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Freddie Palmer is Executive Director, Financial Lines, and Head of Digital Assets and Blockchain at Howden Insurance Brokers Limited, a position he has held since January 2025. Concurrently, he holds the title of Divisional Director, Financial Lines, and Head of Blockchain and Digital Asset Risk Transfers, a role he has occupied since January 2021. His mandate centres on financial lines insurance with a specific focus on blockchain and digital asset risk transfers.

Palmer's career at Howden spans over seventeen years. He joined in March 2008 as a Broker at Howden Risk Partners, where the firm specialised in management liability insurances for the investment industry, serving clients including private equity and venture capital firms, hedge funds, asset and fund management companies, and investment trusts. He progressed to Associate Director, Financial Lines, in July 2013, a role he held until December 2020 before moving into his current divisional and executive director positions. Prior to Howden, he worked in a sales role at IMG for approximately eleven months in 2007. He holds a BA Hons in Sociology, with the existing biography noting Newcastle University as the awarding institution, though this detail does not appear in the retrieved source content.