The Voices of Risk Management Gopuff’s Senior Risk Manager Andrew Bent on How to Be an Active Insurance Partner
Mar 11, 2022
36:35
Andrew Bent is the Senior Risk and Insurance Manager at Gopuff. Andrew’s extensive experience has led him to work internationally as a risk insurance professional and in this episode, he shares his unique knowledge about risk insurance. You’ll learn what it takes to be a risk insurance professional in this growing landscape, the value of industry disruption, and also Andrew’s process on how to collaborate and be a helpful insurance partner within an organization.
Key Takeaways:
- How did Andrew get into risk management?
- Andrew’s extensive expertise abroad has led him to see different cultural perspectives as it relates to risk insurance.
- Andrew compares New Zealand, Canada, and the United States risk insurance policies.
- Good risk management really is just good organizational management at the heart of it.
- What value does insurance bring to an organization?
- What’s a career lesson Andrew has adopted overtime in the risk industry?
- Focus to your best ability on the things you can control!
- How does Andrew approach collaboration within an organization so that risk management has a seat at the table?
- What are some of the biggest mistakes Andrew sees some of his clients make?
- Insurance is a game of trust. If people don’t trust the insurers to pay, they shouldn’t be working with them.
- As insurance professionals, you have an obligation to be current and relevant. If you’re unable to do that, then the industry will very quickly become disrupted.
- Andrew talks about what he disagrees with in the insurance industry.
- What advice would Andrew give his former self?
- It’s not about the result, it’s about the recovery.
- What is Andrew currently reading?
- Insurance professionals need to tell a story on how important and valuable risk management is for people to fully understand it.
- We need to begin to disrupt cliche views of what risk insurance is.
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