PB Week: A guest blog from Tim Ryan, managing director of the Ryan Insurance Group.

I enjoy a number of jobs within the financial services industry but I do not think of myself as an insurance man. If an economic downturn has done any good at all, it is to get people running insurance businesses to change their thought process from working in insurance to working on their business, writes Tim Ryan, managing director of broker Ryan Insurance.

As an industry we want to be viewed as a profession, which is no bad thing. Addressing elements of our businesses such as efficiency, quality and differentiation will allow businesses like ours to remain independent. This is very important to me.

My week begins with a formal Institute of Directors meeting. My chairmanship of the Suffolk branch is a fantastic networking forum that I use to good effect. The meetings are quite dynamic and always come away with a bit more passion than I went in with

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