Small Business Division
Simon Bantleman (Team Leader)
Simon joined in 2007 as a Senior Account Executive. Prior to this he was General Manager of the Embro Mallett Group High Street Broker. Starting as an admin assistant he progressed to the position of Branch Manager and then General Manager. Simon is undertaking the CII Certificate in Insurance at present.
As well as handling Commercial policies, Simon has also dealt with Motor Insurance
Simon was appointed as Team Leader of the Small Business Division in January 2010.
Ryan Gould Cert CII
Ryan's prior experience is working for Your Insurance Group, now part of the Towergate Group. He started working in the post room, and then worked his way up through their lead qualification team into the Sales Team. After two years he was made Team Leader and eventually moved into an underwriting role. There he dealt with all types of package insurance including Shops, Offices, Liabilities, Licensed Trades, Musicians and Entertainers and Tree Surgeons.
Ryan joined the Small Business Division in early 2008.
Recently Ryan obtained the Certificate in Insurance from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).
Jeffrey McClymont
Jeffrey worked for over 4 years in a leading childcare insurance company as an Account Handler and Account Manager. As well as completing the CII Certificate in Insurance, he also has degrees in Information Management and Finance and Software Engineering.
Jeffrey joined as an Account Executive in May 2008.
Shivani Patel
Shivani joined in summer 2007 after completing her university degree. Having had no previous experience in the insurance industry, less than two years later she has developed a fluent understanding on residential and commercial policies through on the job training and learning from those around her. Shivani has now joined the Small Business Division where she is currently dealing with shops, offices and liability insurance.
Shivani has started studying for the CII Certificate in Insurance.
David Phillips Cert CII
Before BK he has had over eight years insurance experience working for brokers where he has dealt with both commercial lines and personal lines.
David joined the Small Business Division in May 2008. There he deals with package policies including Shop, Office & Surgery, Combined and Single liability policies. This includes Renewals, New Business, mid term adjustments and claims handling. He recently successfully completed the CII Certificate in Insurance.
Property Investors Division
Donna Carter (Team Leader)
Donna started her insurance career in 1998, working for a local based commercial broker. She gained knowledge of the broking environment and dealt with a diverse range of products from retail insurances to motor fleet, motor trade and contractors cases.
She then moved companies to gain experience working within an insurer, and for 5 years worked for NIG as an insurance underwriter. Her role took her out of the office frequently to underwrite in brokers offices and building brokers accounts with NIG.
In 2005 she was employed by AXA Insurance as an Underwriter, but speedily promoted to Account Manager taking on a relationship management role for brokers in the South of England. In this role Donna was responsible for a combined broking income of £15m
After some time off to care for her two children Donna decided to return to a broking role with the added benefit of being able to call upon her many years of experience in the insurance company environment.
With her background in sales and relationship management, Donna's main aim is to develop the Property Investors Division and forge strong relationships with our client base.
Tracy Bedwell Cert CII
Tracy has an Insurance background, having spent the previous five years working for niche Insurers specialising in Insurance for Foster Carers and the Child Care Industry, prior to this she spent several years dealing with both Personal lines and Commercial Insurances.
Tracy has worked for the company since 2007.
Having completed the CII Certificate in Insurance, Tracy is now studying for the Diploma in Insurance.
Ulrika Danielsson
Ulrika joined BK Insurance Brokers in July 2009 shortly after completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ancient History at the University of Nottingham. During the course of her degree Ulrika went on a student exchange to New Zealand for 6 months. After her return she volunteered for the International Office at her university promoting student exchange programmes, and she also volunteered at the Museum of London and the Museum of Croydon. Before university she worked as an Excavation Assistant, Nursery Nurse, Reservations and Conference Coordinator and she also held various other jobs in catering and hospitality.
Ulrika is now a member of the Property Investors Division.
Louise Jenkins
Prior to joining BK Group Louise studied Sports Science at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. She also coached gymnastics at two different gymnastics clubs to gymnasts aged from 5 to 18 years and who have a mixture of abilities and is qualified to Level 3 in General Gymnastics. She is also a qualified Gymnastics judge to level 1 floor and vault.
Louise joined the company in July 2009 and is now a member of the Property Investors Division.
Jeffrey McClymont
Jeffrey worked for over 4 years in a leading childcare insurance company as an Account Handler and Account Manager. As well as completing the CII Certificate in Insurance, he also has degrees in Information Management and Finance and Software Engineering.
Jeffrey joined as an Account Executive in May 2008. In addition to Account Executive duties, Jeffrey deals with schemes and company IT issues.
Sheila Patel
Following the acquisition of her previous brokers, Sheila joined the company in 2000 working on Household Insurance. Currently dealing with Property Investors insurance, she has been in the insurance industry since 1991 mostly dealing with Household insurance and has also dealt with Motor insurance.
Fay Patterson
Fay joined in early 2005 and currently works as part of the Property Investors Division; although new to this side of the business, having previously worked in an administrative capacity, she has over 25 years of experience in insurance broking.
Fay is currently studying for the CII Certificate in Insurance.
Corporate Division
Palvi Patel Cert CII (Team Leader)
Palvi joined in 2002 after finishing university. In 2008 she became the Corporate Division Team Leader. She has a strong background in both Commercial and Personal lines and is Cert CII qualified. She is now studying for the CII Diploma in Insurance.
Marcus Connell
Marcus graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a BSc in Economics in 2009. Prior to this he studied at Oxted School and Oxted School Sixth Form. Over the past five years he has held jobs in bars, restaurants and retail and also carried out voluntary work for a nearby school. Marcus has a keen interest in sport and music and during his time at University he taught guitar in the local area.
Marcus joined BK Insurance in July 2009.
Tracey Heath
Tracey joined in 2007 as a Senior Account Executive following its acquisition of her previous brokers Embro Mallett Group Ltd .She has a strong background of senior positions in Commercial Insurance and has 20 years experience in Personal Lines, Package, Liability and Commercial Insurance.
Nishil Patel
Nishil started working in the Corporate Division in September 2005, after completing his A-Levels, dealing with commercial and Fleet insurance. In 2006, Nishil joined the Small Business Division where he deals with a variety of package policies including cover for shops, guest houses, public houses and tradesmen.
Nishil is currently studying for the CII Certificate in Insurance.
Private Clients Team
Ed Gibbons
Ed has over twelve years experience in the Insurance Services Industry having started with Barclays Insurance in 1996. He joined in 2005 as the Motor Account Executive. He is currently taking the CII insurance exams.
Tiffany Chen
Tiffany joined us in Summer 2007, coming from an insurance background. Tiffany is an Account Handler in the Private Clients Division dealing with renewals, new business and claims.
Tiffany is currently studying for the CII Certificate in Insurance.
Directors
Paul Denton
Paul's broking life began back in 1989 at a small local insurance broker. Here he learnt the fundamentals of insurance, the mainstay of which was how to write business and where to place it, thereby giving the client the best possible contract.
In 1999 Paul moved to BK to concentrate on corporate commercial business and soon took on the role of new business account executive. Within a few years he had moved through to servicing existing client accounts and dealt with renewals and re-broking risks. In 2003 he was becoming involved in acquisitions and mergers which now total five.
In 2004 he began studying for his insurance examinations and achieved Cert CII accreditation and should obtain ACII status shortly.
In 2005 he was made Director and put in charge of the Corporate Clients Team to build upon the sizeable account that we already held. Our customer spread developed from predominately local to now nationwide business.
In 2007 the first of many larger acquisitions began and three broker offices throughout the UK merged into the local Purley office and with this came some highly experienced account executives. Following on from this his role in the Corporate Clients Team came to an end and instead he focused on the brokerage as a whole and he now oversees the running and development of the Corporate, Small Business, Property Investors and Private Client teams.
Shilpesh Patel
One of the founders of BK Insurance Brokers Limited in 1981, Shilpesh became the Managing Director of the company in 1984.