What they say

“When we started Clarity Financial we knew we needed guidance from industry experts with a proven track record of product understanding and distribution. Our search started and ended with Kevin. He is been invaluable to us and a key factor in our continued development. I can’t imagine a scenario where a protection business wouldn’t benefit from Kevin’s involvement.”

"No.24: Through his consultancy firm Carr provides public relations and marketing services to a wide range of businesses in the industry but he maintains the importance of advice."

“Kevin has made a real difference to our business. When we launched BFS protect the industry knowledge, insight and communications skills he brought to the table were invaluable and contributed greatly to our development. There is no messing around with Kevin, he calls it as he sees it, which is very refreshing.”

"The Income Protection training delivered by Kevin Carr and Stuart Johnson was the best protection training I’ve had in 10 years of being in the financial services industry.”

“No.43: Kevin Carr is committed to bringing to the fore the best of financial services from every aspect. In his 16 years in the industry he has reinvented himself from high-street mortgage adviser, to protection specialist at LifeSearch and head of protection strategy, to director of protection development at PruProtect. This year Carr launched his own consultancy firm, which provides public relations, marketing and training services to the protection and wider financial services industry. At the same time, in an example of his commitment to every angle of the industry, in January Carr took up the role of CEO of the Protection Review. Working with the firm ‘s co-founders he pushes forward debate on key industry issues like Solvency II and adviser awareness of how to avoid mis-selling.”

“I may have worked for longer and more closely with Kevin than has anyone else. His intellect, energy and commitment to any issue he sees as ethical and important varies between impressive and awesome. He never fails to add value and has a take on almost any point that improves conventional thinking. If you can afford him then hire him!”

“I have known Kevin for a long time. He has proven to be a trusted and loyal confidant, professional, diligent, unafraid of challenging the status quo and arguably the best media commentator in the protection industry today - helping raise the need for financial protection like no other.”

“Having worked at both the coal face and senior management level within adviser and provider businesses, Kevin probably has an unequalled understanding of the practical, commercial operations and communications issues in the Protection market today. He thoroughly deserves his position as one of the key influencers in the UK financial services industry.”

“Kevin has a number of virtually unique talents. The first is that, apart from one other, he is the only person I know in this industry who is liked by everybody. The second is that he has an intuitive grasp of issues and impacts which enables him to decode them quicker than anybody else.”

“No.2: Kevin has breathed new life into this industry and has raised the profile for protection in the pages of the personal finance press like no one has done before. He tackles every issue with the customer first and foremost in mind, which in itself is a rare treat in this industry. His knowledge of the market is exhaustive and he uses his considerable ‘clout’ to improve the way we all work. You may not agree with him all the time, but you cannot question his commitment and drive. A true consumer champion – doing more for the promotion of protection than most.”

“Kevin Carr has made protection insurance his own. When he first came on to the PR scene a few years back journalists were sometimes marginally overwhelmed by his boundless enthusiasm for all things critical. But Carr is no longer a PR puppy. A typical comment is: “Kevin is very pro-active, thinking several steps ahead of his competitors, and he has a really thorough grasp of his subject. He is more helpful, knowledgeable and quotable than anyone else in the protection field.” That is perhaps not surprising bearing in mind that PR is only part of Carr’s remit. He heads up LifeSearch’s technical department and also manages the company’s sales relationships with each product provider.”