The Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Insurtech & Innovation

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Florian Graillot, Founding Partner at Astorya VCWe had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:What are the key trends dominating Europe right now? How do you decide what your portfolio should look like? What do you look for specifically?How does the European market differ from that in the us?What are the most exciting innovations you’ve seen lately? What will be the next ‘wave’ of InsurTech?Thank you Florian 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Rotem Iram, CEO & Founder of At-Bay. We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:What was the formation thesis for At-Bay?What was the problem you saw that you wanted to solve? What is it that’s disruptive about your business?Where are you on your journey today?What was the most surprising thing you learned getting to this point? What has been the most challenging and what changed throughout this journey?Have you evolved your offering?What did you get wrong - was it right thesis, wrong application? What excites you most about the future of your business and the industry?Thank you Rotem 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast. We are sharing an exciting episode this week, our first panel episode in our new monthly series. This episode brings together some thought leaders in InsurTech for a special edition panel episode to discuss the latest InsurTech trends. In this episode, we will look back at the trend predictions made at the start of year, discuss their accuracy and what we’ve seen so far, as well going into what’s still to come.Our panelists:Janthana Kaenprakhamroy, CEO, TapolyMark McDonald, Head of Strategy, Atlus LTDMatt Connolly, CEO, Sonr David Fontain, CEO , Foresight 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Sten Saar, CEO of Zego.Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problem with traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond.In this episode Sten and podcast host, Alex Bond look to the future of insurance and discuss Zego's vision for the future of mobility going into a wide range of topics such as:Why is it important to future think for insurers?Regulation seems to be the great restriction on that vision - what part can the insurance industry do to help that vision a realityWith the complexity of risk associated with anonymous vehicles do you think we will see a rise in internal risk solutions such as Mercedes announcing its insurance for autonomous vehicles - What can insurance do to continue its relevance when we see these types of developments?This vision of the future isn't new (blade runner came out in the 80s!) but it does feel more tangible, do you think tech is catching up to culture? How important do you think art and culture are to innovation?Do you think insurance as an industry should be doing more to encourage a move sway from fossil fuels? If it can't be insured it would stop...Thank you Sten for your time, it was great to speak to you!You can take a further look at Zego's2040 vision for the future of mobility at zego.com/2040This 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Mauro Levi D'Ancona, CEO & Co-Founder, 180° Insurance. We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:How did your founding team come together and what was that journey like?You have a manifesto of ‘digital, diverse and plural’ what does that mean in practical terms?How does your ‘insurance as a service’ model work?You started out in October 2020 and have grown rapidly since then, securing the largest seed round for an inusrtech in Latin America , how has that journey been? Why do you think latin America has such an under-penetrated market? What opportunities have partnerships provided for you? Thank you Mauro 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Robert Kozikowski, Chief Product Officer at Tensorflight.Founded by ex-Google and ex-Microsoft engineers, Tensorflight is a leader in secure, ethical use of property data and artificial intelligence to make commercial property insurance fair and accessible.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:What is your personal mission that led you to found Tensorflight? How did the founding team come together?Providing insurance companies with actionable insights from aerial and street view imagery Using building records, geospatial imagery, and machine learning algorithms to help underwriters with risk assessment Being the first company to provide property data on-demand and to integrate different imagery sourcesThe massive market opportunity in computer visionWhat do you think are the biggest opportunities in insurance right now?How AI and computer vision are improving the previous manual in-person property inspection processHow do you think this industry will evolve in the next 3 to 5 years?What are other much-needed automations in this space?Thank you Robert 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Noam Shapira, Co-founder and President at Pattern insurance.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: Embedded insurance being buzz term on 2022  How do you differentiate yourself in a market that has so much investment? Many embedded solutions appear to be built technology first – do you think this is where some of the market gaps appear? Or is it something else? What is driving the rise in embedded insurance? How much of a threat does embedded insurance pose to the traditional insurance market? How are customers are actually making decisions about purchasing insurance? How should customer journeys be done to really "embed insurance”?Thank you Noam 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.

 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Joseph D'Souza, CEO and Founder of Pronavigator.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: Being the 'Google of Insurance' And what does that mean in practical terms? How does your product Sage work? The key trends we are seeing in 2022 How do these trends relate to hiring challenges, technology & AI? What’s going on with AI in insurance?  What is Pronavigator doing with AI? How is Knowledge Management critical for insurance and what role does it play? How can technology help boost employee productivity and improve customer satisfaction? How does a remote working environment accelerate this? Addressing the technology gap Are we seeing much innovation in AI and are there any applications that you’re yet to see using AI?Thank you Joseph 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Douglas Ver Mulm, CEO and Co-Founder of Stable Insurance a distribution and analytics platform for mobility that helps rideshare, carshare, and delivery vehicle owners more efficiently and profitably run their business. We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: How did your founding team come together and what was that journey like? Innovation starts in leadership, how do you approach this at stable? ‘Insurance as a social good?’ how important is hiring the right personality types when providing a social good? Doug’s background in law What made you make the move into insurance? What have you brought from that experience to your team at stable? What opportunities have partnerships provided for you? Has there needed to be a cultural shift for customers to be more comfortable with collecting behavioural based data? What’s next for stable?Thank you Doug 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.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Manish Bhatt, CEO & Co-Founder, Plum Life.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: Agents have had to adapt the ways in which they sell, from a face-to-face interaction to a remote setting How has this cultural shift impacted the market? How has your direct to consumer experience helped you? Has technology actually made people want insurance? What role does the play? How does analytics help improve sales for the broker I think we are in the 3rd wave of Insurtech – working with the market rather than disrupting/evolving – would you agree?  Do you think this says something about the founders of today's Insurtechs Previous guests have said the broker is the only true customer of insurance – do you think that’s fair?  Have we been customer-centric enough?Thank you Manish 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.