What we do
Non-Executive Director Services
Board-level expertise for growing insurance businesses
Experienced governance and operational guidance for insurtechs and MGAs. We don't just attend board meetings; we bring hands-on insurance expertise, regulatory credibility, and strategic support to help you scale sustainably.
We bring:
Regulatory-approved leadership credentials (FCA SMF19, GFSC CEO & CUO, MFSA General Representative)
Deep operational experience across underwriting, technology, and distribution
Multi-jurisdiction regulatory navigation expertise
Pattern recognition from building and scaling insurance businesses
Credible governance that satisfies regulators, investors, and commercial partners
We're particularly focused on insurtechs and smaller MGAs where board-level operational expertise makes a real difference. We're not traditional NEDs who show up quarterly for governance theatre. We bring hands-on insurance expertise, regulatory credibility, and the ability to roll up our sleeves during critical periods like fundraising, regulatory reviews, or operational challenges.
Shaping
Building the foundation for growth
Strategic design of new insurance ventures, products, and market entries. We help you shape the opportunity before you execute. Whether you're launching a new insurtech, entering a new jurisdiction, or designing a speciality product.
We've done this ourselves we’ve secured licenses, built products, and launched markets. We're not theorising about what might work; we're sharing what we've actually done.
We help you:
Develop market entry strategies and regulatory roadmaps
Set up and license insurance carriers and MGAs
Design and launch new insurance products
Navigate regulatory approvals across jurisdictions
Structure distribution partnerships and commercial agreements
Build go-to-market strategies for new territories
Whether you're an insurtech seeking authorisation, an MGA expanding into new markets, or an insurer launching a new line of business, we've navigated these challenges before and know what it takes to get from strategy to market.
Operating
Hands-on leadership when you need it most
We step into interim CEO, CUO, or COO roles to stabilise operations, drive transformations, or bridge leadership gaps.
We're not interim managers reading from a playbook we're operators who've run insurance businesses, dealt with regulators, managed P&Ls, and lived with the consequences. We've been the person in the hot seat wearing trainers to regulator meetings while building credible operations.
What we bring:
Regulatory-approved leadership (FCA SMF19, GFSC CEO/CUO, MFSA General Representative)
Actual experience running insurance businesses (not just advising them)
Deep operational knowledge across underwriting, claims, distribution, and technology
Multi-jurisdiction regulatory relationship management
Crisis management and remediation expertise
Comfort in both startup culture and regulatory scrutiny
We've run underwriting operations, managed P&Ls, and led businesses through growth, transformation, and crisis. When the pressure's on, and you need someone who's been there before, we're ready to work.
Optimising
Driving sustainable profitability and growth
Portfolio remediation, pricing sophistication, underwriting excellence, and operational efficiency. We identify what's not working, fix the fundamentals, and build the capabilities that drive sustainable profitability.
We focus on:
Portfolio analysis and remediation strategies
Pricing model development and sophistication
Underwriting framework design and implementation
Claims management optimisation
Distribution efficiency and channel performance
Operational process improvement and automation
Data strategy and analytics capability building
We've optimised our own operations, restructured our own programs, and dealt with our own regulatory feedback. We know what works because we've done it, not because we read about it in a case study.
Who should work with us
Insurtechs scaling from product-market fit to regulated operations
Common challenges: Securing regulatory licenses, building underwriting capability, establishing credible governance, and scaling operations sustainably.
How we help: We've secured licenses across the UK, Gibraltar, Malta, and EU jurisdictions. We build underwriting frameworks, provide regulatory-approved NED services, and embed as interim executives during critical growth phases.
MGA's and Brokers optimising performance, expanding distribution, or pursuing carrier ownership
Common challenges: Reinsurance concentration risk, carrier relationship management, regulatory compliance, and underwriting performance improvement.
How we help: We restructure reinsurance programs, optimise underwriting operations, build delegated authority frameworks, and navigate multi-jurisdiction expansion.
Insurers entering new markets, transforming operations, or launching new products
Common challenges: Multi-jurisdiction regulatory navigation, legacy technology modernisation, operational model transformation for digital distribution, launching new business units, and responding to regulatory change while maintaining business continuity.
How we help: We've secured regulatory approvals across the UK, Gibraltar, Malta, and EU jurisdictions. We step into interim COO and CUO roles to drive transformation programs, modernise underwriting operations, manage technology migrations, and build innovation capabilities while maintaining regulatory compliance. We've also designed and managed global motor programs across Argentina, Brazil, China/Hong Kong, the Middle East, and Africa, bringing multinational program expertise to complex operational challenges.
Reinsurers partnering with insurtechs and MGAs, or requiring deep primary insurance expertise
Common challenges: Operational due diligence on cedants, delegated authority program design, understanding primary market dynamics, regional operation setup, managing concentration risk through operational improvements at the cedant level, and navigating fronting and capacity relationships.
How we help: We provide operational due diligence on cedants from a practitioner's perspective; we've run these businesses, so we know what to look for. We help you design program structures, build regional operations in new markets, provide governance for delegated authority relationships, and optimise treaty performance through hands-on operational improvements. Our global program experience across emerging markets brings particular value to reinsurers managing international exposures and understanding local market nuances.
PE-Backed Insurance Companies driving operational value creation and growth
Common challenges: Post-acquisition integration and performance improvement, building operational capabilities that increase enterprise value, professionalising governance and management infrastructure, preparing portfolio companies for exit, identifying and executing operational efficiency initiatives, and managing multiple portfolio companies with limited internal resources.
How we help: We embed as interim executives or NEDs to drive value creation initiatives during the holding period. We've managed P&Ls, driven operational transformations, and built scalable infrastructure, exactly the capabilities that increase enterprise value. We provide rapid operational assessments, design and execute performance improvement programs, professionalise governance structures to satisfy regulators and future acquirers, and build capabilities that support successful exits. Our regulatory credentials (FCA, GFSC, MFSA approvals) add credibility for portfolio companies operating in regulated markets.