The Insurtech Leadership Podcast
Business:Entrepreneurship
Bhavan Suri is Managing Director at William Blair, an advisory services firm that helps companies including insurtechs to secure growth liquidity and financing. Its team of technology bankers has deep ties to the insurtech sector with more than $20 billion in capital raised across 50 M&A and capital markets transactions.
Bhavan worked for several tech companies including Elytics and Answerthink and has developed a deep understanding for the industry forces shaping the tech market. He now focuses on advising technology companies that operate in the Insurtech space. Some of the companies he advised include Guidewire, Duckcreek, CCCS, Intelligent Solutions, and Sapiens.
Bhavan talks through straight-through-processing, the key domains and verticals in the insurance space today, and how they stack up on digitalization. His insights dive into combining business and technology into new offerings, how to work with IP ownership and developer teams, and proving out new market opportunities.
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Bringing New Innovations to Market Means Asking Your Customers First (w/Michael Nadel of Simon-Kucher)
Bringing New insurance Ideas to Market By Understanding Existing Market Profitability & Product Solutions (w/Randel Bennett, Qixent Insurance)
What Does Disruption Look Like in Employer Health Insurance? A Call to Arms (w/David Contorno, CEO E Powered Benefits)
Designing for Scale: How We Built a Solution for Hundreds of Companies (w/Peter Tilbrook, Founder & CEO Loro)
Using Generative AI to Issue New Certificates of Insurance and Create a Lead Generation Opportunity (w/John Paul Sutrich, Co-Founder Certificate Hero)
An Extremely Motivating Story of Insurtech Success to Start 2024 - How We Built a Business That is Growing 30% a Year (w/David Embry & Belen Tokarski, CEO & COO of Mylo)
The US Has One of the Largest Socialized Healthcare Systems for 150m Americans But Insurtech Largely Ignores It (w/Joseph Schneier, CEO Trusty)
The Blue Ocean Opportunity for Insurance Agencies (w/John Morlan, CEO Smarter Risk)
Why Actuaries Who Aspire to Become Leaders Need to Have a Point of View (w/Jessica Leong, CEO Octagram)
What’s Different About Securing Insurance Data from Generative-AI Cyber Attacks? (w/Ian Paterson, CEO Plurilock)
Notarization - The Last Holdout from the Paper Age and How to Fix It (w/Joshua Stankard, CEO NotaryLive)
Spend Underwriters Time Wisely - They Are Your Key to Running a Profitable Book (w/Paul Monasterio, CEO Kalepa)
Why I Bet on Evolving the Insurance Model rather than Technological Disruption (w/Jeff Shi, Insurtech Groups)
How a Claims Processor Morphed into a Leading Insurtech - It’s All About the Workflows (w/Troy Stewart, COO Brush Claims)
Insurtech Investing to Save the Planet - Launching a $100M Climatetech Fund (w/Drew D’Alelio, Sr. Investor at VC Connecticut Innovations)
Creating the Venmo-Paypal of Insurtech with a Verified Data Layer for Insurance Customers (w/Tolga Tezel, CEO Canopy Connect)
Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital for Carriers’ Operating Models (w/Jamie Yoder, President & GM Sapiens N.A.)
Helping Patients and Insurers to Better Manage Chronic Conditions to Drive Down Costs (w/Michael Hennessy, CEO Diathrive Health)
Solving the Value Chain on Surety Bonds from Carrier to Broker to End Customer (w/Aaron Steffey and Chris Kolger, Propeller Bonds)
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