BRENDEN BEEG | Age: 32 Business development manager, North America

Descartes Insurance Solutions Agency Inc.

Denver

Brenden Beeg’s love of golf led him to the insurance industry. Shortly before college graduation, his grandfather told him many of his friends who worked for insurance agencies were golfers and suggested he consider insurance as a profession. A college career day led to a job with a Tokio Marine HCC unit. He joined Descartes in 2022.

How are technological advances affecting your job?

Advances in satellite imagery and technology and IoT sensors have given us more granularity in risk analysis, and therefore pricing can be more stable in the long run.

What’s a problem that needs fixing in your sector?

Right now, especially in the hard market, there are restrictive terms and gaps in coverage in the economic sense, and so parametric insurance offers more flexibility and can fill in many of those restrictive gaps in coverage — for example, non-damage business interruption or contingent supply chain-related exposure.

What do you wish more people knew about insurance?

That there are a lot of niches in the insurance industry, and that from a career perspective there’s a lot of interesting scenarios that you can come across. And it can be exciting, in that insurance is all over the world, and in a lot of unique places, and so you can travel for insurance business to a city like Paris.

What’s something about you that would surprise people?

That I had been in Hawaii for seven years.

Favorite hobby or pastime?

Golf was my first love and is still a favorite pastime. I would say now surfing is right up there, too — I have to travel for it now.

Favorite song?

“Still Beating” by Mac DiMarco.