Grahame Millwater

Grahame is Vice Chairman of Acrisure Group, one of the largest global insurance companies. Grahame’s parents moved to Sandwich partly to secure a place for their sons at Manwood’s, which was then an all-boys’ school (it became co-educational in 1982).

Grahame has led the rapid growth of Acrisure’s business, which has recently been valued at $30bn and he has three guiding principles for success: “Everybody needs a map, because if you don’t have a map, you tend to get lost – that’s the importance of strategy. In terms of actually arriving at that destination, there are two things that are even more critical than the direction you’ve set yourself. One is the culture of your organisation, to enable you to get there, and engage with your people to get there. The second one is great execution – fundamentally, you have to change things well. So I think culture and execution eat strategy for breakfast.”