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Diary of an Insurer: Admiral’s Danielle Jones
Danielle Jones, social purpose leader at Admiral, is adding to the social impact team, takes part in a terrarium-making session and is inspired by Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams show.
Diary of an Insurer: Clear’s Claire Thompson
Claire Thompson, senior corporate account handler and hybrid account executive in the broking and sales team at Clear Doncaster, walks her Springer Spaniel, tackles CrossFit plus prepares for being a full-time account executive.
Diary of an Insurer: NBS Underwriting’s Paul Bennett
The working week of Paul Bennett, underwriting director of NBS Underwriting, combines strategic meetings, underwriting decisions, and broker interactions with adding Hadron to his organisation's panel of insurers.
Diary of an Insurer: Aviva’s Twinkle Popat
Twinkle Popat, qualified actuary and pricing manager at Aviva, works on the integration of Probitas into the business, helps run the 'Ministry of Fun' and makes sure diversity, equity and inclusion remain on the provider's agenda.
Diary of an Insurer: Allianz Trade’s Vikshay Vijai
Vikshay Vijai, fraud insurance manager for UK & Ireland at Allianz Trade, has a busy pipeline, leads a broker workshop and can’t believe we’re mentioning Christmas already.
Diary of an Insurer: Markel’s Chris O’Shea
Chris O’Shea, managing director of claims international at Markel, looks to expand the wholesale and international claims function, unpicks a high-profile equine claim, and gets Dad duties done.
Diary of an Insurer: Hamilton’s Jacqui Spencer-Sim
Jacqui Spencer-Sim, divisional director of cyber underwriting at Hamilton and and deputy chair of the Lloyd’s Market Association’s Cyber Business Panel, uses the CrowdStrike outage to explain the insurance implications of a cyber event to students and…
Diary of an Insurer: Gallagher’s Elaine Lennox
Elaine Lennox, regional managing director for the Midlands at Gallagher, goes back and forth between Leicester and Birmingham, checks in with the cyber insurance special interest group and manages to download over dinner.
Diary of an Insurer: Axa Partners’ Beth Buckland
Beth Buckland, operations director of Axa Partners, manages to squeeze in some Pilates to a packed working week, which includes a sensitive case review meeting, encouraging colleagues to think more creatively, and handling a media query about a declined…
Diary of an Insurer: MS Amlin’s Gemma Lines
Gemma Lines, chief people officer at MS Amlin, persuades senior women to move up the insurance career ladder when they fear losing the work-life balance they’ve built up and puts the world to rights with her hairdresser.
Diary of an Insurer: Charles Taylor’s Rose Goad
Rose Goad, claims team leader at Charles Taylor Assistance, works with aviation clients, helps the UK and Singapore team stay connected and shares her love of Formula 1.
60 Seconds With... Allianz’s Steve Bramall
Steve Bramall, credit director of Allianz Trade UK & Ireland, would like to replace Daniel Craig as 007 and can't live without Facetime.
Diary of an Insurer: RSA’s Katie Balme
Katie Balme, head of partnerships for customer and strategy in RSA’s delegated business, works a flexible week, help partners achieve specific objectives and enjoys Freddie Fridays.
Diary of an Insurer: QBE’s David Round
David Round, head of trading at Birmingham at QBE Europe, gets more active, explores future opportunities and threats to the renewal portfolio and even manages to keep score at his son’s cricket match.
Diary of an Insurance PR: NextGen’s Roma Braithwaite
Roma Braithwaite, NextGen Communications’ PR and media consultant, is a mother of 10-year-old twins, local sea-swimmer, mega-plan organiser and is getting ready for Monte Carlo’s Rendez-Vous.
Diary of an Insurance PR: Full Circle’s Kirsty Plank
Kirsty Plank, director of Full Circle Communications, shows her appreciation of Dolly Parton’s lyrical genius, gets a boost from Pepsi Max as she compiles social media engagement reports and turn journalist when she interviews Insurance Post’s content…
Diary of an Insurance PR: Spotlight Consulting's SJ Wrigley
SJ Wrigley, founder and director of Spotlight Consulting, talks about her strategic approach, the importance of female mentorship, singing, and wild swimming.
Diary of an Insurance PR: Omnia Partners’ Adrian Beeby
Adrian Beeby, director of Omnia Partners, is awoken by his dog, keen to maintain muscle mass, shapes a podcast, ensures a client can make the most of Linkedin and writes about geopolitical volatility.
Diary of an Insurer: Axa’s David Pearce
David Pearce, trading director of Axa Direct and Swiftcover, takes a stride forward with application fraud controls, improves the online renewal user experience and talks to Swiss colleagues about electric vehicle battery tests.
Diary of an Insurer: Allianz Partners’ Matt Crawford
After cycling from London to Paris in 24 hours, Matt Crawford, head of sales for roadside assistance at Allianz Partners, keeps motors running during his working week and learns lessons from the provider's travel insurance business.
Diary of an Insurer: Peach Pi’s Nick Dinsdale
Nick Dinsdale, director of underwriting for NPAI and Peach Pi, loves interacting with his new team, won’t let road repair carnage prevent his daughter from playing for Chelsea FC Girls, and adds a bit of market experience to his organisation’s reinsurer…