Mark Coons

About Mark Coons

Dynamic and driven entrepreneur, leader and executive with a track record of success in the London and North American insurance markets including 20+ years of start-up and business ownership experience. My professional experience spans many diverse areas of the market including both underwriting and broking of commercial insurance (on a retail and wholesale basis) and treaty reinsurance broking as well as senior-level marketing, production and management roles. A strong work ethic combined with a collaborative management style and an adaptive approach to rapid changes taking place in the financial services markets have enabled me to successfully seek out new and often overlooked opportunities and build enduring and profitable enterprises.Interests/Specialties: IoT / connected home and automobile insurance; InsurTech; Start-ups and business building strategy and execution; Marketing; Sales; Lloyd’s of London and U.S. insurance; Financial Institutions; Cargo/Crime/Specie and Privacy/Data Breach insurance as well as Property Catastrophe, D&O and Professional Liability.

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Savvi Insurance

   Jan 2019 — Present

   Savvi is making home insurance smarter by using technology to prevent losses, keep you safe and save you money. Combining the latest in smart home technology with modernized and enhanced protection, Savvi offers a whole new kind of home insurance. One that helps make you safer and rewards you for all the good things you do - rather than penalizing you when something bad happens. One that gives you something that’s fun to use and improves your life - rather than something that you dread ever having to use. And one that’s committed to making insurance a source for social good by improving the lives of people in our communities by giving back.Savvi is a simply smarter way to protect your home and everything you love.

Education

• College of Insurance, New York, NY

  Associate in Reinsurance

  1996 — 1998

• Queen's University

  B.A., Politics & International Relations

  1988 — 1991

Skills

• Property & Casualty Insurance
• D&O
• Precious Metals
• Jewelry
• Captive Insurance
• Reinsurance
• Errors & Omissions
• Inland Marine
• Underwriting
• Insurance
• New Business Development
• Captives
• Management
• Financial Institutions
• Brokers
• Museums
• Risk Management
• Fine Art
• Business Development
• Business Strategy
• Strategic Planning
• Insurance Brokerage
• Working with Brokers