We have an extra episode out on The Leadership In Insurance Podcast today, we don't normally release an episode on a Friday but this bonus episode is particularly topical for everything that has happened this past week.

I connected with Max Bruner, CEO & Founder of Anzen Insurance this week after following his insightful commentary and advice for founders in light of the Silicon Valley Bank events.

The last week has without a doubt been a roller coaster ride for tech founders, employees, investors, and executives impacted by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank… at the mercy of the markets, the media, and the federal government, and initially with many more questions than answers. After the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and FDIC guaranteed depositors were protected in full, a collective sigh of relief was breathed by bank depositors and everyone in their orbit.

With the help of Brett McKenzie, we got together this week to record an extra episode discussing #SVB and how the turn of events is impacting the insurtech ecosystem.

Here are some of Max's recommendations - & tune in to this episode to hear more... 🎧

✅ Have a cash runway: don’t learn the hard way the way many of us have—expect a several month slowdown in #VC financing and do what you can to find an extra three months or more of runway than you had planned last week.

✅ Diversify your accounts: be aware of what is covered and what is not under the #fdic for each account. 

✅ Have at least two banking partners with active accounts. Don’t concentrate all funds in one sector specific bank.

✅ Be certain that your payroll provider is diversified in their treasury management. 

✅ Know what a sweep account is—the pros and cons—and know that you can control your funds and have appropriate short-term liquidity if invested in securities.

Thanks again Max Bruner for not only getting together this week to record this bonus episode but also for the valuable insight you are sharing for the insurtech community 🙌

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Sharing something a little different on The Leadership In Insurance Podcast today, another live episode reporting straight from Insurtech Insights Europe.

This is episode one in our two-part VC Insights special where I was lucky enough to sit down with some of the leading VC's and CVC's to get their insight on the current state of play in the insurtech scene.

Tune into part one of this feature to hear from Tiffine Wang from MS&AD Ventures, Michael Wieser from Helvetia Venture Fund, Samarth Shekhar from SixThirty and Connor Love from Lightspeed Venture Partners about what's piquing their interest right now 💥

Thank you all for joining me for this - it was a fun one to record - and stay tuned for part two coming next week 🎧

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One of the (many!) highlights of Insurtech Insights last week was the chance to meet so many people who are fans and listeners of The Leadership In Insurance Podcast

The podcast is at the centre of what we do at FinPro. and it’s so exciting to see how it’s grown. It’s something we love doing, and we’ve been lucky enough to have met so many great guests and friends through hosting these conversations.

Day 2 of Insurtech Insights was a particular highlight as we hosted our first live podcast episode on stage with Oded Barak, CEO & Co-Founder of Five Sigma.

Going from seeing our audience as the weekly download figures to a room full of people feels like a true milestone. Thank you to Oded, the Five Sigma team, Insurtech Insights & all our listeners for making it happen! Already looking forward to doing it all again in New York in June 🎧

For those of you who didn't catch the live podcast last week, (or if you'd like to listen again!), I hope you enjoy tuning into our conversation about all things claims 🎧

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Another great episode out on The Leadership In Insurance Podcast today, I was lucky enough to be joined by Aaron Steffey, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Propeller Bonds.

Aaron and I connected at the start of the year following their Seed funding round announced in January and I’ve been looking forward to having him on the podcast ever since.

We talk all things #surety, the first time we’ve delved into this topic on the podcast, so its great to be joined by an expert! We discuss everything from investor appetite, to distribution and white labelling. Here are some of the highlights…

⛓ Why is surety is an underserved market from an innovation perspective?

⛓The opportunities for some non-traditional carrier partner relations

⛓Why target SME’s as opposed to the traditional markets that use surety?

⛓How do you tackle building trust and brand loyalty when going down the white labeled route?

⛓What’s next for Propeller in 2023? 🚀

Thanks Aaron for joining me - loved recording this one!This Podcast was brought to you by FinPro, an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Insurtech space.

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Starting the week with a really great episode of The Leadership In Insurance Podcast. I sat down with Amir Kabir , partner at AV8 Ventures to chat about all things insurtech valuations, and emerging markets.

I always enjoy speaking to people in venture about their take on innovation as they are quick to spot what’s on the horizon. Prior to AV8, Amir was an investment director and founding team member at Munich Re Ventures where he lead and managed investment efforts for two of the funds and made early bets in Insurtech. Now at AV8 Amir heads up with fintech and insurtech portfolios.

We covered lots of ground in this conversation, discussing the evolution of insurtech and challenging how we approach valuations. We got stuck into what’s going on in Latam. What I particularly enjoyed about this conversation was that Amir has so many thoughts to share on how as an industry we approach emerging markets.

He raised some fascinating points I’ve been mulling over since.. such as, are we making a mistake by expecting the emerging markets to follow the same patterns that we’ve seen in more mature markets? Is this inherently limiting innovation?

Here are some of the highlights...

📌 Investing in insurtech - what do you look out for and what’s exciting you right now?

📌 How do go about valuing an insurtech? Have mistakes been made in how they are valued in the past?

📌 The Latam market - What is interesting about the insurtech activity in Latam?

📌 Parametric insurance and how it's closing the protection gap

📌 What is the next evolution of insurtech?

Thank you again Amir for joining us on the podcast!

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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 jacket

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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!

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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!

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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.

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