Brian O’Reilly and Nicole Van Allen: Greenlight Re: A different kind of reinsurer (246)

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Reinsurers are often the leaders in innovation - and usually identify earlier trends before they go mainstream. In this episode, Robin Merttens talks to Brian O'Reilly, Head of Innovation and Nicole Van Allen, Associate, to discover what Greenlight Re looks for in its business partners. Topics include: What to look for in founders Why actuaries still have a critical role Where to find the best innovation What the future will look like Examples of companies Greenlight Re has worked with We’d love to know what you think about this episode - click here and add your thoughts to our LinkedIn post about it. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. To find out more about InsTech, our membership and offerings visit www.instech.co or contact us [email protected] Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards your CPD scheme. By the end of this podcast, you should be able to meet the following Learning Objectives: Describe the key attributes of a successful founder Identify the role of an actuary and the significance it has in measuring risk Explain the challenges investing brings to start-up businesses If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 246 page of the InsTech website or email [email protected] to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome or welcome back.
0:11.0	Matthew Grant here, CEO of INSTECH, but Robin Mersens is your host this week talking to Greenlight-Reat.
0:16.0	Now, if you wonder what kind of companies are investing in technology and insuretech startups and who is
0:21.3	providing insurance underwriting capacity to the new breed of MGA's, then this one is for you.
0:26.6	And if you're wondering why we'd release a podcast, well, it's fun of course, but this is one of the
0:30.4	benefits of being an INSTECH member. More information on that if you want to find out at www.com.
0:36.9	And just before I hand over to Robin, if you don't speak insurance, GWP, you're going to hear that coming soon.
0:42.4	That's gross written premium.
0:44.3	Robin, over to you.
0:50.9	I've got Brano Riley, who's the head of innovation, and Nicole Van Allen, who leads the European and UK investment effort at Greenlight Re with me today.
1:00.9	Hello, both.
1:01.9	Great to be here.
1:02.9	Hi, Robin.
1:03.5	Thanks for having us.
1:05.3	Brian, you and I have met two years ago, first time, at a St. Patrick's Day celebration, and your name was given to me.
1:12.3	I saw you were Brian O'Reilly. I was absolutely convinced you'd be completely 100% Irish, and that you
1:18.5	would love Guinness and a lunch drink. And you turn up with an American accent and tell me you live
1:24.1	in the Cayman Islands, and that was not what I was expecting one bit. How did you come to be there?
1:29.2	It's a had a bit of a winding road.
1:31.2	I grew up in Michigan, went south to Miami.
1:34.6	After I completed my studies there, I bartended for a year in South Beach, then I traveled
1:39.0	for a year in Europe and the Middle East, and then randomly I turned into an actuary when I moved to San Diego after that.
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