Pursuing Better Together

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.