Otbert de Jong is the CEO at Insurance Market Group, a licensed online insurance broker in Singapore, and CEO and Co-founder of Inmediate, an InsurTech using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) which has raised USD 5 million in an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) just prior to the ICO bubble bursting. Otbert has a background […]

Kazuya Hata is the founder and CEO of justInCase, Inc. Hata-san studied mathematics, lots of mathematics, at Kyoto  University…one of Japan’s most prestigious universities.  Hata-san has been interested in insurance since his college days; part of his course studies included actuarial mathematics, a backbone of the insurance industry. It was no surprise that he joined […]

We attended the 20th Asia Conference on Bancassurance and Alternative Distribution Channels organized by Asia Insurance Review at the Millenium Hilton in Bangkok.  We sat down with conference speakers Zao Wu, Analyst at Celent, a division of Oliver Wyman, Koby Karp, the Executive Director Decision Science at RGAX APAC and conference chairman William Malek, Senior […]

Layak Singh was born and raised in Agra…home of the Taj Mahal.  Layak graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Khargpur and studied Mechanical Engineering.  It was during his second year at IIT that Layak got interested in starting his own company.  Some of his friends were starting consulting companies and other startups…and he went […]

Chris Garrett is the Country Head for Hong Kong and Malaysia at DocDoc. Chris’ history in Asia is long and varied. Originally from the United States, Chris’ grandfather first travelled to Southeast Asia in 1960 by boat. After graduating from university in the United States, Chris wanted to return to Asia and secured a position […]

Khun Thanasak Hoontrakul is the co-Founder of Vouch and Country Head of its subsidiary in Thailand, FairDee. Vouch is a peer-to-peer motor insurance platform that partners with insurance companies, insurance agents and brokers in Singapore and Thailand. The platform allows social groups to buy insurance and grants cash back for groups that do not file […]

Puay Lim Yeo is the Regional Manager for BIMA in Asia and was BIMA’s first employee in the region. BIMA is a Swedish InsurTech focused on emerging markets using mobile technology to provide insurance and health services. In 2010, BIMA first started in Ghana, West Africa, in cooperation with telecommunications provider Tigo, leveraging its […]