Kumu leads the international team that offers risk consultancy to underwriters, brokers and direct
to customers. This team helps customers to better understand the risks they are exposed to and
build their resilience by improving their risk mitigation.
With over three decades of experience spanning pollution control, pharmaceutical R&D,
insurance and broker risk engineering and leadership, Kumu brings a customer centric viewpoint
on risk consultancy, combined with a strong technical background. His career starts within
industry, then moved to being a globally deployed risk engineer within two insurance companies
and at a broker, with many leadership roles, before joining Sigma7 in July 2025. Throughout his
career he has demonstrated the importance of being a trusted advisor and ensuring his team
demonstrated elite customer service.
Before joining Sigma7, Kumu led the Zurich Resilience Solutions UK team and was also on the
executive committee that led ZRS globally, being one of the drivers of the move to a consultancy
model. Prior to 2015 Kumu led the Risk Engineering team at Marsh Risk Consulting,
diversifying the team’s service and strengthening its commercial stance. Prior to 2012 Kumu
was at RSA, leading the energy market facing Specialist Risk Engineering team. Prior to 2003
Kumu spent ten years in industry spanning energy plant design, pollution control and
pharmaceutical R&D, where he became a published scientist and developed many patents.
Kumu has an honours degree in Chemical Engineering, became a Chartered Engineer in 2000
and has a European Diploma in Fire Prevention.
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