MGAA appoints newly created Technical Services Manager role
The Managing General Agents’ Association has appointed Tim Richards Dip CII to the newly created role of Technical Services Manager as part of its wider growth and development strategy.
Tim will report directly to CEO Mike Keating and will be responsible for supporting the Association’s plans to extend its influence in the market by growing its membership, developing, and driving forward technical content and events, and pro-actively engaging with governing and industry bodies.
Tim has over 25 years’ insurance market experience and joins from Towergate Insurance Brokers, where he was a caring professions underwriter. He was previously High Net Worth underwriter at MS Amlin, having also held household underwriting roles at Canopius Managing Agents and Equity Red Star. Prior to that he worked for Willis and Marsh.
Mike Keating, CEO, MGAA commented on the appointment:
“The MGAA sector is growing rapidly in both size and importance to UK plc, writing over £6bn in GWP a year and providing essential and often specialist cover. Tim’s appointment is directly related to membership feedback from our last comprehensive survey and compliments our 3-year vision to have the MGAA recognised as the Third Force within the UK general insurance market.
He will play a pivotal role in developing relevant technical content for the benefit of all MGA community stakeholders.”
Authored by the MGAA
About MGAA
The Managing General Agents' Association is a not-for-profit trade association representing true MGAs. Our aim is to represent and support the UK MGA market. We work within the professional framework of the Chartered Insurance Institute and our members sign the MGAA Code of ethics.
Managing General Agents (MGAs) are an important, established and fast-growing sector of the UK insurance industry.
Over 300 MGAs currently underwrite over 10% of the UK’s £47 billion general insurance market premiums.
MGAs deserve specific representation to lobby on their behalf, communicate their considerable benefits and drive best practice.
The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) was formed in 2011 to fulfil this role.
The total number of full MGA members now stands at 101, which collectively represent over £3.5bn of underwriting capacity.