The Voice of Insurance

Nov 04 2024 271 ep. 39 mins 41

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Insurance is a maze. Don’t get lost. Mark Geoghegan asks directions from all the top people in the Global Insurance and Reinsurance Industry

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Ep230 Bill O'Farrell, CEO Premia Holdings: Moving to a more repeatable business model

Nov 04 2024 32 mins

Today’s guest is a longstanding executive with an incredibly strong resumé who is running one of the legacy sector’s most respected outfits. Bill O’Farrell is CEO of Premia Holdings and as such has an excellent overview of this rapidly maturing segment of the market. In the podcast Bill and I look at the state of the legacy market and how it is likely to be interacting with

Sp Ep Bevis Tetlow, CEO Imaginera: Building the future of big-ticket Insurance systems

Oct 31 2024 36 mins

Todays’ guest is a senior treaty underwriting executive with such a strong technical and systems background that he ended up joining a firm dedicated to solving his sector’s problems. Bevis Tetlow is CEO of Imaginera, a business that produces specialist IT systems specifically designed for the big-ticket end of the market. Imaginera is also a highly specialist IT consultant to

Ep229 John Fowle, Atrium Underwriters: Little to be gained by joining the herd

Oct 28 2024 48 mins

TRANSCRIPT HERE With a career spanning more than 30 years, today’s guest is a senior executive who has the London insurance market well and truly in his blood. John Fowle has changed employer since his last appearance on this podcast just under three years ago and with a year under his belt as CEO of Atrium Underwriters, now seemed the perfect time to get him back on the show. At

Ep228 Tim Turner CEO Ryan Specialty: Breadth, depth and quality at speed

Oct 21 2024 40 mins

As CEO of Ryan Specialty Tim Turner has arguably some of the best visibility of the global insurance market and its stress points of anyone in the industry. The business that Tim has helped to build with founder Pat Ryan is a broad, deep, complex and highly efficient insurance distribution machine, that picks up and serves wherever local markets are unable or unwilling to provide t

Ep227 Rosie Denée, Lloyd's Lab: The best Innovators build Relationships

Oct 14 2024 41 mins

This is a great episode with someone whose job encompasses education, engagement and innovation and who has found real purpose and great satisfaction in her current role. Rosie Denée is best known for running the highly successful Lloyd’s Lab innovation hub, but her full job title is in fact Head of Innovation, Commercial Education and Engagement at Lloyd’s. In this podcast we

Sp Ep Greg Massey VIPR: We don't dictate to the Market, it dictates to us

Oct 10 2024 34 mins

Today’s a really enjoyable episode because I am talking to someone of vast insurance market experience who is getting a shot at putting that deep knowledge and acquired wisdom into really useful practice Greg Massey has had an insurance career spanning four decades that culminated as Head of Programs at Zurich North America. On his retirement in 2022 he became an adviser to VIPR

Sp Ep: The State of (Re)insurance 2024

Oct 07 2024 63 mins

Welcome to the third instalment of the podcast where I use the annual Monte Carlo RendezVous to gauge the outlook ahead of the key 1.1 Reinsurance renewals. This year, a lot had changed in the preceding 12 months. 2023 results had been almost universally excellent for all reinsurers and capital had returned to very healthy levels. Colour and confidence were visibly returning to the

Ep226 Richard Brindle & Richard Coulson: No Substitute for Hard Work

Sep 30 2024 43 mins

Todays’ Episode is a fast-moving, high-intensity blast from start to finish. That’s mostly because of the people I’m talking to, but also due to the circumstances under which we are doing the talking. First the people. Richard Brindle is well known to anyone in our business as one of the most dynamic underwriters in the market. And anyone following the Fidelis story will know

Sp Ep: Cyber Risk - Resilience in a game-changing environment

Sep 25 2024 50 mins

Beazley is a carrier that is synonymous with expertise in the Cyber insurance line and today we are going to get a masterclass in the Cyber threat and how to deal with it from all angles. We’re going to look at how that cyber threat is evolving, and how Cyber criminals are modifying their methods of attack in the face of an increasingly sophisticated line of defence from companie

Ep225 Greg Hohman CUO Munich Re Specialty Insurance: Reacting to Disruption

Sep 23 2024 38 mins

Today’s guest is in an enviable position – this is because he works for one of the most mature and trusted brands in the global insurance food chain, but is leading the underwriting at a segment of that business that is only just five years old and is still building out and growing fast. Greg Hohman is the Chief Underwriting Officer of Munich Re Specialty Insurance and has a ve