Anna Glod
Managing Director
Umbrella Protect Ltd
Anna founded Umbrella Protect, a specialist protection advisory firm, in 2015 with the mission to make insurance advice easy and accessible for as many people as possible.
She comes from Poland moving to London to study translation and linguistics. At just 21, she started her career in financial advice, working as an insurance adviser. Few years later, she passed her CeMAP and DipFA exams.
It was while working as a mortgage and protection adviser that she saw how few people received good protection advice, some receiving none at all. This inspired her to set up Umbrella Protect with a passion to help fill in the protection gap in the UK.
Anna wants every self-employed person and every mortgage-owner to have access to free specialist protection advice including those who may not usually have access.
Her motto is “write it or refer it”. She works actively with mortgage brokers on protection referral partnerships, about which she is passionate.
Six years later, Umbrella Protect is an award-winning specialist protection firm with 20 advisers, spread across the country, from Southampton to Northern Ireland.
Anna regularly appears as an industry expert, writing articles, and speaking at conferences.