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.

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.

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.

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.

Theresa Blissing

Founder & Director

Asia InsurTech Podcast

Theresa is the Founder and Director of Accelerating Insurance, an innovation advisory and consulting firm operating across Southeast Asia. She is also behind the Asia InsurTech Podcast and InsurTech Mentors, a unique ecosystem of entrepreneurs, thought leaders and industry experts.

Prior to her current roles, Theresa worked for the German management consultancy Detecon as Asian Insurance Lead and spent 10 years with multinational insurer Generali both in Europe and Asia.

Theresa is a specialist in insurance industry innovation and disruption of industries. She is a regular speaker at conferences including Asia Insurance Review, Techsauce, Uniglobal and InsurTech Insight as well as a speaker and visiting lecturer at universities and business schools including the Singapore College of Insurance, Thammasat University, Bangkok School of Management and the Science and Technology Park, Chiang Mai University (STeP). 

Theresa is an industry innovator and at the leading edge of big data and analytics within insurance. She is responsible for some of the first academic research into the adoption of big data into the Southeast Asian insurance industry, and she continues to work to assist clients to connect with the marketplace and identify the potential of big data.

Carmen Casagranda

Global Chief Information Officer

Chubb Life

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.

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.

Harprem Doowa

CEO & Co-founder

Frank.co.th

Currently the Co-founder and MD of E-Direct Thailand. Before this he was the co-founder and MD of Moxy/Orami Thailand growing the company from inception to a valuation of $50 million after a Series A raise from investors such as Sinar Mas Group, Eduardo Saverin, Ardent Capital, and Velos Partners. Prior to Moxy/Orami, Harprem was in the financial sector working under the private equities and derivatives division of a local firm where he managed high net-worth individuals and a portfolio over 1 billion THB.

Varun Dua

Founder & CEO

Acko General Insurance

Varun Dua is the Founder and CEO of Acko, an insurance carrier in India that operates in the P&C space.  Prior to Acko, he co-founded Coverfox (a digital broking platform), and an insurance software services firm. He started his career with AIG as part of the early team that set-up AIG’s business in India.

Acko is India’s first digital only insurer to receive the regulator’s nod and is backed by investors such as Accel, Intact, Swiss Re and Amazon. Acko creates high frequency use case products around ride sharing, online travel booking etc. Acko operates on sharp pricing and digital distribution model for traditional products like auto insurance.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel is a Fellow and Board member of ANZIIF, and a member of the Advisory Committee of Insurtech Australia. He has a Masters from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of NSW.  He is a Fellow of FINSIA, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Chartered Accountant.

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.

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.

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.

Yady Guitana

Senior Vice President of Insurance & Partnership

Traveloka

Yady Guitana joined Traveloka in 2014, mainly focusing on all international expansion efforts across South East Asia. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Insurance and Global Partnership. He oversees and drives all operations, developments, and strategies for the insurance business and a few other financial products, as well as accountable for partnership development for Traveloka globally. Yady has a wealth of international experience having worked and studied around the world. Prior to
joining Traveloka, he was as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company; Financial Analyst at IBM; and Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corp. He holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Carnegie Mellon University.

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.

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.

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.

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

Ai Lin Khoo

Group CEO

Tune Protect

Natalia Kozyura

Head of Innovation Center

FWD Group

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.

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.

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. 

Seung Hyo (Ed) Lee

Chief Product Officer

Kakao Pay

Neil Liang

Chief Product Officer & 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.

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.

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.

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.

Nick Macey

Founder & CEO

Uncharted

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.

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.

Aly Madhavji

Managing Partner

Blockchain Founders Fund

Aly Madhavji 穆亚霖 is the Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund which invests in and venture builds top-tier start-ups and consults companies and governmental organizations on emerging technologies. He is a Limited Partner on Loyal VC. Aly is a Senior Blockchain Fellow at INSEAD and was recognized as a “Blockchain 100” Global Leader by Lattice80. He currently consults organizations on emerging technologies such as INSEAD and the UN on solutions to help alleviate poverty and advises InsurTech’s such as Jauntin. He is an internationally award-winning author and a mentor with Chinaccelerator, operated by SOSV with $500M+ AUM and the Mobile Only Accelerator.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joao Andre 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.

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.

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.

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.

Cleosent Randing

Founder & CEO

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)

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).

Grace Park

Co-founder & President

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.

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).

Bill Song

CEO

ZA Tech

Xing SUN

Head of AXA Next Lab Asia

AXA Next

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.

Nadia Suttikulpanich

Head of Fuchsia Innovation Center

Muang Thai Life

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.

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.

Julian Teicke

Founder & CEO

WeFox

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.

Shwetank Verma

Co-founder

Leo Capital

Shwetank is the co-founder of Leo Capital, an early stage VC firm investing in India and South East Asia. He leads their insurtech and digital health investments – portfolio companies include BeatO (Diabetes Management) , RIA (digital health insurance) amongst others. His other experiences include being an entrepreneur (founder – Mobile Health Solutions) and leading open innovation at MetLife Asia.

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.

Catriona Wallace, PhD

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.

Tiffine Wang

Partner

MS&AD Ventures

Tiffine Wang, Partner at MS&AD Ventures, an early stage global fund, invests in companies that focus on fintech, insurtech, AI, mobility and digital health. With a background in Psychology, she is most interested in companies the bridge the intersection of humans and technologies.  Previously, she spent 5 years with Singtel Innov8 (Silicon Valley), working on innovation and investments. She also held positions in various global accelerator programs including European Innovation Academy and Alchemist Accelerator. She graduated from University of California, Davis with degrees in Psychology & Sociology and serves as an Industry Fellow for the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

Dr. 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.

Raymond Wong

Head of Investment

HKSTP Ventures

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.

Val Yap

CEO & 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.

Zia Zaman

Chief Innovation Officer

Metlife Asia

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.