Interview

What brought you into the insurance industry? I had a work experience placement at an insurance company when I was in secondary school. At the time, I was trying to choose my educational path between going to university and becoming a PE teacher or following in my mum’s footsteps and working in the City. I…

How did you join the insurance industry? After graduating from university, I worked as an analyst for the Bank of England whilst I decided what I wanted to do. We were coming out of a recession and a period of volatility, and insurance appealed to me as a stable industry which a friend suggested would…

Tell us how you got into insurance I was studying History and Law at university and was introduced to the insurance industry when I took a module in insurance law in the final year of my undergraduate degree which sparked my initial interest. I knew I didn’t want to become a lawyer. Through a career…

Tell us about how you got into insurance.  After leaving Bristol University with a chemistry degree, insurance wasn't on my radar. However, after speaking to one of my brother’s friends within the industry, I was attracted to the concept of the marketplace, the personalities involved, and the social aspect. That, combined with the industry’s entrepreneurial, analytical, and intelligence-led aspects – which I felt suited my skill set – led to me exploring insurance…

Tell us how you arrived in the insurance industry and about your career before IQUW. I was in touch with a charity called The Brokerage Citylink, which helps students from low socio-economic areas into City roles. Through them, I got a summer placement with Ark Syndicate on the Energy underwriting team before my economics degree…

Tell us about how you got into insurance and your career prior to joining IQUW.  After realising that my initial career hope of becoming a dentist was not going to work out, I decided to enrol in a Chemistry degree at Cardiff University. I wasn’t really wedded to the pharmaceutical R&D route, so while I…

Tell us how you joined the insurance industry I didn’t know anything about the insurance industry and had applied to a variety of different graduate schemes in different financial sectors. I ended up joining the Marsh graduate scheme in 2021. I studied Economics and Politics at university, so when I was put into the Political…

Tell us how you arrived in the insurance industry, and about your career before IQUW. My background is unusual in that, after I left school, I decided to pursue my professional golfing ambitions, playing at a high amateur and professional level before transitioning to the insurance world. After sending out hundreds of CVs and self-funding…

Tell us about your professional background before joining IQUW. I am an oil and gas exploration and development professional, having worked for 20 years as a subsurface engineer. After spending my first decade developing assets in the western Canadian basin in my home province of Alberta, I developed a zest for international travel and decided…

How did you get into the insurance industry? At school, I was academic and great with numbers and logical thinking, but I didn’t want to go to university or pursue a career in banking. I sent my CV out to various industries and was taken on by an insurance firm. After stints at Aspen, Liberty,…