Martyn Holman joins Open GI as Non-Executive Director

Open GI is pleased to announce that Martyn Holman is joining its leadership team as a Non-Executive Director from 1st November 2017.

Leading Insurance industry expert Martyn Holman is to join the leadership team of Open GI from 1st November, alongside his other commitments.

Martyn has held many senior executive positions at both brokers and insurers during his 39 years in Insurance, including Group Commercial Director at Markerstudy and Chief Executive Officer at Brightside.

He will report into Chris Guillaume, Group CEO of Open GI, and will work in a consultative and ambassadorial role alongside the Executive Board of the business.

“It’s great news for both Open GI and our customers that someone of Martyn’s experience and standing in the industry is joining us. I believe he will add huge value to our relationships and will play a key role in moving our proposition forward. Martyn has been both a customer and a supplier to Open GI over many years and his market knowledge will be invaluable to our business as we embark on the next phase of our journey.”

Open GI’s Group CEO Chris Guillaume said:

“I’ve had some fantastic weeks in Insurance over my career and coming on-board with Chris and the team at Open GI has just sealed one of the best. Following the acquisition of TGSL in August this year the business clearly has the best technological proposition with the widest market reach amongst its peers. I’m excited to help the team take the business into new markets and achieve its ambitions.”

Martyn Holman commented:

Notes to Editors:

Open GI is one of the leading technology partners to the General Insurance industry. Open GI provides a range of configurable insurance software to insurance brokers, underwriting agencies, insurers and MGAs in the UK and Ireland. Its broking platform solutions, which includes [Transactor] Version 7 and Core, provides multi-line, multi-channel, multi-brand trading capability complemented by innovative eCommerce and mobile technologies. Open GI is part of the Open International Group and has 600 staff across offices in Worcester, Dublin, London, Winchester, Milton Keynes, Macedonia and Poland. It works alongside its sister companies Open GI London, Open GI Ireland, TGSL Poland and S4i.