Stewart has over 25 years’ experience, gained predominantly in the financial services sector. He has held leading marketing positions within Kwik-Fit Financial Services, Ageas and Webhelp, working in partnership with some of the UK’s most respected brands such as John Lewis, Sainsbury’s Bank and Volkswagen to deliver their innovative insurance propositions across digital and social channels. 

Stewart Barnett, Head of Marketing at Atec Group, said:

The potential for innovation and growth at Atec and its sub-brands is huge. The business is delivering fantastic organic growth, having more than doubled its customer numbers over the last three years to 300,000 policies with a compound annual growth rate in excess of 30%. This is an exciting time to be joining. Atec has huge proprietary technology capabilities that allows us to integrate with retail distributors in a few weeks’ build time and our new products, such as motorhome, are capturing significant sectors of the market within a year of launch. 

So I’m looking forward to working with the team to make sure we maximise our digital expertise and continue our rapid growth across the broker and D2C home and leisure insurance markets.

Stewart joins Atec Group - which includes the Ceta Insurance, Arkel Underwriting and InsureMy brands - from Huntswood, specialists in delivering resourcing, outsourcing and advisory services to clients within the financial sector.  

Brendan Devine, Atec Group CEO, said:

We are thrilled that someone with the skills and experience of Stewart is heading up our marketing team. With his extensive digital background, he will be a huge asset to the organisation, bringing vast amounts of enthusiasm and insight to the role. Our growth trajectory continues to exceed our expectations and we have lots of exciting plans in the pipeline. Stewart is the right person to help us bring these to life and we are really looking forward to working closely with him.