As Chief Growth Officer, Ed will focus on establishing new strategic partnerships across the market, to further embed Artificial's technology suite. Ed will play an integral role in ensuring the company’s value proposition is clearly communicated, enabling growth and scale. He will join the Executive team, reporting to David King, Co-CEO.

Ed brings a wealth of experience from his seven-year tenure at Chaucer Group, where he led the implementation and management of the group’s NextGen Underwriting business in partnership with Artificial. His additional responsibilities included group corporate strategy and development, and distribution strategy. Prior to this, Ed worked in Global Equities Investment Management for Janus Henderson Investors.

Ed Howkins said:

“I am incredibly excited to be joining Artificial at this important stage of their development. Smarter, digitally enabled placement and underwriting is on the minds of executives across the entire insurance value chain. Artificial are uniquely placed to solve the complex set of problems surrounding this. I have been blown away by the quality of their algorithmic trading tools, the ingenuity of the team designing them, and their laser focus on their partnerships with customers. The Specialty Insurance market is at an important inflection point in its methods of placement and underwriting, and Artificial are positioned right at the cutting edge of that.”

David King, Co-CEO of Artificial, said:

“It is a pleasure to welcome Ed to the Artificial team. We first collaborated with Ed on the NextGen Underwriting project in 2020 and have consistently been impressed with his strategic mindset. Ed has a deep understanding of the industry which will be invaluable as we continue to expand and refine our technology offerings. His expertise and strong network of broker and underwriting relationships will be critical in driving the adoption of our products and ensuring our solutions meet the evolving needs of the market. We are excited to have him on board and look forward to the significant contributions he will make to our Executive team.”