Interviews – Page 52
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'Nobody is prepared to say the unpopular things' - Amanda Blanc
AXA’s Amanda Blanc was voted Insurance Times’s Insurer CEO’s CEO of the year for the second time in 2015 Here she talks about her passion for claims, innovation and concerns over broking business models There’s a moment at the Insurance ...
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Analysis: Mind the gap – underinsurance and climate risk
Geneva Association secretary-general Anna Maria D’Hulster spoke to sister publication Global Reinsurance about underinsurance, global regulation, climate events and the direction of the insurance industry’s think-tank
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Interview: How Mark Cliff aims to get Brightside back in the game
At the close of 2014, Brightside had a £45m loss and falling revenues. Now, new boss Mark Cliff hopes it will be able to consider acquisitions by the end of 2016
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Analysis: How Clayden and QBE are turning claims into a science
The insurer’s European operations claims director discusses the data-led changes coming to the insurance industry, CMCs, and how insurers need to change adversarial attitudes to claims
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Q&A: Ian Stutz on Brokerbility’s growth 10 years on
Managing director Ian Stutz speaks to Insurance Times about what has been fuelling members’ growth and how Brokerbility has been helping members in a competitive market
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Interview: Innovation Broking – rise of the anti-consolidator
Co-founders Paul Dickson and Howard Pearson explain how they plan to grow without acquisition and why big brokers have ‘failed miserably’ on client service
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Interview: The man taking Pro Global to new heights
Chief executive and change specialist Artur Niemczewski wants to step outside his ‘fixer’ tag by making insurance consultant Pro Global a bigger player in the market
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Crane: taking LV= Broker into the fast lane
While other insurers are pulling out of the motor broker market, the boss of LV= Broker is going in the opposite direction and is looking forward to building relationships
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Interview: The Apprentice winner helping Be Wiser beat the aggregators
Be Wiser’s chief executive turned to Mark Wright when he needed an expert to push his company up the Google ratings
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Analysis: Managing a new breed of terror risk: the Pool Re approach
Terrorism pool boss Julian Enoizi talks to our sister title GR about the future of the organisation and the risk it covers
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Carole Nash: a niche success story
The vintage motorcycle and car insurer’s founder Carole Nash and chief executive David Newman talk about the values that inspired its creation 30 years ago and that are still part of its DNA
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Interview: Mark Evans on how Direct Line plans to redefine ‘insurer’
After creating the direct market in the 1980s, Direct Line Group believes it is time for another revolution – with the insurer as a solver of customer problems.
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Interview: Allianz’s Neil Brettell - The personal touch
The insurer’s head of retail talks about the firm’s ambitious drive to achieve £3bn gross written premium by 2018 and how he intends to do it
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Q&A: Solvency II creator Karel Van Hulle on the future of the regulation
Why the start date of Solvency II is just “the end of the beginning”
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Interview: Fighting the rising tide of claims
Direct Line Group claims managing director Steve Maddock owes much of the company’s success – and its confident attitude to reform and education – to the board’s support
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Interview: Homer, Cullum and Margrett's plans for 'Towergate II'
In their first interview since joining forces at Global Risk Partners, Peter Cullum, Andy Homer and David Margrett talk about their ambitions to build a new Towergate, but better
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Interview: Amanda Blanc - a lesson in getting things done
Recently tipped for the Towergate top seat that went to David Ross, AXA’s commercial lines and personal intermediary boss still has unfinished business with the French insurer
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Interview: How Cullum and Homer plan to settle ‘unfinished business’ at GRP
Ex-Towergate duo and GRP chief David Margrett reveal plans for consolidator
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Interview: Bluefin’s Rob Organ - big shoes to fill
AXA-owned broker’s new chief executive tells Insurance Times what happens next following the departures of Stuart Reid and Mike Bruce and why he’s the right man for the top job
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Q&A with the new boss of IFED
Angie Rogers, the new head of the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department, is keen to work with the industry to fight against current and emerging insurance fraud threats