Ep221 Tim Ronda CEO Howden Re: A rare moment where everyone can win

8 minutes ago

It’s the ultimate job of a Broker to make insurance and reinsurance deals happen.

You can’t make things happen if you’re too shy to talk to anyone, or not good at listening.

Once you have listened you then need to be empathetic and understand the nuances and intentions of the parties to a transaction.

You also need to be able to make a point eloquently and sometimes forcefully.

All the above explains why brokers tend to make such good podcast guests!

And today, as our thoughts start to turn towards reinsurance, the autumn conference season and the 1.1 renewals that eventually follow, it’s fitting that we have a prominent reinsurance broker on the show.

Tim Ronda the CEO of Howden Re is the consummate reinsurance broker and Howden Re is the largest and probably most aggressive challenger reinsurance broker of the pack.

However with annual revenues approaching $600mn I wonder if the word Challenger really makes much sense any more and we might soon be simply describing Howden Re as an additional global reinsurance broker, to the three that now exist?

This conversation is a great primer for the state of the reinsurance market with a broker who now has the critical mass to get good visibility on large swathes of it.

It’s also a chance to have an update on the most ambitious reinsurance broking build-out of recent times and check in with where this now maturing project is heading.

Tim’s a font of knowledge and really good fun to spend time with.

I really enjoyed this podcast and I’m sure you will too.