Meet the MGA: Loadsure
After two decades in the London market Johnny McCord decided the time was right to set up his own business. The Loadsure CEO and founder explains how a light bulb moment led him reinventing cargo insurance as a ‘true’ insurtech.
LoadsureStaff: 62
Offices: London and Denver
Products
Thames: On demand cargo insurance
Orinoco: Shippers interest insurance
Danube: Ocean cargo insurance
Huron: Ocean cargo and stock throughput insurance
Why did you give up a career in insurance broking to launch Loadsure?I come from an insurance family; my dad was a founding director of a Lloyd’s syndicate so there has always been an entrepreneurial spirit in my family.
So when I entered the [insurance] market I looked at the
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