Guillaume Bonnissent, Founder & CEO: Quotech: Built by underwriters, for underwriting teams (316)

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever built your own solution to a problem? Quotech, founded by Guillaume Bonnissent, provides technology for commercial underwriters and brokers. Its integrated solutions cover data ingestion and extraction, pricing, distribution, policy administration and claims. Matthew Grant caught up with Quotech’s CEO and founder to touch on his underwriting past and how it has helped build a company, the issues with Excel spreadsheets and targeting specific insurance lines to produce tailored products. Key talking points include: From underwriter to entrepreneur - the journey Producing innovative solutions for underwriters Targeting specific insurance lines - can you really do everything if you can do marine? The importance of user experience Transitioning from coding to leadership Investors and future prospects 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. Continuing Professional Development This InsTech Podcast Episode is accredited by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening, 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 current issues underwriters face with Excel spreadsheets and policy platforms Explain what is an underwriting workbench and why are they helpful to multiple members of a team Summarise the importance of turning your frustrations into solutions and entrepreneurial tips for founding a business 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 316 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	Good morning, good evening.
0:10.6	Welcome back or if you've just discovered us, great to have you along.
0:14.5	Matthew Grant here.
0:15.2	Now, we've been doing these podcasts for over seven years and to let you into a little secret.
0:19.5	One of the reasons for still doing them is we're learning so much from our guests every week and to let you into a little secret. One of the reasons for still doing them
0:21.2	is we're learning so much from our guests every week and, oh, you two are, by the way. Well,
0:26.1	this week is no exception. Guillem Wassinade is co-founder and CEO of Quotech. And like many successful
0:31.6	founders, Guillem is in the category of what I call an accidental entrepreneur. Those are people
0:36.9	who hadn't necessarily planned to shift
0:39.4	their career to building a business themselves, but as Guillaume says, he couldn't find what they're
0:44.0	looking for to fix some problems in his day job, so decided to build it themselves. Literally,
0:49.7	bull in his case, not many people I know, particularly underwriters, who are writing computer
0:54.1	code to define their first product release. know, particularly underwriters, who are writing computer code to
0:55.0	define their first product release. Well, if you're interested in what else we're up to at
0:59.3	Instec and how we can help you, you can find all of what you need at www.instech.com.
1:09.3	Again, really thrilled to have this chance to talk to you i always really enjoyed talking to people
1:15.3	that were doing a job got frustrated because they couldn't find the tools they needed went off and built a
1:20.9	business and actually not any of that you actually wrote the first part of the product yourself
1:25.1	so going to learn a little more about how an underwriter also became a software programmer, pretty unique, I suspect. But welcome. You're in
1:31.9	Francis now, I think, are you? Yes, I am in northern France, where the sun is shining for once.
1:37.6	And I'm sure you're enjoying some high quality food as well. So you're providing technology for
1:42.6	commercial underwriters and brokers. Your solutions cover
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