Simon Barker joined the London insurance market in 1989 a broker with C.T. Bowring (Marsh).
He set up and developed an independent Lloyd’s Broker called EBA Insurance Services which expanded into the MGA arena in the mid-2000s with particular focus on European construction and surety business.
EBA joined the Nexus group in 2015 and has become a key component of the group’s European strategy. Simon’s role cuts across a wide range of insurance products and roles including product design, capacity sourcing and binding authority design.
He is a fluent French and Italian speaker and was the architect of Nexus’ post Brexit structure.
Since the acquisition of the Kentro group by Brown & Brown, Simon is supporting the Brown & Brown’s London and Asian brokers on strategic development.