London, 16th February 2026: Elitium, a specialist MGA incubated by Mission, launches today. The MGA’s offering includes commercial combined insurance for select trades within the manufacturing sector, and property cover for well-maintained unoccupied residential and commercial properties.
Elitium’s approach centres on traditional, expert-led underwriting where real dialogue, expertise and nuanced decision-making are the basis of every risk assessment. The MGA’s commercial combined appetite covers manufacturing trades, including printers, engineers, metalworkers, electronics, plastics and woodworking businesses; alongside its unoccupied property portfolio.
The MGA is co-founded and will be led by co-CEOs Linda Bichener, former Commercial Underwriting Manager at DUAL and Leah Miller, former Senior Commercial Trading Underwriter at DUAL. Between them, Linda and Leah have 45 years of hands-on expertise in underwriting manufacturing and property risks.
Linda Bichener, Co‑Founder and Co‑CEO of Elitium, said: "We founded Elitium to bring care, attention and expert judgement back into the underwriting process. We believe that every risk deserves to be properly understood, and every broker deserves direct access to the people making the decisions. That’s why each submission is reviewed by an experienced underwriter, ensuring tailored, contract-certain terms that brokers can present to their clients. We act as a genuine extension of our brokers’ teams, providing specialist underwriting expertise and responsive support.”
"For us, underwriting is a real craft”, added Co‑Founder and Co‑CEO Leah Miller. “Brokers come to us because their clients don’t fit neatly into automated systems, and our role is to listen, advise and build cover that genuinely works in practice, not just in theory. We deliberately limit our appetite to areas we are passionate about and understand deeply, allowing us to underwrite with confidence, consistency, and sound judgement."
Commenting on the launch, Ross Dingwall, CEO of Mission,said: "Elitium embodies exactly what Mission was built to support: experienced underwriters creating specialist MGAs with a clear, long‑term vision, expertise, and a drive to deliver for their partners and clients. I am confident that Leah and Linda’s thoughtful underwriting and deep experience in this specialist area will set them apart."
About Elitium
Elitium Specialty is a specialist MGA providing commercial combined insurance for manufacturing trades and well‑maintained unoccupied properties across the UK. Founded by experienced underwriters Linda Bichener and Leah Miller, Elitium delivers trade‑specific insight, transparent terms and bespoke cover built around how businesses and properties operate in the real world. Elitium is backed by Mission, the global MGA incubator, who provides a rolling 5 year A- rated capacity commitment, capital investment and full back-office support allowing the team to focus on providing best-in-class service to brokers.
About Mission
Backed by Altamont Capital, a US private equity firm with over $4.3 billion of capital under management, Mission Underwriters (Mission) was established in the US in 2021.
Mission builds MGAs around talented and experienced underwriters, providing them with the business, finance, technology, marketing, and regulatory support needed to grow successful, specialist insurance MGAs.
We believe in a new approach to transacting insurance at Mission, empowering these underwriters to establish their own specialist MGAs through our team of experts, differentiated technology infrastructure, and long-term capacity.