Following another year of strong client and user growth Acturis, the leading insurance software provider, has announced the opening of a new office in Birmingham increase the pace of expansion of its UK operation. The new office opened on October 3rd with a team of 10 people and will be led by senior members of the Acturis team in London who are permanently relocating to Birmingham. The aim is to grow the Birmingham team to 50 over the next two years.
David McDonald co-CEO of Acturis commented: “The Acturis client base continues to grow strongly and we wanted to tap into a talent pool outside of our current London office to help us service that growth. Our new Birmingham team will work in an integrated manner with the existing London team. Birmingham and the surrounding area is undergoing dramatic and exciting change, is well connected to the rest of the country, has many good universities nearby and is an increasingly attractive area in which to live.”
Theo Duchen co-CEO of Acturis continued: “Historically Acturis has been under-represented among Midlands brokers and our Birmingham base will give us additional capacity and a local presence to serve broker and insurer clients in the Midlands where we see lots of opportunity for growth.”
For further information please contact:
Jeff McCracken at Acturis: jeff.mccracken@acturis.com or 07826 909 263
Theo Duchen at Acturis: theo.duchen@acturis.com or 020 7079 4000
About Acturis
Acturis is the leading, award winning Software as a Service provider to the insurance industry.
The Acturis SaaS Platform is an administration, distribution and underwriting platform used by insurance brokers and underwriters and now has over 14,500 users across over 400 UK sites.
Acturis operates in the general insurance market, supporting both personal and commercial lines. The company leads the way in real-time integrations with insurers and has won industry Service Provider of the Year awards and the British Insurance Technology Award. In 2016 Acturis were awarded Outsourced Partner of the year at the British Insurance Awards.
The Acturis Group also includes NIS and Acturis Deutschland. NIS is a leading provider of software solutions to the travel insurance, assistance and health insurance markets with customers in more than 40 countries. Acturis Deutschland is the leading provider of insurance price and terms information to the German insurance broker market and the leading provider of broker administration and trading software in Germany.
Acturis was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for innovation in 2012 and was named Company of the Year – Mid Sized at the prestigious Growing Business Awards 2013. In 2016, Acturis was named in the 100 fastest growing UK companies by City.am
The Acturis philosophy is to deliver against its promises. www.acturis.com