Our leadership
Leadership
Matthew Crane, CEO
With an impressive career of 30 years, our CEO Matthew is an experienced insurance executive in underwriting, broking, sales and distribution and client management spanning many parts of the globe and being heavily involved with multinational clients. He joined us from Amwins Global Risks (formerly THB) where he held the position of CEO, as well as International President for Amwins. Prior to that, Matthew spent the majority of his career at QBE in senior roles including Executive Director for Market Management, Managing Director for UK & Ireland, as well as Director for QBE Motor & Product Protection.
Stuart Webb, Managing Director
Stuart is a Chartered Insurer with extensive underwriting operations and leadership experience and a strong technical background. His career has included extended periods with well-known names including NIG and Independent Insurance Company. Stuart joined from Pen Underwriting and was pivotal in establishing Q Underwriting in 2018.
Matthew Schofield, Chief Underwriting Officer
Matthew leads Q Underwriting’s Managing General Underwriter (MGU) and is Chief Underwriting Officer. He is responsible for binding authorities in Q Underwriting and across PIB Group and is focused on delivering profitable arrangements with capacity providers. Matt joined Q Underwriting from UK General where he was Chief Commercial Officer, having previously held senior technical appointments across private clients, construction, and other business during a thirty-year career with Zurich.
Nenesko Williams, Finance Director
Nes is an experienced FD, with a demonstrated history in the insurance industry. Nes is responsible for steering the division from a financial perspective with a focus on improving processes, driving growth, and hitting budget. Nes is also Finance Director for PIB Group’s Schemes and Affinity division.
Paul Gerada, Strategy and Operations Director
With 20+ years in various senior roles across the insurance industry, including at Bluefin/Jelf, Paul has previously run commercial and personal lines broking businesses, change and integration teams and M&A functions. Paul joined PIB Group in the early stages of their formation, and has held influential positions across the Group before joining Q Underwriting 2019.
Duncan Scott, Head of Underwriting Operations, Property
Coming from an Underwriting background, Duncan is a veteran of the MGA sector and has extensive knowledge of the sector having been responsible for managing and developing both start-ups and large corporate models. He has experience of working with capacity delivered by composite, Lloyd’s, and alternative risk solution markets.
Paul Humphries, Head of Underwriting Operations, Motor
Paul heads our Motor division; he previously worked with TFP Schemes since the company was launched in 1998 and before this, held roles at a number of brokers in South Wales. Paul has extensive experience across several functions in the business and is a familiar face to many of our broker partners. With 30+ years’ spent in the commercial motor market, Paul’s knowledge in this sector is invaluable.
Stuart Morris, Head of Underwriting Operations, Casualty
Stuart has held leadership roles in Sales, Operations & Risk and Compliance functions in both the commercial broking and Financial Services sector. He is focused on delivering the ambitious growth plans for Q Underwriting’s liability and construction proposition working closely with colleagues on product development, broker relationships and service delivery.
Christian Burton, Head of Sales and Distribution
Christian has extensive sales and development experience across many different areas of the Insurance industry. Starting his career at Axa Direct before spending 9 years working for an established broker. In recent years Christian has worked for MGAs ensuring strong relationships are built and maintained with Broker partners. With Q Underwriting Christian is focused on managing and developing key broker partners through the Key Account and Broker Development teams.
Mike Hudson, Managing Director, Q Solutions
Mike is responsible for establishing and growing a new sub-brand of Q Underwriting - Q Solutions - which delivers bespoke products for large client segment opportunities with our key broker partners. Mike does this alongside overseeing our marketing function and supporting IT & Systems strategy; he has been involved in the business since Q Underwriting was conceived in 2018.