{"id":140606,"date":"2025-03-17T23:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T23:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/insurance\/sp-ep-john-mason-ceo-placing-platform-limited-ppl-it-seems-so-obvious-why-didnt-we-do-it-before\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T23:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T23:54:44","slug":"sp-ep-john-mason-ceo-placing-platform-limited-ppl-it-seems-so-obvious-why-didnt-we-do-it-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606","title":{"rendered":"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): &#8216;It seems so obvious, why didn&#8217;t we do it before?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Today\u2019s guest is quite out of the ordinary for the Voice of Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Normally guests on the podcast can recount multi-decade careers in insurance from the time they fell into the industry up to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s guest is extraordinary because he is someone of vast experience in his field but who has only just been recruited into the insurance industry.<\/p>\n<p>John Mason is the CEO of London Market electronic placing provider PPL and can boast a glittering career running the core systems and platforms that support hugely important global financial markets in other financial sectors outside of insurance.<\/p>\n<p>From this encounter I can tell you straight away that I think that we have a lot more to learn from John than he does from us.<\/p>\n<p>But thankfully for us John is not the sort of outsider who has come to lecture us on how to drag our antiquated trading systems into line with markets that fully digitised decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>John is an experienced leader and the type of communicator who understands that a market that syndicates bespoke structured insurance coverage across the globe is bound to throw up many unique complications and challenges<\/p>\n<p>He gets the tone just right \u2013 he is here to do an important job and he has a clear vision of how to go about it, but he is very conscious of the need to meet us where we are and show how tech is going to make the way we already work way more efficient and higher added value, rather than try and force us to completely change the way we do business.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s where this extraordinary podcast adds its value. John is easily the most eloquent leader running a core insurance technology platform I have ever interviewed. He knows where the pitfalls lie and has the experience to know how to execute large, complicated, transformational projects.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t been with us long, but the ideas we discuss in the time that follows are highly impressive and are set to transform frontline brokers\u2019 and underwriters\u2019 day-to-day relationship with the technology they use to carry out their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>They could unleash a wave of productivity and creativity that would completely re-set the market\u2019s relationship with itself and with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s extraordinary stuff \u2013 but as I said at the beginning, John is very much out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We mention a video that PPL has produced outlining the vision behind its recently-announced partnership with Microsoft. I highly recommend a view: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1017109828\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1017109828<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/placingplatformlimited.com\">https:\/\/placingplatformlimited.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s guest is quite out of the ordinary for the Voice of Insurance. Normally guests on the podcast can recount multi-decade careers in insurance from the time they fell into the industry up to the present day. Today\u2019s guest is extraordinary because he is someone of vast experience in his field but who has only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[11527,7972,3201,2934,4556,11665,59809,970,38694],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-140606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance","tag-ceo","tag-didnt","tag-john","tag-limited","tag-mason","tag-obvious","tag-placing","tag-platform","tag-ppl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): &#039;It seems so obvious, why didn&#039;t we do it before?&#039; - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): &#039;It seems so obvious, why didn&#039;t we do it before?&#039; - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today\u2019s guest is quite out of the ordinary for the Voice of Insurance. Normally guests on the podcast can recount multi-decade careers in insurance from the time they fell into the industry up to the present day. Today\u2019s guest is extraordinary because he is someone of vast experience in his field but who has only [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-17T23:54:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\"},\"headline\":\"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): &#8216;It seems so obvious, why didn&#8217;t we do it before?&#8217;\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-17T23:54:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606\"},\"wordCount\":454,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CEO\",\"Didnt\",\"JOHN\",\"Limited\",\"Mason\",\"obvious\",\"Placing\",\"Platform\",\"PPL\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Insurance\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606\",\"name\":\"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): 'It seems so obvious, why didn't we do it before?' - Som2ny Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-17T23:54:44+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":628},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): &#8216;It seems so obvious, why didn&#8217;t we do it before?&#8217;\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"description\":\"Daily Deals\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":86,\"caption\":\"Som2ny Network\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): 'It seems so obvious, why didn't we do it before?' - Som2ny Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): 'It seems so obvious, why didn't we do it before?' - Som2ny Network","og_description":"Today\u2019s guest is quite out of the ordinary for the Voice of Insurance. Normally guests on the podcast can recount multi-decade careers in insurance from the time they fell into the industry up to the present day. Today\u2019s guest is extraordinary because he is someone of vast experience in his field but who has only [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606","og_site_name":"Som2ny Network","article_published_time":"2025-03-17T23:54:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":628,"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371"},"headline":"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): &#8216;It seems so obvious, why didn&#8217;t we do it before?&#8217;","datePublished":"2025-03-17T23:54:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606"},"wordCount":454,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg","keywords":["CEO","Didnt","JOHN","Limited","Mason","obvious","Placing","Platform","PPL"],"articleSection":["Insurance"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606","name":"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): 'It seems so obvious, why didn't we do it before?' - Som2ny Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg","datePublished":"2025-03-17T23:54:44+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Episode_slide_John_Mason_PPL_84dvmm_1200x628.jpg","width":1200,"height":628},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=140606#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sp Ep John Mason CEO Placing Platform Limited (PPL): &#8216;It seems so obvious, why didn&#8217;t we do it before?&#8217;"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","name":"Som2ny Network","description":"Daily Deals","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization","name":"Som2ny Network","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","width":300,"height":86,"caption":"Som2ny Network"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/fivemor.com"],"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140606"},{"taxonomy":"dealstore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdealstore&post=140606"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fofferexpiration&post=140606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}