Chris Pennington
Chief Financial Officer
Chris joined SSP in 2009 and held a number of senior finance positions prior to his appointment as CFO in May 2018. Before joining SSP, Chris spent 12 years with PwC, latterly as a Director in the Corporate Finance practice. Chris is a Chartered Accountant.
Adrian Coupland
Customer and Marketing Managing Director
Adrian joined SSP in 2005 and has over 20 years’ experience in the market across broking, distribution, business development and technology. This includes 15 years in the broking industry, ten of which were with A-Plan. As Customer and Marketing Managing Director, he is part of the executive team, and his expertise in data and innovation ensure SSP‘s customers are at the leading edge of advancements in the insurance industry. Adrian has been instrumental in developing SSP’s real-time pricing and telematics strategies and shaping its data strategy across all territories.
Jemma McKenzie
HR Director
With over 25 years’ experience in HR, Jemma joined SSP in March 2017 and is responsible for global human resources. Jemma previously worked for the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors as Head of HR for six years, where she was key in leading change to support the organisation in becoming one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. In her early career, Jemma worked with Domestic & General Insurance to set up a 24/7 contact centre service for its Domestic Appliance insurance product and spent 10 years with TUI Travel (Lunn Poly, Thomson Holidays, First Choice), leading the HR support for its retail outlets and contact centres.
Richard Forrest
Company Secretary
Richard has more than 37 years’ experience of working in the IT services sector, for the most part serving the financial services industry, including senior posts in CSC and Sherwood. In that time he has worked across a range of disciplines including sales, service delivery and large contract governance and delivery.
Richard joined SSP in 2006, and prior to that worked for the Ra Group, including North Park. Richard sits on the main SSP management group, and is Company Secretary for all of the SSP group companies in the UK. He is head of Legal and Commercial for the worldwide SSP business, as well as being in charge of compliance.