I am the CEO and Co-Founder of Cachet, a Techstars portfolio company that is transforming the insurance industry for the platform economy. With over 15 years of experience in technology, communication, and business development, I lead a team of innovators who are creating human-centric services that empower gig and sharing platforms and their service providers.

Cachet is an ecosystem of services that leverages unique cross-market data on the usage of assets or work schedules of the platform workers. By analyzing this data, we enable businesses like insurance companies to offer more personalized and flexible coverage based on the gig workers’ real work hours. We have a license to sell in over 20 European countries and partner with over 15 insurers and a number of leading platforms. My mission is to apply resilience thinking, disruptive technologies, and behavioral psychology to create positive social impact for the platform economy.

I am an experienced Leader, Business Developer and Innovation Manager with years of experience in Insurance and Healthcare industry. I take equal pleasure in witnessing the personal development of team members as I do in the success and progression of ideas

• Successfully managed strategic programs that transformed the organization, setting new industry standards.
• Drove agile innovative projects and proof of concepts, exploring the potential of new technologies in the Healthcare industry.
• Effectively harnessed the collective experience of my teams by acknowledging and appreciating each team member’s strengths, weaknesses, and diversities.
• I am resolute in executing my job, and I derive joy from celebrating successes as a team.
• I have garnered insights from various industries and countries by building cross-industry and international collaborations.

I have gained 25 years of experience across the insurance industry. As a McKinsey partner in consulting, as a BlackRock MD in asset management, and as a regional Allianz CEO. During this time, I have focused on two particularly impactful topics – first, the technical approach to underwrite and assess risks; and second, innovating insurance. On innovation I started by building out Allianz‘ footprint in Africa, across markets and products, to close the protection gap on the continent. And now at CarbonPool, I have been focused on bringing all my cumulated understanding of insurance economics to solving the insurance needs of the most pressing problem of our time: stopping and reversing climate change.

Experienced professional within the risk management and insurance sectors delivering bespoke risk advisory services, data analytics and innovative insurance solutions to major clients worldwide leading to enhanced customer retention, new business development and revenue growth. Held a number of senior level roles within leading consulting, insurance broking and underwriting companies serving corporate clients across multiple industry sectors including manufacturing, energy, real estate, finance, hospitality and transportation.

Motivated self starter with an entrepreneurial approach to problem solving and able to build successful teams and business practices from ground up. Thought Leader in the area of Catastrophe Risk Management, Climate Change Resilience and Product Innovation. Speaker & presenter at various international Insurance & Risk Management events.

Richard Pash joined Zurich in July 2016 as Director of UK Life Marketing.  He became UK Marketing Director in 2017 and UK Chief Customer Officer in 2020.  Richard leads the UK Customer Office, delivering Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Customer Insight and Experience, Customer Communication, and Events. He is responsible for marketing and customer activity for each of our business divisions and across the broader UK business.  He is also a member of the Global Customer Office Leadership Team and a Vice President of the Institute of Customer Service.  

Richard has a wealth of experience, as both Director of Marketing and Customer within market leading financial services, telecoms and ‘fast-moving consumer goods’ industries. Richard has achieved significant results through a strong focus on consumer needs, expertise in Digital Marketing, and leading strategic initiatives. He has broad experience in managing business units in companies such as Virgin Media, Vodafone and Mars.  

Richard lives near Marlborough and studied at the University of Oxford where he achieved an MA in Chemistry. 

Strategy, Innovation and Business development professional with 30 years of experience, 24 of which in Health Insurance, with a strong Fast Moving Consumer Goods background and media/online experience. At AXA for 15 years, expertise in markets across Europe, Asia and LatAm, specialised in healthcare services / health plans, digital health and wellbeing.

Mark Broadhurst is Managing Director of DXC’s Insurance Software and BPS business in Europe. He is responsible for all aspects of DXC’s Insurance business across UK & Europe including financial performance, sales, marketing, customer experience, delivery and partners. He is passionate about delivering 

excellence, and empowering teams to ensure that DXC delivers on its commitments 

to our customers across the Insurance sector, helping them transform how they deliver the experience that today’s buyers expect, using DXC’s insurance software and services to deliver business growth. 

Mark joined DXC in November 2021, with a proven track record of success in Insurance with leadership roles in both customer and vendor organisations. 

Prior to joining DXC he was the Group Director for Insurance at Eurobase International and, in a career spanning more than 30 years, he has also held leadership roles in companies that include Aviva, Intellect Design Arena and 

Equifax. 

Arno de Wever is the Head of Commercial P&C Insurance at Amazon Web Services (AWS). As global industry specialist, Arno spent 25 years building and transforming Commercial & Specialty P&C technology, from policy administration implementations across 30+ countries to leading AWS’s global commercial insurance strategy. His specialism is the London Market and the large corporate and multinational segment: the part of the industry where the complexity is highest, the programs are most intricate, and where the gap between technology ambition and operational reality tends to be widest. Arno operates at the intersection of deep domain knowledge and modern cloud architecture, translating one into the other for carriers, syndicates, brokers and MGAs that are serious about building a technology advantage, not just talking about it.

Dr. Diana Wolfe is VP and Head of AI Research & Strategy at Kyndryl, where she leads the Kyndryl Institute’s research
portfolio and the enterprise’s strategic approach to AI evolution. A published researcher and data scientist with a doctorate in
industrial-organizational psychology, she studies the architecture of human-AI collaboration: how organizations must
deliberately design the conditions under which people and intelligent systems work together. Her work spans responsible
AI, workforce evolution, and AI adoption behavior, grounded in large-scale empirical research across thousands of
professionals.

Daniel Williams is a Pricing Advisor at Guidewire Software, specialising in rating architecture, pricing strategy, and process optimisation using Guidewire PricingCenter. With more than ten years of GI pricing experience across organisations including NFU Mutual and Ageas (UK), he consults insurers to transform complex pricing requirements into scalable, commercially effective solutions through data and analytics.

David is responsible for Business Development in Northern Europe at Bdeo. He has a career long history providing motor claims optimisation solutions. He has worked throughout Europe, Asia and LATAM and has engaged with the industry from different perspectives. Since joining Bdeo four years ago, David has identified and deployed solutions to clients and partners in several countries, as well as contributing a wealth of industry knowledge to the team.

Irakli Mirzikashvili is the Co-founder and CEO of Briano, a vertical AI company transforming insurance frontline operations.

Wim van Horen leads the EMEA sales team at Contentstack, the leading agentic experience platform. Joining in 2019 as the company’s first sales hire in the region, Wim brings over two decades of enterprise software sales experience to his role.

He is well-versed in headless, API-first, and composable technology, helping major European enterprises including Burberry, Reckitt, and BSH modernize their digital stacks and move away from legacy systems.

Wim is a regular speaker at industry events like Shoptalk and ContentCon, and works comfortably across five languages: Dutch, French, English, German, and Italian.

Kristian Tucker is Spotler’s Product Evangelist, known for his forward thinking approach to customer lifecycle strategy.

With more than ten years of experience leading Customer Service and Success teams in SaaS, he specialises in guiding clients from onboarding to sustained, high revenue growth.

Gagan Khurana is the CEO and co-founder of Ancep, the first AI agent lab for insurance. He previously worked at McKinsey, where he advised some of the largest insurance institutions in the world. Having worked in AI for almost a decade, he is now leading the team building AI agents that support insurance brokers across the placement process to drive new revenue.