Mark Dennis: Building the first wave of digital ecosystems

Scouting for Growth

Sabine VdL

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Mark Dennis, a seasoned insurance executive with strong expertise in software platforms. Mark was the Global COO and Europe CEO for Munich Re Digital Partners, one of the most renowned InsurTech ecosystem builders which have now been re-integrated within the core business of the MunichRe group. Today, Mark works with various young ventures and helps them with their scaling strategy.

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0:00.0	The So hi everyone today I'm with Mark Dennis so Mark is a season in Trans Executive with a strong expertise in technology and I would say people as well.
0:30.0	Mark was a global CEO and Europe's CEO of MiniCree's digital partners and Mark will tell us more about what this organization was about.
0:44.0	And what Mark did is build in Choteck ecosystem.
0:49.0	It's probably one of the early stage,
0:53.0	in theotec ecosystem builders of our,
0:57.0	I would don't say our century,
1:00.0	but of the way in Chote came into the market in the UK and across Europe.
1:08.4	Mark left recently Munich-Kree digital partners, which was reintegrated within the mini-Kree group.
1:16.1	And today, Mark works with various numbers of young ventures to help them scale and become bigger businesses. So thank you very much for joining me today.
1:29.5	Mark. Thank you for having me. That job titles which I look back now and I look back now and think that sounded a bit silly really but yes I was responsible for a
1:44.1	fair amount at digital partners yeah should I give a bit more background to what we
1:49.3	did that would be helpful yes please I would love to hear from you about who you are, actually, who you are, what you love doing, because that will help us understand why digital partners and what you do every day today.
2:07.6	Let me give you a very whistle stop tour of my career.
2:10.8	It's nearly 30 years old now I suppose in terms of how long I've been working.
2:17.3	Makes me feel old actually saying that's a being but there you. So I started out in software
2:21.4	believe it or not I joined the software company on graduating.
2:24.7	They happened to build insurance platforms.
2:27.6	So I'm one of those people, you know, you get two types of people in insurance really,
2:31.5	don't you get the career insurance people who've
2:34.3	always wanted to be an underwriter or an actuary or something like that and they've kind of
2:37.6	planned it all out or you get everybody else who kind of fell into insurance one way or another and they never managed to escape and that I'm in the latter group.
2:47.0	So I work for this software company for a number of years in different roles and I kind of you know merged as this fairly senior project manager I guess
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