At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the InsurTech space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Steven Mendel
Co-Founder and CEO of Bought By Many
Steven has over 25 years’ experience as an actuary in financial services which has included leading Close Brothers Wealth Management during the launch of their non-advised offering; creating the world’s first art-focused wealth advice offering for Christie’s; working as part of the team that formed Barclays Wealth and heading the McKinsey UK Savings and Investment Group. Steven now runs Bought By Many which is disrupting the world of insurance through the innovative use of search and social media. (www.boughtbymany.com). In April 2019 Steven was included in the London Business School Review of 30 People Who Are Changing The World.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
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David Lundgren
Chief Executive Officer of Quantemplate
Dave has a wealth of experience in building insurance and technology businesses. He began his career at General Electric, leading operations for lighting, medical systems and GE Capital. He then brought his operational expertise to the world of insurance, first as Chief Sourcing Officer for Allianz, where he ran global sourcing for technology, then leading the P&C and Life Companies at CUNA Mutual. Most recently Dave served as CEO of AgPro Exchange, an open technology platform enabling farmers and their business partners to capture data from a range of sources, then normalise and securely store it for a complete analytical overview of their operations, along with sharing via a marketplace. Dave also sits on the boards of several insurance and manufacturing companies. As CEO of Quantemplate, Dave shapes the business strategy, optimises its execution and develops talent within the company.
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About Quantemplate: Insurance data integration, automation & analytics
David Janczewski
Co-Founder and CEO of Coincover
David Janczewski, Head of Strategic Marketing, The Royal Mint The Royal Mint, the world’s leading export mint, and CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced a collaboration to transform the way that market participants can trade gold. The Royal Mint, a 1,000-year-old institution owned by HM Treasury, has partnered with CME Group to build and launch a digitised gold offering called Royal Mint Gold (RMG). RMG will change the way traders and investors trade, execute and settle gold. The innovative new product, launching in 2017, will see The Royal Mint issue RMG as a digital record of ownership for gold stored at its highly-secure on-site bullion vault storage facility. CME Group will develop, implement and operate the product’s digital trading platform. Taken together, this new service will provide an easier, cost-effective and cryptographically secure alternative to buying, holding and trading spot gold.
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About Coincover, Fullvision: A complete set of technologies to protect, secure and recover crypto assets, with an insurance-backed guarantee as a failsafe.
Richard Counsell
CEO of Stable
Richard is a former Barclays Bank Technology Entrepreneur of the Year with over 15 years experience in software and farming. Stable came to life after their founder (and farmer’s son), completed a Nuffield Scholarship on the ‘Simplification of Price Risk Management’. An experienced technology entrepreneur, Richard has led companies in Chicago, Melbourne and London and is a previous winner of the Barclay’s Bank Entrepreneur of the Year.
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About Stable: Stable is a risk management platform that helps businesses around the world manage their exposure to volatile commodity prices.
David Vanek
Co-Founder and CEO of Anorak
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About Anorak, Kamet: Anorak offers a smart independent insurance adviser that gives people access to tailored advice about their life and their risks.
Simon Pearson
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global Life of Scor
Simon Pearson, a British citizen, is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. After graduating in 1987 with an Honours degree in Economics from the University of York Simon started his actuarial career with a mid-sized UK mutual life insurer, NPI. Qualifying as an Actuary in 1992 Simon held a number of actuarial management positions covering pricing & product development, reserving, embedded value & financial reporting. Simon joined the UK life subsidiary of Gerling Global Re in 1999, becoming the Appointed Actuary in 2001. At the beginning of 2004 Simon became the CEO of the UK subsidiary of the newly established Revios. Upon the integration of Revios into SCOR he became a member of the SCOR Global Life senior management team at the end of 2006. In 2008 Simon was promoted to manage SGL’s Northern Europe region covering UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. In August 2011 Simon was appointed SGL Head of EMEAA covering Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In November 2014, he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global Life and CEO of SCOR Global Life Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA).
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About Scor: SCOR is a reinsurance company that provides financial solutions, analytics tools, and services to control and manage risk.
Andrew Yeoman
Co-Founder and CEO of Concirrus
Andy is the founding CEO of Concirrus and since then has led the company’s strategy to solve a problem in the insurance industry – how to harness the power of big data and artificial intelligence to improve loss ratios. Andy has driven the vision and product roadmap of the company built a solid customer base and reputation for the business. In 2019 Andy was voted the second most influential person Worldwide in Marine Insurance. Prior to Concirrus Andy had extensive experience in telematics, big data, and insurance in start-ups, turnarounds, and M&A. He’s passionate about discovering new business models that technology can unlock for the insurance market and their customers.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Ludwig Bull
CEO of CourtCorrect
As Elexirr’s Managing Director, Ludwig develops the software, oversees the team and builds the company’s strategy. He is fascinated by the way information flows – especially online – and how that changes what we think about. Born in Germany, he was raised in seven different countries and speaks six languages. Although the majority of his time is devoted to developing software tools to help professionals and ordinary people solve legal problems, in his spare time, Ludwig practices martial arts and competes in marathons.
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About CourtCorrect, Elexirr: CourtCorrect offers an AI-powered online legal system. We make it easy and affordable for people and companies to resolve legal disputes.
Louise Birritteri
CEO & Founder of Pikl
Louise Birritteri is the CEO and Founder of Pikl and also the Pricing Director of Heuristics Consulting Limited. Prior to joining Pikl, She was the Head of Pricing at The Co-operative Group and Sainsbury’s Bank. Louise received a bachelor science in Mathematics & Statistics and a master of science in Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery at the University of East Anglia.
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About Heuristics Consulting, Pikl: Pikl provides specialist Insurance for the Sharing Economy and “On Demand” Economy.
Laurence John
Founder & CEO of ctrlio
Founder at Ctrlio
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About ctrlio: ctrlio provides point of quote services to motor insurers
Tom Wood
CEO of Cazana
Tom hails from a business & innovation background having led technology teams within investment banking and pharmaceutical sectors and founded and sold companies in the marketing technology space. Tom has always had a passion for cars and considers himself very lucky to work on his hobby every day.
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About Car and Classic, Cazana: Cazana data helps motor retailers, insurers and lenders digitally transform with big data and machine learning technology
Anthony Beilin
Founder & CEO of Collective Benefits
Anthony is Founder & CEO at Collective Benefits where he is on a mission to solve the protection gap faced by over 6M self-employed in the UK. Previous to this he was Global Head of Innovation at Aviva and formerly Founder & COO at Unbound Innovations.
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About Collective Benefits: Insurance and benefits to make independent work, work for everyone.
Richard Chattock
Chief Executive Officer of Insurtech Gateway
Richard has 30 years insurance and reinsurance experience in London, Brussels and Bermuda. After serving as CEO for the Montpelier Syndicate, he has now turned his attention to the next generation of insurance businesses. With an extensive network and deep industry knowledge, Richard is able to guide our insurance newbies through uncharted territories.
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About Insurtech Gateway: The only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund, the Insurtech Gateway is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.
Andy Knott
Co-Founder and CEO of DeadHappy
Andy Knott is a co-founder at DeadHappy.
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About DeadHappy: DeadHappy is an insurtech company that provides digital pay-as-you-go life insurance services.
Nimeshh Patel
CEO of Wrisk
Former AOL COO with experience building and operating international businesses. Adept at assembling high performance teams. Strong passion for innovation and entrepreneurship with an affinity for product evangelism.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Tim Hardcastle
CEO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Tim is a highly experienced Board level CIO/COO in FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. His experience managing and leading technology-enabled business change and his determination to consistently exceed outcome expectations led him to lead the development of the entirely new business and service model that is INSTANDA.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Ed Leon Klinger
CEO of Flock Ltd.
Flock is a fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles. We provide personalised, seamless insurance products for commercial motor fleets, enabling and incentivising proactive risk management. We achieve this by leveraging connected vehicle & contextual data to quantify road risk on a per-second, per-meter basis, providing our customers with risk insights and highly personalised pricing that reflect their real risk profile. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. We’re on a mission to make the world a safer, smarter place. — I graduated from Oxford University (M.Eng – Engineering, Economics and Management) where I specialised in High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for brain cancer ablation. I graduated from Cambridge University (M.Phil – Technology Policy, Judge Business School), where I published papers for various academic think-tanks on the opportunities and risks of autonomous vehicles. I have past experience in Private Equity (The Blackstone Group), Technology Policy (Facebook Inc.), and have lived and worked in Asia, lecturing at Zhejiang University in China and at Hong Kong University.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Bola Adegbulu
Co-Founder and CEO of Predina Tech
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About Predina Tech: Building the Location Risk Intelligence platform for the future of Auto Insurance and Mobility
Luca Schnettler
Founder and CEO of Qumata
Luca Schnettler is the Founder and CEO at Qumata.
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About Qumata: HealthyHealth is now Qumata. We are building a new Standard for Life and Health Insurance Underwriting.
Henri Winand
Co-Founder and CEO of AkinovA
Shorter bio: Entrepreneur, insurtech/fintech, new energy, angel investors Dr Henri Winand Co-founder & CEO AkinovA Short biography • Grew technology firm globally from 40 people to USD 1bn IPO • USD 200m+ capital raised • Intelligent Energy, CEO • Rolls-Royce plc, Vice President New Ventures (M&A) • PhD Materals Science (Cantab), MBA Full biography I am a growth and change oriented CEO with a passion for scaling up a broad set of technologies globally using different business models and team-based delivery. I now serve as CEO for AKINOVA Ltd. AKINOVA is an insurance technology company I co-founded with a specialist ILS (insurance linked securities and related insurance products) London based City fund manager. Prior to this, I served as CEO of a British tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Intelligent Energy, a $1bn tech IPO) with in excess of $250m raised from a broad range of sources, leading to strong top line growth, largely from internationally-based customers. I served on several Boards in the UK, Singapore, India, Japan and the US in the energy, software services, film contents publishing and automotive sectors. I also served on the Board of an EU funded €1bn+ public private tech partnership (PPP). I served on several advisory bodies to Ministers, Secretaries of State and Officials in the new energy, automotive and materials science sectors in the UK as well as on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School and of the University of Cambridge. I have more than a dozen patents granted and pending. I have several papers published in well-known, peer reviewed, scientific journals, topics including composite materials, neutron diffraction and processes to improve industrial product development cycles. I am regularly invited to speak at international conferences and spoke in the US Senate and French Sénat. I provide advice to selected major global institutional, venture capital and private equity funds. In addition to meeting several Heads of State including that of France, India and the UK over the last few years, I have made several appearances on live and recorded TV and Radio programmes (e.g. Live CNBC TV, Live Bloomberg TV, Live BBC Radio 4 “The Today Programme”, recorded BBC and other programmes, provided thought leadership and quoted articles in broadsheets, e-newspapers and The Huffington Post). I am married to Anne and we have one child, Alexander.
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Jonathan Pope
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder of Corax
Former army Captain and Sandhurst graduate, Jonathan is an insurance industry thought leader and speaker, and has acted as a board level cyber risk advisor.
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About Corax: Cyber risk intelligence platform providing data and modelling on the cyber exposure of millions of companies worldwide.
Dylan Bourguignon
CEO of SO-SURE
Dylan Bourguignon Investor turned entrepreneur, Dylan was in strategy consulting and private equity before he left his job to rethink insurance for the consumers’ benefit. Frustrated by the insurance sector’s focus on profits rather than consumer needs, Dylan launched so-sure to disrupt the stagnant insurance industry. so-sure’s model provides its customers better and up to 80% cheaper insurance. Dylan has an MBA from Harvard, MEng from Bristol and a Diplome d’Ingenieur from ENSAM (France).
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About SO-SURE: SO-SURE provides insurance that delivers consumers with faster claims and also money back services.
Cameron Shearer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superscript
Cameron Shearer is the CEO and Co-Founder at Superscript.
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About Superscript: Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses.
Mark Musson
Founder & CEO of Humn.ai
Mark Musson is the Co-Founder and CEO at HUMN.ai.
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About Humn.ai: Humn.ai develops an insurance platform that delivers risk-adjusted insurance pricing in real time for commercial vehicle fleets.
James Blackham
Founder & CEO of By Miles
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About By Miles: By Miles is reinventing car insurance – pay an annual cost to cover your car while it’s parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month.
Paweł Sieczkiewicz
Co Founder & CEO of Telemedi
Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, experienced project manager (web/mobile apps), php programmer. Founder of an SSF software house. 2x champion of Poland in kickboxing.
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About Telemedi: Trusted partner in digital healthcare
Mark Nathan
CEO & Founder of Zipari
Mark is focused on making health insurance easier for consumers to understand and maintain. He’s worked in health insurance for the last twelve years of his 20 year career, and prior to Zipari was responsible for launching the cloud-based health insurance platform that became the Zipari platform. At Guardian Life, Mark was responsible for leading a $110M Customer Experience program modernizing Guardian’s health and dental insurance platforms. At Apple and NeXT, Mark led enterprise professional services sales for the Northeast Region. He completed his Electrical and Computer Engineering BS and MS studies at University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also worked for NASA’s Center for Space Construction
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About Zipari: Zipari is a company developing a customer experience platform designed specifically for health insurance.
James Buckley-Thorp
CEO – Co-Founder of Bequest
James Buckley-Thorp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bequest.
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About Bequest: We’re building an advanced way for millions of people to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Richard Hartley
Co-founder & CEO of Cytora
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
Niels Thone
Chief Executive Officer of Sprout.ai
Insurtech Entrepreneur
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About Sprout.ai: Sprout.ai, the advanced claims automation solution, harnessing the power of Contextual AI to revolutionise the insurance experience
Tobias Taupitz
Co-founder and CEO of Laka
Tobi is the CEO & Co-founder of Laka, straightforward insurance powered by the community. Prior to this, he has spent several years in Corporate Finance, covering FinTech & Insurance clients at Barclays and KPMG.
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About Laka: Laka is building the leading Green Mobility insurer globally
Chris Hutchinson
Chief Executive Officer of Canopy
Christopher Hutchinson is the Chief Executive Officer at Canopy.
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About Canopy: Canopy is a financial health startup helping Renters build credit, save money, improve rental affordability and achieve financial freedom.
Flemming Bengtsen
CEO of Nimbla
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About Nimbla: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Goncalo de Vasconcelos
Founder and CEO of Rnwl
A serial entrepreneur himself, Gonçalo is only too aware of the long path leading to a successful funding round. In September 2011 Gonçalo graduated with an MBA from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge where he was awarded the ‘Best Dissertation’ prize and the Benavitch Scholarship for academic and professional achievements. His past experience has shown him that often entrepreneurs have to spend too much time chasing investors instead of focusing on the most important part of their business: their customers. He has a vision of how to help great entrepreneurs to fulfil their dreams and that vision is called “SyndicateRoom”. He is passionate about giving the crowd access to the top deals into which experienced business angels are investing their own money. This is what drives his vision for SyndicateRoom. Gonçalo is also a contributor for Forbes, writing regularly about equity crowdfunding, business angel investment and venture capital investment and speaks regularly at public events about the same themes. In his spare time Gonçalo cycles long distances to raise money for charities (his last ride was from Cambridge to Paris), plays tennis and, when in warmer climates, sails with his wife whenever there is half a chance.
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About Fund Twenty8, Rnwl: Rnwl is an over-the-top insurance platform making insurance simple for consumers. Insurtech.
Malcolm Glaister
CEO and Founder of SiriusInsight.AI
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About SiriusInsight.AI: Real-Time Intelligence: Sea, Land, Cyber
Eva Berg-Winters
Founder & CEO of Bewica
Eva Berg-Winters has a background in insurance and management consulting with a focus on digital. Until summer 2017, she was Head of UK&I Claims with a leading insurer. She has since founded Bewica to help SMEs manage cyber risks.
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About Bewica: Bewica makes cybersecurity beautifully simple for small organisations with our award-winning SaaS platform
Majed Chaaraoui
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Insurami
Majed Chaaraoui and Arnor K. Davidsson founded Insurami in 2018, since which Majed has been serving as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Entrepreneur First, Insurami: Insurami offers a deposit guarantee platform for commercial real estate
Cristiano Pizzocheri
Co-Founder and CEO of SafeShare
Cristiano has more than 12 years experience in the Insurance Industry and particularly in the London Market, placing a multitude of products in Lloyd’s and Company Markets. He has been instrumental in developing Special Risks Insurance Brokers and is an advisory consultant to leading insurance players for expansion into new markets. He has expertise in both Direct and Reinsurance business. With Z/Yen he co-founded Insenter, an innovative insurance platform and community network. He holds a Masters in Economic Science from Switzerland and has worked in Italy, Switzerland, USA and the UK.
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About SafeShare: SafeShare is an insurance business for the sharing economy industry.
Jimmy Williams
Co-founder & CEO of Urban Jungle
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About Urban Jungle: Urban Jungle provides an insurance technology to help young people get cheaper, better home insurance.
Lawrence Shaw
CEO of AAAtraq
Entrepreneur focused on developing scalable automation and processes to improve content quality and ensure full legal compliance.
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About AAAtraq: InsureTech SaaS (Risk Control System)
Nektarios Liolios
Co-Founder and CEO of Startupbootcamp InsurTech London
Co-founder & Managing Director of Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading innovation program in the financial industry, providing funding, mentorship, office space in the heart of London and access to a global network of investors and VCs, for up to 10 selected FinTech startups. More than 15 years in the business, they last three with Innotribe, SWIFT’s initiative to enable collaborative innovation and running the Innotribe Startup Challenge. Driven by entrepreneurship, collaboration and the desire to transform the financial industry. Global nomad, travel geek, sneaker freaker.
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About Startupbootcamp FinTech Singapore, Startupbootcamp InsurTech London: Startupbootcamp InsurTech is the leading accelerator focused on insurance innovation.
Simon Phelan
Co-Founder and CEO of Hometree
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About Hometree: Hometree exists to make home ownership simple & sustainable
Janthana Kaenprakhamroy
CEO of Tapoly on demand insurance
Through her own experience of trying to purchase the right insurance easily and affordably when letting out her spare room through Airbnb, it highlighted the need for change within the insurance sector. Nothing appeared to be tailored to the sharing economy. Tapoly was created from Janthana’s vision to make sure that everyone in the sharing economy can get access to a comprehensive insurance solution at a fair price.
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About Tapoly on demand insurance: On demand insurance for freelancers, contractors and SMEs, and everyone else in the sharing economy and the gig economy.
David Power
Cofounder & CEO of Insurwave
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About Insurwave: Insurwave is a platform for the entire insurance ecosystem, serving multinational companies with complex insurance needs.
John Warburton
Co-Founder & CEO of Konsileo
Founder at Konsileo, a tech startup in insurance broking.
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About Insurtech UK, Konsileo: Konsileo is a commercial insurance broker using technology to empower individuals and replace hierarchical management.
Josh Graham
CEO of EHAB
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About EHAB: Our weather intelligence platform helps construction companies identify, avoid, mitgate and transfer weather risk.
Ben Grech
Chief Executive Officer of Reposit
Ben Grech is a Co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman at Uniplaces. He is also the CEO of Reposit.
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About Reposit, Uniplaces: The tenancy deposit alternative. A new way of renting without the hassle of a deposit
Adam Rimmer
Co-founder & CEO of FloodFlash
Adam Rimmer is the Co-founderand CEO at FloodFlash.
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About FloodFlash: FloodFlash is an insurance technology company that provides parametric flood insurance to the mass market.
Renaud Million
Chief Executive Officer of Spixii
Renaud Million has worked in the insurance industry since 2010 and co-founded Spixii in 2016. Prior to Spixii, Renaud was working as an actuarial consultant for EY in London advising large insurance companies. It gave him a unique understanding of insurance processes and the friction to solve for the end customer. Renaud holds a master in Operational Research & Management Sciences at Lancaster University and a master in engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Renaud was named Young actuarial professional of the year 2017 by Insurance ERM.
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About Spixii: Accelerate digitalisation of insurance processes with Spixii Conversational Process Automation (CPA) platform
Megan Bingham-Walker
Co-founder & CEO of Anansi
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About Anansi: Zero-admin insurance for e-commerce businesses
Dan Saulter
Group CEO of Davies Group
Dan joined Davies in 2013 having spent five years at Towergate Insurance in various senior leadership roles including as Divisional CEO, and Group M&A Director. A Chartered Accountant, Dan trained with KPMG in London, working in the firm’s consulting and M&A businesses before moving to advisory firm Pannell Kerr Forster (now BDO) as a Director in their M&A practice. Prior to this Dan worked internationally with Shell Group.
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About Davies Group: Davies Group is a provider of insurance claims service for insurers, reinsurers, and brokers.
Ashutosh Natraj
CEO & CoFounder of Vidrona
Oxford University Researcher turned entrepreneur with 9 years of experience in academia and industry across the world such as IBM Research. Ash holds a PhD in Robotics and Computer Vision for UAVs(Distinction), Erasmus Mundus (ViBOT) scholar with 3 Masters in Robotics and Computer Vision.
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About Vidrona, Vine Rangers: Vidrona is a British AI Based Predictive Prescriptive Analytics Company for the Utilities. It helps utilities to increase RoI.
Ranvir Saggu
CEO of Blocksure
Ranvir Saggu has always had a strong focus on how technology can improve insurance and believes the new wave of technology will bring customers and insurer closer together. It will deliver more appropriate products for customers and improved profitability across the insurance value chain. At Fosun Insurance Group, he was head of the European insurance practice with a focus on Insurtech investments. He has closely watched the current developments in technology and sees this driving a period of major change for the industry with blockchain at the centre of it. He has extensive experience across most areas of insurance (composite and direct insurers, MGAs, brokers and claims TPAs) having held senior executive roles at businesses such as Towergate, KPMG Consulting, Direct Line Group, AXA, Aviva.
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About Blocksure: Blocksure transforms the intermediated insurance industry, delivering benefits across the whole value chain with blockchain based platform
Paul Williams
Chief Executive Officer of Ripe Thinking
Paul Williams is the chief executive officer at Ripe Thinking. Prior to joining Ripe Thinking, Paul served as the managing director at Thistle Insurance Services.
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About Ripe Thinking: Ripe Thinking is a provider of niche insurance in the United Kingdom.
Adam Bishop
CEO of SchemeServe
Adam will try to convince you he invented Software-as-a-Service. He’s been running web based software companies since 15 when still at grammar school and over the years in between migrating (Oxford >> Cambridge >> Italy) has programmed most things: real-time Forex and futures trading systems, 3D games, medical software, music production apps… He passes his (precious) spare time penning classical music, trading Bitcoin and reading Wikipedia. He wants SchemeServe to be perfect.
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About CityTech, SchemeServe: SchemeServe is a cloud based insurance software, including simple scheme management, online billing and beautiful MI reports.
Adam Phillips
CEO of Hipla
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About Hipla: Hipla is the smarter way to buy and sell property.
Matthew Clark
CEO of TCP LifeSystems
Matthew has worked in IT for the Life and Pensions insurance industry for forty years, the first fifteen of which were at a London based Insurance company. During his time there in IT Matthew became an internal consultant to the business and managed the implementation of several strategic enterprise projects including the first computerisation and automation of 300 branch offices servicing over 3,500 agents. In 1989, recognising the potential opportunities created by increased regulation and the acceptance of personal computer networks, Matthew founded TCP LifeSystems. As CEO, Matthew has been responsible for strategy and the financial management of TCP, as well as having a personal involvement with TCP’s clients and overseeing the development and direction of TCP’s product suite.
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About TCP LifeSystems: TCP LifeSystems is a specialist in insurance software systems.
Paul Templar
CEO of VIPR
Paul Templar have been at VIPR for over eight years overseeing the development team, which involves steering the direction of products, launching new products and delivering training and demonstrations to clients. There is nothing better than a happy client, which his team strive to maintain. He is father of three, a gadget junkie and is always on the lookout for the latest technology.
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About : VIPR is an award-winning provider of sophisticated software solutions for the insurance market.
Mark Varley
CEO of Addresscloud
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About Addresscloud: Addresscloud provides software services to locate and describe addresses with rooftop level accuracy using high quality data