Mike Smith Head RES UK & Ireland Underwriting CorSo
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Mike Smith is Head of RES Property UK and Ireland at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. In this role, Mike leads a multinational team of property risk engineers, delivering technical expertise and actionable insights to support underwriters and clients across the globe from the established London Market.
Mike started his career in 1994 as a Development Engineer in the Chemicals industry producing viscose fibre. He then continued his career in various other COMAH regulated chemical sectors including inorganic, speciality organics and lastly in API manufacturing for a large site in the UK for a Eli Lilly. In these roles Mike was involved in process design, optimization, commissioning, management of a Pilot Plant and extensive analysis of Process Safety Management and techniques. Within these role Mike ran numerous technical teams of Chemical Engineers and whilst in the Pharma industry was the site HSE and PSM manager running a multidiscipline team of experts and advisors.
After 18 years in the Chemical Industry Mike Joined the insurance industry at RSA as an account engineer. He managed a large portfolio of global chemical accounts and travelled extensively across the globe perfoming surveys on a wide range of complex high hazard Chemical occupancies. Mike also headed up the Chemical team at RSA as well as running a group of highly experienced account engineers with a wide range of technical expertise across property, construction and marine.
Since joining Swiss Re Corporate Solutions in 2021, Mike has driven strategic initiatives across all areas of RES in order to optimize efficiency, provide consistency, structure and ongoing technical and personal development of his team. Mike has integrated his team with the underwriting to provide a single voice for risk management in the UK. He is passionate about efficiency, technical capability, true customer focus and providing development opportunity for his team particularly engineers entering the insurance sector for the first time.
Mike holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and is a Chartered Chemical Engineer since 1999.