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Insurance Insider Honours

3 September 2025 | The Brewery, City of London

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Insurance Insider Honours

3 September 2025 | The Brewery, City of London

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The 2025 winners have been announced!

Thank you to everyone who joined us on 3 September at The Brewery in London for the Insurance Insider Honours.

Congratulations to all our finalists and winners — your stories, successes, and impact truly inspired us. We were proud to honour the teams driving change and excellence across the sector.

It was an incredible evening celebrating the standout achievements and innovations that have shaped the (re)insurance industry over the past year.

Stay tuned for highlights and photos from the event — and thank you for being part of such a memorable celebration.

2025 Winners

Winners
  • AI Implementation of the Year - New for 2025

    Winner:

    • Fluence World

    Shortlisted:

    • Aon - AI-Enabled Response to the Catastrophic Los Angeles Wildfires
    • Price Forbes Re - Intex
    • DGTAL - DRILLER
    • Hiscox London Market - AI Enhanced Lead Underwriting Model
    • Mosaic Insurance
    • Parsyl - Chauncey, AI Assistant
    • Scrub AI
  • Broker of the Year - in partnership with Beazley

    Winner:

    • Gallagher Re

    Shortlisted:

    • Bionic
    • BMS
    • Guy Carpenter
    • Howden Re
    • McGill and Partners
    • Miller Insurance
  • Broking Innovation of the Year - in partnership with Tokio Marine Kiln

    Winner:

    • McGill and Partners - Ukraine War Risks Reinsurance Facility.

    Shortlisted:

    • Acrisure - Simple Cyber
    • Aon - Marlin
    • Artificial - Smart Placement
    • Bionic
    • Howden - Cyber+ - complex cyber cover made simple
    • McGill and Partners - Underscore Auton
    • WTW UK Finex - Financial Institutions Team
  • Campaign of the Year

    Winner:

    • Flood Re and Cavendish - Flood Resilient Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024

    Shortlisted:

    • Aon - Reinsurance Renewal Season 2024
    • Hiscox London Market - Hiscox Energy Express
    • Liberty Specialty Markets - Raising the Bar for Claims
    • Miller Insurance & 7DOTS
    • Mosaic Insurance & Brandex Experience - The Elevator Pitch
    • Parametrix & Strategic Insurance Communications – CrowdStrike
  • Carrier of the Year - in partnership with HF

    Winner:

    • Aspen

    Shortlisted:

    • Allianz Commercial
    • Canopius
    • IGI
    • IQUW
    • Markel
    • MS Amlin
    • Sompo
  • CFO of the Year – in partnership with Lloyds Bank

    Winner:

    • Stuart Bridges, Founder and CFO, Inigo
  • Claims Service Award

    Winner:

    • Brit

    Shortlisted:

    • Ascot - Ascot Syndicate Claims - LA Wildfires
    • Atrium - Compassion in Action: Rapid and Empathetic Response to the 2025 California Wildfires
    • Beazley
    • Liberty Specialty Markets
    • Markel
    • Miller Insurance
    • Mitigrate - Proactive Flood Mitigation in Claims Response - Oslo Floods, 2024
    • MS Amlin - LA wildfires
  • Collaboration of the Year – in partnership with Canopius - New for 2025

    Winner:

    • The Fidelis Partnership and Hampden Agencies - Syndicate 3123

    Shortlisted:

    • ACORD, Axa XL & Marsh - Broker/Carrier Straight-Through Processing
    • Ariel Green - Creation of the Technology Performance Insurance Consortium
    • Beazley, Munich Re & Gallagher Re
    • Humanity Insured
    • Hyperexponential and Beazley - Strategic Technology Integration Partnership
    • Liberty Mutual Reinsurance & Safehub - Parametric Earthquake Insurance
    • LMA, LIIBA & IUA - Non-Financial Misconduct - London Insurance Market 2025 Workshop Series
    • IUA and Wilson Elser - US Litigation Training Programme
    • MS Amlin - Unlocking Insurance for Ukraine
    • Pet and Equine Insurance Association
    • rrelentless
  • Employer of the Year - in partnership with InsurX

    Winner:

    • BMS

    Shortlisted:

    • AmTrust International
    • Brit
    • Carbon Underwriting
    • Markel
    • Miller Insurance
    • MS Amlin, Building a high-performing and healthy culture
    • Munich Re Specialty
  • ESG Initiative of the Year

    Winner:

    • Munich Re Specialty

    Shortlisted:

    • Acini
    • Flood Re - Flood Resilient Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
  • Lifetime Achievement Award - in partnership with RiverStone International

    Winner:

    • Jean-Jacques Henchoz, Former CEO, Hanover Re
  • M&A Transaction of the Year

    Winner:

    • Ryan Specialty - Ryan Specialty’s acquisition of Castel Underwriting Agencies 

    Shortlisted:

    • Beat Capital & Ambac - Ambac Financial Group, Inc. Acquires Majority Stake in Beat Capital Partners
    • Howden Capital Markets & Advisory - Howden Capital Markets & Advisory Support on SageSure Acquisition of GeoVera MGA
    • Insurance Advisory Partners - Ryan Specialty Underwriting Manager's acquisition of Innovisk Capital Partners from BHMS Investments and Abry Partners, with exclusive financial advisory from Insurance Advisory Partners
  • MGA of the Year

    Winner:

    • DUAL

    Shortlisted:

    • Commercial Express
    • Honeycomb Insurance
    • K2 International
    • Moonrock Insurance
    • Mosaic Insurance
    • NBS Underwriting
    • Parametrix
  • Outstanding Contributor of the Year: Distribution - in partnership with Allied World

    Winner:

    • Tim Gardner, CEO, Lockton Re
  • Outstanding Contributor of the Year: Risk

    Winner:

    • Adrian Cox, CEO, Beazley
  • Progress Award

    Winner:

    • QBE

    Highly commended:

    • The UnRetire Group

    Shortlisted:

    • Brit
    • Tokio Marine Kiln
  • Underwriting Innovation of the Year

    Winner:

    • InsurX - Smart Consortia

    Shortlisted:

    • AIG - TradEnable Xtra (TEX)
    • Artio
    • CFC - Start-up Technology Scheme
    • Kroll - Property Insurance Valuation Platform
    • Munich Re - Automated Underwriting Platform
    • Optalitix and Pool Re - Fortress Underwriting Portal
    • Parsyl - Technology Platform
    • Skyline Partners - FatTrack Trigger
  • Women in Insurance Award

    Winner:

    • Alchemy Technology Services

    Shortlisted:

    • IGI
    • Ryan Specialty
  • Young Broker of the Year – In partnership with Ascot Group

    Winner:

    • Jack Shiner, Acrisure Re

    Highly commended:

    • Bukhosi Khumalo, OLEA South Africa

    Shortlisted:

    • Audrey Herberger, Marsh
  • Young Claims Professional of the Year

    Winner:

    • Charlotte Bender, Canopius

    Highly commended:

    • James Wright, Liberty Specialty Markets

    Shortlisted:

    • Priya Basra, Aspen
    • Kadi McGlashan, Canopius
    • Eden Graham, CFC
    • Aadil Shara, Markel
    • Victoria Vincent, RiverStone International
    • Nicole Parrish, Tokio Marine Kiln
  • Young Underwriter of the Year

    Winner:

    • Kirsten Shastri, Tokio Marine Kiln

    Highly commended:

    • Paige Carey, CFC

    Shortlisted:

    • Hind Gouriach, Africa Specialty Risks
    • Camilla Walker, Canopius
    • Ben Pinnington, Canopius
    • Kieran Quigley, Mosaic Insurance
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Judges (UK Honours)
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Amy Ing

Underwriter, Tokio Marine Kiln

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Amy Ing is an Innovation and Portfolio Solutions Underwriter at TMK. Amy started her career within the Accident and Health market, before moving into more innovation focused roles. Amy is an active member of the London Market innovation community through mentoring participants at the Lloyd’s Lab.

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Bethany Greenwood

CEO, Beazley Furlonge Limited and Beazley’s Group Head of Specialty Risks

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Bethany Greenwood is CEO of Beazley Furlonge Limited and Beazley’s Group Head of Specialty Risks.

Since joining Beazley in 2019, Bethany has held a number of senior positions including Head of Executive Risk and Head of Cyber & Executive Risk. Prior to Beazley she spent close two decades at Marsh.

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Charlie Thomas

Executive Director, Gallagher Re

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Charlotte Pritchard

Group Risk and Compliance Director, RiverStone International

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Darren Jacobs

Senior Vice President, Director of Underwriting, Lloyd’s division, Allied World

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Based in London, Darren Jacobs was appointed Senior Vice President, Director of Underwriting for Allied World’s Lloyd’s syndicates in 2022. In this role, he is responsible for strategic underwriting management and profitable growth of direct and facultative property and casualty business for Allied World Managing Agency Limited (AWMA).

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David Croom-Johnson

Former CEO, Aegis London

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David Croom-Johnson stepped down after a hugely successful career as the CEO of AEGIS London, one of the most profitable managing agencies in the Lloyd’s market over the past decade. In previous roles he was the Chief Underwriting Officer and Head of Casualty Underwriting.

He has chaired the LMA Marine Committee and the Joint Liability as well as being a member of the LMA Board.

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Hamish Roberts

Former CEO Global Renewable Energy Marsh JLT Specialty

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Recently retired after a 40 year career as a broker in the London market. For most of his career he was involved in the energy sector, more specifically a deep focus in the power and renewable energy industry. Hamish built and lead teams around the world culminating as global CEO of the respective power and renewable energy business at both Aon and Marsh.

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Ian Thompson

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), UK, Ascot

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Ian joined Ascot in 2017 as Head of Casualty & Specialty, before being promoted to Executive Vice President and CUO, Casualty & Specialty in 2020 and CEO, Bermuda in 2021. He joined Ascot after almost a decade at Hiscox Re as Head of Casualty & Specialty, and before moving to Hiscox Re he worked at Catlin, heading the Healthcare and Professional Lines.

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John Keen

Director, Mustard Consulting

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John was the principal founder of Lloyd’s newest managing agent, Lime Syndicate Management, which was sold to Somers Re (an Arch subsidiary) in July 2024. He now provides support and guidance to businesses looking to playing a role in the Lloyd’s and London market or seeking to grow and diversify their business through his company, Mustard Consulting Limited.

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Karen Graves

Chair, GreenKite Associates

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Karen is an experienced Exec and Non-Exec. She is currently an INED for the USAA SA and Chair of Risk Committee; Chair of GreenKite Associates; INED for Allied World Managing Agency and Chair of Risk Committee; INED Accelerant Insurance UK and Chair of Risk Committee. Loves the insurance world, people and art.

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Kirat Kaur Nandra

Co-Chair, Insurance Families Network

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Kirat joined the industry in 1995 as a Credit Control Manager, and more recently moved into Operations as a Director of London Market Operations. She began her journey in Equity, Inclusion & Diversity in 1997 and is deeply passionate about inclusion, particularly social mobility, running various initiatives to ensure that people see the different roles that the insurance industry has to offer.

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Mark Newman

UK Chief Executive Officer, Canopius

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Mark joined Canopius in August 2016 as Chief Executive APAC & MENA, with responsibility for the Singapore, Australia and Lloyd’s China operations. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer – UK at Canopius in January 2024.

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Michael Keating

CEO, Managing General Agents' Association

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Currently CEO of the Managing General Agents Association, a position he has held since September 2020, Mike has crafted a successful and varied career in the industry. For the second year in a row, Mike has been included in the 2024 Insurance Business Global list.

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Richard Dudley

Group Chief Broking Officer, BMS

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Richard joined BMS in December 2024. In his role he is focussed on enhancing C-Suite engagement with BMS (re)insurer carriers and key strategic clients. Richard is involved in several charitable causes. These include serving as the current Chair of the Insurance United Against Dementia Board and as a trustee of the London Insurance Market Charitable Trust.

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Sharon Brown

CEO, Nutshell Consultancy

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Suneeta Padda

Managing Director, Padda Consulting

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Suneeta has undertaken and managed a wide range of regulatory engagements for numerous insurance firms, holding senior positions within a number of these firms, previous roles include: Head of Group Compliance and Risk at Howden Broking Group, Head of Compliance for Amlin UK, Interim Head of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at XL Catlin, Interim Head of Compliance at Lloyd’s of London and more.

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Terri Barnett

Relationship Director, Lloyds Bank

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Terri brings 14 years of banking experience, with the last 9 years dedicated to specialising in insurance specialist banking. Her expertise ranges from capital structuring to supporting core banking products, including FX hedging and cash management services. Terri possesses a deep understanding of the insurance market and the capital products necessary for driving growth.

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