Click here for the article of The Independent, 12 June 2008.
Back in the Seventies, the insurance industry was very conservative,
recalls the insurance mogul Peter Cullum, 57. As a 24 year-old, he had
the audacity to challenge the received wisdom of the business world.
After 20 years spent working his way to the top of the mainstream insurance industry, resuscitating ailing companies en route, he decided it was time to do things his way. Towergate Partnership Ltd, which he founded in 1997 with some equally enterprising industry colleagues, has mushroomed into one of the UK's major providers of specialist insurance. In doing so, Cullum has amassed a personal fortune estimated at £1.7bn, putting him at number 40 in the Sunday Times Rich List.
Having gone straight into insurance from school in his home city of Norwich, ("I could have joined Norwich Union but somehow that would have been too easy"), he decided that he needed to boost his business skills and enrolled on a Masters course at what is now Cass Business School in the City of London...
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