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Profile: PIB's CEO Brendan McManus and CFO Ryan Brown

Brendan McManus and Ryan Brown
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Building a broker: CEO Brendan McManus and CFO Ryan Brown reflect on ‘start-up’ PIB’s first years, explain why it isn’t a consolidator and reveal why staff retention and integration are key to the broker’s acquisition strategy

Brendan McManus is a well-known name in the insurance world, but his CFO at PIB, Ryan Brown, is a newer face, having moved from private equity to broking.

While McManus has 27 years at RSA under his belt, and time at Willis and Giles on his CV, Brown only moved to broking in 2013.

Yes, he is younger – 47 to McManus’s 59 – but he also hasn’t trod the traditional route into the market. A geography degree at Oxford was followed by time in private equity presiding over insurer and broker deals was

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