Niall Barton

Niall has had a 39-year long career in insurance, as both a broker and an underwriter, and in that time has sat on the board of numerous insurance sector companies. He brings a wealth of expertise from the insurance industry from a strategic, operational and commercial point-of-view , which he uses to guide Wrisk as it grows from a start-up to a global  leader in the digital evolution of the insurance sector.

His career started in 1976 as a reinsurance broker with the North American Non-Marine Reinsurance Division of C.T.Bowring (now Marsh). In 1984, he joined DP Mann Underwriting Agency (now Faraday) for its first year of operation. From 1984 to 2002, he was a director of DP Mann Holdings Ltd. He became Director of Underwriting in 1994 and continued the role till becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2000.

Niall has performed various executive and non-executive committee and director appointments within the Lloyds of London market. As a passionate promoter of reform in the London Market, he was a member of the first IUA/Lloyd's Forum, and chaired both the LMP 2001 project and the London Market Reform Group Executive Committee. He was also chairman and a co-founder of Insurtech UK, the trade association for insurtech companies in the UK.