Departing boss has wished his successor ’every success in leading the group into the next exciting stage of its development’
Seventeen Group has announced that Oliver Thorne will become its new chief executive, with Paul Anscombe retiring later this year.
In a short statement, the broker said that Thorne would join on 27 October and that there will be a ”swift handover to ensure an orderly transition”.
Thorne joins from Specialist Risk Insurance Solutions, where he has served as managing director for the last three years.
Before this, he spent nearly four years as the reigonal managing director at Gallagher.
Paul Turner, executive chairman at Seventeen Group, and Anscombe said that they were “delighted to welcome Thorne and wish him every success in leading the group into the next exciting stage of its development”.
Anscombe career
Anscombe began his career in insurance at Norwich Union in 1981 before having stints at brokers Alfred Blackmore and Frizzell. He was then made managing director of a business called Hanover.
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Via various acquisitions, Hanover eventually ended up as Lark – which itself became Aston Lark in 2018 before morphing into Howden Commercial in 2023 – where Anscombe became a director in 2000.
Shortly after in 2004, Anscombe joined Seventeen Group broker James Hallam, where he has remained ever since.
His career began in 2019, when he joined a local north London newspaper after graduating from the University of Sheffield with a first-class honours degree in journalism.
He took up the position of deputy news editor at Insurance Times in March 2023, before being promoted to his current role in May 2024.View full Profile
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