About Ian

Throughout his career, Ian has had the privilege of working for small and multi-national organisations in both insurance broking and underwriting, which has given him a vast breadth of knowledge across the industry.

His career highlights include being one of the most successful business development executives in the sales team at JLT whilst he was there from 2005-2008 and helping to establish the UK regional network of a multi-national US carrier. Having joined Miles Smith in 2018, a real highlight for Ian has been playing a pivotal part in the development of SRG. He set up our Portfolio Management team and has served on the Group ExCom since its inception in 2019.

Ian is passionate about diversity and equality and seeing people and the business succeed in terms of growth and hitting the numbers. His goal is to build a business where people enjoy working and have successful careers, as well as creating a workplace that people want to join and be part of.

Career to date

Ian’s insurance career started in August 1993 when he joined a small regional broker in the business development team. At just 26 he was promoted to lead the new business function, a huge milestone in his career, and after 12 years he moved over to what was JLT to lead the sales team in the UK. Ian then moved over to the insurance company market and worked at leading Japanese and US insurers and in 2016 was head hunted to lead the sales and distribution team of a leading Lloyd’s syndicate before joining what was Miles Smith Insurance Solutions as Sales and Development Director in 2018. In 2020, Ian set up SRG’s Portfolio Management function and in January 2023, he was promoted to Managing Director of our Speciality Underwriting business, MX.

As Managing Director, Ian leads MX from a business planning and budgetary perspective. His responsibilities include developing talent, looking for new opportunities to grow, both strategically and organically, and working with the Group ExCom to deliver the overall Group strategy.