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 insurance should be brought and not sold The inherent danger of comparison sites Why review...
Mar 29, 2021•48 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast 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 How AI and machine learning can create better jobs for people in the insurance The talent gap i...
Mar 22, 2021•49 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast 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 software solutions for insurance companies with their flagship, next-generation modeling platform, Renew....
Mar 15, 2021•56 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast 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 has changed and hence the insurance cover must change with it The unique demands on the travel ...
Mar 01, 2021•54 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Lloyd's lab. Marco had not previously applied the Ingenia service to the insurance market so I wanted...
Feb 21, 2021•49 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast 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 talk about: Micro-social media networking sites and why Linkedin isn't fit for purpose. Ho...
Feb 15, 2021•54 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 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 way" is the very reason to change "that way" How important diversity - in all forms, create bri...
Feb 08, 2021•46 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 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 people that join at inception may not be the people to necessarily take you to completion "Is th...
Feb 01, 2021•49 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast 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 or CEO? Station F Paris incubator campus set up How important start-up "campus" ecosy...
Jan 25, 2021•42 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast 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 How parametric solutions reduce the unit cost of insurance Embracing technology to give gre...
Jan 18, 2021•43 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Insurance "product" The technical debt in the insurance space created by COVID19 How innovation ...
Jan 11, 2021•47 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ground and also had the first guest screen share (well played John) We talked about: &...
Jan 04, 2021•42 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast 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 was a pleasure to spend some time talking to him, we met through his involvement in Lloyd's lab .&n...
Dec 11, 2020•50 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 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 of insurance led to opportunities within Insurance The rise in on-demand insurance Customer demand b...
Dec 03, 2020•40 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Lab experience – how it evolved and how Describe Data might not now get in The importance of mentors...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast 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 sharing us the secret of what he was hiding in the background of his recording! In this we talk a...
Nov 06, 2020•54 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 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 mine). This is a far-reaching chat and in it we cover: What is an ideas guy? Impact of Covid1...
Oct 29, 2020•51 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast 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. https://ryskex.com/ Marcus and I first engaged over some content online and have always had lively...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 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 with businesses looking to provide capacity. It's a brilliantly simple solution to a problem that in m...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 insurance. I was lucky enough to come across Amit at an Instech London ( https://www.instech....
Sep 29, 2020•41 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 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 latterly as an Empowerment coach (this was a new term to me too) FJ is someone I have known ...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 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 https://www.hustlecover.com/ Naby was one of the first people I wanted on the show when I thought...
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