Ep 91 Bob Kimmel CEO of K2 Insurance Services: On the hunt for talent and capacity

Bob Kimmel the CEO of K2 insurance services came on my radar and
that of most other London-based insurance folk when last year his
US-based MGA group picked up the remnants of what had been the
Pioneer group of MGAs to form K2 International. K2 owns a major
collection of MGAs in the US, writes over a billion dollars in
premium and is highly acquisitive both of talent, new agencies
and other ancillary insurance businesses I didn’t know Bob
personally and researching K2 ahead of our London meeting I
suppose I came into this podcast with lots of preconceptions
about what the CEO of such a fast-growing and aggressively
expansive US-headquartered group would be like. I was completely
wrong. Bob is clearly very ambitious for K2 but he is also very
easygoing and charming as well as being disarming about how steep
the learning curve has been for him, a former reinsurance broker,
moving much closer to the end insurance customer in the decade
since K2’s formation. New MGA start-ups and acquisitions, a
potential Lloyd’s syndicate in the offing and a conscious hunt
for talent in specific classes – Bob’s in-tray is absolutely
overflowing and in this interview he discusses all aspects of MGA
management in a disarmingly open way. I really enjoyed my time
with Bob and I think you will too. LINKS


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