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BOULDER — Most kids probably don’t grow up dreaming of working in the insurance industry, but Parker Beauchamp always knew it was what he wanted to do. He spent time as a child in London, where his parents were members at Lloyd’s, the insurance market that in 2020 wrote more than $46.3 billion in premiums. 

Beauchamp would tag along with his parents to meetings in the modernist Lloyd’s building from an early age. Even when he was too young to understand what they were doing, he…