Interview

Meet the Team: George Connell, Lead Underwriter, Structured Solutions

Meet the Team: George Connell, Lead Underwriter, Structured Solutions

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…

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Meet the team: Teniola Tijani, Underwriter, Energy

Meet the team: Teniola Tijani, Underwriter, Energy

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…

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Meet the team: Ali Welchman, Lead Underwriter, Ports & Terminals

Meet the team: Ali Welchman, Lead Underwriter, Ports & Terminals

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…

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Meet the team: Kate Hughes, Underwriter, Political Violence & Terrorism, War

Meet the team: Kate Hughes, Underwriter, Political Violence & Terrorism, War

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…

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Meet the team: Darren Stewart, Head of Marine, Energy & Aviation Claims

Meet the team: Darren Stewart, Head of Marine, Energy & Aviation Claims

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…

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Meet the team: Darryl Krobel, Engineer, Energy

Meet the team: Darryl Krobel, Engineer, Energy

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…

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Meet the Team: Daisy Thompson, Senior Underwriter Marine and Energy Liability

Meet the Team: Daisy Thompson, Senior Underwriter Marine and Energy Liability

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,…

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Meet the team: Mel Lopes, Assistant Underwriter and Analyst

Meet the team: Mel Lopes, Assistant Underwriter and Analyst

How did you first arrive in the insurance industry? Living in Bermuda, which is a big re/insurance hub, I knew about the industry. I studied Business Administration, majoring in Accounting at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, but by fourth year I had realised accountancy wasn’t for me. After moving back to Bermuda post-graduation, I applied…

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Meet the team: Tilly Milnes, Senior Claims Handler
Tilly Milnes, Senior Claims Handler at IQUW

Meet the team: Tilly Milnes, Senior Claims Handler

How did you first arrive in the insurance industry? I started my career as a solicitor in one of the largest international insurance law firms, Kennedys. Like many people, I didn’t set out to have a career in insurance, but I feel extremely lucky to have landed in this industry. Kennedys were one of the…

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Meet the team: Andrew Lewis, Lead Underwriter, Cyber

Meet the team: Andrew Lewis, Lead Underwriter, Cyber

While Cyber insurance only being a relatively new class of business within the insurance market it has grown and changed substantially within its short existence.Here Lead Cyber Underwriter Andrew Lewis talks about his happy accident of a career in underwriting along with the challenges and opportunities faced in the constantly evolving Cyber insurance market. How…

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