Technology is still the ‘bedrock of our business’ – CFC Underwriting’s Dave Walsh

By Clare Ruel2020-11-13T11:14:00

With CFC Underwriting making it onto Insurance Times’s Top 50 Brokers podium yet again, the firm’s chief executive and founder Dave Walsh discusses how it started out in the dot-com era, emphasising that technology is still at the business’s heart today

During the height of the dot-com boom in the 90s, a Lloyd’s underwriting agency called Click for Cover was founded.

Its initial aim was to approach startups via internet providers to sell cyber insurance online, but as its founder and chief executive Dave Walsh tells Insurance Times, it was ahead of its time.

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