Headquarters:
1090 Homer St #290, Vancouver, BC, V6B 2W9
Year founded:
2013
Number of employees:
20
Phone:
(604) 677 9715
Email:
info@lionsgateuw.com
Website:
lionsgateuw.com
LinkedIn:
ca.linkedin.com/company/lions-gate-underwriting
"We are constantly living by our core values: integrity, impact and teamwork"
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Meagan Woesndregt
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Jamie Ross Dick
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Brian Gomes is an accomplished executive who has spent more than 20 years in the insurance industry, with extensive experience leading numerous businesses throughout the sector as well as establishing alternate risk structures for risk facilities, commercial clients, institutions, and associations in Canada and internationally. As president of LGU, he has overseen the development of the MGA and arrangement of risk facilities and capacity for insurers, brokers and reinsurance structures. Brian also works with some of Canada’s largest self-insurance and alternative risk clients, for which he has provided consulting and advisory services for more than 15 years. He is actively involved in the London and domestic marketplaces and works with numerous insurers and brokers, including fronting and placing capacity with captive markets.
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Brian Gomes
Meagan Woesndregt was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario before heading west to British Columbia for university. After completing her degree, she began her career as an underwriter. She joined LGU as managing director over seven years ago and has since been an integral part of the ongoing success of the business. Meagan’s technical expertise and ability to empower others have led LGU through to consecutive record-breaking years of sustainable growth.
Managing Director and Head of Underwriting
Meagan Woesndregt
Born and raised in Scotland, Jamie Ross Dick worked as a carpenter and site foreman before immigrating to Canada over 10 years ago. He began his career in insurance in 2013 as a P&C underwriter before choosing to specialize in construction, an industry where his hands-on knowledge and expertise could be applied on a daily basis. Jamie came to LGU as director of construction in February 2022. He has been instrumental in driving growth within LGU’s existing binders and bringing on new capacity to fill in gaps he sees in the marketplace.
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Manny Cho
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Since 2016, Manny Cho has served as Executive Vice President of RPS Executive Lines, where he leads a team of almost 125 professionals across nine diverse geographic regions. The Executive Lines team places over $750M in premium in Executive Liability, Professional Liability, Reps and Warranties and Cyber Liability insurance. Most recently, Manny was the Vice President and Western Regional Underwriting Manager for Axis Capital/Axis Pro where he led a team of underwriters in the Technology E&O, Media Liability, MPL and Cyber Liability product lines.
Manny is a strong supporter of PLUS and WSIA. He is active in the community and volunteers his time and resources to his local church, schools, and the Alameda County Food Bank. Manny holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign.
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Jordan Mutton
Head of Inside Sales
Through leadership, approachability and expert knowledge of the finance industry and corresponding consumer trends, Jordan Mutton has led award-winning, high-performing teams, continually exceeding benchmarks. Building relationships is core to Jordan’s values, a skillset that has positioned him as a key leader within the industry.
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Lions Gate Underwriting is a global MGA with a team of more than 20 in Canada. It has offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa and its operations extend from coast to coast to coast. The company currently specializes in several key product lines: construction, property, casualty, professional liability, and accident and health. LGU is a full-service solution for brokerages of all sizes and risks of all complexities. While construction has been a focus since the company’s inception, the team has seen tremendous growth and success across the business over the past six years.
“LGU offers end-to-end solutions for construction risks, providing coverage for projects in various stages throughout the construction process,” says Jamie Ross Dick, the company’s director of construction.
“Whether it’s property coverage for buildings scheduled for demolition, ground up course of constructions, wrap-up and/or premises liability, even environmental liability, LGU wants to be with our brokers every step of the way. LGU has exclusive domestic and Lloyd’s capacity in-house which allows our team to offer unique solutions to our brokers, quickly and effectively. Beyond our existing in-house capacity, LGU has excellent open market relationships, helping us find a home for those complex, hard-to-place construction risks.”
LGU’s strategy has always been to use its technical expertise to its advantage by underwriting risks that the company understands and continuing to build capacity in the niches that it knows best.
“Being entrepreneurial in spirit, LGU has remained nimble through the market’s ebbs and flows and the ability to adjust to these fluctuations quickly and with relative ease has positioned us well for considerable growth. We have seen record-breaking years in both 2020 and 2021 and most recently saw June of 2022 close with our highest income bound in Lions Gate’s history,” says Meagan Woensdregt, managing director and head of underwriting.
Despite the unprecedented growth that LGU has experienced under the leadership of Brian Gomes, president and Woensdregt, the team remains humble and driven to produce results for its brokers and deliver on its promises.
“LGU feels incredibly accomplished in the growth that we’ve seen in recent years, however, what we are most proud of is our people and the team dynamics that we’ve built,” Gomes says. “We plan to continue investing in our people who are our greatest asset, as well as increasing our underwriting capacity and expanding our network of brokers to provide the most effective solutions. We will continue to utilize a dynamic blend of specialist human capital and technology to ensure we are delivering in an efficient way while always evolving.”
“Now, we have much more frequent recognition awards because we want to celebrate people staying at CAAT and recognize the contributions that they bring to the organization”
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich
School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at
The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and
Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Sarah M Stewart
Associate
Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the
Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years
of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation
of the company’s internal customer
service department.
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
