Truly useful insurance technology for underwriters and brokers.
Unparalleled
efficiency.
Quotech understands the mundane tasks which consume the precious time of underwriters and brokers. Every Quotech platform is custom built to give this time back.
Unsurpassed
solutions.
Quotech creates and delivers hand-made underwriting and broking platforms, designed by a veteran of Lloyd’s and the London company market, to surpass your commercial insurance needs precisely, end to end.
Unbending
clarity.
Unmatched
functionality.
Unbeaten
connectivity.
Uncomplicated
interfaces.
Uncompromising
understanding.
Our Customers.
Companies relying on Quotech’s systems and data include:
Rob Davies
Head of Security Risks, Convex
“Quotech is a dream tool for underwriters. It is a database, rating engine, policy document producer and auditor all in one place. The risk of underwriting breaches is virtually zero, leading to great peace of mind. The speed with which we can service our clients by using Quotech has won us significant amounts of business, and respect with our brokers. The service levels we get from Quotech are off the scale good, and it is a partnership that gives me great confidence and pleasure.”
Tom Gauge
Executive Director, Howden Reinsurance
“We wanted an online platform to support our Syndicate-to-Syndicate market facility, and naturally had some ideas about what it would have to do. The great thing about getting Quotech is not just that it came in on time, on budget, and is blisteringly easy to use, or that it does all of the things we wanted it to, but that it also does things we hadn’t even thought of ourselves. Quotech understood what we wanted, what it had to do, and why, and spotted potential enhancements and difficulties really early on. I think that’s because it was designed and built by an actual portfolio underwriter, which probably accounts for a big part of the Initiative’s immediate success. If the platform was clunky or complicated, there’s no way we would have ended up with so much market interest and enthusiasm for the facility.”
Charlie Hanbury
Chief Executive, Samphire Risk
“We partnered with Quotech as a new, start-uo MGA, looking to build our products and service from the ground up with no legacy systems or processes. In Quotech we found people that understood the insurance market and specifically the MGA space; they of course understood the tech too! Too many times we encountered providers that were either/or in terms of tech and/or insurance understanding. Our iteration of Quotech provides us with multi-product, multi-capacity scope and a very strong capability in terms of underwriting controls. It allows us to provide exceptional service to clients and brokers, and proper comfort to our backers that their capital is being deployed in a controlled manner.”
James Havard
Head of Exposure Management - Convex
“The DisasterAWARE real-time data feed we reiceve from Quotech provides alerts that allow us to monitor potential loss events around the world as they unfold. That makes us better informed than ever before; we can actually get ahead of the standard information sources we currently rely on, and see almost instantly the potential impact of a brewing disaster on our world-wide portfolio.”
Alistair Blundy
Chief Executive, Skyrisks
“After years of using a legacy underwriting system, with more and more systems layered on top in a painful technological mess, I wondered what it would be like if someone built a system from scratch that does it all. Quotech is the answer to that question. It’s a pleasure to use and the team at Quotech have the best service I’ve ever received from a tech company.”
Stuart Bisson
Senior Underwriter - Kidnap & Ransom, Convex
“Quotech does exactly what I had hoped technology would do for me as an underwriter. It pulls together the data, which saves an enormous amount of time. It fills out the paperwork and checks the authorities. But it doesn’t take over, either; it helps me do my job, but it doesn’t do it for me. Plus it linked-up really smoothly with the rest of the systems here, and it’s really easy to operate. The learning curve wasn’t too steep. I’m really happy with it; you can tell it was built by an underwriter.”
Learn how we do it.
Our Big Story
Solutions.
Underwriting solutions.
Quotech creates intuitive tools for underwriters built based on first-hand knowledge of how the underwriting process works. Our tools automate everything which a computer can do, leaving users free to deploy their intellect, knowledge, and skills. Meanwhile, they put all the right data in just the right place.
Exposure management solutions.
Risk carriers of all sizes, at every point in the chain, deserve better exposure management technology. Quex from Quotech is underwriter-designed to do the job properly, and built to eliminate the pain points. It’s the ultimate generation of property exposure management tools.
Data solutions.
Quotech tools manage data, and we act as a provider of data, too. Quotech is the commercial insurance sector’s chief provider of streamed, real-time data from DisasterAWARE Pro,® the Pacific Disaster Center’s multi-hazard early warning system, and partners with Tensorflight, to deliver highly granular buildings information.
Underwriting solutions.
Exposure management solutions.
Data solutions.
Case Studies.
Powering K&R Risks
Learn how the K&R team at a major Bermuda insurer uses Risque to be more efficient.
Building Consortium Capacity
Learn how global broker Howden Re uses Risque to create dynamic consortia.
Powering MGA Success
Learn how a start-up MGA uses Quant to build rating engines, and Risque to manage their underwriting processes & authorities.
News & insights.
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Guillaume Bonnissent
CEO
Guillaume Bonnissent is Quotech’s founder and CEO. He’s also an underwriter with more than two decades’ experience, first at Euler, then at Hiscox for 15 years, then for four years as Underwriting Director at the MGA White Oak. In that last job he wanted to buy-in a decent underwriting platform, but couldn’t find a supplier who understood what an underwriter really needs, day to day. But he had learned some coding at college, so he built a platform himself to do the job, sold it, launched Quotech, and the rest is history.
He says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance is to understand insurance business processes and the sector’s complex value chain like a native, then build systems which remove the inherent inefficiencies, not through chuck-it-all-out-and-start again approach, but incrementally.
Dmytro ‘Dima’ Droban
Chief Operating Officer
Dima spent most of his 20+ year career as a marine underwriter. A globetrotting Londoner from Ukraine, he joins Quotech after leaving his underwriter’s desk for three years to establish an insurTech in Vietnam. Dima identifies first as a problem-solver, informed by his invaluable multinational perspective to foster success built on effort, concentration, and powerful teams. Tech is now essential to insurance, he says. “Using new solutions in our old, traditional industry is what first fuelled my interest in technology,” he recalls. “Applying disruptive solutions to ways of working may be challenging, but it’s also thrilling and inspiring.”
He says that everyone knows the secrets to making a truly useful technology app for insurance: “Adopt tech that solves customers’ real problems, not the provider’s. Make it simple, intuitive, and sleek. Everybody knows that, but few do it.”
Marco Seoane
Senior Software Developer
Marco Seoane is Quotech’s front-end man, a Senior Software Developer with five years in the game, most of it with RecTech and MarTech early-stage B2B SaaS companies (before he found his home in insurTech, obviously). Marco says the best part about working in tech is that jeans and a t-shirt are acceptable workplace attire, but then his office is anywhere in London with an internet connection and a decent coffee. Give him those two, and he’ll get busy building and creating. “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” Marco says, as he pushes towards his self-imposed Friday production.
He says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance is all about reducing the cost of recording, managing, aggregating, and communicating about data, both cognitively and operationally.
Chris Pickford
Product Manager
Chris Pickford is Quotech’s Manager. He moved here to insurTech after eight years spent testing critical systems developed for accountancy. Eastbourne is his home by the sea, where he and Maisie, his Staffie, go where the connection is best to ensure everything works as it should for Quotech clients. “Being a start-up allows us to focus on any issues we face quickly and efficiently,” Chris says, “which helps us find the best way to work, and lets us create amazing solutions to any issues our clients face.”
He says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance is building insurTech software that’s intuitive for users, and creating easier ways of working to make sure the major pain points no longer exist.
Lee John Martin
Senior Software Developer
Lee John Martin is one of Quotech’s Senior Software Developers, a backend engineer who claims “enough infrastructure and frontend knowledge to get myself into trouble”. A former graphic designer, he worked in insurTech for a year before joining Quotech, but during nearly a decade developing has built a geospatial SaaS tool in the property sector, an order-processing tool for a major consumer products supplier, and contract management software for the engineering sector, among many others. A man who prefers marathon running to commuting (he’s done 10 big jogs, last count), Lee delivers for Quotech customers from a box-room in his home in Gloucestershire with a black cat called Bobs (short for Bobbie, short for Roberta).
Lee says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance is to get in your user’s head. You have to understand the user’s problem to solve it properly. And, he says, smart, simple ways of solving people’s problems are usually doable, and go well beyond what they think is possible.
Nick Melis
Chief Technology Officer
Nick Melis is Quotech’s Chief Technology Officer. He’s spent 16 years building things, which he likes to do with technology because it doesn’t need heavy machinery or complicated equipment, yet he can still make a global impact. He’s built things in multiple sectors, but likes doing so for Quotech because: “we’re an insurTech building products for insurance companies, rather than just a bunch of techies trying to break into the insurance market. The people fixing clients’ problems have experienced them first hand.”
Nick says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance is to know your clients, to really take time to observe, appreciate, and think about their pain points, and to then come up with a creative solution that saves them time and delivers tangible value.
Nick Keers
Lead Software Developer
Nick Keers, Quotech’s Lead Software Developer, has been creating effective, useful applications for nearly ten years since completing his computer science degree with first-class honours. Most recently, the Liverpool-based, Devon-born developer spent several years exercising his specialities (backend engineering and observability, but he works across the stack) to help a national retailer develop a multifunctional, cloud-based cash, sales management and reporting system. That was right up his street: Nick likes problem-solving, because each new problem makes you learn something new. He’s also a music lover and piano player (although he mostly entertains Sebastian and Missy, his cats).
Nick says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance, as with all software, is to listen to customers and domain experts. “Without their input, we would have no idea what to create,” he says.
Daniel Loader
Lead Platform Engineer
Daniel Loader is Quotech’s Lead Platform Engineer. He’s spent nearly a decade honing his craft in diverse sectors stretching from groceries to cyber security, working for household names like Iceland and Nominet. Now he’s made the crossing to insurance. From his home office in Manchester he works his magic for Quotech clients, with limited support from his cat Piggy and his tortoise González. His goal: to enable software engineers and ultimate users to work faster, with greater reliability, in part by deploying adjacent technology disciplines that provide the platform and services they need to succeed.
Dan says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance is to minimise users’ manual toil by making the workflow intuitive and the functionality smooth.
Daniel Alderman
Senior Software Developer
Daniel Alderman, Quotech’s Senior Software Developer, is an expert in Go (the computer language, not the ancient Chinese game). For the past six years, the Harrogate-based programmer has used Go to build multiple applications that create something out of nothing, in a way that solves problems. “Software is a creative industry where you design and build a product that has a big impact on the customer,” he says. “I like that.” He works in his home office in “God’s own Country” with his very cheeky rescue Greyhound called Ronnie, who is often be seen napping during Quotech staff Zoom meetings.
Daniel says the secret to making a truly useful technology app for insurance is to have strong domain knowledge and experience, and to understand the value of incorporating global trends such as climate change into your product. That, he says, makes it fit for our changing world.
Meet the team.
Dmytro Droban
Chief Operating Officer
Nick Melis
Chief Technology Officer
Daniel Alderman
Senior Software Developer
Nick Keers
Lead Software Developer
Daniel Loader
Lead Platform Engineer
Lee John Martin
Senior Software Developer
Chris Pickford
Product Manager
Marco Seoane
Senior Software Developer
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Quotech’s working environment is as innovative as our products. We are a decentralised team of individual specialists working remotely, but at the leading edge of insurTech innovation. Alongside quarterly team meetings, we are electronically connected to create a genuine culture of camaraderie and purpose that leaves a minimal environment footprint.
We hire based entirely on merit, and reward employees with competitive pay, share options for all employees under the Quotech Enterprise Management Incentives scheme, and a comprehensive healthcare package. For those who prefer an out-of-home office, we provide access to a local shared facility, and equipment is supplied for all.
We’re always looking for new talent. If you’d like to tell us what you can do, have a look at our current postings or send us your CV.
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