The Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Insurtech & Innovation

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Christie Downs, CEO and Co-Founder of handdii on The Leadership In Insurance Podcast this week to discuss all things construction, culture and start up life.Handdii is a property insurance claims fulfilment platform which aims to make communication between insurers, trades and customers better and faster.After having the Handdii team on our podcast hitlist for a while, Christie and I finally met face-to-face at Insurtech Connect in Vegas last September. For those of you who were there, I’m sure you’ll remember the team decked out in their signature high-vis jackets wandering around the conference handing out the rubber ducks (One duck made its way back to London and has become a bit of an office mascot for team FinPro!)Christie - thanks for being a great guest, I really enjoyed this episode - not only because I love what Handdii are doing, but also because this episode was really fun - you can hear our laughter throughout!Here are some of the highlights....⭐️ What is the problem Handii is trying to solve?⭐️ From a practical perspective is the insurance industry set up to serve small businesses?⭐️ How are marketplaces impacting insurance innovation?⭐️ Are we seeing true innovation in insurtech or just a natural evolution?⭐️ What's next for Handdii?Give this one a listen - or for those of you who opt for the video version, you’ll catch Christie in the signature yellow jacketThis 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.

Starting off the week with a true The Leadership In Insurance Podcast highlight! This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tom Clarke to dig into all things EV and the evolution of motor insurance.I’ve known Tom for a while now, and he really is the guru when it comes to all things EV. He is the Chief EV Officer at Abacai and sits on the advisory board at Voltric after 10 years at LV=. If you want to know about Electric Vehicles, Tom is the guy!We dug into a whole host of topics from emerging industries, and new profiles to consider to the wider questions that insuring electric vehicles pose such as should EV’s be insured in the same way?A truly fascinating conversation, and one that could have gone on for hours with so much to unpack. We kept it to 40 minutes, but maybe we should do a part 2!Here are some of the highlights…🚙 How do go about insuring EV’s? The differences and evolutions in traditional motor insurance🚙 The economic downturn & fraudulent claims - with new products to insure, how do you validate these claims?🚙 Emerging ecosystems, looking at Tesla’s approach to EV & Tom’s ‘Apple vs Android’ analogy🚙 What’s next for EV…🚀Thank you again Tom Clarke - this episode truly is a podcast favourite!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.

Another great episode out on The Leadership In Insurance Podcast this Monday morning, I had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with Quentin Saleur, COO of OTT Risk , the London-based MGA taking a new approach to business interruption coverage.We dig into all things #BusinessInterruption, #IntangibleLosses & #CustomerNeeds. Here are some of the highlights...📌 In the increasingly dynamic global environment with regard to pandemics, cyber attacks & civil unrest…How are looking to OTT Risk facilitating business resilience?📌 With regard to intangible losses, Is the insurance industry running away from the needs of its customers?📌 Do we need new ways to quantify damage?📌 Lloyd’s Lab cohort 9 - How was the Lab experience? What did you learn from it?📌 What’s next for OTT Risk & what does 2023 have to offer? 🚀Thanks for joining me for the conversation Quentin!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.

Another great episode out on the podcast this Monday morning, I had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with the lovely Rosina Smith, Chief Product Officer at McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd.London-based MIS provides data intelligence on a global scale with a mission to empower informed decision-making for the insurance industry.We dig into Rosina’s background, how she moved into the world of insurtech and all the work they are doing at MIS, & of course, being the claims nerd that I am, we touched on the importance of innovation in the event-response space.All in all a great conversation, and a fabulous listen to kick start your week. Here are some of the highlights...📌 The surprises, challenges, and rewards of moving from the incumbent world, to a start-up and now the scale-up environment📌 How MIS facilitates informed decision-making for the Lloyd’s market📌 The future use cases of MIS in the insurance industry given the increasingly dynamic global environment we are living in📌 What’s next for MIS & what does 2023 have to offer? 🚀Thanks for joining me for this conversation Rosina!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.

So The Leadership In Insurance Podcast is back with a bang for 2023...We a kicking off the year with a great first episode with the one and only Nigel Walsh, Head of Insurance at Google. 💥I'm sure most of you already know Nigel, he really is at the heart of insurance innovation. In this episode, he shared Google's perspective on insurance and what's on the horizon for innovation in 2023.Here are some of the highlights:📌 What does innovation mean for you?📌What role does Google Cloud play within innovation in insurance?📌 What challenges facing insurers that Google Cloud hopes to solve with technology?📌 Google’s mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, how does this play into what Google Cloud is doing in insurance?📌 When it comes to innovation, are insurers still falling into the trap of only being reactive? What else can insurers do to stay ahead?Thank you Nigel for joining me for this conversation - what a way to start the year!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.

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Another great episode out on the podcast this Monday morning, I had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with Jonathan Roomer, Co-Founder and Head of Customer Success at YuLife.YuLife is a London-based life insurer (just around the corner from us actually!) who are disrupting the life insurance space through gamification.Launched in 2016, YuLife is digital life insurance striving to transform the current space by addressing a protection gap that has only widened as a result of the pandemic. The insurtech’s philosophy believes that the insurance industry is not fit for the future due to low trust, low perceived value, and low engagement. Their motto 'Protect Lives, Reward Living & Inspire Life' truly encapsulates this.We dig into the story of YuLife, their strategy of incentivising healthy lifestyle habits and the link between life insurance and well-being. Here are some of the highlights..📌 As one of five co-founders, how did you come together and what inspired the formation of YuLife?📌 Why is life insurance and well-being intrinsically linked?📌 The gamification of healthy lifestyle habits to improve your user's health and wellness?📌 Balancing & maintaining culture in a fast-growing insurtech📌 What’s next for YuLife & what does 2023 have to offer? 🚀Thanks for joining me for the conversation Jonathan!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.

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