Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Phil Reynolds, CEO of DevStride & Chairman of BriteCore

We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:

• When did you realise it was the right time for you to step away from the CEO role?
• What did you learn about fund raising that they don’t teach you in the text books?
• What’s the best piece of advice you would give a start-up founder?
• What was the best piece of advice you personally received?
• How do you manage culture as a business grows and scales? Can you?
• Knowing what you know now – what do you look for in a funding partner?
• You have launched your next venture – what are you doing differently that other people might not think of?

Thank you Phil for your time, it was great to speak to you!

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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast. We are sharing an exciting episode this week, our second panel episode in our new monthly series...for July we bring you 'The Leadership In Insurance Product Special'.

We are lucky enough to be joined by a panel of some of the most prominent product leaders in insurtech...

🎙 Richard Giaannetti - Head of Product, Zego 

🎙 Monique Nelson - VP Product, Highwing

🎙 Colleen Wells - Chief Strategy Officer, Veruna

This episode takes a deep dive into all things product, discussing how to scale both product and product teams, the biggest mistakes founders make when hiring their first product hires, the core challenge in tech-driven businesses and the advice and lessons they have learned throughout their journey leading product teams.

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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Ryan Sachtjen, CEO &. Co-Founder, Threeflow.

We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:

• Benefits and the post covid world
• The shift towards working from home and its impact on the benefits space
• The changing demand in a post covid market
• How has ThreeFlow evolved thier products because of this?
• How do you maintain culture in a rapidly scaling business? 
• Changed name from WatchTower benefits - why are names important? 
• What was the shift from the insurance industry to tech startup founder like?
• Why do you think the insurance industry has generally been underserved by tech?
• How do you get people to adapt to new tools/processes?
• Interoperability is a popular topic in other industries like healthcare, what role does it play in the world of insurance?

Thank you Ryan for your time, it was great to speak to you!

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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Caribou Honig, Partner, Semper Virens VC.

We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:

• What Macro trends are interesting to you in the Insurtech space at present?
• The different “flavors” of entrepreneur
• Starting up an events business
• How have investor's profiles changed?
• What do you zero in on when making an investment decision? People? Product? Other?
• 'Legacy culture vs legacy technology'
• What is actually standing in the way of change
• Making the move into insurance without an insurance background
• Being one of the first adopters of insurtech
• What attracted you to insurtech in those early stages?
• What's next for insurance?

Thank you Caribou for your time, it was great to speak to you!

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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 VC

We 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!

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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!

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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, Tapoly
• Mark McDonald, Head of Strategy, Atlus LTD
• Matt Connolly, CEO, Sonr 
• David Fontain, CEO , Foresight 

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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 reality
• With 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/2040

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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!

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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 sources
• The massive market opportunity in computer vision
• What 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 process
• How do you think this industry will evolve in the next 3 to 5 years?
• What are other much-needed automations in this space?
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Thank you Robert for your time, it was great to speak to you!

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