Hasani Jess, CTO: Aventum Group: Dare to discover innovation (344)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How can technology and culture drive successful insurance transformation? Aventum is blending innovation and ambition to transform its insurance operations into a tech-enabled powerhouse. Robin Merttens speaks with Hasani Jess, CTO at Aventum Group, about the company's growth, their approach to technology, and the cultural foundation enabling change. With over 650 employees and a tech team of more than 100, Aventum is building solutions to empower brokers, underwriters, and operational teams alike. Key Talking Points: Scaling from 450 to 650 employees while evolving technology and processes. Building an integrated platform to unify data and streamline business functions. Developing bespoke engineering solutions for competitive advantage. Adopting best-of-breed tools to complement in-house technology development. Leveraging AI to triage submissions and extract insights from unstructured data. Operating a dedicated Innovation Lab to explore future-focused technologies. Connecting brokers and underwriters with tailored workbenches and tools. Addressing challenges of legacy systems to enable consistent progress. Embedding a culture of change and innovation across the business. If you like what you’re hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. You can also contact Hasani Jess on LinkedIn to start a conversation! 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: Define the importance of a culture of change in driving successful insurance transformation. Identify key strategies Aventum employs to address the challenges of legacy systems and enable progress. List the challenges associated with scaling technology teams to support rapid business growth. 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 334 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 to the Instech podcast, Zoya podcast producer here, bringing you the final episode before the Christmas break.
0:18.7	This week, Robin Mertens is joined by Hussani Jess, CTO at Eventum.
0:23.7	In this conversation, they explore Ventim's journey to becoming a truly tech-enabled insurance business.
0:30.1	Hussani shares insights into building an integrated insurance platform, how Ventim is leveraging AI to trier submissions and extract actionable insights, and
0:39.6	why their innovation lab is central to staying ahead in a rapidly evolving industry.
0:44.5	If you're curious about how a culture of constant change and innovation drives success, this
0:49.3	episode is a must listen. Now let's dive into the conversation.
1:03.9	Well, it's another week and another in-step podcast. And this is the last podcast before the Christmas break. With me and bringing you some festive cheer, I've got Asani Jess from
1:10.1	Eventum. Tell everybody what you do. Hi everyone and Robin.
1:13.2	Thank you for inviting me onto your podcast. I'm Hasanah Jess. I'm the group CTO at Eventum Group.
1:20.5	And I look after all of our technology for our businesses covering our MJ, Rockstone, and our brokerage
1:27.3	concilium. Give us some of the
1:28.6	idea of size. How big is Eventum these days? I've been at Eventum about a year and a half now.
1:34.4	I joined in the summer and at that time the business was around 450 people and actually
1:40.3	that had been on a very rapid growth trajectory already.
1:44.4	And now a year and a bit later, we are around the 650 people.
1:49.1	My function itself is around 100 plus in the technology group across the UK, US and India.
1:56.4	So we've been part of that growth journey too.
1:58.8	100 people doing tech.
2:00.0	I'm going to come back to that.
2:00.9	That's extraordinary.
2:02.4	Firstly, what's driving the growth?
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