Employee Spotlight: Matt Snape
MATT SNAPE
Head of Sales & Marketing at Ignite
Matt joined Ignite this month as Head of Sales & Marketing, tasked with supercharging Ignite’s marketing strategy and sales pipeline, and spearheading commercial opportunities that leverage Ignite’s position within the Verisk group.
Matt has extensive experience (over 25 years in fact) in providing technology solutions to insurers and brokers in the general insurance and the London Market insurance marketplace. Having led teams at Charles Taylor Insurtech, SSP, and CGI, Matt brings a wealth of experience and expertise to Ignite.
Carrying on from our first Employee Spotlight on our new Head of Business Development, Christian Wright, we’ve also asked Matt a few questions so we could get to know him a little bit better…
What are you most looking forward to with regards to your new role at Ignite?
To help expand the business footprint in the market and helping Ignite become a brand leader.
What difference do you hope to make?
To help win new and larger brokers and use the Verisk brand to help achieve this.
What drew you to Ignite?
The opportunity to take an already established business and go to the next level of business growth.
3 words you would use to describe Ignite
A disrupter, agile & an opportunity.
What do you hope to achieve in the next 2-5 years at Ignite?
To realise significant revenues both top line and bottom line.
Tell us a random fact about yourself (that you’re willing to share)
I was in the army for 6 years.
If given a chance, who would you like to be for a day?
The prime minister
If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be?
Professional golfer
How do you define success?
Where everyone in the organisation benefits.
If you could only drink one beer for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Not beer – but Gin!
Three words to best describe you
Fun, driven, respectful
What are three career lessons you’ve learned thus far?
Some patience, to listen & look for the business value.
What are your hopes for our industry?
To continue to look to improve the way insurance adds value and not seen as a necessary evil.
