Clare has been involved in the insurance industry for over 30 years. She’s held senior positions at three of the four largest insurance brokers in the London Market. In her early career, Clare was a London Market reinsurance broker focusing on advising Lloyd’s syndicates on their reinsurance programme.

Prior to joining SRG, Clare was chief executive of the London Market Group (LMG), a market-wide body bringing together the specialist commercial (re)insurance broking and underwriting communities to build on London’s position and reputation as the global centre of insurance excellence.

Clare joined LMG from JLT Specialty (now Marsh Specialty) where she was head of operations. In this role, she played a key role in JLT’s Brexit planning.

Clare has always been heavily involved with Market wide modernisation initiatives and whilst she was at the LMG she was the sponsor of the Future at Lloyd's data work stream.

Peter Blanc ACII is Head of M&A, Howden Group Holdings. He is based at Howden’s head office at One Creechurch Place in London.

Heading up Howden’s mergers and acquisition strategy allows Peter to fulfil his ambition of making Howden the world’s leading independent (re)insurance broker, employee benefits advisor and MGA.

With over 100 acquisitions of insurance broking and MGA businesses during his career, Peter is an industry veteran with decades of experience behind him. Notably, after starting his career in motor underwriting and then building his own commercial insurance brokerage, Peter has led three successful private equity exit events, totalling over £1.5 billion.  As CEO at Oval, he led the sale for £210m to Gallagher in 2014, and as Group CEO of Aston Lark, he led a round 1 sale for £325m in 2019 to Goldman Sachs and Aston Lark’s final exit to Howden for £1.1 billion in 2021.

Alongside these leadership roles, Peter has served as non-executive chairman of Hastings Insurance Services Ltd, as chairman of the Large Brokers’ Advisory Board at the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA) and in 2022 he served as President of the Chartered Insurance Institute. Peter has recently been reappointed to the BIBA Large Broker’s Advisory Board.

Peter is a passionate advocate of expert-led insurance leadership, employee-owned businesses and the Early Careers Programme; in short, using his own experiences and expertise to help make a difference to those around him.

Peter lives in Colchester, Essex, where he is a proud husband and the father of three grown-up children. He can often be found keeping fit on a bicycle, going to the gym, or mucking out his daughter’s horses! 

Grant entered the family business on a permanent basis in 2006 as Marketing Director. He quickly established it as a forward thinking, digitally minded broker. Working within a small, close knit and dynamic management team Grant played a significant role in developing TPG’s overall business strategy. That included the launch of Yellow Jersey Cycle Insurance and the pivoting of the Plan Insurance Brokers brand towards commercial lines.

In November 2017, Grant stepped up to become Group MD with a remit to deliver significant growth. Double digit organic revenue uplifts are being achieved and in 2019 Pedal Cover was acquired to complement the group’s already strong bicycle offering.

As the business expands its vital to Grant that an enjoyable, warm workplace atmosphere is maintained along with the provision of outstanding customer service. In the last 12 months the firm has been recognised by insurance industry awards for: Best SME Employer, Best Training & Development Program and Claims Team of the Year.