David Perry – Chairman
David originally trained at Sun Alliance as a Commercial Underwriter then spent time at Minets and CGA. He spent 10 Years growing Warren Hill to six offices across the UK (winning a British Insurance Award for Marketing Initiative of the Year along the way) before selling to Folgate in 2003. David was appointed Regional Managing Director in Towergate controlling the Central Region 2005/2006 before taking on the role of Head of Sales in Towergate during 2007. He was appointed Sales and Marketing Director at CCV in 2008.
David is a Past Chairman of the Insurance Institute of Worthing and West Sussex and has been actively involved with BIBA for 10 years, the last two as Chairman of the South East Region, and currently as Chairman of the General Insurance Brokers' Committee..
Paul Dickson
Paul, 53, is the Chief Executive of insurance broking and financial services firm, Dickson Insurance Brokers Ltd which he founded in 1986. His insurance career started in 1973 at the National Coal Board's pension fund, CIN Properties. Paul joined Lloyd's Broker Towry Law in 1977 and went on to become Divisional Director with responsibility for the Head Office commercial department, looking after large national and multinational clients. Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute. He is also the Mail on Sunday's principal general insurance contributor for its widely read Ask the Experts column. Dicksons provides corporate insurance, financial services, risk management and due diligence work, all for the business insurance sector, and notably the technology and venture capital arena.
Derek Walker
Derek has been involved in the insurance industry since the early 1980's when he joined his
Fathers brokerage. Apart from a short spell when he joined Chesterfield FC as a professional football
player, he has been involved in broking ever since. In 1994 the family business merged with Pearson Insurance Consultants and then in 2002 the Company joined forces with Clark Thomson Insurance Brokers Limited. Away from Insurance Derek is a keen golfer, playing off a handicap of 7 and follows St Johnstone Football Club where he is a season ticket holder along with his two children.
Kevin Hancock
Most of the first dozen years of Kevin's insurance career was spent with Provincial Insurance in various sales roles. Kevin joined The Davis Group in 1998 and became Group Managing Director. The business subsequently became part of Venture Preference (now Bluefin) in 2007. As a Regional Director for Bluefin, Kevin's main responsibility is for the continued development of all aspects of the Newmarket & Dartford offices and he is also a member of a number of Group-wide review teams.
Kevin has been an active member of the regional BIBA committee for a number of years and was Regional Chairman of BIBA Anglia from 2005 to 2007.
Kevin has also had 3 years as Chairman of the Newmarket Business Association. The Association is a local business development and networking association. NBA represents more than 100 outstanding local business organisations. Kevin is also an Honorary Commander of the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath.
Kevin lives near Newmarket and has two children and is a partner in Jemco Racing. He can often be found at one of the UK 's race circuits as one of Jemco's regular drivers. The team finished 8 th overall in the Britcar 24 hour race at Silverstone in 2008.
Ian Dickinson
Ian has been working within the insurance broking arena for the last 32 years. He has worked with The Brunsdon Group for the last 25 years, having also been the MD of the group's Bristol operation for 20 years.
He is currently Head of Compliance and Training with oversight for Projects and Integration.
A past BIBA regional chairman, Ian also sits on the BIBA Compliance Working Party and is a member of the FSA Smaller Businesses Practitioner Panel.
Eamonn Browne
Eamonn has been in insurance since November 1972 when he became a trainee with Royal Insurance in Coventry , he is now an ACII. In 1976 he joined Powell & Co, a primarily mortgage brokerage in Coventry . He became a partner in 1980 and later a Director in 1990 when the business change it's name to James & Brown (Insurance Brokers) Limited.
Eamonn has been involved with BIBA since 1979 and have worked with the West Midlands Region Committee since 1980 working as Secretary. I have been an active member of the GIBC and BIBA Board. In 1996 I reformed the motor panel technical committee and remain on the panel to this day.
In addition, I was greatly honoured to have been the recipient of BIBA's prestigious Francis Perkins Award.
Dennis Morgan
Denis has been in insurance since 1973 when he joined General Accident. During this time he had a range of managerial roles. In 2001 he found a broker co-operative - Nexus Group. In 2005 he joined Westinsure Group plc as Operations Director and was appointed Managing Director in January 2007.
Denis has been a member of the CII since 1973. and is a past president of both the Insurance Institutes in Exeter and Plymouth . Denis joined the GIBC in 2007 as a co-opted member.
Denis is married and has 3 daughters and has parachuted, bungee jumped and flown microlights.
Gary Ferguson
Managing Director of Wood & Craven Limited based in Lytham, Lancashire . Gary purchased the business in 1996 having had a varied broking career working for national brokers, a Dutch owned Lloyd's operation and a 4 year stint working for a large ‘Pac West' broker in Oregon , USA . He has been on the Greater Manchester and West Pennine BIBA committee for 7 years.
Peter Lennon
Peter began his broking career in Belfast in 1985 with Bowring Martin, now part of the global Marsh organisation. After 3 years with Bowrings, he worked for 2 local independent Broking firms to gain additional experience before settling down with Willis & Company Ltd in 1992.
In 1998 he was appointed to the Board of Willis & Company where he is responsible for client servicing and operations including IT and Compliance.
Peter is a Past Chairman of the Northern Ireland region of BIBA and continues to serve on the local committee and is in his second 3 year term on the GIBC.
Chris Swain 
Chris has worked in insurance since 1981 when he started as a trainee in General Accident Insurance.
He has held many positions in a managerial before joining Ingram Hawkins & Nock Insurance Brokers as a Senior Account Executive and was appointed as a Director on 1 st May 2008.
Chris joined the BIBA West Midlands committee in 1997 as the appointed Dinner Secretary, a role which Chris still carries out today. He was elected as Chairman in 2003 and in September 2008 was elected onto the General Insurance Brokers Committee (GIBC) representing Brokers in the West Midlands region.
Chris is heavily involved with activities ranging from 6 months trekking, cycling and abseiling across the sand dunes of the Namibia Desert to half marathons and has contributed in successfully raising over £15,000 from sponsorship.
I have worked in insurance broking since 1981 starting out at Reed Stenhouse (Now Aon) in their local office in Grimsby . A brief spell at a personal lines brokerage was followed by a move to Sutcliffe Solloway & Co Ltd as a commercial account handler. I subsequently relocated to Kent in order to take up a position with Capital & County Insurance brokers where I spent six years in an Office Managers role.
Moving back to Grimsby in 2002 I rejoined Sutcliffe Solloway & Co Ltd initially as Insurance Manager. I began to get involved in compliance following the need to be regulated by the FSA in 2005. The company acquired Weller Russell & Laws in 2007 at which time I took up the role of Group Compliance Manager.
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