Content from Susanne Sclafane
Disrupting Insurer Comfort Zones: Sompo GRS CEO Chang
When the leader of Sompo International's Global Risk Solutions business describes a key stop on his path to the C-suite, he mentions the possibility that race and age were a hurdle in passing. "Look, ...
Sharing Knowledge: How AF Group Exec Puts His Privilege to Work
There's a simple idea that has guided Abel Travis as he rose to his current executive leadership position at a property/casualty insurance carrier and gave a platform to more than 100 InsurTech ...
Be Purposeful. Be Bold. Be Human.
"I remember this same story 10 years ago." The LinkedIn comment on our first-quarter magazine cover story, "Google's Insurance Strategy Could Be a Game Changer," appeared soon after we published an ...
Breaking the Mold: Sompo GRS and Its CEO
The recipe for building a billion-dollar-premium commercial insurance operation from nothing in four years involves mixing a new model for doing business with a supportive and visionary executive ...
P/C InsurTech Funding Reaches $4.7B Record In 2020 (Story In Charts)
After a slow start in 2020, InsurTech funding reached a record level of $7.1 billion for the year, with $4.7 billion earmarked for property/casualty startups, according to a quarterly tracker of ...
Industry Underestimating COVID Biz Interruption Losses: RenRe CEO
During an upbeat earnings call focused on how RenaissanceRe is using $1 billion of capital it raised last year in 2021, the CEO highlighted one negative development for the industry ...
Racism in Insurance: How Things Can Change
Move out of your comfort zone. Embrace failure. The two ideas are ever-present in articles telling property/casualty insurance leaders what they need to do to create innovative cultures and build the ...
Potential Industry Disrupter: Insurance-as-a-Service
How do property/casualty insurers and brokers stack up against other industries in terms of innovation? In short, they aren't sprinting anywhere as fast as "innovation natives" in the high-tech and ...