As General Counsel and Compliance Director, Jo is responsible for building and leading the Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit and Company Secretarial teams.

The General Counsel acts as a trusted adviser to Ki’s CEO, Mark Allan, the Executive team and the Ki Board, finding solutions to help Ki continue to disrupt by using technology and data, in a responsible and sustainable way. 

Jo has spent most of her career working in insurance, first as an insurance and reinsurance litigator at law firms Eversheds and Clyde & Co, before moving into the general insurance market. There Jo worked for Hiscox Syndicate 33 and US insurer ACE (now Chubb).  Her next career move took her into the world of life assurance, when she became General Counsel at FTSE250 Just Group, before spending several years outside insurance working as Chief Legal & Governance Officer and Company Secretary at another FTSE250, the global trading fintech IG Group.  As a member of Executive Committees and Executive Risk Committees, Jo has led global Legal, Compliance, Company Secretarial and Internal Audit teams through periods of intense growth and change, advising Boards and their Committees, as well as Executive management, on governance, legal and regulatory issues.

“I was attracted to Ki by its incredible success disrupting the uber-traditional Lloyd’s of London insurance market” Jo commented about her arrival at Ki “as well as its deep appreciation of the importance of the business partnering functions in my world in continuing to build on that success. My experience in both the insurance and fintech worlds gives me the ideal skillset to help Ki to fulfil its potential”.