what underwriters are looking for.
Diary of an Insurer: Criterion Loss Adjusters’ Mark Watts
Mark Watts, high-net-worth adjuster at Criterion Loss Adjusters, watches the weather, analyses forensic reports, and hits the road to assess major fire damage.
Diary of an Insurer: Tapoly’s Janthana Kaenprakhamroy
Janthana Kaenprakhamroy, CEO of insurtech Tapoly, celebrates her mother’s birthday in Thailand, secures £200K in funding and ends the week in the highest bar in Bangkok.
Diary of an Insurer: RSA’s Cath Frost
Cath Frost, regions managing director of RSA, starts the week with her coach and ends it by mentoring colleagues and shaping learning and development plans.
Diary of an Insurer: Axa Commercial's Sarah Mallaby
Sarah Mallaby, distribution and trading director of Axa Commercial, prepares for the Biba conference, the British Insurance Awards and gets ready to launch new propositions in SME and motor trade.
Diary of an Insurer: Geo Agriculture’s Kate Bush
Kate Bush, head of underwriting operations at Geo Agriculture, is hands on in the lambing shed and with farming under pressure she looks to widen the MGA’s underwriting footprint.
Diary of an Insurer: Gallagher's Andrew Corbin
Morning stretches mean Andrew Corbin, partner and chair of the race and ethnicity network at Gallagher, doesn't break into a sweat during renewal season while also working to make the industry more inclusive.
Diary of an Insurer: Zurich's Caroline Dunn
Caroline Dunn, chief underwriting officer of Zurich UK, learns from customer complaints, is humbled by LGBTQ+ colleagues sharing their experiences and unites with brokers to push for regulatory consistency.
Diary of an Insurer: LV’s Michael Lawrence
Michael Lawrence, distribution and underwriting director of LV Broker, tends to his chickens plus a clash with a deer sees him put the insurer’s windscreen repair service to the test.
Diary of an Insurer: Aviva’s Mel Carter
Early starts, a trip to Prague, plus a joke about feeling 'energised' at a renewable energy conference, and all during the run-up to Christmas. This makes for a busy working week for Mel Carter, renewable energy senior underwriter at Aviva.
Diary of an Insurer: iPrism’s Amie Wright
Amie Wright, private clients team manager at iPrism Underwriting, works on new business, mid-term adjustments, renewals in the run-up to Christmas, and Santa rewards her with a Ryan Reynolds mug after she smashes her targets.
Diary of an Insurer: RSA’s Jessica Riley
Jessica Riley, terrorism lead for commercial lines at RSA, packs in school runs, training for charitable races, a Christmas team catch-up, and making amendments to e-learning modules for terrorism into her working week.
Diary of an Insurance Post Editor: Emma Ann Hughes
To give you a taste of one of our new features for 2023 – Diary of an Insurer - here is Diary of an Insurance Post Editor.