The Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Insurtech & Innovation

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.  In today's episode, we were lucky enough to be joined by Amrit Santhirasenan .  Amrit is Co-Founder and CEO of hyperexponential or HX as it's affectionately known. HX is the company you get when you take 2 actuaries with computer science degrees and they find the software landscape lacking! HX provides softw...

Welcome to the latest edition of the leadership in insurance podcast where we joined by Sasha Gainullin .  Sasha is the CEO and Founder of battleface a tech-enabled travel insurance and services business offering truly international, customized travel cover.   In this episode we talk about:  Where the "battleface" comes from and why it's not more "travel friendly"  How travel h...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.    In today's episode, I was joined by the CEO of Retechnica, Marco Iannone Retechnica is a business that extracts meaning from Data using artificial intelligence offering both a technology solution and consultancy services to a wide range of clients. We originally reached out to Marco because of his participation in L...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast. In this episode, I was lucky enough to be joined by Peter Clarke . Peter is CEO and Founder of Insurecore. Insurercore is a professional networking site exclusively for Insurance practitioners helping improve the market's inefficiencies and encourage networking in a more professional context.    In this episode, we tal...

In today's episode, we are joined by the brilliant Dickie Whitaker   Dickie has a portfolio of businesses and ventures he is involved with but in this episode, we focussed on his work with Oasis Loss Modelling Framework In this episode we talk about:  The reason to start a business - find a problem large enough to solve that people will pay for it  Why "we have always done it this w...

In this week's episode, I was joined by Frank Perkins who is CEO of INARI.IO  INARI.IO is an Instech operating out of Barcelona. They offer a next-generation insurance platform, they digitize and virtualize the different things that happen in the life cycle of risk.    In this episode we discuss Startups are not for everyone - creativity is as important as hard work  How the pe...

In the latest episode of the leadership in Insurance Podcast, we were lucky to be joined by Antonin de Benoist Antonin is the COO and Co-Founder of Allphins a SaaS analytics and exposure management tool for the insurance industry   In this episode we talked about:   Antonin's entry into the insurance world from the world of finance  How do Co-founders decide who takes what role? COO...

In the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance podcast  I was lucky to be joined by Paul Prendergast .  Paul is the CEO and founder of Blink Parametric .   Blink is a delivery platform that allows insurance industry partners to create parametric solutions.   In this wide-reaching conversation we talked about:   Why Blink runs towards the "fires" solving solutions&nbs...

Welcome to the latest edition of the leadership in Insurance podcast with Nik Suhr Nik is the CEO and founder of Kasko  Kasko is a business that provides Insurtech as a service. Kasko principally works with Insurance and digital businesses to help them create digital insurance products or services.   In this episode we talked about:   Insurtech as a service  What is an Insuranc...

In the first podcast of the year, we get stuck into all things AI and all things claims by speaking to the team from Tautona AI in South Africa  I have a bit of a soft spot for claims as it is where I joined the insurance industry many moons ago.   This was a fun conversation with the first guest pairing as I was joined by both: Philip Cooper and John Holdsworth   We covered lots of...

Welcome to episode 10 of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.   In this episode, we are joined by Bob Frady of Hazard Hub   Hazard Hub is a 3rd party data supplier that boasts the most comprehensive property data ever assembled for the insurance industry and works with the industry and helps them to better understand their risk    Bob is a really interesting and engaging guy it...

Welcome to the latest edition of The Leadership in Insurance Podcast in this episode we were lucky enough to be joined by John McClelland of MiBroker   MiBroker is an on-demand insurance product for the solopreneur market place utilising technology to buy insurance as you need it.    In this conversation we talk cover a range of topics to include:   Learning new skills outside...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast (The LiiP).  In this episode, we were joined by the brilliant Michael Crawford   Michael is the CEO and Co-Founder of Describe Data which uses AI and unique data sets to help insurance businesses make better sense of data and write more profitable portfolios.   In this conversation we talk about:  The Lloyd’s...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast (The LiiP).  This is a brilliant chat with David Hughes   https://www.linkedin.com/in/dapahughes/  David is CEO and Founder of Mulberry Risk which is an Analytics and Actuarial Consultancy to the MGA space  https://www.mulberryrisk.com/  David was very open and honest as a guest - even shar...

Hello and welcome to the Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Today I am lucky enough to be joined by Mike Minnett   https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeminett/   Mike is founder and CEO of Portabl an Insurance solution for the gig economy workforce.   https://www.portabl.co/   Mike is a serial entrepreneur and great fun. We met "stalking each other" on Linkedin  (Mikes words not...

In today's episode of The Leadership in Insurance Podcast (The LiiP) I was lucky enough to be joined by Dr Marcus Schmalbach    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-marcus-schmalbach-02667746/  Marcus is the CEO and Founder of the Instech Ryskex.  Ryskex is an exchange model that utilises blockchain technology to offer parametric cover for hard to place and complex risks.   http...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.    This week I was lucky enough to be joined by Marco Del Carlo    https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcodelc...    Marco is CEO and Founder of Capacity Place.    https://capacityplace.com/   Capacity place is a marketplace that brings together interested parties seeking capacity wi...

Hello and welcome to The Leadership in Insurance Podcast. Affectionately know as the LiiP.   This week we were lucky enough to be joined by Amit Patel  https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitpatel911/   Amit is Founder and CEO of Hlthie  https://www.hlthie.com/   Hlthie is an Insurtech operating in the Health Insurance segment offering a marketplace affordable solution to health...

Welcome to the second episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast "The LiiP"  In this episode, I am very lucky to be joined by FJ Smith of Clearview with FJ  https://www.linkedin.com/in/fjsmith1/   FJ has a long history with the Insurance market and was previously head of Recruitment for Lloyd's of London before retraining and making a career for herself as an Executive coach and...

Hello and welcome to the Leadership in Insurance podcast, otherwise known as the Liip.    On today's episode, we talk to Naby Mariyam, CEO and Founder of Coverhero.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabymariy am Coverhero is an Australian based Insurtech platform that this year launched its first product, Hustle cover, aimed at the rapidly growing gig economy workforce    http...