Penny Black’s Social Diary: Yutree’s arrest; Convex’s spread
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector's social media posts.
Jail or bail
I’m very strongly considering a Penny Black hall of fame after seeing Yutree Insurance CEO Kevin Hancock’s LinkedIn post to raise money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices.
We’ve had our fair share of creative charity fundraising efforts on this column, but Hancock filming real police officers reading him his rights, handcuffing him and walking him to the police van by far takes the cake.
They all managed to look deadly serious while doing it too!
He prompted donations by asking his network to help him get bail and my favourite comment was from Jeff Laidler, partner at Gibbs Laidler Consulting, who offered to donate to keep Kevin imprisoned.
I have a few people I’d pay a pretty penny to put away.
Penny’s Lunch Box
As if the sunset view of London on an unusually sunny February day wasn’t special enough, Convex decided to spoil the Insurance Post team even further with this absolutely stunning spread at its trade media drinks.
Trigger warning for the above image: you may be consumed by an uncontrollable fit of jealousy. Five stars for presentation alone, but just to rub it in — it tasted exquisite.
Out of context
“Dirty what?”
Simon Hayes, founder and managing director at NextGen Communications, reacts in disbelief to Post senior reporter Damisola Sulaiman’s coffee order.
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