Welcome to This Way Forward, the podcast where C-suite leaders unpack the bold strategic bets that changed everything.

In this episode, Charlie Newark-French sits down with Siddhartha Jha, Founder and CEO of Arbol, the company reinventing insurance by building financial infrastructure for climate risk. They explore the pivotal decision that led Arbol into the collapsing property insurance market just as most major players were exiting regions like Florida and Hawaii.

The bold strategic bet

While the industry was retreating, Sid saw an opening. Arbol acquired a property insurance carrier and rebuilt the model from the ground up. By combining AI, parametric insurance, and access to new sources of capital, they began writing policies where others wouldn’t.

That decision not only revived a struggling market but positioned Arbol as a leader in the future of climate resilience.

In this episode:

• Why Arbol stepped into a market others were abandoning
• How technology and data changed the economics of insurance
• The obstacles that nearly stopped the deal from going through
• What it takes to reinvent an entire insurance supply chain
• Lessons for leaders tackling high-risk, high-reward markets

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