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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 Health Insurance 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.
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.
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.
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.
Tim Berry
Co-Founder & CEO of Inzurer
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About Inzurer: Insurance advisory and sales with AI Chat Bot, automatic underwriting and pricing, and data analysis
Mark Gorski
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc.
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About Sports Data Labs, Inc.: Unlock the Value of Human Data®
Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein
Founder & co-CEO of My Online Therapy
Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein is the Founder and co-CEO at My Online Therapy.
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About My Online Therapy: MyOnlineTherapy, a mobile mental health company, is the first of its kind virtual psychology clinic.
