The Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Insurtech & Innovation

Its always exciting when we have a returning guest on the podcast, and it doesn’t happen often - but this is one of those weeks!Back by popular demand, and following the success of our ‘Tour of Claims Village’ episode live from Insurtech insights (which is in our top 10 most listened to episodes!), this week I was lucky enough to be joined by Michael Lewis, CEO and Founder of Claim Technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thank you to every one who tuned into our new series so far & you'll be excited to now the next episode is out today 🎧Tune in to this week's episode where our tech expert Gavin Savage is joined by Alex Sanders to discuss TONI Digital's innovative approach to #insurance. This episode dive's into all things #Tech #Raising & NoCode/LowCode.They discuss TONI Digital’s Series B raise at the beginning of the year and look at the current funding landscape.Alex and Gavin discuss industry trends, buzz words and how the Low Code / No Code space has evolved. Lots of people claim to be low code / no code but aren’t - they discuss wether this is more so an education piece needed for the wider community?Finally, they discuss white labelling - the opportunities and the challenges, such as how do you tackle building trust and loyalty with this model? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I’m excited to announce the release of a particularly special episode of The Leadership In Insurance Podcast today…Last week we were lucky enough to welcome, Instanda’s CEO and Co-Founder, Tim Hardcastle into FinPro. towers to record a live episode all about #entrepreneurship. Many of you will know Tim and the Instanda team, they’ve been on our podcast guest hit list for a while now so we’re glad the day has come!For each episode, we typically plan out the episode structure prior to the recording (previous guests, you’ll know the process!) We delve into each founder’s unique view on the #insurtech landscape and how their company are contributing to the #insurance innovation ecosystem.We try and maintain a candid nature while also (mostly!) sticking to script - this episode was slightly different… Tim is a natural presenter and our conversation evolved into a much richer and wider discussion around the mindsets of founders and what it takes to be an #entrepreneur.Tim also flipped the interviewer / interviewee role on me and asked about my career as an entrepreneur. We discussed what motivates people to start their own business, is it restlessness? the need to make your own path? a mid-life crisis?We discussed #funding and #bootstrapping and Tim’s choices to take the path less trodden. The Instanda team bootstrapped for five years and we get into the lessons learnt from this - the importance of ‘backing yourself with your own sweat capital and personal capital’ as he puts it - how deep do you learn those lessons if you don’t have as much at stake?This conversation was a really fun one, you’ll hear the laughter throughout - thank you Tim joining me - and we’ve got those pre-planned questions to cover so you’ll have to come back soon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thank you to everyone who tuned in and loved our first episode of our tech special last week with Dave Morris & you'll be excited to now the next episode is out today 🎧Tune in to this week's episode where our tech expert Gavin Savage is joined by Alejandro Inestal to discuss Hometree 's innovative approach to #insurance.This episode dive's into all things #Tech, #ESG & Engineering #Culture. They discuss all things from the cultural shift towards lean tech teams and how this impacts culture to ho Hometree's #decarbonisation initiatives & the insurance industry's responsibility to be more #sustainable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are sharing a really great episode on The Leadership In Insurance Podcast today. I sat down with Aviad Pinkovezky, President at First Connect, a Hippo Insurance company to discuss all things from Hippo’s story, to acquiring First Connect and beyond.Acquired by Hippo in 2020, First Connect is a digital platform that helps independent insurance agents access carriers and insurtechs they may not otherwise reach on their own.Aviad and I discuss a whole host of topics (and could have spoken for much longer!) digging into Aviad’s background in product, to the growth of Hippo, to why partner and the opportunities that lie in collaboration. Here are some of the highlights…👉 As someone from the product side of technology - how do you think perception of insurance as an employment destination for product and tech people has evolved over time?👉 The Insurtech landscape from a wider lense - What have been the biggest improvements of insurance customer experience in the time you’ve been at hippo? What part has product played in that?👉 First Connect Acquisition - What the rational? What’s the opportunity you saw? Why this route as opposed to doubling down on the existing success you have?👉 First Connect on a personal level - does it feel like a start up? Does it need to?👉 Collaboration in the Insurance industry, what have you learnt? How can we empace this more?👉 & Finally, what’s next for First Connect?Thank you Aviad for your time, it was great to speak to you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've been working on something very exciting for a while now, and we're excited to finally go live!Welcome to our new series podcast 'The Emerging Tech Series', hosted by FinPro.'s tech guru Gavin Savage.We love talking about innovation and all things insurtech. So when Gavin Savage joined us to head up all things tech and engineering we knew there would be some exciting conversations to be had on the podcast.For our very first episode, Gavin is joined by Dave Morris, 11:FS's VP of Engineering to take a deep dive into tech innovation, leadership and culture.We're so excited for this one - we hope you enjoy - tune in every Wednesday to hear more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well its a big week for #insurtech and The Leadership In Insurance Podcast... we are releasing an episode every day this week for our new #MENAInsights seriesAt the end of May I was invited by Lars Gehrmann and the incredible team at QIC Digital Venture Partners to come out to Doha for their #MENA insurtech summit to report on the innovation taking place in the region.I'm lucky enough to travel to lots of insurtech events globally, and I'd say that the Doha event has been a true highlight so far. From sand dune surfing to podcasting, the energy of the whole event was inspiring.So we're excited to release episode one in our five part #MENAInsights series where I was joined by...👉 Lars Gehrmann, Group Chief Digital Officer, QIC Digital Venture Partners👉 Shwetank Verma, Co-Founder & Managing PartnerLeo Capital👉 Markus Lampinen, CEO & Co-FounderPrifina - Liberty. Equality. Data.👉 Tunde Salako, Co-Founder, Hadiel Health Coop &Managing Partner, Africa Insurtech LabHope you enjoy this episode - it was a really fun one - we're releasing an episode every day this week so stay tuned for episode two coming out tomorrow... 🎧🚨 Links in the comments below 🚨 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Nico Stainfeld, Partner at Foundation Capital.Nico is an early-stage investment expert from the team at Foundation Capital, who since 1995 have been leading the way in fintech, enterprise, and consumer investments. Their tag line 'building companies is in our bones' summarises just that and these values are clear throughout this conversation.We discuss a whole host of topics (and could have spoken for much longer!) but here are some of the highlights...Total early-stage focus - the value of honing in & the rarity of 'staying in your lane'Foundations 1+1+3 approachHow many firms actually make it past their first fund?'The Emperor Has No Tech' as Nico puts it - Why the Insurance Industry Desperately Needs StartupsIf they are not going to spend the money, then they need to bring on board the start-ups There is no bad risk, only bad premiumDo we need more of a sense of urgency?2023 insurtech landscape - Profitability is not for losers anymore!Technology was meant to transform the insurance industry but it hasn’t - why?Embedded solutions and buying behaviour - is there trust?Next-generation risk needs next-generation dataYou're not still doing insurtech investing, are you?Insurtech locals vs. tourists?What's next for insurtech?Thank you Nico for your time, it was great to speak to you!This Podcast was brought to you by FinPro, an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Insurtech space.Our host in FinPro Director, Alex BondPlease like and subscribe if you enjoyed this podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to this week's episode of The Leadership In Insurance Podcast - we're back with another roaming podcast in our #VCInsights Series, this one recorded live from the ITC LATAM conference. The #VCInsights series is quickly becoming my favourite series of the pod. In this episode, I was lucky enough to sit down with two more of the leading VC's to get their insight on the current state of play in the LATAM insurtech scene.Tune In to this episode to hear from Nico Stainfled, Partner at Foundation Capital & Hughues Bertin, Partner at HCS Capital Thank you all for joining me for this - another fun one to record 🎧This Podcast was brought to you by FinPro, an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Insurtech space.Our host in FinPro Director, Alex BondPlease like and subscribe if you enjoyed this podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sharing a rather special episode on The Leadership In Insurance Podcast this week, with one of our favourite podcasting guests. It’s not often that we invite people back on pod, so when we do you know it’s a good one…This week we welcome back Bryan Falchuk for a conversation all about #collaboration, to celebrate the release of his new book, ‘The Future of Insurance : Volume III. The Collaborators’.Bryan is one of the thought leaders I truly admire in this space. Inspired by the findings of the Insurance Collaboration Index, Bryan and David Gritz of InsurTech NY collaborated on this project to help the industry as we strive to innovate and evolve.In this episode we touch on some of the broader themes explored in the book...👉 How do we get better at collaboration? What could we achieve if we truly embraced this?👉 How do we innovate and collaborate in an inherently risk averse environment? & How do we work around that?👉 Do we reward risk enough? In Insurance no new book will ever perform well - can we really push boundaries if this is how the industry operates?I really enjoyed this one - and thank you Bryan for joining me to share some of the book's findings.If you enjoyed this conversation (which I’m sure you will!), you’ll be sure to enjoy the book, which expands on this podcast in much more detail, & of course, got to mention the lovely forward by Sabine VanderLinden.‘The Future of Insurance : Volume III. The Collaborators' is available on 8th of June 2023 - Congratulations once again Bryan & David - For more info and to pre-order or buy the book: http://future-of-insurance.com/3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.