Reinventing Finance

Gilad Shai is a serial entrepreneur with a unique view from insurance capturing various viewpoints and experiences including incumbent carriers, starting his own embedded insurtech, networkers, podcaster, entrepreneur, advisor and investor. In the conversation, Gilad shares with Nick and Tom : 👉 His Background and the type of projects he is currently working on 👉 What Gilad learned from his many...

Rick Huckstep is the Founder of the Wiser Newsletter. After having worked within the insurance and finance industry for decades,  advising and investing in more than 100 startups as an angel investor, and being a mentor for startup boot camp and Mundi lab, Rick retired in Spain and the corona pandemic motivated him to live one of his passions and decided to get into storytelling and sharing r...

George Kesselman is the Chief Commercial Officer of Zhong An Tech (ZA Tech). Based in Asia, George is leading B2B Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships, with full P&L responsibility for Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. For those who don’t know ZA and the Asian market much, he explains what ZA does and how it is different to the other known digital players and insurers in Asia.   Further...

Most people might know Andrew Rear as the founder of Munich Re's Digital Partners - one of the pioneers of the involvement of the corporate insurance sector in InsurTechs. Andrew left Digital Partners in 2020 and has since then been an Insurtech board director, investor and adviser to several companies.  In the conversation with Tom and Nick, Andrew shares: 📍Where the InsurTech industry stan...

Spiros Margaris is a VC, Advisor, Board Member of several companies, the “Number One Fintech Influencer” and the business owner at Margaris Ventures. Spiros shares his perspective on why “investment is like a marriage”, the role of luck in business success and his investment philosophy, as well as talks about: 👉 What does it mean to be an influencer and how to measure the impact 👉 Generic advice...

Winnie Wong is CEO & Executive Director at two insurance companies - Asia Insurance and Avo Insurance. Also, Winnie is Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers (HKFI). In the podcast, Winnie shares with Nick and Tom: 📍Specifics about Asia Insurance and Avo Insurance and how they play together 📍What is a "virtual insurer" 📍Her ambitions with Asia Insurance and Avo Insurance as well a...

Amélie Breitburd is CEO of Lloyd's Europe. Lloyd's has global licenses to underwrite risks and is known for its product innovation. In this Podcast Amélie shares insights about: 👉 The background of Lloyd's Europe and how it compares and contracts to Lloyds of London 👉 The ambitions and plans for Lloyd's Europe 👉 How she measures her success 👉 Success stories of the Lloyd's Lab and plans for th...

This episode's guest is Roger Peverelli, Co-Founder of the Digital Insurance Agenda, speaker and author. Roger had been a guest on our podcast before and we are happy to revive the conversation with a focus on the upcoming DIA event in Munich on 28-29th September 2022 and key trends insurers  and insurtechs are involved in and what is key in making #partnerships  work  #insurance #i...

Dr Roman Rittweger is the Founder and CEO of the private health insurance provider Ottonova. What is special about Ottonova? It is Germany’s first private health insurance with lean and digital processes. Roman shares insights about: ➡️ What was the reason why he initially start Ottonova and what did he learn along the way ➡️ The acquisition costs of new clients and the importance of branding ➡️ T...

Dr. Carolin Gabor is the CEO of Movinx, a B2B2C platform for embedded mobility insurance started by @Daimler and SwissRe. In this podcast Episode, Carolin presents the #businessmodel of Movinx, and use-cases, but she also shares: ➡️ Her background in Consulting @BCG and lessons she learned there ➡️ CEO positions she held at other companies before and her learnings about #leadership ➡️ The importan...

Andrew Jernigan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Insured Nomads, the first insurtech in global benefits, offering a full portfolio of insurance solutions for the globally mobile including international health and travel insurance. Some topics he discussed with us and shared his insights on for this episode are: ➡️ How did you get into international digital nomad insurance and which problems do you add...

Eric Schuh is the Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the cloud-based insurtech and white-label provider for insurance solutions, ELEMENT Insurance AG. Eric has been around in the insurance industry for 20 years now and joined ELEMENT earlier this year from Swiss Re, where he held various international management positions. He sat down with us for this episode to share his insights on the fo...

Roger Peverelli is a speaker, author and consultant in digital customer engagement strategies and innovation, and how to work with fintechs and insurtechs for that purpose. He helped a range of financial institutions to develop new business models and revenue streams, combining deep consumer insights and the latest technologies. Together with Reggy de Feniks, Roger co-founded the Digital Insurance...

Chris Cheatham – the Luke Skywalker of Insurance Policies - is the Vice President of Product at Bold Penguin, where he helps lead the Insurance Intelligence division. He has been working in insurance since 2006 and founded the Insurtech RiskGenius, which was acquired by Bold Penguin in 2020, and which was bought by American Family earlier this year. Chris discussed the following topics with u...

Florian Graillot is the Founding Partner of astorya.vc, a European early-stage insurance VC fund launched in 2017, which invests in tech startups to build the next insurance generation. He has been working in the investment space for close to 15 years; as an investment manager at listed property company Affine, an investor at Newfund Management and at AXA Strategic Ventures. For this episode Flori...

Minh Q. Tran is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Asset Builder Mandalore Partners, which seeks to create an innovative framework that enables investors of firms in early stages to achieve scale exposure to a range of traditional, alternative and tech venture capital assets. In addition to his experience as one of the founders’ team at AXA Ventures, Minh was also an integral part of several...

Susanne Chishti is the CEO of FINTECH Circle, Europe’s first Angel Network focused on fintech opportunities and Founder of the FINTECH Circle Institute, the leading fintech learning platform offering innovation workshops to C-level executives and online courses. She has an extensive background in the financial services sector, starting her career working for a fintech company (before the term "fin...

Steven Mendel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bought by Many, which is disrupting the world of pet insurance through its innovative use of tech. He has over 25 years of experience as an actuary in financial services which has included leading Close Brothers Wealth Management during the launch of their non-advised offering; creating the world’s first art-focused wealth advice offering for Christie’s;...

Nigel Walsh is an Insurance and InsurTech expert and only recently joined Google as the new Managing Director of Insurance for North America. Prior to that, he spent five years as a Partner at Deloitte, leading the global Future of Insurance and the Google Cloud alliance for Insurance, as well as co-leading the Global InsurTech team. He has helped build businesses from scratch in the Insurtech spa...

Jean-Charles Velge is the Co-Founder of the Belgian Insurtech startup Qover. which just raised $25 million in its Series B funding round. Before founding Qover together with Quentin Colmant in 2016, Jean-Charles acted as a Vice President at private equity firm Redhorse and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company. For our fourth episode he discussed the following topics with us: ➡️...

Sabine VanderLinden is the CEO, Co-Founder and Managing Director of the venture validation and commercialisation lab Alchemy Crew. She is a pioneer in building innovation ecosystems and has co-designed, built and scaled Startupbootcamp InsurTech-London and Hartford-CT's InsurTech Hub. In addition to having accelerated more than 70 early-stage ventures and evolving the traditional accelerator model...

Simon Torrance is one of the world’s leading experts on business model transformation, specialising in platform strategy, breakthrough innovation and digital ventures, and is an independent advisor to boards and leadership teams, fundamentally improving their economics as digitisation affects them. He currently focuses on the hot topic of embedded finance and insurance, which he projects offers a...

Oliver Lang is the CEO at the leading digital insurer wefox Insurance - formerly One Insurance, whose renaming was just announced the day after we recorded this episode. He has extensive know-how and expertise in insurance, banking and other financial industry segments, combining consulting experience and first-hand knowledge of corporate players with innovative thinking and business building comp...