Marking the expansion of its digital trading team, Lloyd’s insurer AEGIS London has announced the appointments of Iain Lewers as digital business development analyst and Mark Wilding as digital product development specialist. In their new roles, Lewers and Wilding will report into Calum Williams, who has also taken on the new role of digital development manager.
Lewers’ experience includes time with WTW and taking on senior broking and production roles at Tysers and Gallagher. He spent years working with the OPAL team in the promotion of the platform and has explored different distribution channels for its products. OPAL is AEGIS London’s quote-and-bind platform. In his new role at AEGIS London, Lewers will help drive the commercialisation and distribution of the company’s digital products.
Meanwhile, Wilding started his career as a broker and then later leaning towards underwriting where he moved into consultancy, change delivery and product. He previously worked at Liberty Specialty Markets where he made a significant contribution to creating the digital team and saw the successful launches of contractors all risks, terror and aviation (drone) specialty digital products.
Williams’ experience includes time spent across multiple classes as both a broker and underwriter. Bringing his expertise to his new role, he will be looking after the distribution of digital product offerings and the development of new products for OPAL. He will report to Tom Squires, head of digital trading at AEGIS London.
“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,” said Squires. “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.”
“Right now, we see 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,” said Williams.
“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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