Profile: Gary Humphreys, Markerstudy

Making a mark: Markerstudy’s group underwriting director and second biggest shareholder Gary Humphreys tells Insurance Age about Brexit’s effect on regulation, acquisition strategies and the advantages of remaining unrated

Markerstudy’s Gary Humphreys is a busy man. As group underwriting director he spends most of his time heading up the company’s insurance division, which he says will write around £750m in premium this year. On a day-to-day basis this means devising the strategy, business planning and performance reviews, to name just a few tasks. But his job as the firm’s second-to-largest shareholder also includes sitting on the boards of all of the other companies within the Markerstudy group, which currently