In this episode, we go on an unexpectedly fascinating journey — starting with coyotes and foxes, moving through African farming and UK wildlife, and ending in the heart of what this conversation is really about: insurance, reinsurance, and building modern core systems for carriers.
Stephanie Mier, Chief Insurance Officer for ServiceUp, talks about modernizing Direct Repair Programs (DRP) and in the insurance and auto repair industry and ServiceUP
Tiffine Wang and Gilad Shai talk about MS&AD Ventures, the state of venture investments in the #InsurTech sector.
In this episode, Jason D Cass, the Managing Partner of The Insurance Alliance, joined Gilad Shai to talk about the future of the independent insurance agency and Jason's new venture - IndieTech. IndieTech is a conference, AUGUST 29th-31st in Indiana Convention Center Indianapolis, dedicated to technology that empowers insurance agents.
Andrew Johnston joins me from his new abode in Nashville, TN, to discuss InsurTech, investment, and shearing alpacas. Andrew's background is enthralling. He "sold" his Ph.d. to the UN, farmed sea cucumbers in Indonesia, and established Willis Re's InsurTech group.
..when is it [investments in InsurTech] going to burst? The answer is—it's really hard to know because if the terminology or the definition keeps getting wider and wider, then everything that is anything in our industry is going to be captured as an InsurTech investment.
In this episode, Dan White, managing partner at NINETY, and I talked about Dan’s “insurance bets” for 2021. Dan talked about Micro Insurance; lessons learned from microinsurance that carriers can implement in “medium insurance,” Intangible assets insurance, and ESG rating. We skipped Black Swan Re but did manage to learn about the Alchemy Crew.
“40 years ago, 83% of their (S&P 500) balance sheet would have been tangible assets. Today, it’s only 12%. “ John Neal, CEO Lloyd’s
In this episode, Brian Anderson and Gilad Shai talk about investments in #InsurTech startups. We warmed up the conversation with Patagonia (VC) vest and then moved to hotter topics as SPAC, the shift of capital from public to the private sector, 2020, 2021, and Brian Dawkins.
SPAC is just another way of raising capital. I think you can take a thematic view of companies that can't go IPO maybe SPAC is the right way.
Jay and I talked about the state of the workforce that makes the insurance industry, the challenges the legacy companies face to recruit employees to technology roles, and the impact of the COVID pandemic on the future of office-culture and performance.
To succeed, once they're (new talent) brought into to your organization, we work to prevent an organ rejection...
