In today’s episode we meet a strong broker of many years’ experience and with subject expertise and contacts that many would take multiple careers to accumulate. She has had a senior career at many of the top independent brokers.
Over recent times I have come to know and respect her as one of those people that always speaks their mind and comes as a breath of fresh air with their own perspective on what is happening in the marketplace.
Vanessa Macdonald Smith is a former CEO of JLT Fac and is now in a new role as Executive Director and Head of D&F at Oneglobal Broking.
She has a broad and senior view of the market but has her feet close enough on the ground to be fully in touch.
In this podcast we look at today’s hard market and OneGlobal’s plans to grow into it, the opportunity for independents as the big brokers consolidate and what it is like to be a senior woman working in a time of cultural turmoil and great change.
I always enjoy time spent with Vanessa and I think you will too.
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We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo - enabling underwriters to increase the speed and accuracy of decision making:
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We also thank Claims Direct Access (CDA) for their support today:
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