Gary Ross

Gary is the CEO of blip, a leading digital-first provider of competitively priced and easy to understand small business insurance that allows members to both save money, share in profits and benefit from a growth focussed business community. By taking insurance back to first principals for small businesses, where the losses of the few are paid for by the premiums of the many and profits are shared with policy holders, blip is breaking the idea that insurance is a contract of mutual distrust. Gary has 30+ years’ experience in senior leadership within Underwriting, Claims and Reinsurance as a director which gives him a unique ability to marry technology with traditional insurance structures to bring blip to the UK market.

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Higher costs and slow growth: adapting to the Autumn Budget for Small Businesses

In the Autumn Budget of 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves introduced a series of reforms that have stirred both concern and cautious optimism among the UK’s small business community. Small businesses are widely understood to be the backbone of the UK economy; at the start of 2023 there were 5.6 million small businesses, SMEs had a combined turnover of £2.4 trillion, and SMEs account for nearly two-thirds (61%) of total employment.