Judging panel

Vivek is the Managing Director of Polaris UK Ltd, an insurance industry owned organisation that underpins digital trading within the industry. More than 125 organisations use Polaris’ products – ProductWriter which is the industry’s most widely used digital rating engine, Standards for digital trading, the imarket gateway that connects broker systems to Commercial Lines insurer systems and a Live-Chat service allowing insurers and brokers to have secure risk related conversations while trading digitally.   

Vivek has over twenty years’ experience in the industry. Prior to joining Polaris, he was the Chief Digital Officer at Gallagher UK, leading the development of a multi-product, multi-country digital platform and mobile apps. Previously, he worked for Brit Insurance and NIG, leading the development of their online distribution propositions. He has also chaired BIBA’s cross-industry Innovation Working Group and was a member of TechNation’s Insurtech Board for three years.

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Jack Brownhill has been involved in the general insurance market for many years, spent in senior positions with the UK arm of a major multinational insurance group and as an independent consultant offering consultancy services across a wide range of issues.

In addition, Jack has been a member of a number of industry committees and groups both in the UK and Europe focusing on regulation, legislation, road safety, vehicle technology, telematics and fraud.

Vivine Cameron is Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Manager at the Chartered Insurance Institute. Vivine’s role and remit is the promotion of greater diversity and inclusion within the Chartered Insurance Institute as an organisation and within the wider insurance and financial planning profession as a whole.

During her career, Vivine has worked within a range of fields from Legal, Schools, Further & Higher Education, Retail, Tech, Tech Start-ups, NHS and Construction, to Insurance and Financial Planning.   Vivine is an enthusiastic Learning and Development professional, passionate to enable all to achieve their desired personal and professional goals.

Vivine is a 2008 American Express Regent’s Club Award Winner, recognising the outstanding top performing 3% of employees globally for their goal achievements and leadership behaviours; and

2022 NextGen Planners Education Initiative of the Year Award Winner recognising tireless work to improve values in Financial Planning through quality education and support.

A Chartered Loss Adjuster and Chartered Insurer Jonathan has over 35 years claims handling experience. He has dealt with claims in more than 50 countries and has worked with many of the world's largest corporations on their claims programmes. He has designed and implemented claims compensation schemes for governmental bodies and was Claims Director of the Financial Services Compensation scheme from 2007 to 2009.

After a lengthy career at executive level in the world’s largest claims adjusting firms, he joined SCOR in 2013 as head of claims in London. Jonathan is now Global Head of Claims for Business Solutions within the SCOR Global P& C.

Jonathan is past President of the London Business Interruption Association, past Treasurer of the Insurance Institute of London immediate past President of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters and President of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

He holds degrees in Biochemistry and Biochemical Engineering from Oxford and London Universities.  Hobbies include music and sailing in which he has been a member of the British Sailing team as well as a regular columnist for a leading magazine.

Dominic Clayden has been in the insurance industry for over 20 years and joined the MIB as Chief Executive in May 2018.  

The MIB is at the heart of the fight against Uninsured driving, and manages claims relating to Uninsured and Untraced driving.   The organisation also provides management services to other industry bodies, especially focused on data asset management.

Dominic joined MIB from QBE, where he most recently held the role of Group Chief Claims Officer.  He has also worked at Aviva as their Claims Director for its General Insurance business, and co-ordinated their claims best practice globally.

He has had a leading role in major negotiations in respect of personal injury reform in the UK and represented the Insurance industry at the Advisory Committee on Civil Costs.

Dominic has been instrumental in the build of the website solution for the Whiplash reforms. Continuing to be the key lead in maintaining stakeholder relations with MoJ, CPRC, Insurers and Solicitors throughout the timeline of the programme. 

Angela is an independent non-executive director and Executive Consultant with a wealth of experience providing having held several senior jobs in the market. 

In her previous role with The General Insurance Standards Council, the first UK regulator to set standards for business conduct, she was instrumental in the development of the Council, formulating and establishing the framework to enable it to deliver its objectives. She was also the principal author of the GISC Rules which formed the basis of FCA regulation in 2005. 

Angela developed and chaired the Governance and Diversity Committees of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) which led to the CII’s current governance structure and the introduction of a diversity policy for companies and members. 

Sian has held a wide variety of senior executive roles in the insurance sector giving a rare perspective across Lloyd’s syndicate underwriting, international specialist insurance, corporate management, Managing General Agents (MGAs), entrepreneurial start-ups, US Global broking and the Royal Chartered Professional Body for insurance and personal finance.
She held Board level roles as Managing Director of Hiscox Insurance Co, as Co-Founder and Managing Director at Oxygen (OIM) which was sold to Arthur J Gallagher, now renamed Pen Underwriting, and as CEO of the Chartered Insurance Institute. While at Gallagher she was also a Founder and original Board member of the Managing General Agents’ Association.
Having made the move from full-time Exec to Non- Exec roles in 2022, she is currently the Senior Non-Executive Director on the Board of SCOR UK and the Non-Executive Director on the Board of Asta Underwriting Management Ltd.
A graduate of Oxford University with an Exec MBA from Harvard, Sian is a strong advocate for ED&I. She was co- founder and Chair of the “Insuring Women’s Futures” (IWF) campaign, a founder member of the Insurance Supper Club (ISC) and a founder Board member of Insurance United Against Dementia (IUAD).

Peter has over 30 years senior level experience in the insurance industry and has held a number of CEO and Chairman roles.  Peter was previously the CEO at esure Insurance and has also held senior roles at Direct Line, Legal & General, Barbon Insurance and two U.S. insurers.

Peter has recently been leading Kudo, an InsurTech motor insurance MGA.  He is known for leading businesses of a disruptive nature, and being an industry innovator.

Joined the insurance industry as a school leaver over 30 years ago and since then has held a broad range of roles from mailroom to boardroom both as an insurer and broker.

Most recently as Chief Customer Officer at Atlanta Group, with accountability for 2m customers across 14 brands, before making the move to set up own business focussing on Advising Boards and Exec Coaching & Mentoring. 

Passionate about the insurance industry and driving success by putting the customer first and developing/retaining talent.  A strong advocate of insurance as a career choice.

Emma began her career in financial journalism in 2003 as pensions reporter on the Financial Times’s weekly Financial Adviser newspaper. Between 2003 and 2019 she edited several of the FT's award-winning titles for intermediaries, including Financial Adviser, Mortgage Adviser and FTAdviser.

As well as winning multiple awards over the course of her career for breaking exclusive news as well as in-depth reports, she has spoken at the Conservative party conference and appeared on BBC radio programmes talking about personal finance.

In 2019 she joined the Chartered Insurance Institute as communications director and was responsible for the production of its publication for insurance professionals The Journal and CII Radio podcasts. She joined Insurance Post as their 21st Editor in November 2022.

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. 

Beginning his career as an underwriter in the company market he joined AXA Commercial in 1999 managing their strategic MGA/DA partnerships before progressing to Managing Director of their Personal Lines business (excluding direct). Leaving AXA in 2011, he joined the board at UK General, one of the UK’s largest MGAs, where he took responsibility for the Commercial portfolio introducing a successful targeted UK small regional broker strategy.  

From 2016, Mike held Executive positions in the Broker sector before working with West Hill Capital in launching a new MGA Insuretech start-up, Qlaims. 

In 2022 Mike was included in the Top 100 Global Leaders by Insurance Magazine

Jane Portas is a financial educator, author of The Risks in Life Series of award-winning insight reports and financial life guides, and the creator of 6 Moments That Matter, a unique, risk-based, six life-stage approach to help people and organisations to improve financial wellbeing and secure fair financial futures.  A scientist and chartered accountant, Jane is a former “big four” professional services partner with over 30 years’ experience of advising financial firms on governance, risk and regulation, financial solvency, customer outcomes and financial vulnerability.  She is a member of Women’s Business Council, an adviser to the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, and co-founder of Insuring Women’s Futures where the Market Task Force Manifesto she authored inspired the Money and Pensions Service to embed gender in the UK strategy for financial wellbeing.  She was awarded an OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to business and to equality. 

Hannah Kate is Operations & Engagement Director at Lloyd’s, progressing the delivery of Blueprint Two; a complex multi-year strategy to digitalise the London insurance market. She joined the industry as an Underwriting Assistant at RSA Group and in the years that followed, undertook a range of roles in underwriting, sales and development, strategy and marketing across RSA’s UK, European and International businesses. In 2018, Hannah moved to Lloyd’s as Chief of Staff to Performance Management Director. Since then, she has served as Chief of Staff to Lloyd’s CEO and as Market Engagement & Global Communications Director, before being promoted to her current role in 2023. Hannah is passionate about building a more inclusive and accessible insurance industry for all; in particular, supporting up and coming talent, and advocating for more women in leadership.

David has over 30 years’ experience in General Insurance, roles including Reinsurance Manager, Casualty Insurance Manager, Managing Director Claims and Managing Director of Underwriting & Technical Services.

In 2018 he was recognised as Social Media Influencer of the year, and in 2019 he won both the Insurance Post Claims Achievement Award, as well as being named Insurance Personality of the Year at the British Insurance Awards.

David led AXA’s work on Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, including work with five Government backed Consortia. He was Chair of the ABI Motor Committee & Autonomous Driving Group and sat on the ABI GIC for several years. He now sits on the newly formed Thatcham Research ‘Strategic Technical Advisory Board’

David was a Vice President of the CII Nationally, was a founding member of the joint CII / CILA Faculty of Claims, and was Chair of the CII Underwriting Faculty for almost a decade. He holds Non-Exec Director roles at Qlaims and Freedom Services Group. He was until recently Chair of RISCAuthority, and remains a Board Member of the Fire Protection Association (FPA).

He speaks regularly at conferences and other events and has also appeared on Sky TV, BBC Breakfast TV, BBC and Channel 4 News, as well as Radio 4’s ‘Today’ Programme, being interviewed on topics varying from Compensation Culture to Business Crime.

David originally hails from Bristol (explaining his passion for Bristol Rovers!) but now lives in Suffolk with his wife Catherine and two sons Evan (17) & Ryan (15)