Interview

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,…

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…

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…

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…