Meet the Team

Phil co-founded IASL in 2013 and has worked in retail financial services for 30 years performing senior and board roles across distribution and underwriting functions for HSBC and Close Brothers. Prior to Intelligent Insurance he served as Operations Director and Finance Director at Insure4Retirement. Phil ensures investments made in technology and data science functions drive further improvements to underwriting performance and customer experience. He is a Chartered Accountant beginning his career with Ernst & Young in London.

Claire is an expert in creating customer centric products, marketing and services across the personal lines insurance market. Since joining the business in 2016, she has delivered a lean operating model that also enjoys market leading levels of customer advocacy. Claire has more than 25 years’ experience, starting her career with Ageas, where she led the sales area for over 50's home insurance provider RIAS. Prior to joining Intelligent Insurance, Claire held Operational leadership roles at I4R and A J Gallagher.

Beginning her career in Finance working in Wholesale, Retail and Engineering, Helen moved into the Financial Services industry in 2004. Working with Mortgage Intelligence Helen headed up the Financial Management and Financial Operations functions, working closely with Senior Management providing annual budgets and forecasts for the board and group for 6 years. Helen joined Intelligent Insurance in 2015 as part of the strategic management team and is responsible for all elements of business forecasting and financial control.

David joined Intelligent Insurance early in 2018. Over his 20 year career, the majority of his experience has been garnered within the financial services industry, and 6 years working within the Lloyd's market. In his role at Intelligent Insurance, David is responsible for strategic planning and delivery of all IT services whilst maintaining a strong security posture and embedding secure and efficient controls, processes and practices.

In his role as Director of Pricing & Insight, David has developed the analytics and pricing functions in the business. He has produced models and loss ratio reporting capabilities which drive underwriting and rating actions, and has also developed the capability to optimise purchase price based on a customer’s unique profile. David previously held senior positions at A J Gallagher, Swinton and Equity Red Star.