Ashley joined us in 1997 and is our longest serving staff member. He heads up our General Insurance Team and whilst he is a fount of all knowledge General Insurance, these days he specialises more in Commercial Insurance (Liability, Fleet, Professional Indemnity, Combined and Office to name a few). He is also our resident IT wizard and is the first one we go to with any IT problems, hopefully once we have remembered to switch it off and switch it one again . . 
Outside of the office Ash is a big 1980s music fan (and a self proclaimed die hard Kylie fan) and a huge car fan, with a long standing loyalty to Ford’s and Volkswagen.

He can also be seen sometimes cruising around the countryside with his wife in his Mercedes campervan – which he actually won through a television phone in competition! 

The most valuable lessons Ash learnt during lockdown was that it is possible to survive without eating out and takeaways. In recent years Ash and his wife have fallen in love with cruise holidays and although they did have to cancel one due to the pandemic, they are hopeful this is something they will be able to start doing again in the near future. 
 

Kit has been a member of the P W White & Partners team since 2013, joining us after completing a History Degree at Durham University and a long period of volunteering at Chiltern Open Air Museum. Since joining us, Kit has completed the ‘Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning’ and now works as a Paraplanner. A Paraplanner is a very jargony word which most people have never heard of, but it is at its essence a role which provides technical support to Nick.

Kit enjoys the challenge and diversity in his role and looks forward to developing skills across all areas in Financial Services. He basically wants to be a walking, talking Financial Services encyclopedia and we’re pleased to say that he’s not too far off achieving that.

Outside of the office, Kit splits his time between the pottery wheel, where he makes off-balance cups and wobbly bowls, running table-top roleplaying games for his friends (feel free to ask – we had no idea what these were either!) and looking after his new puppy, Eddie.

During lockdown Kit has learnt to drive, worked on extending his repertoire of vegan meals and ruined the lawn at home by taking his daily walks in a circle around his garden!

Kit came to us with no knowledge or experience in Financial Services and has grown over the years to be a key integral part of our team. You may not have spoken to him before but you can bet that whenever you receive something from us he has been involved in it somewhere along the way.

Karen joined the P W White team in December 2014 following a return from living in Birmingham for three years.

Karen has been involved in the insurance industry since 1986 (too long!) when she worked in Accounts and had to learn the insurance side of the business to solve accounts problems and went on from there.  She has been involved in both commercial and personal insurance but prefers the personal side of the industry and particularly home and travel insurance.

Away from the office Karen always has a book to read and loves that she can now carry her entire library around with her on her kindle (500 books and counting…).  Five grandchildren (four of them teenagers) keep her busy baking cakes.
 

Kobi is the newest member of the insurance team, he previously worked as an Insurance Advisor, dealing mainly with Motor Vehicle policies for nearly 2 years and brings in his experience and knowledge from this role. In 2019 he graduated from Buckinghamshire New University with a degree in Business Management. At P W White, Kobi deals with the Commercial Insurance (Liability, Fleet, Professional Indemnity, Combined and Office etc.) side of the business.

Outside of work, Kobi spends a lot of time out in the nature and likes going on hiking trips. He also has a big passion for electronic dance music and finds himself spending hours crate digging for new records and attending concerts/festivals.