Connect to the power of Verisk with Whitespace
We have a vision for the future of digital trading that supports the entire (re)insurance life cycle. Our aim is to provide you with faster, more efficient ways to manage not only your trading, end-to-end, but also your ability to enhance the availability and quantity of in-depth data for risk analysis.
Unlock the power of Verisk with Whitespace.
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Jody Wilkinson
Head of Customer Experience, Whitespace
Jody joined Whitespace in 2017 as Senior Account Manager. Jody has over 17 years experience of working in the London insurance market having started at R K Harrison Insurance Brokers in 2004, followed by Ebix Europe (previously RI3K and Qatarlyst) between 2008 and 2017.
Marcus Broome
Chief Platform Officer, Whitespace
Marcus Broome joined Whitespace in 2015 to focus on the opportunities created by modern Agile Data technologies and now leads the Whitespace Platform business.
Marcus has a wealth of experience in commercial insurance technology with a focus on the London market. After working for a marine syndicate at Lloyd’s, he founded ROOM Solutions (now NIIT Insurance Technologies) which became a successful business with many customers in London, Europe, USA and Bermuda.
Richard Reggel
Chief Commercial Officer
As chief commercial officer for Specialty Business Solutions at Verisk, Richard Reggel is responsible for the oversight of all commercial activities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
He’s a keen advocate for Verisk’s client-first culture. He and his team work closely with product teams to engage with insurance executives and business leaders to ensure the right match between clients’ needs and requirements and Verisk’s product and service offerings, across all aspects of the insurance life cycle.
Richard has 20+ years’ experience in sales and marketing roles spanning technology in the insurance and financial services sectors. He joined Verisk in 2014 and previously served as Specialty Business Solutions’ head of sales and marketing, where he led many key, strategic client engagements that have significantly grown the company’s client base.
Richard offers his time helping upcoming business leaders. He spent three years as mentor to the founder of The Protégé programme in London, helping the organisation grow to more than 300 business mentors. He’s also served as chairman of the IT Security Matters business forums. Richard holds a BA Hons in Business and is a keen sports enthusiast.
Richard Smith
Chief Product Officer, EMEA
Richard Smith is responsible for Specialty Business Solutions' product strategy, pre-sales and business engagement across the EMEA region.
Rich joined Verisk Specialty Business Solutions in 2016 having spent many years in property underwriting, and is a Certified Catastrophe Risk Analyst. He previously held the role Head of Sequel Rulebook.
Tim Rayner
Chief Executive Officer
As chief executive officer and president of Specialty Business Solutions at Verisk, Tim Rayner drives deliberate, disciplined design and delivery of experiences to clients and team members. He works to increase understanding and create connections between these two groups while advocating for the integration they require, technical or otherwise.
Tim champions clients’ and team members’ perspectives in the company’s strategic decision-making and measures the impact of these groups’ experiences on the company’s performance.
He has board-level responsibility for the team’s relationships with Lloyd’s, the Future @ Lloyd’s, and large strategic accounts; Tim is also playing an instrumental part in the team’s global expansion.
Tim became Specialty Business Solutions’ chief executive officer in July 2022, having served as chief experience officer since 2021. He joined the company in 2018 as business development director. Before that, he spent 18 years in technology and operations on the broker side of the London Market at Miller Insurance Services, specializing in the coverholder space and architecting London’s first real-time bordereau data exchange in 2007. He began as a software developer at Miller, before moving on to head up IT, Business Change, Business Transformation & Technology, and Group Operations.
Tim’s articles on how technology can drive efficiencies through distribution chains have been published in London-based insurance publications. His team at Miller won an Insurance Day award in 2008 for real-time delegated authority management.
Tim has completed the Lloyd’s Leadership Programme at the London Business School and is certified as a Forrester CX Champ.
He’s been chairman of the Halstead Swimming Club since 2016.
Truly digital means truly connected
It enables brokers and underwriters to offer, negotiate, place and bind (re)insurance contracts with each other, in a truly digital form, across all classes of (re)insurance business and geographies.
Access a suite of additional products and services from the wider Verisk ecosystem for a truly competitive edge, by combining Verisk Specialty Business Solution's other products with Whitespace, using Whitespace’s out of the box API functionality, or by leveraging Verisk’s Sequel Hub gateway.
Digitisation brings huge benefits
- Create risk submissions and collaborate on contracts
- Access Whitespace on lap/desktops and smart devices
- Truly digital means faster transactions, greater accuracy, deeper analysis and seamless integrations
- Integrate with your own systems via Whitespace APIs or via the Sequel Hub
Connect to the Verisk digital ecosystem, through Whitespace, to give you a true competitive advantage – leverage Verisk and non-Verisk data sets, as well as the power of algorithmic UW, by combining Whitespace’s defined data, with elective business services, via the Sequel Hub.