• Leads a customer-focused account team which consistently delivers optimal & complex risk financing solutions for multinational clients, securing results on time and within budget.• Builds deep customer & market relationships in order that business development opportunities are identified, analysed and secured against mutually aligned objectives.• Enhanced strategic planning & business development to broaden the suite of solutions provided to customers into new solution lines such as Trade Credit, Cyber Consultancy and Employee Benefits.• Experienced in new business processes from analysis of customer needs to written report/presentation.• Established a track record of delivering financial results, surpassing annual targets through customer retention, cross-selling, delivering new projects and achieving performance-related bonuses.

• Developed strong relationships with risk managers, team members, placing brokers & insurers, ensuring optimal solutions are delivered in a fast-paced environment.• Key areas of focus included Property, Casualty, Marine, Financial lines and cross-class solutions.• Selected by customers as their account director & by Aon management to line-manage Aon’s new talent.• Identified and secured opportunities to analyse risk-bearing capacity and optimise global programme risk retention strategy.• Broad customer sector spread including pharmaceuticals, oil & gas and fast-moving consumer goods.

Managed a diverse portfolio of multinational corporate clients, all of whom are sophisticated insurance buyers, with complex insurance needs. Developed first-hand knowledge of the risk identification and risk financing challenges faced by my clients, as well as the solutions that may assist.

Focussed on banking and manufacturing sectors for UK based FTSE 250 multinational companies

Casualty Insurance Broker Developed several schemes and facilitiesIncreased the client base by circa 25% and year-on-year income by 35% two years running

Technical co-ordinator of Barclays’ Legal Protection & Domestic Emergency Cover