Stuart Forrester joins Avantia

Avantia, the high-growth virtual insurer behind the Homeprotect brand, has expanded its team with the appointment of a Claims Director. Stuart Forrester joins as Claims Director and will be responsible for building on the work already started to create a data driven high performing claims value chain. Mark Eastham, CEO at Avantia Group, said: “Stuart’s appointment now completes our current … Read More

Avantia Expands Management Team

Avantia, the high-growth virtual insurer behind the Homeprotect brand, has expanded its team with the appointment of a CFO and a Customer Services Director. Tim Clancy joins as CFO and will be responsible for developing a number of strategic plans across the organisation. He joins from Appreciate Group, where he held the role of CFO.

Using Intelligent Decisioning to drive a 40% boost in Paid Search ROI

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How can I sustainably grow the business and who should I market to? These are the key questions facing marketeers across most industries. In insurance, where the profitability of each policy is variable at the point of sale, answering these questions accurately is paramount. Getting it wrong can be costly and this is especially true in paid search where the wrong … Read More

Talking machine learning and risk pricing with the Fintech Times

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Avantia’s Chief Commercial Officer, Richard Wilson, talks to the Fintech Times about the growing need for advanced techniques including machine learning in insurance risk pricing. Richard explains why data is critical to insurers, why Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) are increasingly no longer enough, and how Avantia’s teams tackle the blind spots of individual machine learning models. Read the full article on … Read More