Simon Rockett – Head of UK Underwriting, Atradius
With 25 years in the trade credit insurance industry, Simon Rockett has extensive experience of monitoring business risk through the peaks and troughs of various economic cycles. Starting in claims and recoveries, Simon then moved to risk underwriting where he subsequently became a sector “crisis” expert, dealing with industries such as agriculture during the BSE outbreak and retail at the outset of the current downturn. He now heads up the UK underwriting team at trade credit insurer Atradius.
Atradius
Atradius is in the knowledge business, with total revenues of more than EUR 1.8 billion and a 31% share of the global trade credit insurance market, our products and services contribute to the growth of companies throughout the world. Why? Because our customers recognise the benefits we can bring them. From the insight of our political and economic analysts, to our expert army of underwriters who know the ins and outs of more than 52 million companies worldwide, we know what’s happening first. We use this knowledge to help our customers know where and with whom it’s safe to trade. Daily, we provide around 22,000 trade credit limit decisions to help steer our customers through trade credit risk. And because we are in the deal with our customers from start to finish, offering not only world-class management of trade credit risks, but an integrated global collections service, they can be confident they are going to get paid, whatever the circumstances. We support UK plc by helping thousands of British companies manage their trade credit risks every single day from our 8 local offices around the UK and Ireland.