“My biggest career challenge has always been evolving my role. You have to evolve on a daily basis. You cannot sit still. This industry is changing at such a rapid pace. You snooze, you lose.”
Name: Victoria Carter Company: Guy Carpenter Job:
Vice chairman of international operations
Timeline: 2010—Vice chairman of international operations, Guy Carpenter 2004—Chairman, UK & Ireland, Towers Watson 1992—Founder and managing director, Dunn & Carter
Victoria Carter is vice chairman of international operations and is a member of the board of managers for Guy Carpenter. She is a key member of the Guy Carpenter International Leadership team and is responsible for the firm’s third party capital production and placement business and helps drive new business generation across the company’s international operations. She also plays a significant role in supporting and cultivating senior client and industry relationships around the globe. With more than 35 years of experience in the reinsurance industry, Carter began her career as a London broker in 1979 and later co-founded the broking operation Dunn & Carter in 1992. She is recognised as a trailblazer, becoming the first female founder of a Lloyd’s broking house. She has also held a number of senior executive positions within the broking sector. Carter previously served as chairman of the UK and
international operations of Towers Watson. She joined Guy Carpenter in 2010. Her continuing achievements have led to invitations to speak at organisations around the world about her career and the challenges she has faced as a pioneering woman in insurance and reinsurance. She has created and driven a Young Professionals Employee Resource Group in the UK, which includes an educational forum and a gala that raises money for charity. Last year, she became a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Insurers, the latter of which is one of 110 livery companies or historic trade associations in the City of London which date back to the 13th century.
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What has been the highlight of your career so far? I feel extremely fortunate to have had many highlights in my career. The satisfaction of becoming, at the age of 32, the first female founder of a Lloyd’s broking operation in its 325-year history remains my favourite.
What has been the biggest challenge you have
encountered? My biggest career challenge has always been evolving my role. You have to evolve on a daily basis. You cannot sit still. This industry is changing at such a rapid pace. You snooze, you lose. I look at the role I do now compared with that of 10 years ago and how it has changed. That has been both my biggest challenge and my biggest stimulant. I work in an industry that never sits still and, if you do sit still, you will be left behind.
What are your career aspirations now? My aspirations change continually. I am ambitious and very competitive by nature and always have been. However, the one constant is that I want to bring exceptional value to my clients, especially as they continually face new and often unexpected market challenges. I want to be the one they come to. My current role is very much focused on business development
across Guy Carpenter’s international operations. This is a challenging time, and we are facing significant rapid and fundamental change in our industry like never before. And these are changes that I don’t see reversing, or certainly not in the near future. The key to success is anticipating our clients’ needs through
such changes. They are seeing new global risks emerge, whether it is through climate change or the likes of cyber risk. They are entering new geographic markets that require a high level of business intelligence and sophistication, and of course, the need to discover new trading partnerships that can provide valuable trading opportunities. I want to ensure that Guy Carpenter, with its vast resources and
depth of talent, is helping our clients meet those challenges and achieve profitable growth.
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