Frank Sweeney
OnRisk Inc.
CEO
Frank Sweeney is the CEO and co-founder of the insurtech startup, OnRisk, which is developing a cloud-based risk structuring platform for high-value P&C risk. He was formerly a co-founder, COO and director of CATEX International. Before CATEX, Sweeney worked as a counsel to the governor of New Jersey; legislative counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives; and policy analyst with Science Applications International Corporation. He is an attorney, and he holds a JD from the Stanford Law School, and an MS from the Stanford Engineering School.
Ruben Levy
Coinscrap
Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer
Ruben Levy Benseft was appointed COO of coinScrap in October 2017. He is a natural business enabler. Over eight years he worked on a wide range of projects as senior credit risk analyst with market leaders such as BNP Paribas PF and PayPal. He worked as a business strategic underwriting analyst at Klarna and managed a $10 million risk portfolio, developing or improving credit risk models. His main achievement is the automation of the underwriting process. Levy Benseft holds a master’s in economic, financial and political risk management, and in banking and financial law.
Oscar Barba Seara
coinScrap
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
Oscar Barba Seara is a computer engineer and holds master’s degrees in e-commerce and computer engineering. He has more than 10 years of experience as project manager for large corporates such as Coren and Copasa and in the public sector (the County of Galicia in Spain). In addition, he possesses a Scrum Manager certificate and has experience as a researcher for the Independent Technology Center of Galicia. He is currently studying a PhD in data analytics in parallel with his involvement as an entrepreneur in coinScrap.
David Conde
coinScrap
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
David Conde started his journey with Txstockdata in 2015. In October 2016, Conde as managing director and his team launched Coinscrap, a fintech, disrupting the financial industry of millennials by making saving simple, entertaining and as easy as spending. Supported by a multidisciplinary team of talented professionals, he is dedicated to bringing innovative changes to the fintech industry. He studied business and administration at the University of Oberta de Cataluña and graduated as one of the first European financial planners in Spain. He also has an executive MBA certified by IESIDE and the Nebrija University.
Jochem Davids
InsureApp
Co-Owner & Chief Executive Officer
Jochem Davids is CEO of InsureApp, the world’s first lifestyle-based insurance platform. He is also director of RISK Ventures, an insurtech incubator and part of the RISK Group. He is also insurtech ambassador at Holland FinTech, a financial technologies and innovation hub that connects and supports interested parties.
Juan Cartagena
Traity
Founder & CEO
Juan Cartagena is founder and CEO at Traity. Previously, he worked in strategy in the telecoms industry. He holds an MBA with high honours from the University of Chicago Booth and MEng in telecoms engineering.
Torquil McLusky
Pulse Insurance
Managing Director
Torquil McLusky has spent more than 20 years working with the Lloyd’s insurance market including four years as Lloyd’s General Representative in France. His last role was head of European operations for a leading managing agent. In 2007 he became UK country manager for a major independent French broker before, in 2010, setting up his own broking business. He began working with Pulse Insurance in 2013 and took over as managing director at the end of 2016.
Mark Southern
Western Provident Association
Commercial Director
Mark Southern joined WPA 10 years ago, working in the individual side of the business, and is now responsible for the distribution of WPA products into the individual and small corporate health insurance markets. Before joining WPA he was a Royal Marine Commando, serving on operations across the globe.
Guy Leroy
Minalea
CEO
After five years as a civil engineer in various African and Middle Eastern countries, Guy Leroy worked for 15 years as a loss prevention engineering manager for a large commercial property insurance company. From 2000 to 2010 he participated in the creation of one of the first pan-European online non-life insurers. In 2010 he joined a large insurer to enhance its online business in several countries. He founded Minalea in 2015 to help insurers focus on the services and qualities of their offerings in the sales process.
David Schick
Aspen
Group COO
David Schick is the Group COO for Aspen Insurance Holdings based in London. Before this, he was executive vice president, group strategy and transformation and director of strategic operational excellence for Maybank, one of the largest banks in SE Asia. At Maybank, he was responsible for driving effectiveness and efficiency group-wide, including within the insurance business. Schick also worked with Raiffeisen Bank International where he led and built large-scale businesses and drove transformational efforts. He has also worked at organisations such as Citigroup and Mercer Consulting, driving transformation in over 40 countries worldwide.
Ingrid Woodward
Zurich
Head of Claims Excellence
Ingrid Woodward is head of claims excellence at Zurich Insurance and is currently the leader of claims transformation. She has operated in a variety of claims and operational leadership roles, having started out as a claims handler. She is a results-driven leader who has been fortunate to take on assignments that others have been reluctant to touch.
Emma Kirby-Kidd
Ageas
Process Automation Lead
Emma Kirby-Kidd has worked for Ageas UK for the last 20 years. During that time she has worked across a multitude of departments in various roles. Nine years ago she started working on process automation and more specifically robotic process automation (RPA) in the last four years. Ageas has seen massive benefits in operational areas through the use of RPA and other automation tools, this has been so successful the firm now has a dedicated business project team to automate as many business processes as possible.
David Clamp
Camelot RT
Founder & Chair
David Clamp established Merlin Digital Consulting in January 2017 to provide expert digital consulting for the financial services industry. He provides leadership, forward thinking and innovation based on his extensive experience in industry. His mission is to help clients flourish in the new digital era. Clamp has more than 25 years of experience delivering programmes in the banking, investment and insurance industries. He spent the last six years as the CIO of Hiscox Insurance Company where he led the digital transformation of the UK retail business from strategy through to delivery.
Karen Foreman
Merlin Digital Consulting Ltd
Senior Consultant
Karen Foreman is a senior claims professional with more than 25 years of experience creating solutions within the commercial and personal lines insurance industry. She has worked within a variety of operational leadership, project and change management roles and her innovative ways of thinking have led to market-wide recognition and multiple awards including being nominated for “Outstanding individual of the year” at the 2015 Claims Excellence Awards. She is passionate about helping businesses develop their staff, processes and systems to improve customer service and ultimately bring success to their business.
Mihaela Novic
Amodo
Marketing Manager
Gorjan Agačević provides strategic direction for product development and innovation management at Amodo. He is a digital expert with a 15-year track record in human-machine interaction, user experience and digital marketing. Agačević has worked as a developer of in-car entertainment and driver information systems for car manufacturers worldwide. He is a chief digital strategist for several international consumer brands, and a producer of the first broadband project in Croatia that won a UN World Summit Award. He is also one of the co-founders of Revolucija, a digital agency with clients from Canada to the Middle East.
Tim Attia
Slice Labs
CEO & Co-Founder
Tim Attia is the co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, a technology startup providing on-demand insurance for the on-demand economy. Slice Labs has recently partnered with Munich Re Partners to offer on-demand insurance products. Attia began his career with a large technology and management consulting firm, and has continued to work with major global insurance carriers on technology and distribution. He is excited to use his background in insurance and financial technology to apply intelligent design, data and technology to solving the gaps and risks facing the growing on-demand workforce. Attia holds an electrical engineering degree from McGill University, and has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance technology industry.
Ed Leon Klinger
Flock Ltd
Chief Executive Officer
Ed Leon Klinger studied his Master’s degree at Cambridge University, specialising in safety and regulation for autonomous drones. He previously undertook a Master’s in engineering science at Oxford University. He joined Flock as CEO in 2016.
Simon Gregson
Novae
Former CIO
Simon Gregson has 25 years of experience as a technical leader within the IT industry, the majority of that within financial services. Following a long career as a lead architect on IBM’s large customer engagements Gregson took on the role as CIO within a London Market underwriter two-and-a-half years ago. He has been following the evolution of machine learning and artificial intelligence for a few years and has developed some clear views on the impact, for good and evil, that it will have on the way we conduct business.
Dan Bishop
HIscox UK & Ireland
Head of Pricing
Dan Bishop is an insurance professional with 23 years of experience in a variety of pricing and analytical roles. He has been at Hiscox since 2013. He is responsible for its UK and Ireland retail pricing team, developing prices for Hiscox’s personal lines insurance products targeted at mid and high net worth consumers, and business insurance products aimed at small business entrepreneurs. Before that he was at Direct Line Group for 17 years where he did a variety of pricing-related roles with a brief spell leading their Solvency II technical effort.
Walid Al Saqqaf
Beazley
Blockchain Innovation Lead
Walid Al-Saqqaf is a contractor at Beazley as its in-house entrepreneur and blockchain evangelist. He is also founder of a dedicated podcast on blockchain in the insurance industry called Insureblocks. Previously he worked as a fintech consultant and has co-founded five startups.
Laurent Sabatie
Skyline Partners
Co-Founder
Skyline Partners is an insurance startup which aims to close the global protection gap. Using blockchain and leading real-time data analytics, Skyline Partners has designed a uniquely efficient operating model which offers tailored, innovative risk solutions, focusing on natural hazard and weather impacts for the world’s underinsured. Sabatié is a certified fellow of the French Institute of Actuaries. After being regional actuary at AXA and AIG in Europe and London and chief actuary of ProSight Specialty Lloyd’s managing agency, he has developed expertise in blockchain for the insurance industry. He is a certified IBM Blockchain Foundation developer.
Mike Downing
WPA
CTO
Mike Downing has worked in technology development and innovation at WPA for 18 years. His varied academic background includes a BSc in business computer science, an MSc in international financial management and an MBA. He has specialist interests in data science and AI. Prior to joining WPA, Downing worked across Europe in a wide range of industries and organisation. He strives to keep WPA at the leading edge of technology disruption, by implementing solutions that drive the business forward and deliver a competitive advantage. In 2017 his team won seven insurance industry awards for technology.