The Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Insurtech & Innovation

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Hermann Fried , Managing Director, at bsurance .    We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as:   Insurance being 20 years behind banks in terms of digitisation    Embedded insurance providing ease...

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by George Beattie , Head of Incubation Underwriting at Beazley .    We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as:   Beazley’s value statement of; future profitability, situational awareness, brand and culture &nb...

 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Siddhartha Jha , Founder and CEO of Arbol .  Arbol provides a platform for parametric coverage which allows clients to access reduced risk and hassle free protection using their automated processes and facilitates a straightforward experience for the custome...

 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Christian Macht , CEO of Element Insurance - the Berlin-based start-up and leader in insurance digitization.    We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as:   Is there anything you learned from the insu...

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Taylor Perkins , co-founder and CTO of Slope Software , who offer an actuarial modelling platform that helps insurance companies understand and quantify their risk so that they can make better decisions about their business.    We had a great conversation thi...

 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by James Poole, founder and managing director of Agile Risk, a venture-backed risk intermediation team based in London who's aim is to drive down the cost for clients by securitising risk.    We had a great conversation where we covered a wide variety of t...

 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Matt Carter & Mark Huxley , co-founders of Cognitive Risk -  the strategic digital change consultancy focusing on insurance and technology which operates in the space where 'insur meets tech' and helps businesses get smarter.    In this convers...

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Matt Duke, Head of Global Actuarial & Analytics Services at Xceedance.    In this conversation we talk about:   - Why work with actuarial as a consultancy as opposed to having in-house capability?  - Does consultancy work suit that entrepre...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky to be joined by Alvaro Sanz Perez, co-founder of Cleverea the Barcelona based digital insurance provider. In this conversation we talk about: Innovation throughout the entire value chain of insurance Appealing to a millennial customer Differentiation through improved customer experience Doin...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky to be joined by Kevin Mackey who is COO and Co-Founder of Coterie an award-winning Insurtech that aims to make buying small business insurance easy by integrating it into the apps and platforms you already use.   This was a great conversation, Kevin was super engaging and we get into it...

I was super excited to have Niranjan "Niji" Sabharwal as a guest on the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.   Niji is one-half of a husband and wife co-founding team behind AgentSync the broker compliance management system. Agentsync has been super successful from the outset and when your founding team has resumes like this one: LinkedIn, Stripe, Dropbox, and Zenefits you can see why.   It'...

In today's episode of the leadership in Insurance podcast, we were lucky to be joined by Arvid De Coster , CEO of Belgium Insurtech WeGroup . WeGroup helps brokers, MGA's, and other distributors of insurance to more efficiently distribute their insurance products by utilizing the WeGroup technology.   In this conversation we talk about:   The ROI of Insurtech pitch competitions   Wh...

When running an Insurance leadership Podcast it's sometimes nice to connect with someone on something that isn't just Insurance. Huw Edwards is a CEO and Co-Founder on a mission firstly to deliver a world-class insurance solution to eCommerce businesses with Cyber Fortress but also to rescue "over-educated, high achievers from corporate suffering".  It's a mission that we both share - you can...

We talk often of pivots in the start-up world but I have yet to speak to someone that truly pivoted - often I would argue it's a deviation.  Today I was lucky enough to sit down with Meeri Rebane , Co-CEO of Inzmo , an insurance provider born out of a motorbike tracking business.    In the ultimate example of listening to customer feedback, Meeri told me how the business was born fr...

This is one I have been looking forward to for a while. We have talked often about insurance trading platforms but most platforms focus on insurance with the reinsurance market slightly underserved. In this week's episode, I was joined by Jerad Leigh and Ben Rose , Co-Founders of Supercede . Supercede is a platform for stakeholders in reinsurance to network and trade with software made exclusively...

Digitally distributed MGAs have been a popular topic on the podcast as it's been the basis for many Insurtechs to go live in the industry so I was pleased to speak to MGA veteran Philip Cabaud .  Philip is CEO of Now Insurance an AI-driven insurance platform to providing professional liability cover within 3 minutes.    This was a far-reaching conversation where we discussed: ...

One of the most prominent discussions on the Leadership in Insurance Podcast is Investment - how to get it and who to get it from.  I wanted to speak to people who really know the process: the VC.  I was very lucky this week to be joined by James Tootell.   James is the investment director of Insurtech specific venture fund - Eos Venture Partners .  This is a talk I have wanted...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance podcast.  In this week's episode, we were joined by David George .  David is CEO of Bikmo a specialist cycling insurance business that enables and protects the world's cycling enthusiasts. Bikmo is a values-led and mission-led business and whilst we wanted to talk all things insurance I wanted to discuss purpose and culture - i...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we were fortunate enough to be joined by Dror Katzav .  Dror is the CEO, Co-Founder of Atidot .  Atidot is an AI & Machine Learning solution for life insurers that provide real-time, actionable insights into customer behavior.   In this conversation we talked about:  Developing his data ski...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.  In this week's episode, we were joined by Jonathan Shapiro   Jonathan is Co-Founder and Director of Optalitix .   Optalitix is an artificial intelligence and data company that works across several verticals of which Insurance is just one so this was an excellent opportunity to talk about AI in a broader context -...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.  In this week's episode, we were lucky to be joined by Emilios Markou Emilios is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Hellas Direct a non-life, full-stack insurer founded in 2010. In this episode we talk about:   The Fintech scene in Greece  Being an Insurtech before Insurtechs  Why and how the team went stra...

Welcome to the latest edition of The Leadership in Insurance Podcast where we were lucky to be joined by Dr Avi Baruch .   Avi is the Co-Founder and COO of Previsico an early warning flood forecasting company that was borne out of Loughborough University.  Although not exclusively an Insurance focused business Previsico were recent Lloyd's Lab participants so we wanted to find out about...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where we were fortunate to be joined by Joel Pridmore   Joel is MD and Co-Founder of Frontier Global Underwriting a UK-based MGA operated out of London and Australia that focuses on the D&O market.  We have wanted to get an MGA entrepreneur on for some time and having only started Frontier in 2020 we were keen to he...

Welcome to the latest edition of the leadership in insurance podcast.    In this week's episode, we were lucky enough to be joined by James York James is the founder and CEO of Worry + Peace which is a review-led marketplace for the insurance market   In this episode we talk about:   Why are worry and peace not a comparison site?  Why would it not want to be  Why insu...

In this episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast we were joined by Ron Glozman   Ron is the CEO and founder of Chisel AI a purpose-built AI-led solution for the Insurance market In today's episode we talked about:   How creating an app for students to study more efficiently led him to the insurance market  How the evolution of NLP created the opportunities in insurance  H...