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The Voice of InsuranceEp262 Jason Howard Acrisure International: A very Simple ModelThis week’s Episode is a burst of energy.
Jason Howard is President of Acrisure International and has the task of looking after everything in the Acrisure Group that is outside the US, Reinsurance and Wholesale.
This means most of the world is effectively his oyster. A group as ambitious and fast-moving as Acrisure needs someone with enormous drive and enthusiasm to deliver on such a universal role and Jason is the embodiment of that.
In this podcast Jason explains Acrisure’s global end-to-end insurance strategy in great detail – from a retail broker anywhe...
2025-07-2231 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp256 Steve Arora: You need to have sizzleToday’s Episode is special and completely out of the ordinary.
Regular listeners will know that in most episodes I will talk to senior insurance and reinsurance executives and focus on what they have just done and what are about to do.
Today’s no different in that respect, but it’s a far richer encounter because of who my guest is and what he has been doing since the summer of 2023.
Until very recently Steve Arora was the co-founder of Alpine Re, a new balance sheet reinsurer looking to tap into a disrup...
2025-06-0337 min
The Reinsurance Podcast#92 - Mark Geoghegan: The Voice of InsuranceIn this episode of the Reinsurance Podcast, Jerad and Ben are joined by Mark Geoghegan, the voice behind The Voice of Insurance podcast. They delve into the evolving world of reinsurance, discuss the innovative solutions being developed, and explore the industry's latest trends with Mark's insights. The conversation also touches on the significance of AI and data in reshaping insurance practices, highlighting the industry's journey towards digital transformation and its impact on efficiency and customer service.
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Mark’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-geoghegan-852077a/
The Voice of...
2024-03-0541 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp198 Tom Clementi Pool Re: Taking risk off the StateToday’s guest is Tom Clementi, CEO of UK Government-backed terrorism reinsurer, Pool Re.
Now over thirty years old, Pool Re has been through a lot of recent changes that have reflected its growing maturity.
It has been classified as a Central Government Organisation by the Office for National Statistics and the UK Cabinet Office designated it as an Arm’s Length Body of the UK Treasury.
To add to that formalisation, which reflects its public role and unlimited State guarantee, Pool Re is moving from its tariff-led facultative reinsurance structure to a more...
2024-02-1341 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp197 Robert Wiest CEO MS Re: A good plan and the capital to execute itToday’s guest is Robert Wiest CEO of MS Re.
After a long and distinguished career in both insurance and reinsurance, much of which was spent at Swiss Re, Robert took on his latest role in September 2022.
With prominent career roles in both P&C and Life - in Europe and Asia Robert is an extremely well-travelled and well-rounded professional and this broad experience shines through in the podcast.
Robert is comfortable on any subject and he’s the sort of person with whom anyone could strike up a rapport.
MS Re h...
2024-02-0641 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp194 1.1.2024 Renewals: It Feels Like The Time is NowToday’s podcast carries on where we left off after the State of the Reinsurance Market Special Episode which was released after the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous of 2023.
At Monte Carlo what everyone said they wanted after the great re-set of a year ago was orderliness.
Buyers and sellers alike wanted a period of rational calm after the storm which could be used to clear some of the debris and to rebuild strained relationships.
And calm and rationality is what everybody got.
Reinsurance capital, profitability and crucially, confidence all recovered and we en...
2024-01-1137 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp189 Tom Hoad Howden Ventures: Professionalising InnovationInnovation is something we all talk about but something that is notoriously hard to do in insurance.
That’s hardly surprising because in our industry we prize and incentivise all the things that are the effective opposite of innovative.
We reward stable and predictable when, at least at the beginning, most innovative ventures are likely to be highly volatile and unpredictable.
And then we wonder why it’s so hard to bring new ideas to fruition in our sector!
To be fair to ourselves, in the past few years insurance has star...
2023-11-1440 min
Empower Talks - Insurance CareersMike Burle - Head of Marine & Deputy Active Underwriter at Liberty Specialty MarketsSam talks with Mike Burle, Head of Marine & Deputy Active Underwriter at Liberty Specialty Markets, in an engaging conversation that explores various aspects of the insurance industry. With 30 years of experience, Mike brings a wealth of knowledge and insights to the discussion.Beginning the conversation, Sam delves into Mike's journey and how he entered the insurance field. They uncover some of the milestones that led him to his current role, highlighting experiences that helped shaped his career.Sam and Mike delve into the qualities that define a ‘good boss’ in the insurance industry. Mike shares his...
2023-07-031h 07The Voice of InsuranceEp159 James Baird & Paul Richards Co-CEOs Consilium: Do you pass the barbecue test?Today’s guests are a pair of broking executives clearly relishing an opportunity to lead a business through a period of accelerated growth in a market that is extremely favourable.
James Baird (pictured left) and Paul Richards (right) are co-CEOs and Managing Partners of Consilium, the wholesale and specialist insurance and reinsurance broker that is part of the expansive Aventum group.
Aventum Group CEO David Bearman laid down a marker back in Episode 82 almost two years ago and it’s worth re-listening to that podcast to put this one into context:
https://www.thev...
2023-03-0741 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp145 Adrian Jones Partner HSCM Ventures: We need to reconsider the word InsurtechToday’s guest is one of the smartest people in the insurance sector and I am really lucky to have been able to spend time talking to him fairly regularly over the course of the last few years.
I first got to know him just as the whole insurtech movement started to really take shape in around 2016 to 2017 and ever since that time he’s always been open and honest about the way he appraised the new wave of technological investment sweeping through the industry.
He never lost his critical faculties and never got caught up i...
2022-11-2249 min
The Reinsurance Podcast#15 - Mark Geoghegan: Podcasting, Journalism, and the (Re)insurance IndustryWe’re joined this week by Mark Geoghagen, host of The Voice of Insurance podcast and former editorial director of The Insurance Insider. The guys delve into Mark’s background as a broker and later career as an insurance journalist, the industry’s need for a principle reinsurance software, and what makes a fascinating podcast guest.
EPISODE LINKS:
Mark's Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeogheganMC
Mark's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-geoghegan-852077a
Mark's Website: https://www.thevoiceofinsurance.com
The Voice of Insurance podcast: https://open.spotif...
2022-04-2637 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp 48 D&O: The hardest market of all time with David Ritchie of Gallagher UKMost Voice of Insurance episodes tend to be with industry CEOs.
This way you can get to know the real people behind the public persona and learn about how the industry really works by finding out what makes its leaders tick.
But of course it doesn’t give you a huge amount of class-specific detail.
Industry titans at public companies know a ton of detail about high finance and deal economics, but if I went too deep into detail on any given class of insurance or reinsurance, they would rightly refer me to an...
2020-10-1325 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp 47 Pat Ryan: Build a business people are proud to work forWhat is the greatest quality of the best business builders in our industry?
After putting together today’s episode, I’m now certain it must be the ability to get the best out of people.
Pat Ryan is a broking legend.
He’s the visionary who saw that globalisation was going to create the need for global brokers to serve the global companies that it would create.
But it’s one thing having a vision – it is completely another to be able to execute on it.
Today you get to find ou...
2020-10-0641 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp 46 The Best Market for a Decade: David Croom-Johnson MD Aegis LondonWhen I book an interview guest in for the show it is usually at least few weeks and often a few months in advance.
When I open up my diary I can see them lined up ahead.
I build up expectations in my mind about what the interview is going to be like.
It never turns out the way I think.
Today is a case in point. I have got to know David Croom-Johnson of Aegis London over many years while covering the global insurance market.
I...
2020-09-2935 minThe Voice of InsuranceEp 45 Selling certainty, with Stefan Golling Chief Underwriter Munich ReHere at the Voice of Insurance we look at an extremely broad cross-section of the global insurance and reinsurance markets, form fascinating niches right to the top, to the giants of the sector.
Today’s guest is right at the top.
He has the biggest underwriting job in the world, with the size and scale to be able to move global markets.
That means knowing how he is thinking is required knowledge for anyone who wants to get a feel for what is happening in the marketplace.
In this interview I en...
2020-09-2224 min