Reinventing Finance

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, Nikolaus Sühr had the pleasure of talking with Alexander Grimm Co-Founder and Managing Director of AQUATY, a digital platform that makes venture capital and private market investments more efficient, accessible and liquid by reducing constraints around regulatory framework, process and automation associated with such investments. For those who do...

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, ⁠Tom van der Lubbe⁠ and Nikolaus Sühr had the pleasure of talking with Raymond Zenkich, Co-Founder & President of Crypto Asset Insurer Evertas. Raymond has a background in insurance and technology development, which initially led him to the first vision of starting Evertas, a crypto asset insurance company. As in every emerging industry and w...

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr had the pleasure of talking with Saed Khawaldeh, CEO&Co-Founder of DESAISIV - a MENA-based InsurTech platform operating from Riyadh Saudi Arabia, helping corporates optimising their employees health insurance policies. The middle eastern start-up is originally a spin-off from Oxford University, where Saed a...

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, had the pleasure of talking with Frederik Wulff, the CEO of Markel Insurance SE (European carrier within the Markel Group) in charge of the European business. In the podcast episode, he shares with Nick and Tom insights about:  📍His professional background, founding his first company and how he joined Markel...

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast by Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, we had the pleasure of talking with Dr David Stachon Former COO and Advisor to the CEO of Wefox. In the Podcast David shares and discusses the following insights with Nick and Tom: 📌 His professional background and his journey within the insurance industry 📌 Significant milestones in his career and from th...

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast by Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, we had the pleasure of talking with the investor, Max Chee Head of Aquiline Technology Growth, and the investee, Chris Slater Founder & CEO at Oka, The Carbon Insurance Company. In the Podcast Chris and Max share insights about: 📌Their professional background 📌Challenges around the Quality and Legitima...

Tim Quayle is the CEO of One Advent based in London UK, a specialist MGA services platform that helps MGA businesses launch and grow by providing an infrastructure and regulatory environment to enable that. In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast by Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, he shares insights about: 📌His role and what his work at an MGA services platform looks like 📌Who hi...

Tom Van der Lubbe and Nick were delighted to welcome the founders of InsurTech Riskwolf as guests to our Reinventing Finance Podcast. Thomas Krapf, CEO and co-founder of Riskwolf and René Alexander Papesch, CTO and co-founder of Riskwolf, met at a digital transformation project in Zurich for a well-known reinsurer, where they also had one of their first touchpoints with parametric insurance. With...

Shameer Sachdev is the Founder & Managing Director of Growth Gorilla a "Fintech Digital Marketing Agency”, that helps global fintechs with their go-to-market, growth and mastering their market entry. In this podcast episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast Shameer shares with Nick and Tom insights about 📌 His background and his business “Growth Gorilla” 📌 What differentiates growth go...

Adam Chadroff is an Investor at Equal Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund based in New York. As his daily business, Adam is looking for early-stage investments across the value chain in insurance and insurtech. Coming from a Financial Services Background and interest in FinTech, the massive and slowly moving insurance industry with (at that time) undervalued InsurTechs and a lack of excitement for...

Stefano de Liguoro is the Chief Digital Officer at Zurich Spain and Head of Zurich Klinc his task is to try creating new digital business models to simplify the way the customer interacts with insurance and also introduce young customers to the world of insurance. As a guest on the Reinventing Finance Podcast, he shares with Nick and Tom insights about: 📌 His role as a Chief Digital Officer (CDO)...

Alex Taylor is the Global Head of Emerging Technology at QBE Ventures, a part of QBE Insurance, an international insurance company. In his role and with his team, his daily work is all about “investing in the future of insurance”, listening to the challenges within insurance companies and finding ways how to solve them through the right external capabilities. In this episode of the Reinventing Fin...

Dr. Ali Hasan is the Chief Medical &Healthcare Officer at Vitality in the UK (a Subsidiary of “Discovery” from South Africa) they are offering Health, Life & Car Insurance insuring 1,5m lives in the UK. The group is present in 40 countries sharing value insurance and value finance products that everyone benefits from. What makes the products stand out, is the “vitality programme” that is e...

This episode’s guest is Natalia Dorfman, CEO & Co-Founder of Kita, a very tech-driven Startup that provides Carbon Insurance for corporates. With their offering, KITA wants to drive more financial funds towards the scale of high-quality carbon projects and create a positive impact on the climate change issues by covering companies’ risks of loss of the initial investments in the carbon project...

Cenk Tabakoglu is the CEO of Lumnion, a pricing platform that offers AI and ML-based pricing for the Insurance industry and has already won over some well-known insurers with their tech. In the conversation with Nick and Tom, he shares: 📌 His professional background in the finance and insurance industry 📌 The normal process an insurer goes through in determining the prices for products 📌 How th...

Simon Torrance (independent advisor on new business models in the financial services sector, founder of “Embedded Finance” and “Super App Strategies”) and Dan White (Founder of “Ninety”, an innovation & insurance agency) are individually well-known in the insurance industry, now they have joined forces with their new endeavour ARK Venture Studios. There is a gap between what the world needs fr...

Uwe Schumacher is the CEO of DOMCURA AG the largest P&C MGA in Germany with 420m Gross Written Premium p.a. and has a profound background in the insurance industry. Before he took over the role as CEO of Domcura, which he has held for the last decade now, Uwe started out in Management Consulting and held several leading positions at a direct insurer (Verti/Direct Line) for almost 20 years, whe...

Carla Venter is acting Head of Investment at aperture.co and is currently based in Zurich Switzerland, where she is shaping the future of FinTech through investing, marketing & growth strategy. On the Reinventing Finance Podcast Carla shares with Nick and Tom: - Her background in the financial services industry - The business model of Aperture.co, how it developed over time and her role in thi...

Bradley Brandon Cross is an experienced insurance entrepreneur with a track record of experience in the insurance industry in the US, the UK (where he lives now), Asia and Europe. Since 2007 he is involved in the Islamic Insurance Business following the Islamic “Takaful” principles in the UK, a market that is quite big and growing. In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast Bradley shared...

Walter de Oude is an actuary by training and is originally from South Africa. He has been living in Asia & Singapore for the last 22 years and has been previously working as a CEO at HSBC and founded Singapore Life after funding in 2017 and grew it in the last years. In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, Walter shares with Nikolaus Sühr and Tom van der Lubbe details about: 📍 The...

Inas Nureldin is one of three founders & the Managing Director of Tomorrow, a social business that was started in 2018 with the vision to disrupt the banking industry and use money as a lever for positive change in the world and to be the future of banking.   As a Guest on the Reinventing Finance Podcast, he shares with Nick and Tom insights about:   📍Inas’ professional backgro...

Philippe Moulin is an expert in automotive research and development with a technical background and is the CEO of telematics provider Drive Quant. His company focuses on connected insurance based on telematics - collecting driving data using the smartphones of insurance customers. In this podcast episode, he shares and discusses with Nick and Tom insights about: 📌 the market landscape in Europe a...

Ian Gutterman is the Founder and CEO of the Informed Group, Inc.   Before entering the insurance industry he spent quite some time investing in insurance companies and got to learn about the industry very well through this special position he was in, then fell in love with insurance and decided that this is what he would like to do for the rest of his life 🙂 In his conversation with Nic...

Nick and Tom had the great pleasure of talking to gadget and B2B2C insurtech veteran Toby Stubbington, Managing Director of Pier Insurance and Ticketplan. In the conversation, Toby shares insights about:   📍His professional background and way into the insurance industry 📍The business model of Pier Insurance 📍How to stand out in a market with strong-founded and fast-growing competitors and...

Suleiman Sukkar from Socotra is the Director of Business Development and Deployments at Socotra, a modern policy admin system provider. As his daily business, Suleiman leads the presales and delivery teams.   In this podcast he shares with Nick and Tom:   📌 His professional background and his way to the insurance industry 📌 More about his role and tasks 📌 What differentiates Socotra f...