Broking Success: Vista Insurance Brokers’ CEO Gavin Ruben – leader of PE niches
Gavin Ruben, CEO of Vista Insurance Brokers, has set out the goal of becoming the leader of its specialist mergers and acquisitions insurance niche, along with the other parts of the firm’s 2035 ambitions.
Vista Insurance BrokersGWP: £50m
Locations: Manchester, London, Leeds, and Birmingham
Staff: 77
Specialisms: Mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and construction
What was your career in insurance before Vista?I started post-university.
I wrote in for many different jobs, and UAP Provincial, which is now Axa, came back to me. I ended up on a graduate training scheme. Before I knew it, I was thrust in at 21, working full time for the first time.
I was a trainee underwriter. I realised soon it wasn
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