Scott Quiana: Head of Products, Marketing & Partnerships, Quantemplate: Turning data into insights (101)

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🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Launched in 2013 Quantemplate was one of the early insurtech stories in the London and US, but after a few years things went quiet. Quantemplate had not gone away, but instead had been busily building up its technology to organise, clean and harmonise the variety of data being used by insurers around the world. In this episode Matthew Grant talks to Scott Quiana to find out: How an emerging company found its product-market fit Why it's so important to be part of the client workflow and how to do so Deploying Machine Language and Artificial Intelligence at scale Lessons for all entrepreneurs looking to move from beyond start-up to scale-up. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on Linkedin. Find out what we are up to at InsTech London and sign up to our newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. Complete the InsTech London Podcast Feedback Survey to claim your CPD time.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the INSTEC London podcast. This is Matthew Grant, host and partner at
0:23.1	Instac London. Now, if you're one of the many people listening to this whilst you're exercising,
0:28.0	then you'll be in good company with today's guest. Scott Guiana is head of product marketing and
0:33.9	partnerships at Quantum Blade, where he's been for five years, but Scott himself
0:38.0	once cycled across the US and competes in Iron Triathlons in his spare time. Prior to
0:43.4	Contemplate, Scott spent 19 years at Catastrophe Modeler RMS after eight years at Kempra Insurance.
0:50.0	Quantumplate itself was founded in 2011, one of the early insuredex stories in the UK,
0:55.1	although now based in the US, then went quiet for a bit, but as we're going to hear shortly,
0:59.2	the company has been very busy building its client base and its technology in the last few years.
1:14.7	Scott, great you could join us.
1:16.2	Oh, thanks for having me.
1:19.5	You know I've known each other for quite a few years, probably about 25 years.
1:22.5	You've got yourself, got a background originally in underwriting,
1:24.8	and then worked in catastrophe modeling,
1:28.6	and are now helping Quantum plate expand their business globally.
1:29.9	That is correct.
1:37.4	So quantum plate was very well known about four years ago in sort of the early stage in short tech and then things went really quiet.
1:40.6	So can you reveal what's been going on in the last few years when he sort of seemed to
1:45.9	be operating under the radar?
1:47.7	No, Matthew, that's a great question.
1:49.3	You know, I think early days when Quantumplate first started, what we had was a really
1:53.9	powerful technology, but we didn't know how it fit into the insurance industry.
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