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The role of the consultant in insurance (With Sara Ager)
Season 3, Ep. 21
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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Sara Ager, CEO at GreenKite, a company that provides consultancy services to the insurance world, which is what they discuss.
In this episode we discuss:
- Sara's background in insurance and how GreenKite came to be formed.
- What the role of a consultant is.
- The different areas GreenKite consult on (Delegated authority, Operational resilience, Data & digital, outsourced service, services for technology suppliers).
- How they measure the value added to businesses.
- How the role of a consultant in the insurance industry may change over the next 10 years.
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