Laurence Walker exits SSP
He was CEO at the software house when it suffered a huge outage in 2016.
Laurence Walker has left his role as executive chairman at SSP, Insurance Age can reveal.
Walker, who has now exited the business, was in the CEO seat when the tech provider suffered a major outage to its Pure product which left numerous brokers unable to work.
Brokers have complained of a number of problems since the original outage and issues with the platform were reported as recently as this April.
Moving on
Walker changed roles to become executive chairman in August 2017 a year after the
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