Reporting to Nick Giddings, Director of Distribution and Partners, Colin’s key responsibilities will be executing Open GI’s partner strategy and delivering partner revenue across new and existing business.

With over three decades’ experience managing strategic relationships in insurance, Colin has held a series of senior roles including Strategic Development Manager at AXA, Head of Insurer Relations at Ageas and Head of Strategic Partnerships at Co-op Insurance. Most recently, he acted as Head of Partnerships at RoadHow.

Colin will be responsible for maintaining, growing and developing Open GI’s panel of partners to ensure that users continue to have access to the broadest panel of insurers and partners in the market. As part of that, he will work closely with the product team to ensure that the full breadth of partner offerings are made available to Open GI’s 16,000 users.

Commenting on his appointment, Nick said: “The Open GI platform has the largest and most diverse panel of insurers and partners in the market, and I am delighted that Colin is bringing his significant experience in strategic partnership management to Open GI.

“Our transformation programme is well under way, and we have big ambitions for the future of Open GI, our brokers and our strategic partners. Colin will play a crucial role in meeting those ambitions and we look forward to him joining the team.”

Colin added: “While Open GI already has the largest and broadest partner panel in the market, there is huge scope for further development and strategic alignment with partners, delivering even more choice to our broker users.

“It is an exciting time to join Open GI as it transforms to become the technology partner of choice for brokers across the UK.”

Colin joined the team on 20 July 2026.