ThingCo boosts Data Science and Operations teams

London, 10th March 2026: Following significant growth in 2025, telematics insurtech, ThingCo, has been on a recruitment drive to build its data science and operations resources.Adam Lough has joined the Operations team to take ownership of operational processes.Elliot Hurley has joined the Data Analytics and Data Science team, supporting the company’s delivery of valuable insight to its customers.

As Mike Brockman, CEO of ThingCo explained, both appointments are critical to the company’s continued expansion following the £2million investment by BHL (UK) Holdings Limited in 2025.

“In the last year, ThingCo has seen significant uplift in the size of our user base, providing us and our customers with a greater universe of driver experience from which to develop effective risk management strategies. The latest recruits to the team will provide us with the capacity to deliver valuable insights to help our clients reduce their loss ratios.As the user base grows we are also ensuring our operational processes are future-proofed.”

Adam Lough has extensive experience in the telematics space, having spent more than 4 years as part of the insurethebox and Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe team. In his new role as Telematics Operations Manager, reporting to head of Operations, Alex Brockman, he will be identifying operational process improvements across the ThingCo business.

Newcastle University graduate, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Advanced Computer Science, Elliot Hurley has joined ThingCo’s Data Analytics and Data Science team as a Data Analyst, reporting to Dr Carlo Conner-Hill, Head of Data Analytics.The delivery of insight to help ThingCo’s insurer clients develop effective risk management and intervention strategies to reduce loss ratios will be a key part of Elliot’s role.

“The BHL investment last year has enabled us to expand our market reach and further solidify our position as a leader in telematics innovation,” confirmed Mike Brockman. “The addition of Adam and Elliot to the team will give us greater scope to deliver tangible benefits to our insurer partners, such as the substantial loss ratio reductions we're already achieving.”

Delivering intelligent connected insurance solutions, ThingCo are experts at data analysis, risk management, first notification of loss (claims) and have developed all the proprietary tools to manage the process on behalf of the insurer. ThingCo works with insurers to design connected products that are attractive to end customers and will sell in volume. By reducing risk, insurers can price competitively. ThingCo also delivers superior loss ratios.