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 Stephen Leguillon, CEO of Seyna, the all-in-one platform for insurance brokers who provide tailored insurance products and software tools to grow brokerage businesses. We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:  How can we make sure that insurance is an enabler of progress?  Seynas founding team How did you come together & what was that journey like?  What problems and concerns have you noticed people have in the industry?  Coming from a leadership role, where do you put your attention? We have seen a cultural shift to the value add being put on customer experience over product, have you seen this?  This is a hard transition for the industry, what are the implications of that?  How have you found being in this industry with a non-tech background?  Traditional insurance relies on in-house software whereas many other industries are comfortable with using 3rd party software, where do you think this resistance comes from? Thank you Stephen 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 Bond Please 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 Matan Slagter, CEO of Armadillo, the tech-enabled, subscription-based home warranty provider for homeowners and landlords, who are pioneers in the new age of home warranty.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: Matan's insurance career & why warranty? Is t surprising that the warranty market has only 4% penetration when we spend an increasing amount on technology in our homes?  What do you think this says about our relationship with insurance? Do we need to help people fall in love with insurance?  Do they not see its value because we haven’t shown them what that truly is? Is insurance lacking clarity of message and communication? Being 'tech forward' Are you an Insurtech or something else? Armadillo's distribution model  Will you narrow distribution over time? Why was now the right time to launch?  How did Covid impact Armadillo's plans?  How did it impact the funding round? You took on outside funding – at what stage had you taken the business before you did so?Thank you Matan 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 Benjamin Piening, Honeycomb Insurance's Chief Underwriting Officer. Honeycomb provide reinvented real estate insurance with better coverage in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost, their unique product leverages advanced Artificial Intelligence and computer-vision to completely reinvent real-estate insurance.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: What does being ‘People first, tech driven’ practically mean for you as Chief Underwriting Officer? Are technology and people complementing or conflicting forces? Technology helps achieve a means to an end – People breathe life into technology People are the originators of thought, ideas, innovation Are technology and people mutually exclusive? The Inspector app From an insurance perspective what’s unique about the product - or is it the delivery/tech that makes it unique? Being underwriting driven Do investors look at underwriting? Long term partnerships Why are we still operating with year to year contracts?Thank you Benjamin 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 Vinodkumar Iyer, CEO of iNube, the leading provider of digital insurance solutions for the global insurance industry.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:    Offering a whole insurance product suite Which area has the most demand? How this has changed over the last 2 years? Has the pandemic had an impact on businesses as Insurers push for more digital solutions? How important is technology to be consumer first? How far can the technology go? Could we have a fully automated insurer? Should we? How does regulation impact your ability to innovate?Thank you Vinodkumar 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 Janthana Kaenprakhamroy, CEO of Tapoly.Tapoly is the award-winning Insurtech providing on-demand business insurance for SMEs and freelancers, they provide an extensive list of insurance types to cover your business for a day, a year, or anything in between as well as offering a SAAS solution for corporates wishing to rapidly deploy their own white-labelled insurance schemes.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: From a practical perspective is the insurance industry set up to serve small businesses? Innovation starts in leadership, how do you approach this at Tapoly? ‘Insurance as a social good?’ How important is hiring the right personality types when providing a social good and selling trust? Is there ever a clash between morals and motives in insurance? How important is it to acknowledge the needs of different personality types, more introverted people for example, when leading a team? What are the practical measures you put in place to lead and support your team in a remote setting? How does this impact the funding experience for women? Men are naturally more inclined to overestimate their projections, should we evaluate female-founded pitches in a different way? Issues around networking, inherently male dynamic, what is the knock-on impact for women? (issues around finding women outside of the network)Thank you Janthana 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 Simon Bentholm, Chief Customer Officer at Penni.io.  We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:   Embedded insurance being the buzz term of 2022 already   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”?  The solution is in scalability, and how do you create software that enables that?   Thank you Simon 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 Bond  Please 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 Alex Bargmann, Pathpoint's CEO and Co-Founder & Ralph Blust, Pathpoint's President and CRO. Pathpoint is the insurtech on a mission to make it faster and easier for retail agents to get great E&S coverage options. Pathpoint allows you to quote and bind coverage for your small business clients online with one streamlined submission and receive multiple bindable quotes for your clients in minutes, not days.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: Being an advocate for insurtech in the 90s before it even was insurtech How can we address the client's needs using technology? Striving for efficiency both in the user experience and the operational experience Revolutionizing the way we integrate with carriers Embracing technology  Marrying together the backgrounds in technological knowledge and insurance experience How has technology changed how agents place accounts today compared to 5 years ago? Looking at the wholesale distribution channel from the carrier perspective The difficulty in encouraging trading partners to utilise technology The self-service revolution Why has this revolution in E&S lagged behind that of other areas? The lack of connectivity in the wholesale marketplaceThank you Alex and Ralph 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 LeX Tan, CEO and Co-Founder of MotionsCloud.MotionsCloud helps property & vehicle inspection teams to streamline and automate inspection processes by using their tools to empower inspection teams to be efficient and effective.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: The recent developments in claims technology Is it surprising that claims has lagged behind in digitisation? Claims as the main customer engagement point How did the founding team come together? The instantaneous action and ease that parametric products provide The potential opportunity for partnerships Computer vision technology White labeling the solution Who is adopting this solution?Thank you LeX 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 David Bryant, CEO and Co-Founder of MonarkHQ.MonarkHQ is a real-time quoting platform for employee benefits who are committed to streamlining benefits procurement by providing instant quotes, proposal management, and analytic dashboards to track vendor trends.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: Solving real-world issues Dave’s 15 years of experience in the insurance industry Monark’s mission to solve the underserved inefficiencies in the insurtech space MonarkHQ’s InsurTech 100 nomination! The importance of networks in the insurance industry What is it like as a non-technical founder running a tech-led business? Why was the timing right for you to start Monark? The need for transparency in marketplace solutions  Is there a resistance to transparency?  what goes into creating an effective marketplace? Boot-strapping vs Raising seed Choosing the self-funded route - what was that journey like? The innovation in the benefits space What's next for Monark?Thank you David 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 Jacqueline Legrand, CEO and Co-Founder of Maptycs. Maptycs is a New York-based insurtech start-up that use geospatial risk visualization and advanced analytics technology to help insurance professional better understand property risk exposure in real-time. Their software integrates its own proprietary Geographic Information System (GIS) along with a broad set of algorithms to deliver a high level of performance while managing large volumes of data.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as: Projecting losses in realtime What important is a network in getting an insurtech off the ground? The growing importance of relationships in the post-covid world What is Maptycs’ USP? The acceleration of natural disasters driving demand The recent explosion of location-based data Is this information currently inaccessible to insurance companies? The long path from data to information to insight Is there a resistance to true data transparency?Thank you Jacqueline 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.