Hein Kuiper

Responsible for the European development of insurance price comparison for Google. Thanks to this amazing team we have just launched our first full price comparison service outside of the UK. We are now live in France.

I ran a unique international management consultancy business which helped its clients to apply highly successful marketing and distribution models from outside national borders, focussing primarily on financial services. Additionally, we offered general marketing consultancy and interim services - always with a fresh perspective.

RIAS is one of the largest personal lines insurance brokers in the UK, specialising in the over 50s. I was responsible for a team of 50 leading the Strategic Planning, Proposition Development, Brand Management, Customer Acquisition, Cross Selling and Retention of the business. I helped RIAS to more than double its profits and to grow its book to over 1 million policy holders. Simultaneously, I was Director of Insuretech Systems Ltd, an award winning insurance quote aggregator start-up.

Spearheaded the Zurich personal lines initiative towards Internet growth by developing and implementing Internet strategy.

Leading the marketing strategy, planning and execution of Zurich's direct insurance operation with 800,000 policyholders and 160,000 sales per annum. Target markets: Retired and Public sector employees.

PLC Director with bottom line responsibility for a catalogue business with £54m turnover and a team of around 200 staff. Catalogue brands included: Philip Harris (http://www.philipharris.co.uk ), NES Arnold (http://www.nesarnold.co.uk ) , Davies Sports (http://www.daviessports.co.uk ) , Percussion Plus (http://www.percussionplus.co.uk ) , and EDCO (http://www.edco.co.uk ).

Helped to launch Sun Direct as a ‘greenfield’ direct insurance operation and engineered its rapid development to a leading edge business with one of the highest levels of consumer awareness of all German direct insurers.