About Artemis

Launched in 1999, Artemis is the longest running website devoted to the alternative risk transfer, insurance linked security and weather risk management markets. Artemis is independently owned by Steve Evans, an e-business expert with a passion for the more exotic areas of risk transfer, who helped found the website. After 10 years of service to it’s community Artemis still strives to fulfill it’s original mission statement:

ARTEMIS is the online heart of the Alternative Risk Transfer and Weather Trading market. For too long this market has been mysterious, jargon filled and opaque; Artemis allows those with even a limited understanding of ART to learn, gain confidence and then directly contact the best people to help them. Artemis is moving ART out of its ivory towers and into the commercial mainstream.

Artemis will evolve to support the demands of the ART community. We have the technology to undertake almost all forms of online communication, secure information provision and even trading. As the online ART community develops we can deploy these facilities as the market demands.

At this stage, Artemis is building upon the need for liquidity and transparency of information. You will find many directories of information, companies and people. Please ensure that your listings are complete, up-to-date and accurate by contacting us with any additions and changes.

Artemis is used very widely because it is free to users everywhere. This is possible because of the support of advertisers and sponsors who recognise how Artemis will help the market grow and how their emphasised profile will help them to obtain an enlarged proportion of it. We thank our existing advertisers for their support. If you would like to raise your profile in Artemis or have a special feature contact us via the advertise route.

Artemis’ audience includes market participants (reinsurers, bankers, brokers, risk modellers, investors) and corporations looking to expand their knowledge of these alternative risk markets. So whether you are looking for a partner or counterparty to put a deal together or trying to raise your profile in front of potential customers, Artemis is a great place to advertise your expertise in these markets.

In 2008 Artemis was visited by over 13,000 people who between them made over 150,000 page views. For those who don’t understand those statistics, that means if you sponsored Artemis your banner would have been seen over 150,000 times by 13,000 people! Sponsorship opportunities and advertising opportunities are available. Please contact us to discuss the options available.

Best wishes and enjoy Artemis!

About Steve Evans (owner of Artemis)

I’ve been working with websites, ecommerce and online marketing for 15 years. I started off in the mid-1990’s working for Worldwide Intellectual Resources Exchange, a start-up providing website services and running portals for the global reinsurance industry. During my time at WIRE Ltd I helped create the Risk Information & Services Exchange (formerly www.rsx.co.uk, some of you may remember it), created, launched and managed Artemis and built websites for clients such as Lloyd’s of London, Kiln, SVB Syndicates and many other London market and international insurance and reinsurance companies.

After WIRE I moved on and worked at Willis Group, one of the largest insurance and reinsurance brokers in the world. Leading their ebusiness development department and delivering both customer facing and internal websites and services.

Then, in 2001, I moved to work in the online travel industry. Initially at Virgin Holidays (a large UK based travel tour operator) where as Ecommerce Operations Manager I managed the delivery of all website functionality and much of their online marketing capabilities. In my time there we increased the conversion rate of the website by 90%, a huge increase in sales.

Most recently, for the last two years I have been heading up User Interface for Lastminute.com, a large online travel agent, part of the Travelocity group with operations around the globe. My team spanned the globe with staff working for me in several countries in Europe and Asia and involved working closely with teams in the U.S. and South America too.

From January 2010 I’ll be taking some time out to focus on consultancy opportunities (of course I’ll still be managing Artemis) so do get in touch if you’d like some help with any website, digital or online marketing projects!

You can find out more about Steve Evans on Linkedin (the popular professional networking website). Feel free to add me as a connection too!