Welcome to episode 10 of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.  

In this episode, we are joined by Bob Frady of Hazard Hub  

Hazard Hub is a 3rd party data supplier that boasts the most comprehensive property data ever assembled for the insurance industry and works with the industry and helps them to better understand their risk   

Bob is a really interesting and engaging guy it was a pleasure to spend some time talking to him, we met through his involvement in Lloyd's lab. 

In this conversation we talk about:  

• Data quality and data skill within the insurance industry 
• The difficulty of obtaining and accessing the right data Data efficiency and using data to distribute labour  
• How ideas are free but that's the easy part 
• The importance of end-user feedback early on and the benefits of MVP 
• How VC money can be easier to get with an idea than actual revenue 
• The importance of sharing ideas and not being too protective 
• The slow sales cycle of the insurance market - you need the money or the stomach for the long haul 
• Use of data analysis after the fact - the lunacy of that process! 
• What the data says about rate rises - it isn't enough! 
• The social dilemma around tailored pricing - people can be priced out 
• The importance of asking the right questions   

This podcast was brought to you by FinPro an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Instech space   

Our host is FinPro Director, Alex Bond 

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Welcome to the latest edition of The Leadership in Insurance Podcast in this episode we were lucky enough to be joined by John McClelland of MiBroker  

MiBroker is an on-demand insurance product for the solopreneur market place utilising technology to buy insurance as you need it.   

In this conversation we talk cover a range of topics to include:  

Learning new skills outside of insurance led to opportunities within Insurance

• The rise in on-demand insurance
• Customer demand being the "right way" to build insurance businesses
• How consumer journey in any industry is viewed via personal buying experiences and how commercial experiences don't seem to catch up
• Why we won't see true disruption in insurance
• How innovation should bring in new business to the insurance market not simply carve profit from existing markets
• The short term view of insurers and how it can sometimes contradict the willingness to innovation 
• Value of Lloyd's Lab and collaboration with experts in digital insurance
• The start-up scene in Canada and virtual meeting burn out 
• The benefits of virtual meeting and the one to one environment - how it drives efficiency
• The informal nature of face to face meeting and how we lose opportunities in virtual rooms
• Businesses growing in the "new normal" by adapting and evolving their service   

Thanks once again to John for being part of the LiiP podcast and we look forward to watching his journey  

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast (The LiiP). 

In this episode, we were joined by the brilliant Michael Crawford 

Michael is the CEO and Co-Founder of Describe Data which uses AI and unique data sets to help insurance businesses make better sense of data and write more profitable portfolios.  

In this conversation we talk about: 

• The Lloyd’s Lab experience – how it evolved and how Describe Data might not now get in
• The importance of mentors
• How to productize an idea
• How feedback refines and defines the product
• The cultural shift in Insurance needed to adopt a product mindset
• How business mistakes become your real-world MBA
• Bootstrapping a good business lesson?
• Importance of speed in product development
• The gap in the market vs Market in the gap
• Smart money vs any money
• Timing of investment
• How you need to “give” as much as you take from your networking community
• Importance of having defined roles in the start-up team
• Healthy debate and its importance to C-founder relationships
• How Describe Data came out stronger from lockdown
• AI and its application to insurance
• Does Insurance need ML?
• Over expectation of technology from the incumbent industry
• Scaling technology solutions? Are the wins big enough?
• Is long term innovation possible in publicly traded businesses?
• Do we have the right leaders for innovation?
• Maturing ideas in Instech  

So we covered a LOT of ground. This was great fun to record, Michael is a great guy and a good guest. 

This is a fantastic podcast for people interested in tech/insurance and entrepreneurship.  

This podcast was brought to you by FinPro an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Instech space   

Our host is FinPro Director, Alex Bond 

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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast (The LiiP). 

This is a brilliant chat with David Hughes   https://www.linkedin.com/in/dapahughes/ 

David is CEO and Founder of Mulberry Risk which is an Analytics and Actuarial Consultancy to the MGA space  https://www.mulberryrisk.com/ 

David was very open and honest as a guest - even sharing us the secret of what he was hiding in the background of his recording!  

In this we talk about:  

• His professional rugby career - ditching this for life as a pensions actuary 
• Getting early inspiration from working with legendary Insurance entrepreneur John Charman 
• How simple it should be to keep people happy 
• How the alumni of some successful businesses have an oversized impact on the insurance business  
• Importance of stepping back to go forward  
• People as catalysts in your career 
• How important speed is to innovation 
• The appeal of the MGA market in its entrepreneurial 
• Risk of a rate rise to the MGA model 
• The reputation of the MGA in the mind of underwriters 
• Importance of making your capital fungible for a capacity provider 
• MGA vs MGU - American carrier relationships vs UK carrier relationships  
• Flexibility in MGA model thrived in a lockdown environment 
• What makes a successful Insurtech?  
• Simplicity the key to successful insurance solutions   
• How great businesses come out of the customer journey and customer focus 
• Is your niche big enough for the investment?   

And much more in between.  

This I a really interesting chat with an engaging founder with a great business concept.  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondf...  

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website  

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Hello and welcome to the Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Today I am lucky enough to be joined by Mike Minnett  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeminett/ 

Mike is founder and CEO of Portabl an Insurance solution for the gig economy workforce.  

https://www.portabl.co/ 

Mike is a serial entrepreneur and great fun. We met "stalking each other" on Linkedin  (Mikes words not mine). This is a far-reaching chat and in it we cover: 

• What is an ideas guy?
• Impact of Covid19 on the gig economy
• How the gig economy is much more than Uber and Deliveroo drivers
• Elevator pitches
• How the workforce dynamic has changed
• What you don't know about starting a business.....until you do
• The experience of growing and selling a start-up in the health and benefits space 
• The challenges of fitting a small, nimble startup into large corporate business
• How Mike could have been YouTube before YouTube and it still hurts that he isn't!
• Are we in a bubble behind ideas at the moment in Insurance?
• Who is right for a start-up? The people that take you the first 3 years are they the right people for the next 3 years?
• Building a team in a start-up
• The importance of start-up incubators for networking
• The importance of storytelling in recruitment
• Teams by design
• Direct value versus indirect value in networking
• Does Networking have a negative connotation?

And much more in between.  

This I a really interesting chat with an engaging founder with a great business concept.  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondf...  

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website

  https://www.wearefinpro.com/ 

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In today's episode of The Leadership in Insurance Podcast (The LiiP) I was lucky enough to be joined by Dr Marcus Schmalbach   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-marcus-schmalbach-02667746/ 

Marcus is the CEO and Founder of the Instech Ryskex. 

Ryskex is an exchange model that utilises blockchain technology to offer parametric cover for hard to place and complex risks.  

https://ryskex.com/ 

Marcus and I first engaged over some content online and have always had lively discussions about the Insurance market. 

Marcus is a great guest and didnt disappoint with some interest viewpoints and commentary on the insurance market today.  

In this episode we cover:

• Marcus's journey into insurance
• Salespeople as a feedback loop - their most important role
• The caution of solving problems that don't exist
• How the customer isn't always right
• Why go into academia?
• Where did Ryskex come from as an idea?
• How blockchain fits into insurance 
• Parametrics and blockchain
• Fizzy and what we can learn as a use case https://www.axa.com/en/magazine/axa-goes-blockchain-with-fizzy
• How to "tokenise risk" to share the risk of an exchange
• How to set Veritas and triggers for a parametric solution
• The law of large numbers and where insurance fails
• The Challenge of reputation risk and what it means to associated risks and cost
• How financial markets are often better placed to provide bespoke, large solutions
• Alternative solutions do not exclude insurance market
• How the Lloyd's market will inevitably change and why it needs to
• Why change will be dictated by leaders we don't even know yet
• How change is driven by customers and technology
• Simplicity is the solution 

And much more in between.  

This I a really interesting chat with an engaging founder with a great business concept.  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondf...  

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website 

 https://www.wearefinpro.com/ Look out for more episodes coming soon and please like and subscribe it really helps the channel out!

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast.   

This week I was lucky enough to be joined by Marco Del Carlo   https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcodelc...   

Marco is CEO and Founder of Capacity Place.   https://capacityplace.com/ 

Capacity place is a marketplace that brings together interested parties seeking capacity with businesses looking to provide capacity. It's a brilliantly simple solution to a problem that in my role as a headhunter I have personally experienced.   

This was a great conversation that covered a wide range of topics:  

• Marcos path into insurance from management consultancy
• The inefficiency of Lloyd's market and therefore opportunities ( I miss the suitcases)
• The evolution of the banking and hedge fund market and whats it means to the insurance market
• Algorithmic trading
• Setting up an MGA
• Choosing the right partners for starting a business and having clear objectives
• Setting the right criteria for growth
• Building networks
• Finding you are a salesman when you don't think you are
• Discovering "The Idea" and knowing when to commit to it full time
• The different objectives of carriers: distribution vs margin
• How simple ideas are the best
• Transparent market places and building robust, secure marketplaces 
• How to grow a  business with multiple customer segments
• Timing in an acquisition is everything 

And much more in between.  

This is a really interesting chat with an engaging founder with a great business concept.  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondf...  

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website  https://www.wearefinpro.com/ 

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Hello and welcome to The Leadership in Insurance Podcast. Affectionately know as the LiiP.  

This week we were lucky enough to be joined by Amit Patel  https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitpatel911/  

Amit is Founder and CEO of Hlthie  https://www.hlthie.com/  

Hlthie is an Insurtech operating in the Health Insurance segment offering a marketplace affordable solution to health insurance.  

I was lucky enough to come across Amit at an Instech London ( https://www.instech.london/) event when we could meet face to face and all such exciting things.  

In this Podcast we talk about:  

• Amit's unusual journey into insurance via qualifying as a Surgeon! 
• The transition in culture from medicine to management consulting 
• The reaction of friends and family to a career change
• Taking steps back to go forward
• Do you need "insurance" people to build a modern insurance business
• The challenge of financial security vs entrepreneurship
• The importance of confidence to start-up success
• Leading in the Tech space without being a "Techie"
• Domain knowledge vs Getting stuff done
• The inefficiency of late businesses
• Cost of health care as we all live longer, need for alternatives
• Bootstrapping and Investment
• The optimal time to take investment? Can you take too much investment? or take investment too early?
• Building a data and technology product - not an insurance product 
• Simplicity of service as a selling point
• Choosing the right accelerator for you  

And much more in between.  

This I a really interesting chat with an engaging founder with a great business concept.  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondf...  

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website  https://www.wearefinpro.com/  

Look out for more episodes coming soon.

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Welcome to the second episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast "The LiiP"  In this episode, I am very lucky to be joined by FJ Smith of Clearview with FJ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fjsmith1/ 

FJ has a long history with the Insurance market and was previously head of Recruitment for Lloyd's of London before retraining and making a career for herself as an Executive coach and latterly as an Empowerment coach (this was a new term to me too)  

FJ is someone I have known a very long time, she is funny, engaging and very direct which is a huge part of her appeal as a coach!  

In this episode, I wanted to tackle what an Executive coach is, what they do and who should have one?  We covered much more than that. 

We talked about:

• FJ's first-hand experience of getting a coach whilst at Lloyd's of London 
• What FJ felt she gained from having a coach that inspired her to retrain as a coach 
• How to find the right coach  
• The stigma attached to coaching 
• Why everyone should have a coach and how we should now view coaching as something just for senior executives 
• When is the right time to get a coach? (JFDI - you will learn about this acronym by watching) 
• The 5 Gremlins everyone has that coaches work on Graduate experience of insurance 
• Who is coaching for and who it isn't for 
• What makes a good recruitment process 
• The most common flaws in internal recruitment function 
• The importance of empowerment and much, much more.  

This was a great podcast and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm sure you will too.  

To find out more about FJ please contact her on Linkedin.  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondfinpro/

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website  https://www.wearefinpro.com/ Look out for more episodes coming soon.

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Hello and welcome to the Leadership in Insurance podcast, otherwise known as the Liip.   

On today's episode, we talk to Naby Mariyam, CEO and Founder of Coverhero.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabymariyam

Coverhero is an Australian based Insurtech platform that this year launched its first product, Hustle cover, aimed at the rapidly growing gig economy workforce   

https://www.hustlecover.com/ 

Naby was one of the first people I wanted on the show when I thought of the idea. 

A host of her own podcast #Hustlechat, she is an experienced and insightful guest - not your typical insurance professional.

https://www.hustlecover.com/events 

Naby was incredibly honest, open and direct in this podcast. 

We cover such topics as:

• Her unusual route into Insurance and entrepreneurship (Academia - Filmmaker - Entrepreneur -  Insurance?) 
• The challenges and opportunities of Innovation labs Pitching for funds 
• The true cost of entrepreneurship - money and family and the sacrifices required 
• Embracing serendipity to get moving 
• Building teams in startups 
• Effective communication 
• Being "Human" in business 
• Mental Health 
• What's next for Coverhero  

I really enjoyed this podcast. Naby was a great guest - I look forward to seeing what she achieves next!  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondfinpro

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website  https://www.wearefinpro.com/ 

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