Managing Director
Weir Insurance Brokers
Karen started her career with Norwich Union (Aviva) in 1990, in Newcastle then Norwich and became a broker in 1999. She set up a finance company, and with her husband took over his family firm, along with 2 other local acquisitions.
She has three children (now grown up) and is still running that firm established originally in 1972 and will be celebrating their 53rdyear of trading.
Karen served as Newcastle Insurance Institute president in 2008-2009, and is the current chair of the British Insurance Brokers Association’s (BIBA) SME Board, and a main BIBA board member.
Karen served 7 years as a Board member and 3 as chair of the Board at Newcastle Gymnastics Academy (CNGA) and is now a board member of Changing Minds with Pick Up a Penny, a North East Community Interest Company who use an individualised approach to mental and physiological health and therapeutic services for adults, children, young people and their families.
Hobbies include an obsession for Reformer Pilates (IYKYK), boxing and walking my disabled dog, although she don’t take much walking!
When I grow up I hope to own my own kennel free rescue for the dogs no one wants!