Unlocking the potential

"I am what you call a proper insurance man," says Peter Bye, director of specialist healthcare planning company, The Private Health Partnership (PHP). "And by that I mean I have never had a career, just a series of jobs." Despite his modesty, Bye has had a remarkable and varied career. After a brief stint as a policeman and a taxi driver, Bye secured a job with Prudential and began to make his way up the rungs of the insurance ladder. Today, as director of a company he co-founded with his business partner Jan Lawson, Bye is happy with his lot. "For the first two years it was very diffi...