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Pursuing Better Together

Pursuing Better Together
Author: Arch Insurance
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During these Arch Insurance ’Pursuing Better Together’ podcasts, we talk to luminaries from both inside and outside the insurance industry about how they have ’pursued better’ within their chosen professions.
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Jay Rajendra is Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at Arch Capital Group Ltd., responsible for pursuing new business models and technologies as well as leading Arch’s capabilities to improve sustainable growth. In this episode, Jay discusses the progress and innovations taking place to ensure Arch becomes a first-choice digital partner, a leader in analytics adoption and a smart user of automation to improve efficiency and service for our brokers and customers.
Mark Lomas is the Head of Culture at Lloyd’s of London, responsible for DE&I, employee engagement and wellbeing across Lloyd’s and overseeing market-wide DE&I efforts. During the episode, Mark discusses the positive change happening across the Lloyd’s market, Dive In Festival and the collaborative effort required by the market to accelerate progress.
Caroline Wagstaff is the CEO of the campaigning organisation, the London Market Group. A communications professional with 25 years’ experience in the market, Caroline speaks about helping the London Market to speak with one voice, from advocating accountability for regulators to selling the idea of insurance as a career to young people during this episode.
Dawn Miller is Commercial Director of Lloyd’s of London. In a role that is at the core of many of Lloyd’s market-changing developments, during the episode Dawn talks all things innovation, from the Lloyd’s Lab through to the FutureMinds programme and empowering the next generation of talent.
Christy Caragol is SVP for Talent Management and Diversity & Inclusion at Arch Capital Group Ltd. During the episode, Christy discusses the barriers to creating truly inclusive workplace cultures and the collective effort required to make the most of diversity of talent.
In this episode we celebrate International Women’s Day with the UK Co-Chairs of the Arch Women & Allies Network. During the bitesize episode, Gaia Corbetta, Senior Actuarial Analyst and Barbara Rizzi, Head of Third Party Claims discuss the network’s efforts to enhance career development opportunities for women within the company and the industry as a whole.
Peter Blanc is Executive Chairman of Howden UK and Ireland. With decades as an insurance industry intermediary and an impressive history of mergers and acquisitions, Peter reflects on lessons learnt and the art of bringing people together, both within organisations and when considering the broker-underwriter relationship.
Julia Graham is CEO of Airmic, the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers. With a career spanning the worlds of both risk management and insurance, during the episode Julia discusses how a collaborative approach is more important than ever to keep pace with the rapid evolution of risk.
Vicky Carter is Chair of Global Capital Solutions, International for Guy Carpenter, and Deputy Chair of Lloyd’s. A true pioneer of the reinsurance market, Vicky talks about her drive to succeed to in the (re)insurance arena, the importance of empowering the next generation of talent, and why collaboration will be key for Lloyd’s and the wider insurance industry to remain relevant.
Sanj Srikanthan is the Chief Executive of disaster relief charity ShelterBox. During this inspiring discussion, Sanj talks about the organisation’s work in helping communities recover from natural disasters and build resilience against future events.
Mark Geoghegan is the Editor of The Voice of Insurance podcast and long-time market journalist. During this episode, we put Mark in the interview seat to discuss his experience of switching careers from broking to journalism, his position as a market commentator and how he views the evolution of the London Market from his unique perspective.
Andrew Fairbairn is Co-Chair of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) London and SVP of SEO USA, a charity set up to provide young talent from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds with access to career opportunities. Having begun his journey with SEO as a career intern for Lehman Brothers in 1995, Andrew discusses the positive impact of the charity’s work and how fostering greater diversity, equity and inclusion within organisations is critical for long-term business success.
Highlights from our climate conversation with Daniel Stander, Special Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme, leading the UN's in-country work addressing issues of poverty, inequality and climate risk around the world.
Daniel Stander is an influential figure at the the interface between public policy and the private sector, best known in his capacity as Special Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme. During this honest conversation, we talk climate, discussing the need for greater public/private sector collaboration on this critical challenge, the intrinsic societal value of the insurance sector and how the resilience debate is shifting from purely mitigation focussed to adaptive strategies.
Highlights from our conversation with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, one of the UK’s most successful athletes, 11-time Paralympic winner and six-time London Marathon winner. She is also a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords, TV personality, author, and motivational speaker.
Baroness (Tanni) Grey-Thompson DBE is one of the UK’s most successful athletes, winning 11 Paralympic Golds and six London Marathons. She is also a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords, TV personality, author, and motivational speaker. In her trademark down-to-earth fashion, Tanni discusses the crucial role that ‘critical friends’ have played in her success and how fearing failure shouldn’t mean being afraid of putting yourself on the starting line.
Highlights from our conversation with Kate Richardson-Walsh, the most capped female hockey payer in British history, a Gold-medal winning captain of the GB women’s hockey team and a BBC broadcaster.
Kate Richardson-Walsh is best known as the most capped female hockey player in British history, a Gold-medal winning captain of the GB women’s hockey team and a BBC broadcaster. During a candid discussion, Kate talks about the importance of vulnerability in great leadership and the cultural transformation that saw the GB women’s hockey team go from 2nd bottom in the World Championship to Olympic Champions in just 2 years.