Ibex Protects Gibraltar Business Ibex’s Paula Coulthard is passionate about commercial insurance, and says finding out what keeps Gibraltar’s business owners awake at night and creating solutions for them is a challenge she loves.
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“I joined Ibex in November 2013 because profession. “I love the flexibility of working it was the right time for me to make the for Ibex and the challenge of developing change,” says 32 year old Paula. “It is also products is very appealing. Being a qualified an exciting time for Ibex with its association with Kiln, a part of Tokio Marine, and I am pleased I made the move. I was previously Managing Director of a smaller company, but now I am Underwriting Director of Ibex, which may seem like a step down but Ibex is a much larger company with a higher I very much enjoy meeting volume of clients so the opportunities are greater.” Paula, who is married with two young local businesses to find out children (4 and 2.5 years), was also attractwhat keeps them awake ed by Ibex’s flexible working environment, at night and if it is an which perhaps accounts for the company’s large percentage of women employees in insurable risk what is traditionally a male dominated
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underwriter working with commercial insurance, along with Professional Indemnity and Directors & Officers Liability, I wanted to concentrate within my specialised area and my new role provides that specialisation.” Ibex’s new commercial insurance product — a direct result of Paula joining the company and underwritten at Lloyd’s of London, — was launched at the end of February at a presentation given to a packed audience of invited business owners at Gibraltar’s Eliott Hotel, attended by company Chairman John Harrison. “Ibex had been offering commercial insurance for a few years, but when I joined I looked at the policy and found it was not particularly geared for the Gibraltar mar-
GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE • APRIL 2014
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