Amerson Lin
Co-Founder
Gigacover
Amerson graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 with a BSc and MEng in Computer Science. As a Singapore government scholar, he returned to Singapore to serve as an airborne surveillance officer with the Air Force. He left in 2011 for Silicon Valley where he first worked as a consultant in Pivotal, which helped scale early-stage startups like Twitter. He then moved to Palantir Technologies to run business development for data analytics contracts across banking, government and media MNC customers in Singapore and New York. Upon returning to Singapore in 2016, Amerson co-founded Gigacover to bring flexible financial group benefits to the emerging workforces in Southeast Asia.
Amit Ghosh
Head of Asia Pacific
R3
Amit is the Head of Asia Pacific for R3, an enterprise software firm leveraging blockchain technology to fundamentally transform businesses in a wide array of industries. He is responsible for the company’s business performance in the Asia Pacific region.
Angus McDonald
CEO & Co-Founder
Cover Genius
Angus McDonald is the Co-Founder, and CEO of Cover Genius, one of the fastest-growing insurtechs globally. Cover Genius has received dozens of awards within insurance and tech circles for its patent-pending platform and global capability that ensures user-centricity throughout the entire customer journey, an approach that has led to global partnerships with, amongst others, Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG).
Prior to starting Cover Genius, Angus was in the executive team of several high growth technology companies, including iClick Interactive (NASDAQ: ICLK) and Yahoo, building world-class partnership teams. Angus has a Bachelor of Science majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Technology Sydney.
Catriona Wallace
Founder & Executive Director
FlamingoAI
Based between the US and Australia, Dr Catriona Wallace is the Founder & Executive Director of Artificial Intelligence company Flamingo Ai, provider of Machine Learning technologies. Flamingo Ai is the second only woman led business ever to list on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Catriona has been recognised as the Most Influential Woman in Business & Entrepreneurship (AFR) and as one of the country’s most eminent scientists by the Royal Institution of Australia. Catriona, an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW, is also a philanthropist, human rights activist and mother of five.
Charles Bark
Founder & CEO
HiNounou
Charles Bark is a successful serial entrepreneur. He is now founder & CEO of HiNounou, an AI Predictive Healthcare & InsurTech Data Platform company that empowers the silver generation to Live Longer, Healthier, Happier, at home, and brings greater Peace of Mind to their families. HiNounou is awarded the Best digital health start-up by Bayer, and Best InsurTech by DIA (Digital Insurance Agenda) Munich. Charles himself is named by French President Macron as one of the top 3 French entrepreneurs in AI in China.
Christian Macht
Chairman
ELEMENT Insurance AG
Christian Macht is Chairman of ELEMENT Insurance AG. Prior to joining ELEMENT, he held
several top positions in the digital industry. He acted as CSO Europe at the technology
company Rakuten, Supervisory Board Member of the Rakuten Europe Bank, and beforehand
as the COO Central Europe for Groupon and at Boston Consulting Group as project leader for
several years. Christian Macht has a degree in Economics and Sinology from University
Tübingen and a doctoral degree in law.
Dan Woods
Founder & CEO
Socotra
Dan Woods is the founder and CEO of Socotra, the first modern, cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers. Before Socotra, Dan did IT investing and portfolio management for Formation 8 Partners (now 8VC), where he specialized in data platforms and smart enterprise software. Prior to that, Dan’s depth of enterprise experience was honed over six years with Palantir. There, Dan was an early member of the core engineering team and later transitioned to run Palantir’s partnerships, plus several deployments. Dan holds a master’s of science in computer science from Stanford University, where he was published in artificial intelligence (ISMB ‘Best Paper’ 2006). Dan’s mission today is modernizing insurance technology by applying approaches and technologies proven in other data-intensive industries.
Daniel Fogarty
CEO & Co-Founder
Evari
Daniel is the co-founder and CEO of Evari (www.evari.tech), an innovative SaaS solution for insurers and MGA’s to easily design, launch and distribute brilliant insurance products that are easy to buy, easy to manage and flexible to changing needs. Daniel is passionate about making sure everyone has the right insurance through a customer-centric digital experience and Evari is poised to solve this problem globally for insurers and MGA’s and customers alike.
As the former CEO of Zurich General Insurance, Australia & New Zealand, Daniel has a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of insurance and knows first hand the challenges of the industry and the ever-changing needs of customers.
David McFarland
Founder & CEO
Coterie
David is Founder and CEO of Coterie, a US-based insurtech startup providing commercial insurance as a service. Coterie uses industry-leading tech, deep insurance expertise, and product innovation to embed insurance into their partners’ existing products. Coterie currently works with a variety of freelance, banking, and SaaS businesses to make commercial insurance seamless.
Immediately prior to founding Coterie, David was Chief Actuary and Head of Insurance Product & Pricing at Clearcover, a personal auto insurtech startup in Chicago. David is a Fellow in the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
Edmas Neo
CEO
Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE)
Edmas Neo is the CEO of Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the founder of a private early-stage investor and venture growth accelerator, Accrete Innovation.
At ACE, Edmas champions initiatives that contribute to the Singapore Startups and Innovation Ecosystem development, promotes and drives the integrated support for entrepreneurship in Singapore. Under his leadership, ACE has launched the ACE International Centre and has expanded its footprints to Bangkok and China. He has also led in the setup of ACE Connected Startup Ecosystem that has rallied the support of partners from over 16 cities, creating a network of more than 25,000 startups.
Gautam Chopra
Co-Founder & CEO
BeatO
Gautam Chopra is Co-founder & CEO of BeatO. He has an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship from ISB and has over eight years of global experience in marketing, sales, aviation, telecom, and consulting sectors. A strategic thinker and perfectly skilled at navigating complex situations, he is a dynamic and charismatic leader who is always full of new ideas.
Gregor Wiest
Head of Innovation and Digital Transformation
ERGO
As Head of Innovation & Digital Transformation, Dr. Gregor Wiest is leading the global innovation activities of ERGO. In this role, he is responsible for innovation strategy & projects, scouting activities and corporate venturing. Further, he is a promoter of new ways of working and facilitates teams within the organization to manage the change. Gregor has a background in management consulting, entrepreneurship and corporate innovation.
Gustaf Agartson
Founder & CEO
BIMA
Gustaf is the Founder and CEO of BIMA, the leading provider of mobile-delivered insurance and healthcare in emerging markets. BIMA operates across 11 countries across Africa and Asia and has reached more than 30 million subscribers in just 9 years. Gustaf has driven the company’s growth from a small pilot scheme in Ghana to one of the world’s leading insurtech players. He has continuously developed BIMA’s product portfolio in order to leverage technology and provide value to the customers. As a result, BIMA is now offering services beyond traditional insurance including health services such as access to tele and video doctor’s consultation. Gustaf previously worked in management roles Tele2 and has a Masters from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Harshet Lunani
Founder
Qoala
Qoala is an Insurtech company on a mission to revolutionize insurance through a combination of underwriting risk for high frequency events in daily lives and photo-based claims assisted by machine learning.
Founded by Oxford University and UCL graduates Harshet Lunani and Tommy Martin, the team comprises individuals from diverse industry backgrounds through their experiences at BCG, Traveloka, AXA, BIMA, Tokopedia, AXA, Line, Accenture and Mandiri among others.
Jake Sloan
Industry Leader - Insurance
Appian
Jake Sloan is the Global Industry Leader Insurance for Appian. Jake brings extensive experience to Appian as a change leader driving strategy and business transformation in the Insurance industry.
Jake is a licensed Agent and has held senior Operations roles with Farmers Insurance, including front-line Insurance/licensed field operations. He most recently served as CIO of Aon National Flood Services. Jake holds an MBA from Baker University and is alumni of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP 190).
Karim Hirji
Senior-Vice President & Managing Director
Intact Ventures
KARIM HIRJI is Senior-Vice President & Managing Director at Intact Ventures, the $250M corporate venture capital fund for Intact Financial Corporation, Canada’s largest home, auto and business insurer. Since the inception of the fund in early 2016, Karim has led investments in 14 companies worldwide including Metromile in the United States, Acko in India and Minuto Seguros in Brazil as well as developing strategic partnerships with Uber and Turo in Canada. As part of his mandate, Karim has recently relocated to Hong Kong to get closer to companies in Asia as well as opening up Intact’s first international AI lab.
Kazy Hata
CEO & Founder
justInCase
Kazy has over 15 years of insurance-related service experience. After working at American actuarial consulting firm Milliman, Kazy has worked at global investment banks, including JPMorgan and Nomura, where he provided risk management and product development services to insurers. Solutions he was engaged included derivative, reinsurance, product development and M&A advisory for insurers in Japan. Kazy has founded justInCase in 2016.
Role: Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries Japan, Associate of Society of Actuaries. Wine Expert. Commissioner of Fintech Association of Japan.
Mark Wales
CEO & Co-Founder
Galileo Platforms
Mark is the CEO and Co-Founder of Galileo Platforms, an InsurTech company focused on Asia. He has over 30 years’ experience in Information Technology in the financial services industry, substantially in Life Insurance, Wealth Management, Funds Management and Investment Banking. Mark has held senior executive positions in leading banks, insurance companies and consulting organisations. He has a strong track record in IT strategy and architecture and a reputation for working with businesses to create transformational IT projects that deliver real business value and results.
Matthias de Ferrieres
CEO
Wellnex & My-Insurer
In Asia-Pacific since 2000, Matthias de Ferrieres, spent 15 years within AXA. Regional CMO, he leaves the firm in 2014 to found & lead a series of successful Start-ups that aims at delivering disruptive, customer-centric yet easy to operate digital insurance based solutions. After Stark Group & My-insurer, he launches Wellnex (www.wellnex-singapore.com) to provide access to affordable Healthcare and Fitness Services to all Singaporean.
Economist with a legal background (Chicago University, Sydney University), he has over 19 years of insurance experience in Asia. He is also actuary by training and currently a PhD scholar.
Michael Lovegrove
Co-Founder & CEO
JRNY
As co-founder and CEO Michael has led JRNY from conception through three investment rounds, and managed a successful pivot to an insurance specific solution just 12 months ago. JRNY has blast onto the insurtech scene and is now a key member of the insurtech community in Asia/Pacific.
Under Michael’s leadership, JRNY has been named in the top 2 startups in Asia Pacific, is an InsurTech100 company and was identified by Deloitte as “One to Watch” at the Fast 50 Rising Star awards.
Personally, Michael is passionate about the importance of insurance in people’s lives and as part of societal resilience.
Monirul Hoque
Planning Manager, Microinsurance
BRAC
Monirul Hoque has been working in microinsurance since 2015. He has developed expertise in
overall business development, including product & process, training, M&E, and digitization from his several national-scale projects management. He also developed the first-ever index-based pre-approved flood loan in BRAC in 2014.
Prior to joining BRAC in 2013, Mr. Hoque worked in Grameenphone customer service for 4 years and in Aga Khan Foundation for 1 year. Mr. Hoque completed post-graduation in Marketing and in Education from the University of Dhaka, and highly passionate to develop people’s behavior toward financial resilience.
Nick Macey
Founder & CEO
Founder & CEO
Nick Macey is a Canadian entrepreneur, a sales leader and the founder and CEO of Uncharted, the emerging global leader of insurance distribution technology. Prior to founding Uncharted in 2017, Nick led sales for a Fintech startup in Singapore and has worked as an investment analyst for a Private Equity fund based in Vancouver. Nick, his wife and two young children split their time between their homes in Singapore and Vancouver.
Nicko Widjaja
CEO
BRI Ventures
Nicko Widjaja is the CEO of BRI Ventures, a venture arm of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BBRI), the country’s largest bank by assets.
An early tech investment pioneer, he has a career spanning over 15 years in venture capital, corporate transformation, and startup ecosystem. He was formerly the CEO of MDI Ventures, a Telkom Indonesia backed venture capital, with investment in over 10 countries. Under his leadership, MDI Ventures became one of the most profitable venture capital firms in the region with two international IPOs (ASX and TSE) and four trade exits in just four years since inception.
Prior to MDI Ventures, he launched one of the first Indonesia venture funds in 2010 called Systec Ventures. He joined Telkom Indonesia’s Indigo Creative Nation as Managing Director before he co-wrote the investment thesis for MDI Ventures in 2014. He also works closely with various state-owned, advising on digital transformation initiatives across different sectors and industries.
He is also an adjunct professor at UPH Business School since 2010, where he is involved in the design of entrepreneurship and venture capital curriculum.
Throughout his career, he’s invested in more than 100 startups globally, including insurtech companies such as CXA Group based in Singapore and Qoala based in Indonesia.
Nicolas Michellod
Head of Insurance, APAC & EMEA
Celent
Nicolas’ research concentrates on continental European insurance markets with a specific focus on continental Europe and insurance systems including life policy administration, customer communication management, predictive analytics and data technology providers.
Since joining Celent, Nicolas has advised multiple insurance companies and vendors on IT and business strategies including strategic IT programme alignment, partnership evaluation, conceptualization of cross-country system implementations, and IT vendor selection and strategy.
Nicolas has been often quoted in specialized insurance and IT magazines including Insurance Networking News, Insurance & Technology, and PropertyCasualty360 (a National Underwriter website) and also in international newspapers’ websites such as The New York Times, The Guardian, CBS News and Tages Anzeiger.
Nik Muhammad Amin
Founder & CEO
Moovby
Nik loves cars, the consumer web, and the environment, and Moovby brings all three of his passions into perfect harmony. Before he founded Moovby, the peer-to-peer car sharing platform, in 2016, Nik was a Software Engineer of MyTeksi (currently known as Grab), the first SEA ‘decacorn’ tech company. He also was a software engineer at Dahmakan and GoGet.my, where he was responsible for product management, design, and research. He is very passionate about mobility, transportation and sustainability development.
Nikhil Kapur
Partner
STRIVE
Nikhil Kapur is a Partner at STRIVE and has led more than a dozen investments in the region. Two-time SaaS entrepreneur and developer by training, he leads the fund’s activities across South Asia. After building a profitable media-tech venture in India, he completed his MBA in Finance from NUS Business School. A Computer Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, he previously developed the first version of Excel for mobile while at Microsoft, deploying to over 10M users. He was listed as Forbes 30-Under-30 in Asia and also runs a popular VC blog: grayscale.vc
Paul McNamara
Editor
Asia Insurance Review
Paul McNamara is editor of Asia Insurance Review. He is also a journalist and author with a specialisation in wholesale financial markets including: Insurance, reinsurance, Islamic finance, investment banking, project finance, trade finance, wealth management, private equity, hedge funds and alternative investments, the Middle East banking and finance industry, GCC capital markets and the world of interest rate securities.
Peter Ohnemus
President & CEO
dacadoo
Peter Ohnemus founded the dacadoo Health Score/dacadoo ag, Zurich/Switzerland in 2010. The patented dacadoo Health Score & AI-based Lifestyle Navigation Platform is being licensed to keyLife & Health Insurance companies (Payers) and global healthcare operators (Providers). Peter has been involved in high-tech and bio-tech investments over the last 25 years and this had led to four IPO’s and multiple trade sells. Peter was CEO & co-founded ASSET4 in 2004 with Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch as investors. ASSET4 was sold to Thomson Reuters, New York in November 2009.
Peter Ohnemus previously held senior executive positions with Sybase, Logic Works, The Fantastic Corporation and COS – all of which went public during his tenure. Peter Ohnemus was Entrepreneur of theYear (EoY) for Switzerland by EY. Peter is a frequent speaker and has spoken at World Economic Forum (WEF), Fortune Brainstorm Health, Google Tech Talks, McKinsey’s Life Leaders CEO Forum, The Royal Society of Medicine, Stanford LIGHT Conference, CommunicAsia, Mobile World Congress, European Health Forum by the EU, Economist Global Healthcare Forum, Mobile Health Summit DC, European Tech Tour, Red Herring, WWW/Digital Disease Detection, etc. Peter occasionally teaches digital innovation & entrepreneurship at Universities such as ETH, HSG
– Switzerland, Bocconi – India.
Rita Yates
CEO
Insurtech Australia
Rita has been the CEO of Insurtech Australia since April 2019 with the mission of helping Australia become a world leading Insurtech ecosystem, having previously been on the founding leadership team and Advisory Committee.
Prior to this role, Rita worked for three years as the Head of Corporate Partnerships and Insurtech Lead for Stone & Chalk, Asia-Pacific’s largest Fintech hub.
In that role Rita worked with over 25 large corporate partners in the financial services space, with the goal of bridging the gap between the startup ecosystem and corporate Australia, whilst promoting growth and commercialisation for the fintech and insurtech startup community.
Rita has years of experience spanning insurance and financial services as well as health and not-for profit industries. She also sits on advisory committees for CEBIT, Antler Australia and AILA Techhub.
Rohan Kumar
CEO & Co-Founder
Toffee Insurance
Rohan Kumar is the CEO and Co-founder of Toffee Insurance. He launched Toffee Insurance in 2017 to democratize the insurance buying experience thereby, making insurance affordable, accessible and relevant for the uninsured masses. An entrepreneur & product marketer with 18 years of hands on ‘Market Entry & Commercial Strategy’ experience across Mobile, Tech & Consumer Products. He has helped multiple companies like Shell, Haines, PlayUp & Gamestop ideate and create products which have turned in 5X returns. His leadership experience spans a range of growth-stage and fortune 500 companies across the APAC region. He loves products and brands that are honest, inspirational and are re-defining the rules of the game. A global citizen, he holds a Master’s degree in Marketing and a BBA in International Business. Outside of work, he loves to motorcycle and spend time with his two daughters.
Simon O’Dell
CEO
Insurtech Gateway Australia
Simon is the Managing Director of Insurtech Gateway Australia, the first global outpost from the Insurtech Gateway established in London. Gateway is a one-stop shop for insurtech founders, providing regulatory permissions, underwriting paper, investment capital and advice on designing and building their startup. Prior to this, Simon co-founded Australia’s not-for-profit insurtech member association, Insurtech Australia, connecting key stakeholders together to participate in what is now a thriving insurtech ecosystem. Simon has previously founded his own startup, completed an MBA and has 10 years insurance domain experience.
Snehal Patel
CEO & Co-Founder
MyDoc
Dr. Patel moved to Singapore from the US in 2008 to found and lead the healthcare team at
the Chandler Corporation, a multi-billion dollar investment fund. Prior to practising law at
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP in New York, Dr. Patel received an MD and a JD from
Columbia University and served as a Clinical Fellow at the Harvard Medical School.
Steve Glaveski
CEO
Collective Campus
Steve Glaveski is the founder and CEO of Collective Campus, and his mission is to unlock the latent potential of people to create impact in the world and lead more fulfilling lives.
He co-founded children’s entrepreneurship program, Lemonade Stand, is the author of several bookjs, including Wiley book Employee to Entrepreneur: How To Earn Your Freedom and Do Work That Matters, is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and hosts the award-winning Future Squared podcast.
He previously worked for the likes of EY, KPMG, Westpac and Macquarie Bank.
Steve Tunstall
CEO & Co-Founder
Inzsure
Steve is currently CEO of Inzsure which aspires to provide affordable, appropriate insurance for every company. He has over thirty years of experience in owning, running and future-proofing companies.
He has been CEO, Managing Director or equivalent in eight companies in four countries and based in Asia for over 20 years. He has deep domain knowledge in Insurtech, Fintech, commercial insurance, compliance, risk and crisis management.
A contributing author to The InsurtechBook, author of “RISK and the Asian CEO”. Recognised as a worldwide influencer in insurtech, fintech and blockchain with a social media network of over 100,000 followers.
Toni Moyes
COO
Montoux
Toni Moyes is the COO at Montoux, bringing her extensive experience in the role to expertly build the infrastructure and culture that keeps Montoux a high-performing team as we scale rapidly. Toni is an expert in scaling technology companies to reach their maximum potential and has a decade of experience in growth, governance, operational strategy, and investor relations in tech companies as well as in government. She is passionate about supporting women in business leadership through peer mentoring and is also an experienced and accomplished speaker, advisor, panelist and writer.
Vincent Lau
Co-Founder & CEO
Maria Health
Maria Health operates as the first licensed health insurance aggregator in the Philippines, addressing the $7B under-insurance gap. Maria Health solves the gap by connecting consumers with HMOs and insurers online through the Maria platform. To date, Maria Health has served over 1M visitors, insured over +17,000 members and growing 3x year over year. Before setting up Maria Health, Vincent gained diverse experience from consulting for Fortune 500 companies @ Accenture to product roles at an adtech startup funded by Jim Clark (founder of Netscape) for the largest agencies and brands.
Walter de Oude
CEO & Founder
Singlife
Like all entrepreneurs, Walter de Oude started with a strong belief – The potential of money can be unlocked for everyone, and that existing financial services were not doing a great job at it so far. As the founder and CEO of Singapore Life, he has achieved what many thought to be an almost impossible task – starting a life insurance company from scratch. This is a role for which he is very well suited – and actuary and former multinational insurer CEO. Singlife has grown from strength to strength with a fast growing capital base, continuing innovation and strong customer support. Walter has lived in Singapore predominantly since 2000, and considers Singapore to be his long term home.
Wei Zhu
Founder & CEO
Axinan
Wei Zhu is the CEO and Founder of Axinan, a Singapore-based full-stack insurtech firm that enables smart, digital insurance for the Internet economy. He has amassed decades of experience in founding and growing technology companies and products globally, and have held leadership roles at conglomerates such as Grab, Facebook and Microsoft.
Wei Zhu was one of the first 100 engineers of Facebook and spent six years in San Francisco, where he launched Facebook Connect – a single sign-on feature used by hundreds of millions of people on the web to log in to third-party sites using their Facebook identity. Before that, Wei spent eight years at Microsoft, where he rose up the ranks to eventually becoming Principal Development Lead at the tech giant – leading the design and development of Live Desktop, the web platform and application of Live Mesh, as well as in the SharePoint Server within Microsoft Office.
Prior to founding Axinan, Wei was at Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing company Grab’s first CTO in 2014. He was charged with the development and execution of new technologies, in addition to planning for risk and growth – where he was instrumental to help scale the company and build innovative products.
Wei holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.
Wilson Beh
Co-founder & COO
PolicyStreet
Wilson Beh is a Co-Founder of PolicyStreet, a full-stack InsurTech company which enables an efficient distribution and product customization catering to different protection needs of businesses and individuals. The firm is a Financial Adviser approved by the Central Bank of Malaysia. He is also a Founding Member of the FinTech Association of Malaysia and currently serves as the Partnership Director of the association. Prior venturing into entrepreneurship, he worked in a leading regional investment bank and was recognised by Forbes Asia as 30 under 30 honouree in the Finance and Venture Capital category.
Yamini Bhat
Co-founder
Vymo
Yamini Bhat is recognized as a thought leader in driving sales transformation for enterprises. She Co-founded Vymo, an AI-enabled Personal Assistant for Sales in 2013, that has since been deployed at AXA, Allianz, Sumitomo, HDFC Bank, and Generali, among others. Vymo is funded by Emergence Capital and Sequoia Capital, and is recognized by Gartner and CB Insights for innovation in ‘Prescriptive Sales’.
Previously, Yamini worked at McKinsey as an Engagement Manager, where she specialized in Marketing Strategy and Sales & Distribution across Banking, Credit, and Insurance.
Zaryl Tan
Country Director - Malaysia
Laka
Zaryl is the Country Director for Laka Malaysia. Laka is a London-based insurtech startup that challenges the conventional insurance model by only earning fees when it settles claims. No upfront premiums are paid by the consumer.
Zaryl has worked in Kuala Lumpur, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. She is fluent in English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien. Her international experience helped her facilitate a Hong Kong based energy company’s entry into Malaysia. She also has more than 15 years’ insurance industry experience including; managing business partner relationships at Prudential Malaysia and founding a highly profitable Chartered Financial Planning Consultancy.
Alan Lau
CEO
WeSure
Mr. Lau is currently CEO of WeSure, Tencent’s Internet insurance platform. He started working with financial institutions, tech firms and internet companies in the 1990s, in his previous role as Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co., and later as Asia Head of McKinsey Digital. He started working with Tencent in the early 2010s, and brought together offline and digital capabilities to create new businesses. He joined WeSure in 2016. Mr. Lau graduated from Oxford University with a Master degree in Engineering, Economics and Management.
Sean Ringsted
Chief Digital Officer
Chubb
Sean Ringsted is Chief Digital Officer at Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company and the largest commercial insurer in the U.S.
Mr. Ringsted leads Chubb’s digital efforts aimed at transforming the company into a digitally integrated organization. The initiatives involve all areas that produce and support Chubb’s business into a digital environment, including underwriting, sales and service functions that touch policyholders, prospective customers, distribution and internal operations and technology.
Mr. Ringsted has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry and is often quoted in news publications as an industry expert. In addition to his role as Chief Digital Officer, Mr. Ringsted has served as the company’s Chief Risk Officer since 2008, prior to ACE’s acquisition of Chubb in 2016. Mr. Ringsted was named Executive Vice President, ACE Group, in March 2014.
Mr. Ringsted holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Bristol University and a Doctorate in Biochemistry from Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA).
Neil Liang
Chief Product Officer and Co-founder
The CareVoice
Neil Liang is Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at CareVoice, a Shanghai-based health InsurTech company. At CareVoice, he leads the product and service ecosystem strategy, and has worked with leading health insurers in China to transform the membership experience using the CareVoice digital solution. With deep roots in the Silicon Valley tech culture, Neil has 20 years of experience in technology product management and innovation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in the United States.
Cleosent Randing
Founder
Pasarpolis
Founder & CEO of PasarPolis, where our mission is to democratize insurance for all by redefining insurance through technology. PasarPolis is Indonesia’s leading insurance technology company jointly invested by three Indonesian unicorns Go-jek, Tokopedia and Traveloka. In 2018, Cleosent was awarded Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of The Year for Technology & Digital. Cleosent graduated with Honors Bachelor of Business in 2010 from the Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada)
Michael Gourlay
Chairman
QBE Asia
Michael worked in executive positions in the insurance industry with Aviva and MSIG for over 40 years, mostly in Asia, with intervening periods in London, Bermuda and New Zealand.
He is currently Non Executive Chairman of QBE Asia and acts as an independent director and advisor to insurers and insurtech companies on innovation through digitalisation, business performance improvement and mergers and acquisitions.
Natalia Kozyura
Head of Innovation Center
FWD
Natalia is leading FWD’s Regional Innovation Center to develop new products and features powered by emerging advances in tech such as AI, Blockchain and IoT.
Innovation and Product Management Leader with 15 years of experience in driving product development and strategic partnerships across US, Asia, and Europe at large tech firms like Microsoft and Amazon, and startups. Passionate about enhancing customers lives by defining product strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and building innovative products.
Joao Neiva
Head of Innovation (APAC)
Zurich Asia Pacific
Joao Neiva, is the Head of Innovation for Zurich Asia Pacific, driving initiatives across six ecosystems – Mobility, Travel, Health & Wellness, Future of Life, Smart Homes and Cyber. Joao has been with Zurich for over 13 years, having worked in 6 different countries. He has held a number of senior roles in Finance, Strategy, Operations and Innovation at Local, Regional and Group level.
Joao is a Doctoral Student at City University of Hong Kong College of Business, focusing his research in Fintech adoption by Financial Service incumbents and Corporate Venture Capital strategies. Joao holds a Master of Science in International Management from ISCTE Business School and a Master in Economics from the University of Oporto.
Yannick Even
Global Analytics Business Partner
Swiss Re
As a Global Analytics Business Partner, Yannick is coordinating the global advanced analytics strategy and project portfolio for the Swiss Re Institute & IptiQ business units.
He is as well the APAC coordinator of the Group Data Strategy and oversees the delivery of the AI and data projects across APAC through the 2 chapters of data scientists delivering AI based solutions, research, partnerships and thought leadership.
Yannick joined Swiss Re in Dec. 2016 as the first InsurTech Solutions Head. Prior to that he was in the Digital and Innovation practice of KPMG China Advisory for 4 years. Yannick has over 15 years of experience delivering analytics and tech-enabled solutions worldwide and has been based in Hong Kong since 2010.
He is an alumni of the Indian School of Business and Polytech Montpellier France.
Alvin Kwock
Founder
OneDegree
Alvin Kwock is the Co-founder of OneDegree. OneDegree is one of the few digital insurer candidates in Hong Kong that embraces digital process end-to-end. It also crosses over with leading global partners in insurance and health in piloting new technology and experience. Alvin is a member of United Nations ESCAP’s Banking and Finance Task Force. Alvin was JPM’s Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research. Alvin holds a MA degree in Social Science and a BA degree in Economics, both from the University of Chicago.
Xing Sun
Head of AXA Next Lab Asia
AXA
Xing is the Head of AXA Next Lab Asia, an innovation hub dedicated to connect AXA to the Asia tech ecosystems and breed new business models through strategic partnerships with tech players and start-ups at global scale. Prior joining AXA Next Lab Asia, she has 10-year accumulative experience in insurance, investment and start-ups across Australia and UK. She helped insurers and banks with capital management, asset liability management and risk management in the early years of career, and gravitated towards advising on building internal data analytic capability and defining digital customer journey. Along the way she builds a passion and appreciation about technology and co-created a UK-based digital health platform to match fertility patients with the desirable clinics and treatments. A firm advocate for idea and cultural exchange, she co-chaired the 2016 China Business Forum and assumed a role of co-president of China Club at London Business School to bridge the dialogue on innovation and entrepreneurship between UK and China. Xing holds an M.B.A from London Business School and a BA in Actuarial Science from University of Melbourne.
Varun Dua
CEO & Founder
ACKO
Varun Dua is the Founder and CEO of ACKO , an independent general insurance company with its entire operations offered through the digital platform. Previously co-founder and CEO of Coverfox Insurance, Varun has extensive and diverse experience in the insurance industry spanning over 13+ years. He has led marketing analytics efforts for direct business acquisition and led technology efforts for efficient servicing of customers.
His aim with ACKO is to deliver traditional products in a much better manner, improving every step of the insurance lifecycle for the consumer, and to provide innovative new age insurance products which help improve the customer’s day to day life as well. The digital-only platform has been designed to encourage people to buy insurance that would specifically address their requirements. His vision for the future is to have the most convenient approach to insurance, across products which are effortlessly accessible and conveniently positioned for all customers.
Peter Tay
Chief Digital Officer
NTUC Income
As Chief Digital Officer, Peter oversees Income’s Digital Transformation Office to accelerate the organisation’s digital strategy. Spearheading strategic initiatives on digitization and innovation while driving a new way of working within Income, Peter is instrumental in establishing Income as a leading digital insurer in Singapore. In the Applied Innovation Institute Singapore Insurance Innovation and Digital Benchmark, which ranked the innovation and digitization efforts of 25 insurers in Singapore, Income was ranked overall first.
In his 11 years with Income, Peter has also led the Corporate Office, Branch Services, Contact Centre, and the Life and Health Operations division that includes functions such as new business, underwriting, claims and policy services. As a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with extensive experience in diverse industries such as manufacturing, telecommunication, hospitality & tourism, Peter has been the champion for Process Excellence.
Peter holds a Master of Science in Total Quality Management & Business Excellence from Sheffield Hallam University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the National University of Singapore. He completed the Advanced Management Programme at Insead Business School, Fontainebleau, in 2015.
Tiffine Wang
Partner
MS&AD Ventures
Tiffine Wang is a Partner at MS&AD Ventures, an early stage venture fund backed by Mitsui Sumitomo & Aioi Nissay Dowa. She’s passionate about investing in big market bets that positively impacts humanity.
Sectors/Verticals include: Data Driven Fintech/Financial Inclusion, InsurTech, AI, Impact, Digital Health, Enterprise/Security and technologies that augment human abilities to push beyond human limits. Tiffine was voted as one of the Top 10 Emerging Leaders in Corporate Venture Capital by GCV in 2021.
She previously spent 5 years with Singtel Group, working on investments and strategic partnerships, bridging new technologies from North America to South East Asia and Australia. She held positions in various global accelerator programs including AngelHack, European Innovation Academy (Portugal, Qatar, Italy, France, China) and Alchemist Accelerator.
Prior to moving into tech/venture, she worked in economic & workforce development, supporting individuals to transition into new careers and opportunities. She serves as an Industry Fellow for the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) at the University of California, Berkeley and sits on the Advisory Board of UC Santa Cruz's Center for Analytical Finance.
Val Yap
Founder
PolicyPal
Val Ji-hsuan Yap is the Founder and CEO of PolicyPal Group. Prior to PolicyPal, Val Yap worked as the Assistant Vice President at OCBC Bank, where she headed a wide range of digital initiatives, working closely with wealth and marketing to drive innovations. Val also served as Risk Assurance Associate at PwC in London. Former sales broker at Allianz, Val feels passionately about making insurance protection simple and accessible to everyone. Val who was recently named to Forbes “30 Under 30” list for Finance and Venture Capital and is a post-graduate with MSc Business Management at Imperial College London and BA Digital Media at University of the Arts London.
Ryan Collins
Managing Director
MassMutual Ventures
Ryan is a Managing Director at MassMutual Ventures (MMV), a global venture capital firm investing in early to growth stage technology companies. Prior to joining MMV, Ryan was Head of Asia at LOFT, a corporate incubator building digital business ventures and developing emerging technologies. Before LOFT, Ryan was Managing Director, Asia-Pacific at Essentia Analytics, a data analytics SaaS platform helping investors to mitigate behavioural bias. Formerly an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, Ryan has advised on and executed multiple capital markets transactions across Asia-Pacific. Ryan holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Psychology.
Tom Duncan
Head of Insurance
Grab
Tom is the Head of Insurance at Grab, where he oversees the strategic direction and development of the insurance offering in Grab Financial Group. He and the team are on a mission to help address the insurance gap in Southeast Asia, by using technology and data to design innovative digital solutions.
Prior to joining Grab, Tom was part of the early team at Chubb Digital, where he was Head of Digital Partnerships APAC. In this role, he built strategic partnerships with technology companies and financial institutions across Asia. Tom has over 15 years experience in financial services including at ANZ and Barclays in Australasia and Singapore. He has also been part of several startups including as Head of Partnerships for an insurtech-focused digital consultancy and as COO of an early stage HR tech startup.
Tom has a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Finance from the University of Otago in New Zealand and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Ankit Agrawal
CEO & Co-founder
InsuranceDekho
Ankit Agrawal is the Co-Founder and CEO of InsuranceDekho, India's fastest growing insurance platform aimed at selling insurance in a jargon free manner to Bharat. Ankit has over 10 years of experience across investment banking, corporate finance, business development and general management. Prior to InsuranceDekho, Ankit was a part of MoveinSync, India's largest office commute company. Prior to MoveInSync, Ankit was an investment banker advising companies on raising growth capital, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring. He worked with UBS in the US and Anand Rathi Advisors in Mumbai. When not working, Ankit loves spending time with young entrepreneurs advising them on various facets of entrepreneurship. Ankit is also an angel investor having invested in multiple companies at a seed / angel level.
Harprem Doowa
Chief Disruption Officer & Head of Insuretech Exchange - Thailand
Bolttech
Prem is the CEO and co-founder of Frank.co.th, which is now part of the bolttech group and will be rebranded in December 2020. He oversees all of our insurtech exchange operations in Thailand.
Prem’s e-commerce background saw him starting his first online business in 2013, selling pet and baby products online under the company Moxy/Orami, which he later sold to Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas. He is passionate about the digitisation of goods and services and has a strong operational skillset and advocacy for a customer-first approach.
Grace Park
President & Co-founder
DocDoc
Grace is the Co-Founder and President of DocDoc, the world’s first patient intelligence company. She brings with her more than 19 years of leadership experience, nearly 13 of which were spent in international healthcare in Fortune 500 companies. Prior to DocDoc, Grace held leadership positions at Medtronic, most recently as the Managing Director for its ASEAN operations, leading the company to expand its footprint for medical technology in these markets. Grace began her career as an Army officer after graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point and served for five years, leaving as a Captain. Grace holds degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Arijit Chakraborty
Managing Director - Asia
Cover Genius
Arijit Chakraborty is Managing Director of Asia for Cover Genius, a leading global insurtech ranked by the Financial Times as #1 on their list of fastest growing companies in APAC. Cover Genius protects millions of customers from the world’s largest online companies, including Booking Holdings, eBay, ShipStation, Shopee, AXS & more. In his role, Arijit is responsible for spearheading the insurtech’s insurance and commercial partnerships and leading the regional teams in Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea and Japan.
Prior to Cover Genius, Arijit held senior leadership roles with leading global insurers including Manulife and Zurich. He is actively involved in the start-up ecosystem and for the past few years has been advising and building the region's most well-known insurtech businesses. Arijit holds a Master of Laws from the National University of Singapore.