Ex-Tesla Insurance Europe | Ex-Zego | FCII | FCA • GFSC • MFSA Approved
Non Executive Director Appointments
Board-level oversight and governance support.
The Problem
High-growth insurance firms often face a "governance gap", where traditional oversight doesn't match the speed of modern innovation.
Detached Governance: Traditional NEDs often provide oversight from a distance, lacking the "scar tissue" from actually running a modern insurance business.
Cultural Friction: Rigid, corporate-heavy frameworks being forced onto agile Insurtechs or scaling MGAs.
Theoretical vs. Operational: Boards that understand risk in theory but struggle to provide practical challenge on underwriting, pricing, or claims.
Regulatory Hurdles: The challenge of proving to authorities that your board possesses the hands-on experience required for carrier ownership or global expansion.
Our Approach
- Active participation in board and committee meetings
- Strategic guidance and constructive challenge to the Executive team
- Oversight of key initiatives, including market entry, transformation, and scaling
- Underwriting, Pricing, Claims, Risk or Audit committee chair roles where appropriate
- Regulatory credibility from having held approved person status with multiple authorities
- A multi-jurisdictional perspective from operating across Global Insurance markets
- Ability to increase involvement during crisis, transformation, or rapid scaling periods
- Typical duration: 36 months (renewable)
- Insurtechs lacking operational insurance expertise at board level
- MGAs planning carrier ownership and needing regulatory credibility
- Carriers expanding internationally and requiring multi-jurisdiction experience
- PE-backed insurance businesses seeking operational value creation
- Boards that need operational expertise alongside governance oversight.
Most NEDs provide governance from a distance -quarterly board meetings, committee work, and strategic oversight. That's fine for mature companies with stable operations.
Insurtechs and growing MGAs need something different. You need NEDs who've actually run insurance businesses in modern cultures, who understand both your operational reality and regulatory requirements, who can increase involvement during critical periods without making everything corporate.
We've been insurtech CEOs with regulatory approval. We can sit in your board meetings in business casual and still satisfy regulators that you have credible governance. We bring operational depth, not just oversight.
Who It Is For
Insurtechs Founders & CEOs
Visionaries who have the tech but need "approved person" credibility and seasoned operational insurance expertise at the board table.
MGAs Transitioning to Carriers
Teams navigating the move to full carrier ownership who require a steady hand to manage new regulatory relationships and capital requirements.
Carriers Expanding Internationally
Established players entering the UK, Europe, Middle East, or Asia who need a multi-jurisdictional perspective and local market "know-how."
PE-Backed Insurance Ventures
Private Equity firms looking for board-level oversight that prioritizes genuine operational value creation over simple box-ticking.
Modern Boards
Organizations that want directors who can sit in a meeting in business casual, speak the language of tech, and still command total regulatory respect.
Related Guides & Resources
Practical insights for insurance operators and founders.
Board Questions
Ten questions drawn from real board experience that most Insurtechs boards never ask, but should, before the crisis that makes them obvious.
Operator NEDs
The board seat most Insurtechs don't know they're missing, until they hit a regulatory wall, a reinsurance crisis, or a loss ratio they can't explain.
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