AEGIS lands ex-Gallagher/Liberty execs to grow digital trading
Lloyd’s insurer AEGIS London has unveiled a host of new appointments to expand its digital product offering and business trading platform.
Iain Lewers has been appointed as digital business development analyst, Mark Wilding as digital product development specialist, and Calum Williams to the newly created role of digital development manager.
Williams, whose experience includes time spent across multiple classes as both a broker and underwriter, will report into Tom Squires, head of digital trading at AEGIS London. He will now look after the distribution of digital product offerings and the development of new products for OPAL, AEGIS London’s quote-and-bind platform.
Lewers will help to drive the commercialisation and distribution of AEGIS London’s digital product expansion. He began his career in insurance with WTW and has previously held senior broking and production roles at Tysers and Gallagher’s. Throughout his career he has worked with the OPAL team in promoting the benefits of the platform and has explored different distribution channels for its products.
Wilding will provide insight across a range of products and new technologies. He started his career as a broker before switching disciplines to underwriting where he moved into consultancy, change delivery and product. Most recently, he worked for Liberty Specialty Markets as digital product owner, where he helped create the digital team and saw launches of Contractors All Risks, Terror and Aviation (Drone) Specialty Digital Products.
Squires said: “These appointments mark a significant step forward in our efforts to diversify AEGIS London's digital product offering and enhance our business trading through digital platforms.
“This newly created team will be instrumental in driving our digital product expansion. Their expertise and leadership under Calum will undoubtedly contribute to our continued success.”
Williams commented: “Right now, we see a huge opportunity to digitise new and existing products and offer them on our online platform - OPAL. As more brokers develop their own digital capabilities, OPAL’s API connectivity has enabled brokers to access our products via the digital platform that suits them best.
“This reflects our commitment to ensure the benefits of digitalisation will be mutual to insureds, brokers and the Syndicate; realising the gains of increased automation, better quality data, lower cost distribution and a competitive edge that will enable access to more of the business we want to write at a scale we are more able to achieve thanks to Digital Trading.”
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