Atec Group Appoints Kirsty Biggs as CTO

Atec Group, the insurance distribution and growth platform, has appointed Kirsty Biggs as its new CTO.  Kirsty will join from Vitality Insurance on 14^th April, following completion of her notice period.  Her appointment signals Atec’s intent to fortify its technical leadership as it seeks to build on its impressive growth trajectory and push the boundaries of people-first tech-enabled insurance development and distribution. 

Kirsty brings over 20 years’ experience to the CTO role. At Vitality she is IT Director – Vitality Programme Systems. She spent 9 years in senior leadership positions at Vitality across engineering, delivery, and development. Her background also includes 9 years at Ageas, where she held the position of Innovation Delivery Lead. Highly regarded for her ability to deliver brilliant digital experiences, Kirsty is skilled in IT change management, product development, business transformation, and operations. 

A people-first, outcome-driven leader, Kirsty’s primary focus will be the evolution of Atec’s award-winning infrastructure, within a framework that is value-based and human-centric at its heart.  Working collaboratively with the Atec leadership team, she aims to drive modernisation and security, removing constraints, and ensuring technology development is an enabler for Atec’s businesses, its people, partners and customers. 

Brendan Devine, CEO of Atec, commented: “We are incredibly excited to welcome Kirsty to our leadership team.  Her understanding of the rapidly evolving insurance technology landscape coupled with her vision and broad skill set, makes her the perfect person to lead the innovation that will power our ambitions.   She joins at a pivotal moment in the evolution of our business; we’re punching well above our weight when it comes to being at the vanguard of digital distribution and agentic AI innovation.”

Kirsty said: “I’m delighted to join Atec at such an exciting time, and to play my part in realising its ambitions.  I was immediately attracted by the opportunity that comes with such an ambitious business.  When it comes to technology transformation, for me, it’s not just about the “human in the loop”, it’s about “human in the lead”; my focus will be on driving innovation that makes a material difference to the business, the market, and customers.”

Atec has undergone impressive organic growth over the past few years, taking its GWP to over £125 million with ambitions to double in size by 2030.  Kirsty has a proven track record of fast-growth technology enablement.  She brings exactly the kind of technology leadership Atec needs as an innovative, performance and data-driven, people-first insurance group.

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