Ep221 Tim Ronda: A rare moment where everyone can win

It's the ultimate job of a Broker to make insurance and
reinsurance deals happen.


You can’t make things happen if you’re too shy to talk to anyone,
or not good at listening. 


Once you have listened you then need to be empathetic and
understand the nuances and intentions of the parties to a
transaction.


You also need to be able to make a point eloquently and sometimes
forcefully.


All the above explains why brokers tend to make such good podcast
guests!


And today, as our thoughts start to turn towards reinsurance, the
autumn conference season and the 1.1 renewals that eventually
follow, it’s fitting that we have a prominent reinsurance broker
on the show.


Tim Ronda the CEO of Howden Re is the consummate reinsurance
broker and Howden Re is the largest and probably most aggressive
challenger reinsurance broker of the pack.


However with annual revenues approaching $600mn I wonder if the
word Challenger really makes much sense any more and we might
soon be simply describing Howden Re as an additional global
reinsurance broker, to the three that now exist?


This conversation is a great primer for the state of the
reinsurance market with a broker who now has the critical mass to
get good visibility on large swathes of it.


It’s also a chance to have an update on the most ambitious
reinsurance broking build-out of recent times and check in with
where this now maturing project is heading.


Tim’s a font of knowledge and really good fun to spend time with.


I really enjoyed this podcast and I’m sure you will too.


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