Sp Ep Graham Elliott CEO Crux Underwriting: Seeking Alpha

Today’s episode is an absolute blast. That’s because the person I
am talking to is unique. And I think that’s because he spent
quite a large proportion of his career a long way outside
insurance and discovered our sector relatively late. But the
crucial point is that it wasn’t that late. Graham Elliot CEO of
Crux Underwriting had enough experience outside the sector not to
be too dyed in the wool and full of industry preconceptions, but
he has been with us long enough to have had time to have already
made a serious entrepreneurial impact on our sector at Oxygen
Insurance Brokers, Aqua Underwriting and Azur Group. I first met
him about eight years ago at the beginning of the insurtech boom
and found him incredibly valuable as someone who was very
eloquent and adept at explaining the benefits of technology to a
traditional insurance audience in words it could understand.
Graham’s latest venture is Crux Underwriting, a new Lloyd’s MGA
he has set up with experienced Political Risk and Political
Violence underwriter, Mike O’Connor. But this podcast is way
broader than Crux’s opening line of business. Our talk is an
incredibly wide-ranging tour of the most advanced thinking around
how global wholesale and specialty insurance and reinsurance is
set to develop in the digital age that is currently dawning. AI,
algorithmic trading, genuinely realtime digitised underwriting
systems and the reasons behind the boom in MGAs are all discussed
in great detail. If you still haven’t quite got your head around
where the market is likely to be heading after our digital big
bang is finally reached, I recommend this talk as a wonderful
place to start. Graham is charismatic and charming and I
guarantee it won’t be long before your imagination is sparked and
you are swept up in the positive appreciation of some of the
enormous opportunities that are available to smart entrepreneurs
in today’s market. This is a great way to start the year. LINKS
We thank our Special Episode sponsor Stephens Rickard:
https://www.stephensrickard.com/