MEET THE TEAM
GreenKite Executive Team
Sara Ager
Chief Executive Officer
Logical and creative in her approach, Sara, a solicitor, has worked in and for Lloyd’s managing agencies, Bermudian reinsurers, MGAs and brokers. Her particular strength is in helping businesses close the gap between ‘front-end’ commercial ambition and regulatory and legal requirements.
Karen Stanford
Chief Experience Officer
Karen helps organisations define business transformation and operational improvement. Able to develop pragmatic solutions to business problems, she quickly understands the business environment, and help deliver results.
GreenKite Business Services
Sarah Kelly
Executive Assistant and Trainee Company Secretary
Sarah is the Executive Assistant to GreenKite CEO Sara Ager. With a background in education and healthcare, she also brings experience in project management across varied sectors and provides wider business support to the GreenKite team.
Gemma Curry
Operations Manager
Gemma has a background in finance administration. She is a detail-oriented individual who works to ensure peak operational excellence throughout GreenKite, to drive continuous improvement and efficiency across our growing business.
Nadia Timmer
Marketing and Communications Manager
Nadia has spent most of her career supporting organisations at different levels. She has created and implemented marketing strategies, organised events, has been in charge of social media campaigns and reporting and analytics. With a creative mindset, Nadia is able to transform ideas into a strategy and work closely with other parties creating content and campaigns.
Nicola Perry
People and Performance Manager
Nicola is an HR professional with over 10 years of experience in HR and the financial services industry. She delivers a wide range of commercially driven HR solutions from organisational design, talent management, employee experience, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Sophie Sinclair
Operations Assistant
Sophie has a background in customer service and administration. With her excellent organisational skills, she provides administrative support across the operations function at GreenKite.
GreenKite Client Delivery Services
Luke Appleton
Senior Solutions Manager
Luke has detailed knowledge of the General Insurance Market, specialising in the integration of software houses and third parties. He can act as a bridge between technical IT teams and business stakeholders, ensuring requirements and solutions are understood by all areas of change. Luke takes great pleasure in helping businesses identify areas of change and then supporting those changes through to delivery.
Becky Bennett
Client Solutions Partner
Becky is a people-focused change professional specialising in both project management and business analysis. With experience within General Insurance, Reinsurance and Company markets as well as experience in other sectors, Becky brings a can-do attitude to complex change. Becky thrives in large complex change programmes with multiple workstreams and likes to ensure business goals are realised.
David Holmes
Assurance Manager
David brings more than 15 years of invaluable compliance experience in the Financial Services industry, predominantly in the realm of insurance. He has a passion for assisting businesses in achieving positive customer outcomes. With his extensive experience in engaging stakeholders, David advises and fulfils the regulatory requirements of the organisation. Additionally, he provides guidance on policy matters and keeps the business informed about forthcoming regulations.
Kris Bryant
Senior Assurance Manager
Kris is a Fellow of the ICA and has more than 26 years of industry experience in Risk, Compliance and Financial Crime with many of those spent as an SMF16/17 (CF10/11) within a range of household name and boutique SME financial services businesses. He takes great satisfaction in assisting his clients in ensuring their systems, controls, frameworks and resources are fit for purpose in sometimes challenging environments.
Tarvinder Gandhi
Solutions Consultant
Tarvinder is a credit control expert with extensive experience in the London insurance market. He effectively collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to establish and embed operational processes and manages projects and teams to achieve successful outcomes. He strives to produce quality output, provides excellent customer service and drives continuous improvement within the Finance/Credit Control function.
Marcus Tompson
Senior Assurance Manager
Marcus is a compliance consultant, working on a wide range of regulatory projects, specialising in the use of data to drive outcomes.
Previously, Marcus has led large digital and call centre functions, providing a deep and unique insight into customer behaviours across multiple communication channels.
Claire Carpenter
Assurance Principal
Claire is a senior compliance consultant specialising in large regulatory change projects. She has a depth and breadth of regulatory knowledge gained through practical industry experience with roles such as Head of Compliance/Conduct with General and Lloyd”s insurers, MGA’s and insurance intermediaries.
Juliette Petts
Senior Solutions Manager
Juliette is a highly seasoned lead business analyst, adept at steering large-scale strategic and regulatory programs. She thrives in fast-paced settings, dedicated to efficient project delivery. Proficient in establishing new BA practices and optimising existing teams, ensuring high standards within budget and timelines. Juliette is adaptable, innovative, and results-driven, providing expert leadership, communication, and best practices for BA teams.
Paul Allen
Senior Solutions Manager
Paul brings two decades of insurance industry expertise, blending robust program and project management skills with a deep understanding of Lloyd’s and the London Market. A driven and financially savvy professional, Paul boasts a stellar record of results. His leadership, adept communication, and agility in grasping novel concepts make him an invaluable asset.
Phil Wheatley
Solutions Consultants
Phil is a dedicated and detail-oriented insurance professional with many years of experience providing Delegated Authority technical support and backup to brokers, insurers and insurance services providers. Phil specialises in bordereaux data and transformation, emphasising data accuracy, transformation and query management.
Ramsey Sanatian
Senior Solutions Manager
Ramsey is an Operations professional with 13 years of experience in the General Insurance Market, including 6 years at a Lloyd’s Syndicate and 5 years in the Claims department of a major P&C Insurer. Ramsey enjoys working on complex Change projects and has extensive experience in Claims, Underwriting and DA Process Improvement Projects.
Gary Burke
Associate
Gary is passionate about “transformation, change and making things work better”. He helps organisations align strategy and lead transformation to deliver great outcomes.
Chrystine Gittens
Associate
Chrystine, a practising employment lawyer who was called to the Bar in 1994 – experienced in grievance and disciplinary investigations. An Accredited Mediator who provides practical & commercial advice.
GreenKite Board
GreenKite advocates and consciously supports diversity of background, thinking, leadership track record and approach – and more! Our Board reflects this, as well as bringing 100+ years’ experience in Insurance, Reinsurance, Finance and Executive Education.
Karen Graves
Chair
A proven experienced insurance market professional at Director and NED level with a blend of operational and people management skills at local and Group level.
Kasha Mleko
Advisor
A marketing and business development professional, Kasha is strategic and critical in her thinking, bringing a refreshing perspective as advisor to our Board.
Tim Johnson
NED
An entrepreneurial accountant with more than 30+ years’ experience in wealth management, and employee benefits, Tim has acted in Financial Services roles from independent financial adviser to Group CEO. He brings a huge breadth of experience to our Board — and a great sense of humour!
Paul Leach
NED
Paul is a Human Resources, Organisational Development Consultant & Portfolio HR Director. Focussed on the bottom-line, he delivers pragmatic, commercially-driven HR solutions and is passionate about delivering sustainable business performance.
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