Full Episodes | Insurtech Leadership Podcast

Adrian Jones is a partner at HSCM Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., an alternative asset manager in re/insurance and transport.  Today's episode is an in-depth look at capital-raising, whether funding losses is a viable model, revising business plans, and what types of people become successful.   ✅Carriers remain 'followers' rather than fas...

Rashid Galadanci is CEO of Driver Technologies, an AI-based mobility tech company that delivers a safer driving experience, co-founded in 2018. Rashid was inspired to start Driver Technologies to share the benefits of advanced vehicle technologies without barriers to access and improve safety for everyone.  Rashid's dad survived a car accident in Africa because he was in a Volvo, but the passenger...

Daniel Demetri is the founder and CEO of Trellis, an insurtech company leading a fundamental shift in how businesses and consumers engage with insurance. Trellis provides insurance optimization, depending on consumer needs for higher coverage, lower deductibles, better service quality, or lower cost. Daniel believes consumers deserve financial services and experiences that automatically work cohes...

Roma Bronstein is Co-Founder and CTO at Spott, an eCommerce insurance solution that stops unexpected losses from taking down online stores. ✅Spott tackles the risks of lawsuits and sales disruptions with a new breed of dynamic insurance products. By offering merchants one-click coverage at the fairest price, Spott makes eCommerce businesses resilient. ✅e-Commerce more frequently leads to miscomm...

Bob Frady, CEO of HazardHub decided to start a company when a family member’s home unexpectedly flooded. HazardHub's goal was make those tools available to every single homeowner in the United States. "While we can’t prevent disasters from happening, we can give you a leg up in preparation." Today Bob provides direct, no-nonsense insights into what it takes to bootstrap your vision, not take early...

Vinod Kachroo, CEO Innoveo is focused on guiding product strategy and partnerships, scaling delivery, raising brand awareness, and accelerating market momentum and growth. Backed by Everstone Capital and Paulson & Co, Innoveo’s cloud based, AI enabled no-code platform is currently in production globally at over 30 industry leaders across insurance, financial services, healthcare and real estate. ...

Kegan Greene is a Managing Director and Head of Insurance Technology investment banking at Jefferies, a multinational investment bank that provides M&A transaction support including capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management. Kegan works with later-stage insurtechs, Series B, C or beyond who are leaving the initial VC-raise s...

Andrew Lerner is Managing Partner of IA Capital Group, having launched IA Capital's venture capital business which is now the firm’s core activity. Andy is a Director of Credit Sesame, SmartAsset, Matic, and Marble. Andy notes the VC industry has matured from being the Wild West to become a founder-friendly industry. IA's sweet spot is Series A or five years before the potential sale of a company...

Brian Fritton is CEO at Havoc Shield, having built his previous startup into a crowdfunding machine that originated over a billion dollars in real estate loans which led to a successful exit.  Brian has also been responsible for defending a small business from cyberattacks as CTO at Patch of Land and the VP of Engineering for a an enterprise data science software maker. He is a 2020 TechStars Alum...

Qiyun is Co-Founder the co-founder of Amplify Life Insurance, a digital life insurance platform.  Amplify is building a comprehensive life insurance platform to provide financial security for millions of individuals and families and bringing consumer choice, efficiency, and customer centric experiences to the industry. At its core, Amplify is a digital platform that creates customer-centric, perma...

Bill Conners is the CEO and Woody Klemmer is the Head of Growth at ForMotiv, a behavioral intelligence platform that helps insurance carriers predict user intent, in real-time, by analyzing digital body language as users engage with insurance applications and claims forms.  ForMotiv uses Java snippets that embed in tags or source code to collect data at-scale, so know which behaviors are indicativ...

Matt Chesky is the President of Insuritas a leading provider of embedded insurance solutions for financial institutions in the U.S. Matt says the process of ensuring you are getting the right coverage at the right price is painful. Insuritas believes part of the solution is to embed access to insurance products in environments where customers are already used to spending time. Insuritas is an 'ori...

Meet Bobbie Shrivastav, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Benekiva where she leads the product development, customer care, and delivery of transformational technology solutions to help modernize the insurance industry. Bobbie’s unwavering commitment to innovation, her customer-centric approach and thoughtful development of industry-evolving solutions have earned her the reputation as an indu...

Harry Croydon is the founder of STP Group and the President and CEO of MIC Global. MIC Global provides simple insurance that is accessible, affordable, and relevant, by creating highly relevant insurance products that attract and retain customers enhancing customers' brand and drive growth.  Their overarching goal is to make the safety net of insurance available to all. The big idea behind MIC Glo...

Meet Jeffrey Radke, Co-Founder & CEO at Accelerant, a successful insurtech with more than 150 employees. Accelerant has created a common cause of loss nomenclature across multiple areas and countries. Working across jurisdictions adds complexity, but also informs discovery of new market opportunities for underwriters.  Culturally, Jeff notes a key challenge is finding experienced insurance executi...

Meet Michael Cavanaugh  Vice President of Insurtech Growth for Boost Insurance , where he is responsible for the development, implementation, and success of new & emerging products for Insurtech businesses. Whether Pet, Renters or Cyber - Boost is enabling companies to write the new fun and profitable lines of insurance and remove barriers to entry. Before his move to Boost, Mike was with Apogee I...

Matthew Jones is a Managing Director at Anthemis , where he is responsible for sourcing, analyzing and executing investments as well as providing support for Anthemis’ portfolio companies. He brings in-depth knowledge of the insurance sector and focuses on investments in insurance and risk-related technology. Matthew’s areas of interest include analytics and data, artificial intelligence and autom...

Today meet Stacey Brown  who is Head of Global Technology Innovation at AXA XL, a Division of AXA, and Founder at InsurTech Hartford. Stacey is an insurance technology executive with a strong tech background with over 20 years industry experience developing high-performing IT teams and strategic solutions. Atop his responsibilities as an IT executive, Stacey is most recently known for his role in...

Happy to chat with Kobi Bendelak, Founder and CEO of InsurTech Israel. We met Kobi at a recent event in Stamford, CT and his super-high energy and inside knowledge of Insurtech from the Israeli market is such a welcome voice!  The company has four areas of activity: Investment, Consulting, Events and News and the Israeli Insurtech Accelerator. This combination of activities make InsurTech Israel o...

Jason Keck is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, bringing 20 years of experience across digital and mobile to the insurance industry. Before founding Broker Buddha , he led business development teams at industry unicorns, including Shazam and Tumblr. A Harvard graduate with a degree in Computer Science, Jason also worked at Accenture and Nextel prior to building innovative brands and gaining succ...

Meet Eliron Ekstein , CEO at Ravin AI and Contributing Author at Forbes Technology Council. Ravin's inspections turn the insurance class process on its head by providing the customer tools to scan damages themselves. Ravin uses extensive data about each vehicle type, and provides the insurer with an initial estimate, leaving the adjuster and body shop to confirm and complete the repairs process. E...

Elizabeth McCluskey is a Director at CMFG Ventures, the venture capital arm of CUNA Mutual Group. She is the head of the Discovery Fund, which focuses on early-stage fintech companies led by underrepresented founders. Today she talks about financial inclusion, low-income populations, and sourcing entrepreneurs directly from these communities.  She discusses impact investing vs. just making sound i...

Meet Stephen Buonpane , who is co-founder and Chief Insurance Officer of Shepherd Labs, Inc. , a tech-enabled Managing General Underwriter for the commercial construction sector.  Prior to starting Shepherd, Stephen was Chubb North America’s Construction Industry Practice Leader for Major Accounts and the Executive Vice President of underwriting for Chubb’s Primary and Excess Casualty Construction...

Michael H. Lanza is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Selective Insurance Group, Inc.  In today's episode, he traces his path from being a lawyer in Hartford at Cigna to being 17 years at Selective, a well-known super-regional commercial insurer.  Michael shares lessons about how legal can support the key aspects of technology and innovation for insurers. He led in the Insurtech mult...

Tomer Kashi , CEO & Co-Founder at  Voom Insurance , on-demand insurance for anything you can ride or fly. Voom is an MGA that focuses on use-based products around the future of mobility, using new sources of data to provide a better insurance experience for markets typically underserved by the incumbent providers.  One advantage Tomer sees for insurtechs is that In personal lines, most of the pric...