Our people are everything
Driving excellence with a team of diverse specialists
Our multidisciplinary team of healthcare insurance specialists comprises legal experts and health & care professionals, with well over 100 years of combined experience. Collectively, we develop tailored product offerings and claims solutions that underpin our insureds’ and partners’ practices, empowering them to excel in their respective fields.
Enhanced support for tailored risk management solutions
In addition to our highly experienced in-house team, we’re backed by MGA incubator Mission Underwriters, owned by the A-rated Accelerant, who provides our capacity. Mission facilitates our growth through their team of 25+ dedicated employees. This comprehensive support spans across Digital Services, Marketing, Operations, Compliance and Finance and enables us to deliver tailored and seamless risk management solutions and support you every step of the way.
Awards & recognition
Altea is honoured to be recognised for excellence in the industry. These accolades affirm our commitment to innovation, quality service, and making a real difference for brokers, partners and our insureds. While winning an award feels great, what really drives us is constantly improving our offerings and helping our clients succeed.
Women to Watch EMEA 2024 HonoreeBusiness Insurance 2024
Carly Matson, CEO, Altea Insurance, has been recognised as a Women to Watch, EMEA in 2024. This award programme recognises outstanding female leaders, with winners from across the commercial insurance industry, risk management, and related fields.
MGA Professional of the YearWomen in Insurance Awards UK 2024
Carly Matson, CEO, Altea Insurance was a finalist in the MGA Professional of the Year category at the Women in Insurance Awards. These awards showcase the achievements of women in the general insurance market.
Most Influential CEOCEO Review 2024
Carly Matson has been recognised by CEO Monthly Magazine as the Most Influential CEO 2024 - UK (Insurance & Risk Management Solutions). The programme celebrates the extraordinary achievements of the world's Most Influential CEOs; individuals whose strategic acumen, transformative leadership, and unwavering commitment have left a mark through every product or service that they put out to their clientele and customers.
Risk Management Programme of the YearCIR Risk Management 2024
Finalist for the Risk Management Programme of the Year award at the CIR Risk Management Awards. This award recognises a sustained single programme, demonstrated to have achieved results and with risk management at its heart.
Our leadership team
CEO
Carly’s focus is ensuring Altea lives up to its mission of enabling clients to focus on the success of their business by delivering exceptionally innovative risk solutions; while also attracting and developing outstanding talent in the healthcare insurance and consulting space.
Thank you for arranging the cover for me. I very much appreciated it. Carly seems like a real mover and shaker and honestly, I am so delighted that you’ve introduced me to her…I think so much of what she said, makes perfect sense, and I don’t know why more Insurance professionals don’t have her forward-thinking attitude.
Head of Legal and Risk Management
Will came to Altea after spending more than 30 years as a leading lawyer in UK insurance healthcare litigation. Working at some of the major global insurance law firms, representing outstanding industry health and care sector providers he leads our AlteaPlus business and part of our London team.
He’s very experienced… tough and measured.
I rate Will. He knows what he’s doing and has extensive experience… He’s a great lawyer and deals with claims from multiple perspectives
Accreditation: Chambers and Partners “Clinical Negligence: Mainly Defendant” (2024 UK)
Key people
Senior Underwriter
Holly Dixon brings over 13 years of industry experience to Altea, delivering specialist knowledge and insights across complex sectors including primary care, fertility, aesthetics, and surgical risks. With a strong background in medical malpractice and commercial combined packages, Holly’s expertise strengthens Altea’s ability to provide brokers and clients with broad, cross-class insights and responsive solutions, enhancing the high standard of service we provide.
Underwriter
Yasmin brings extensive knowledge in the Healthcare and Aesthetics industries, gained through her experience at global specialty insurers, where she specialised in medical negligence and was recognised with the prestigious Davies Group National Apprenticeship Award.
Legendary turnaround – Thanks Yasmin!
The client has been very impressed with Altea’s and your response time!
Cross Class Underwriter
Suchitra brings over 17 years of experience in the insurance industry to her role as a Cross Class Underwriter. With a background spanning both reinsurance and insurance sectors, she possesses a diverse skill set in underwriting various product lines. Suchitra supports Altea with underwriting decisions for the company’s risks in the EU region.
Business Development Officer
With two decades of experience predominantly within insurance broking and having spent the last 15 years specialising in professional and clinical negligence, Vickie enhances Altea’s broker engagement capabilities, particularly across the north of the United Kingdom where she is based.
Client Relationship Manager
Emma brings 14 years of experience in the insurance industry to her role as a Client Relationship Manager at Altea. Emma supports Altea as a Client Relationship Manager and serves as the primary liaison between Altea and supporting functions provided by Mission Underwriters, including the digital team, vendors, and client services team.
Our culture
Altea is a team of passionate innovators, experts and entrepreneurs working to redefine Healthcare Insurance
We appreciate that solutions for insurance cannot be delivered with conventional thinking. At Altea we love that our innovation happens when passionate teams of people, coupled with creative clients challenge the status quo and aim for a seemingly impossible task. If you are inspired to create solutions that insurance hasn’t seen before, and join our team of healthcare insurance specialists, we would love to hear from you
100+
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Combined healthcare insurance experience across multiple disciplines
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Medical Malpractice, Professional Indemnity, General Liability, Accident & Health and Property specialisms
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Unlocking long-term potential: we can extend our capacity to you
Multi-
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Pan-European underwriting strategy with the backing to go further
Join our talented team
Discover exciting opportunities to showcase your skills and be part of a dynamic company that genuinely values your contribution. We offer a supportive work environment, opportunities for growth and a chance to be part of an industry-leading team of healthcare insurance specialists. Even if there are no open positions, we welcome bright individuals to submit their resumes. At Altea, we recognise, reward and appreciate exceptional talent.