The People Building Vates Risk
A team of underwriters and technologists on a mission to transform specialty insurance.

Ben Rutt
Founder & CEO
7 years at J.P. Morgan's Corporate & Investment Bank, working in Strategy & FinTech Investments, Digital Private Markets as Head of International, Strategy and Business Development. 14 years British Army.
Unique experience building a technology business for private markets.

Luke Stedman
Advisor
17 years as a Data Engineer at Winton and JPMC. Currently CTO of a Start-up Hedge Fund.
Proven ability to build enterprise-grade financial data systems.

Ingo Trede
Specialty Underwriting Advisor
13 years as a Financial Lines specialist at HCC Global and Alta Signa with expertise across all Financial Lines and Cyber for Financial Institutions, Transaction Risk Insurance, Contingency and K&R.