Beale
Britishnoun
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“Lloyd’s is a huge, protective club,” said Inga Beale, its first and only female chief executive, who left in 2018.
The corporation this summer bid farewell to John Neal, Beale’s successor as its chief executive, with a champagne toast.
Beale said she was shocked by what she found when she assumed the chief executive role in 2014.
Beale’s attempt to modernize Lloyd’s culture and technology provoked a “complete backlash right from the beginning,” including a stream of hostile emails and letters, she said.
An attempt to tweak Lloyd’s dress code in 2014, by allowing men in the market to work in shirt sleeves on a blazing hot day, provoked an instant revolt, Beale said.
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