As Senior Vice-President, Membership, Ben has oversight and provides strategic direction across all of ICMIF’s member services, communications, networks and events.

Ben leads ICMIF’s Business Intelligence function that is focused on financial and strategic research of emerging trends, best-practice strategies and innovations in the global cooperative and mutual insurance sector. He is responsible for the ICMIF Intelligence Committee, a sub-committee of the ICMIF Board which is made up of more than 25 strategic leaders from member organisations, and acts as the secretary of the committee. Ben also has responsibility for ICMIF’s activities in North America as member engagement lead for the Americas region.

Since 2017, Ben has co-ordinated ICMIF’s Young Leaders activities, a recent initiative to help member companies develop their young and emerging talent. He also leads on delivering ICMIF member-only webinars and managing the strategic content for the ICMIF Knowledge Hub.

Ben has over 10 years’ experience in the financial service industry. Before joining ICMIF in 2011, he was a research analyst for the corporate finance arm of a global information service provider. He has a Bachelor’s (B.A) Degree from the University of Manchester (UK).

Since joining ICMIF, Ben has also held responsibility for all of ICMIF’s financial research and statistical analysis on the global cooperative and mutual insurance market and members’ financial information. He has also collaborated on a number of external research reports and written numerous articles for external publications on the cooperative/mutual sector.