Broking Success: From football to insurance
Managing director of Mason Owen Financial Services, Andrew Gibbons tells Insurance Age how he went from being a semi-professional footballer to entering the world of insurance
How did you start in insurance?
When I was at school, I decided I wanted to go into something finance related. However, I was a good footballer, and I was offered apprentice terms at Bolton Wanderers but this was not well paid and had its risks, my wife-to-be, whom I met at school, convinced me to go into sixth form and do my A-Levels. I did, but combined this with playing semi-professional football for Horwich RMI.
It was a good job that I did stay at school as I developed an injury and could
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