Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Carey Anne Nadeau , Co-CEO & Co-Founder of LOOP , the Texas-based motor insurance start-up on the mission to make motor insurance more fair and transparent for more people. We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: How LOOP looks at data that other insurance carriers ignore Changing how we think about insurance and...
Nov 22, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Henri Winand , CEO and Co-Founder, AkinovA . We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: Enabling risk transfer on a large scale How does the marketplace actually work? The social fabric of the environment Building relationships in real time Does innovation mean replacing people and professions? Creating more fulfi...
Nov 15, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Adam Blumencranz , Partner of Distributed Ventures (formerly known as NFP Ventures). We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: What are the advantages of working in the corporate ventures as opposed to the stand alone? Has the shift from one to the other played to an advantage? How being associated with an incumb...
Nov 08, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 50
In this week's episode we hear from Alex Bond , FinPro founder and the Leadership in Insurance Podcast host himself. We wanted to do something slightly different with this podcast and it reflects some of the wider initiatives we are developing with FinPro. FinPro is a recruitment business specialising in the Insurtech sector and have been fortunate to work with some of the most exciting and innovative people operating within the sector. We have had fantastic guests who have shared their jo...
Oct 25, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Stuart Winchester , CEO and Founder, Marble . We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: Do we do the simple things in insurance badly or do we not do the simple things? Do people want to engage with insurance? Change from outside the industry Why do we have friction? Juggling the different perspectives of brokers...
Oct 18, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Jeff Radke , CEO and Co-Founder, Accelerant . We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: The attraction of the MGA model as an entrepreneur Is the MGA market a scapegoat? Accelerant's longer-term capacity commitment How Accelerant has members instead of customers, and how this perspective fosters positive relationships ...
Oct 11, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Anthony Mayer , VP Engineering & Konrad Heimpel , VP Product and Data, at Getsafe . We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: Is Getsafe a tech company operating in insurance or is Getsafe an insurance company? Whats the difference these days Insurance and technology go hand in hand The advantages of bringing...
Sep 27, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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 for the customer How the pandemic has encouraged demand for accessible insurance  ...
Sep 20, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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 Deconstructing innovation into different channels of activity Incentivising innovators &n...
Sep 13, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 44
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 customer. We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: ...
Sep 06, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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 insurance market that surprised you? Investing in start-ups - Insurance being surprisingly not bo...
Aug 31, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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 this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: How approaching the market with a...
Aug 23, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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 topics such as: - What are Agile Risk doing that is different from the status quo? - The...
Aug 16, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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 conversation we talk about: - 'Smart insurance' - what does that mean to you? - Connecti...
Aug 09, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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 entrepreneurial mindset? - Is it harder to attract actuaries to a consultancy business? -  ...
Aug 02, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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 Doing things digitally without losing the human touch The challenges of creating an insurtech start-up w...
Jul 26, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 37
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 straight away. Discussing a wide variety of topics such as: The importance of culture specifically ...
Jul 19, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 36
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's out of the most problematic time of Nijis career at Zenefits that AgentSync was born. ...
Jul 12, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 35
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 Why all entrepreneurs need to learn to sell How some of the best conversations come with target ...
Jun 29, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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 work hard, be successful outside of the big corporate world so why don't more people do it? ...
Jun 21, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 33
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 from the feedback they got from their original business model - tracking stolen bikes. In...
Jun 13, 2021•40 min•Ep. 32
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 for the reinsurance industry. In this episode, we discuss: Supercedes goal of be...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 31
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: The importance of driving your own traffic - not leaking money on acquisition costs How do you...
May 24, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 30
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 to engage with for some time. In this conversation we discussed: The formation of the Eos Ve...
May 17, 2021•50 min•Ep. 29
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 - it's not often you get to speak to a person who has taken a hobby and made it into a business - espec...
May 10, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 28
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 skills in the army Why he focussed on Insurance as a business sector: Inefficiencies! Insur...
May 03, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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 - how are we in the world of Insurance shaping up against other sectors? We had a great ...
Apr 26, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 26
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 straight to the full-stack model first The geographic focus of Hellas direct, seeking valuable mar...
Apr 19, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 25
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 the Previsico story and its experience of working with the insurance sector. In this episode ...
Apr 12, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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 hear about Joel's experience of launching a traditional MGA mid pandemic! In this episode we ta...
Apr 06, 2021•35 min•Ep. 23
