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Lee Mooney: New UK boss gearing up to ‘change the pace’ at Markel

By 2025-08-21T07:00:00

Lee Mooney, August 2025

Rather than ‘reinvent the wheel’, managing director plans to tap into global group expertise to increase insurer’s ‘share of wallet’ with brokers and ‘dial up the pace’ on product and people volume

After a little over 26 years rising up the ranks at insurer RSA, many across the UK general insurance market speculated what could be next for Lee Mooney, RSA’s former UK commercial managing director, when he headed into the garden in May 2024.

Although staring down the barrel of a long stint away from the working world was a daunting prospect for a man who had “never taken more than two weeks off in my entire career”, Mooney tells Insurance Times that he spent his 15 months outside of the Square Mile carefully considering his “personal career and development” after reaching a pivotal crossroads in his former role.

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