Reinventing Finance Nikolaus Sühr and Tom van der Lubbe

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, ⁠Tom van der Lubbe⁠ and Nikolaus Sühr had the pleasure of talking with Raymond Zenkich, Co-Founder & President of Crypto Asset Insurer Evertas.



Raymond has a background in insurance and technology development, which initially led him to the first vision of starting Evertas, a crypto asset insurance company. As in every emerging industry and with every new technology – insurance is needed, so Evertas started developing suitable products for the crypto industry covering a wide range of risks, damages or losses associated with crypto trading and blockchain technology.



In the conversation with Nick and Tom, Raymond shares insights about:


The idea and the business model behind Evertas
Different risks, market understanding and how Evertas provides solutions for risk management
Whether Evertas is an InsurTech or identifying as a Crypto-related company
Evertas' Team and Key Competencies and unique skillsets around crypto-related and risk-related topics
Go-to-market-Strategy and the strategic decision to collaborate with wholesale brokers
How the competition landscape in the Crypto-Insurance space looks like and Evertas' USP
Current growth goals for 2024
Anecdotes from the crypto industry
Why it still needs more education for the mainstream market to understand the risks and potentials associated with the technology fully
Evertas' expansion to Europe

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In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr had the pleasure of talking with Saed Khawaldeh, CEO&Co-Founder of DESAISIV - a MENA-based InsurTech platform operating from Riyadh Saudi Arabia, helping corporates optimising their employees health insurance policies.

The middle eastern start-up is originally a spin-off from Oxford University, where Saed acquired a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has recently successfully raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round.

In the conversation with Nick and Tom, Saed shares insights about:


The journey of DESAISIV and why it is important to pivot business models sometimes.
The fast growth and milestones of DESAISIV so far.
What DESAISIV does exactly and how AI enables their platform.
Corporates' struggle in the Middle East when it comes to understanding all aspects of complex employees health policy schemes.
How they collaborate with brokers and corporates and the role of DESAISIV.
How the platform works and features.
The role of AI in their business model.
Market potential and plans for the future.

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In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast, Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, had the pleasure of talking with Frederik Wulff, the CEO of Markel Insurance SE (European carrier within the Markel Group) in charge of the European business. In the podcast episode, he shares with Nick and Tom insights about: 

📍His professional background, founding his first company and how he joined Markel

📍Why company culture ("the Markel way of doing things”) and continuous learning are important for success 

📍Product Lines and why Markel is active in 

📍What differentiates Markel from competition 

📍Product lines and what developments and changes he sees in the future 

📍Why market education and timing are important when offering specific insurance products 

📍How market-oriented product-line development works at Markel 

📍What carbon insurance and the insurance of virtual assets have in common 

📍Why the InsurTech space is still very interesting for Frederik to observe at the moment

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast by Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, we had the pleasure of talking with Dr David Stachon Former COO and Advisor to the CEO of Wefox.

In the Podcast David shares and discusses the following insights with Nick and Tom:

📌 His professional background and his journey within the insurance industry

📌 Significant milestones in his career and from the company's that are still relevant today

📌 His time at both, established insurers and digital attackers/startups, and key learnings that you advise insurance board members to take note of

📌 What is currently just hype in insurance and what is essential

📌 The role of technology, tech building and tech investments in insurance

📌 Key barriers for internationally operating insurers

📌 Where the value is created within insurance

Check out the podcast episode with David to find out more!

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In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast by Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, we had the pleasure of talking with the investor, Max Chee Head of Aquiline Technology Growth, and the investee, Chris Slater Founder & CEO at Oka, The Carbon Insurance Company.

In the Podcast Chris and Max share insights about:

📌Their professional background
📌Challenges around the Quality and Legitimacy of the existing carbon market
📌What Problems OKA is solving and the secret sauce behind
📌What “retiring” refers to in terms of carbon emissions and carbon credits
📌What potential Max sees in the carbon insurance market\
📌Biggest challenges concerning new tendencies, ESG regulations, etc.
📌Who are the market participants?
📌How big is the potential of insurance?
📌How OKA works and what it exactly insures
📌Risks that apply when insuring carbon (reversal risk and methodology)
📌The role of reinsurers
📌The role of culture in reluctancy to get involved in the carbon market
📌Go-to-market and product
📌Advice they would give to an insurance CEO (large carriers) to aboard the topic

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Tim Quayle is the CEO of One Advent based in London UK, a specialist MGA services platform that helps MGA businesses launch and grow by providing an infrastructure and regulatory environment to enable that.

In this episode of the Reinventing Finance Podcast by Tom van der Lubbe and Nikolaus Sühr, he shares insights about:

📌His role and what his work at an MGA services platform looks like
📌Who his clients are and reasons why they collaborate with One Advent
📌Services he provides for MGAs and how their business relationship shifts over time
📌What alternatives are out there and how the One Advent service offering compares against those
📌His biggest learnings as a CEO in the MGA service business
📌 Where he sees the biggest opportunities for the MGA market in general and OneAdvent in particular

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#MGA #insurance #insuranceindustry #regulations #UK