Who we are
Innovating legal expenses and ancillary insurance.
We bring decades of experience and expertise in the design, development, and distribution of a diverse range of legal expenses and ancillary insurance products and services.
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We focus on addressing the gaps that exist in current provision by developing sustainable and innovative solutions that directly meet the needs of personal and commercial lines customers.
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To find out more about how we can support your legal expenses and ancillary insurance product and service needs contact us today.
Meet the team
Richard Finan
Our founder and Managing Director, Richard Finan has unrivalled experience encompassing all aspects of legal expenses and ancillary insurance. From product design and manufacture to senior operational and business development management, Richard combines these skills with a significant network of insurance industry contacts that makes him a driver for a change in the market.
Kelly Jarrett
Our Finance Director and Board member. Kelly is responsible for overseeing and managing our financial operations and strategy. Kelly not only brings us previous senior accountancy and financial management experience within the ancillary insurance market, but she also has a fresh approach to aligning our financial and strategic aims to help achieve our objectives.
Jo Finan
As Operations Director, Jo is responsible for the day-to-day operational functions of the business. This includes our online claims portal for policyholders. Jo has over a decade’s worth of claims, project and business management experience within the legal expenses and ancillary insurance market and Jo has run her own successful florist and hospitality businesses for many years. Her focus on delivering strong customer outcomes and her attention to detail are important to us consistently meeting the needs of our customers and their clients.
The Addept Advisory Group
Our team benefits from access to an Advisory Group with a wealth of knowledge and senior management experience from across the UK insurance market.
Paul Tasker
Paul is a key part of Addept’s leadership ecosystem. As the founder of Tasker Insurance Group, a successful Lloyd’s broker, Paul brings deep entrepreneurial experience and a sharp eye for identifying market inefficiencies. His track record of building and scaling businesses from the ground up—combined with his passion for disruptive ideas and practical execution—makes him an invaluable strategic asset to Addept.
Helen Withers
Helen’s extensive knowledge and experience in the legal expenses and ancillary insurance markets is a clear asset to our business. As a co-founder of Arc Legal Assistance, she shares a commitment to creating a sustainable business that creates value and addresses real need. Her senior leadership and financial management expertise is focused on supporting our drive for growth.
Mike Fenton
Mike has over 40 years’ experience in the UK motor and household insurance markets focusing on underwriting, distribution, claims, and business development. Mike was previously the Personal Lines Director of Folgate Insurance Company before being appointed as Managing Director of Folgate Underwriting Agency Personal Lines and Towergate Personal Lines Underwriting Division. Mike is co-founder and Director of Lares Services Limited, a specialist Managing General Agent in the property insurance market.
Jon May
Jon has over three decades of experience in the Personal Lines insurance market, the majority of which in senior management positions. His career has focused primarily on underwriting, including over 20 years in Lloyd’s Syndicates. He has co-founded MGAs in the motor and property markets. His current roles are Director of Lares Services Limited (UK Property insurance MGA) and Chief Operating Officer of Gibraltar regulated Evolution Insurance Company.
Dave Bowcock
Dave has 35 years’ experience in the UK and Irish Personal Lines insurance markets. He is Managing Director of Principal Insurance Ltd, the award-winning UK specialist Personal Lines and Fleet broker which he founded. Dave has held several non-Executive directorships and has the Institute of Directors certification and a diploma in company direction.
Our values
Our social commitment
"We are committed to supporting voluntary and charitable organisations that are connected with our environment and activities in which we are engaged. We will work with appropriate organisations and also support our business partners to help meet their social commitments"
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Our mission statement
“To apply our years of market experience to transparently deliver quality, sustainable, fair value and tailored ancillary insurance solutions and services through innovation and technology.”
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We operate to a set of core values which guide our decision making and growth strategy. These are:
INTEGRITY
Everything we do must be for the right reasons. Whether you are a distribution partner, insurer, capacity provider or business partner we will work with you as a true partner to ensure our products and services are relevant to the needs of customers, they deliver fair value and offer outstanding customer service.
TRANSPARENCY
We believe in transparency across all our business dealings. We will work with you in an open and honest way. We will communicate clearly and share our data insights and market intelligence to help continually improve our products and services, our service delivery, and our financial performance.
SUSTAINABILITY
We never make short-term choices; we are here for the future. We continually evolve to ensure our products and services deliver positive outcomes and meet the current and future needs of our partners and their customers.
We consider our environmental, social and governance responsibilities within our decision making. Our business model is based around the use of technology and evolving working models to reduce our carbon footprint.
EXCELLENCE
We take pride in everything we do, striving to deliver the best service experience to our partners’ customers and to ensure that all our partners enjoy the best working relations with Addept.
We are committed to providing the best cover possible at the most competitive and fair price and delivering good outcomes for customers.
INNOVATION
We continually challenge what we do and why we are doing it. We use our insight and data to continually evolve our products and create new solutions. We take advantage of developing and emerging technology to continuously improve our service delivery and accessibility for all customers.
INCLUSIVITY
We strive to be a place where people want to work and are welcomed; a place where people enjoy working, where their friends are, and they feel part of and want to stay. We will support career development and promote from within, wherever we can. We will be representative of the community in which we operate.