Simon Cooter ready for next challenge as starting gun fired to find his replacement
Outgoing Covéa boss predicts technology will change the industry more in the next five years than it has done in the previous 30.
Covéa’s commercial lines and high net worth director Simon Cooter will be looking across broking, insurers, InsurTech or working with relevant charities for the next post in his career, he has told Insurance Age.
The insurer confirmed today that Cooter will be leaving in 2019 once it has found a successor.
“Frankly the Arsenal job has been taken so it will have to be insurance,” Cooter said.
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He explained that he told chief executive James Reader of his plans in early summer and that
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