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March 21, 2024

44: Interview with Renee McGowan: CEO, Marsh India, Middle East & Afr…

🔥 Insider Insights: Marsh McLennan CEO Unfiltered 🔥 Renée McGowan, CEO of Marsh McLennan for the Middle East, India & Africa, gets candid about leadership, Gen AI's impact on insurance, and tackling climate risks. 🌟 Highli...

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Feb. 29, 2024

43: News with Analysis: Hayah launches Tribe, Sukoon and Wax tie up a…

Hosts, Vidya Veerapandian and Renjit Philip review four news pieces from the UAE insurance industry: - HAYAH Insurance's app called TRIBE BY HAYAH- a great move by the team, creating a more comprehensive 'fintech' propositio...

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Feb. 8, 2024

42: Scaling InsurTech in Emerging Markets: Insights and Strategies fr…

This episode provides an in-depth look at the journey of Mohab Aboueita, co-founder and CEO of Amanleek, a digital insurance brokerage in Egypt, and his insights into the insurance and InsurTech industry. The discussion cover...

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Jan. 28, 2024

41: Breaking Barriers: Shady El Tohfa's Insurtech Journey with Amenli…

A wide randing conversation with Shady El Tohfa, the CEO of Amenli, a digital broking company in Egypt. Key learning opportunities for an Insurtech founder in the Middle East include: 1. Recognizing the low insurance penetra...

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Jan. 4, 2024

40: Building a Global Insurtech Unicorn: Rob Schimeck of bolttech

In this episode, we spoke to Rob Schimek, the Group Chief Executive Officer of bolttech, the fast-growing international insurtech. He is responsible for the company’s development and growth around the world. Before starting b...

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Nov. 17, 2023

39: UAE and KSA News Analysis: New End of Service Benefits Scheme, Li…

In this episode of FS Brew, we explore trending insurance sector stories in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia (KSA). Topics include significant employee benefit changes in the UAE, developments in unemployment i...

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July 27, 2023

37: Building a Digital Insurance Company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arab…

Here's the podcast drop of our interview with Preeti Mundhra, CEO of Tree 🌳, a digital insurance company based in KSA. Deep dive into the burgeoning Saudi Arabian market, its young consumers, and the impact on the insurance industry.

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July 20, 2023

38: How to pitch to a Corporate Venture Capitalist? In conversation w…

🔍 Exploring Corporate Venture Capital with SE Ventures In a recent episode of the FS Brew podcast, Harald, the head of Venture Building at SE Ventures, shared some insightful perspectives on the role of corporate venture capi...

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June 17, 2023

36: Biggest Fear and Opportunity is AI! : In conversation with Avinas…

Sure, here are some more details about the key highlights and learnings from the interview with Avinash Babur: Focus on the customer. Avinash says that InsuranceMarket.ae has built a strong reputation by listening to customer...

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June 10, 2023

Building a Venture backable Insurtech : Conversation with Shwetank Ve…

FS Brew has been speaking to #venturecapital firms interested in #insurance and #insurtech space to know more about what it takes to pique their interest. In this episode, we spoke with Shwetank Verma , Co-Founder and Managin...

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May 23, 2023

HYPE: Chat GPT and AI Take on the Insurance Industry! Insurtechs Vs. …

Chat GPT and AI in Insurance # Welcome to the latest episode of FS Brew Hype ## **Chat GPT and AI in Insurance** Insurance is a complex and data-driven industry, and Chat GPT and AI are two emerging technologies that …

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April 19, 2023

How to break into VC and how to approach VCs: Ahmed Elgabri from Shor…

FS Brew has been speaking to #venturecapital firms interested in #insurance and #insurtech space to know more about what it takes to pique their interest and get the fund in! In our first chat with a #venturecapital firm, we ...

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March 30, 2023

In conversation with Gautam Datta- Building a Takaful Insurance Giant…

Here's our latest podcast episode with Gautam Datta from Watania Takaful ! When we interviewed him a few weeks back, the freshly merged Dar Al Takaful PJSC and #Watania entity were on the verge of revealing their new name, wh...

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March 8, 2023

Special Women's Day episode - Empowering, Energizing and Leading from…

To commemorate this year's international women's day, we spoke with three leaders from the UAE insurance industry. We asked them about their approach to advancing gender diversity and inclusion within the industry, navigating complex situations, and their leadership style.

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Feb. 15, 2023

30: FS Brew speaks to Mohamed Seghir - CEO of Hayah, UAE's Digital In…

In our latest episode, we spoke with Mohamed Seghir , CEO of HAYAH Insurance , UAE's recently branded insurance company that specializes in life, medical, and savings. It was a delightful chat as we dug deeper into how Mohame...

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Feb. 13, 2023

29: Interview with Lars Gehrman of QIC DV- Announcing the latest Hack…

FS Brew spoke with Lars Gehrmann from QIC Digital Venture Partners and got exclusive details about the #MENA-wide #startup challenge they recently launched! We also spoke to him about the gaps in the insurance ecosystem in...

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Feb. 13, 2023

28: Rohit Nambiar- Group CEO of Tune Protect on Partnerships, Transfo…

In our first episode of #FSBrewInternational for 2023, we speak with the passionate and exuberant, Rohit Nambiar, Group CEO of Tune Protect, based in KL Malaysia! This interview was a playbook on how to run an insurance comp...

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Dec. 30, 2022

27: UAE Insurance Market: 2022 Roundup and 2023 Predictions

UAE Insurance Market: 2022 Roundup and 2023 Predictions. Today we have a very special episode on how 2022 has been for the insurance companies in the UAE so far and potentially what that means in terms of how we will …

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Dec. 14, 2022

26: FS Brew Hype: Open Insurance and its implications in the Middle E…

In FS Brew's latest HYPE episode, we deep dive into Open Insurance to understand: - What is open insurance? - Who are the suitable partners who can benefit from open insurance - International examples & use cases - Business...

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Oct. 27, 2022

25: Hala Insurtech- Innovate offshore and regulate onshore

Here's our interview with Walid Daniel Dib , Co-founder, and CEO of Hala Insurance , the OG millennial insurtech founder from the #UAE ! We spoke with Walid on many nuances and factors involved in running an agile insurance s...

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Oct. 13, 2022

24: News with Analysis: Oct 2022

Here's our #newswithanalysis episode after long! 💃🏻 In this episode, we've picked trending #news pieces from the #uae market exclusively, because there's just SO MUCH going on! 🎂Shory - (we had to start with this!), our re...

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Oct. 12, 2022

23: The TAM for micro-insurance is huge- Interview with Andy Ann

Here's our #FSBrewInternational interview with Andy Ann, CEO of YAS MicroInsurance based in #HongKong. Fascinating conversation and a must-watch for all #insurers aspiring to target or innovate to attract #genz and #millennia...

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Sept. 12, 2022

22: Digital Transformation in the Asia Pacific Region- Conversation w…

We spoke to Roopa Malhotra- Head of Customer & Digital, APAC, Zurich Insurance Group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roopamalhotra APAC is a hugely diverse, exciting and complex landscape to manage with each country hav...

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Aug. 9, 2022

21: Unit economics matter- Interview with Nicolo Robba, Co-founder of…

In our first episode of #FSBrewInternational , we spoke with Nicolo Robba from Lifepal . Lifepal is the no. 1 B2C #insurance #aggregator in #indonesia . Nicolo Robba is an e-commerce leader in the South East Asia region, and ...

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