Fighting the corner: Andrew Tripp, AMII chairman

Tripp is chief executive of health insurance brokers Perfect Health but started his working life as a stock exchange dealer having joined Akroyd & Smithers, in 1983. He was made a full dealer in 1986, prior to the ‘big bang’ in 1987 and joined W Greenwell (HSBC bank) as dealer of textile stocks. Tripp later joined Hoare Govett, but resigned in 1989. “I missed the atmosphere of the stock exchange floor, and did not want to spend the rest of my life stuck in a dealing room tied to a desk,” he says. The change to a career in private medical insurance (PMI) came after Tripp saw an advert ...