Insurance is vital to society, giving businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions in the face of uncertainty, but the underlying structure that insurance is served on remains analogue, eroding confidence in the insurance industry to scale to meet the rising level of risk, inhibiting growth and reducing profitability. The frictional cost of moving risks through the value chain means that up to 50% of premiums businesses pay for insurance evaporates as the pure cost of providing the policy, making insurance the highest cost of usage of any product in the world.
At the same time, the expectations of customers, brokers and insurance employees are changing, speed, flexibility and control over risk selection and the target portfolio matter most. Brokers demand fast speed of service which has become a core differentiator to win the right risks. To profitably grow, insurers need to scale judgment across a much larger volume of risks, guide scarce capacity to the right risks, progressively decouple premium growth from expense growth, and deliver out-performance in combined ratio through consistent risk decision making. To attract and retain the best talent, insurance companies need to deliver modern digital experiences to underwriters and claims adjusters that empower them to focus on risk decision-making while removing monotonous manual activities and data entry which are anachronistic in today's digital economy.
Cytora exists to help build a bigger, more impactful insurance industry where more risk can be transferred away from businesses that don’t want it to efficient financial markets. Our mission is to enable commercial insurers to become digital-first, accelerating the transition to digital risk flows that decouple premium growth from expense growth and as a result grow the impact of the industry overall.
Our team, advisory board and board is made up of insurance industry leaders and builders of some of the world's most successful technology companies. Together, we are creating a better way for risk to flow.
Richard Hartley
Co-Founder, CEO
Aeneas Wiener
Co-Founder, CTO
Juan De Castro
COO
Tom Coward
CFO
Sam Lewis
VP of Product
Matthew Churchill
VP of Customer Success
Daria Kępa-Green
VP of Marketing
Zaheer Hooda
Head of North America
João Domingues
Security Director
Anais Marsac
VP of People
João Valverde
Back-End Engineering Lead
David Makuni
Front-End Engineering Lead
Pedro Vicente
Head of Platform Engineering
Lyle Fong
Partner at EQT Ventures
Martin Glen
Investment Director at Parkwalk
Paul Anson
Operating Partner, CIC
Paul Forster
Co-founder and former CEO of Indeed.com
Adrian Brown
Previously CEO at Towergate Insurance, CEO UK at RSA
Alan Morgan
Chairman MMC Ventures (prev.head of financial services at Mckinsey)
Bill Bloom
NED Aviva Canada (prev.NED Duck Creek, President EXL)
Bronek Masojada
Chairman at SiriusPoint. Former Group CEO, Hiscox and Deputy Chairman, Lloyds
Emmanuel Clarke
Former president and CEO of PartnerRe
James Platt
Former Group COO and Chief Digital Officer of Aon
Jeff Hayman
Chairman at R&Q Insurance Holdings
John Bruno
President Xerox (Former Group COO Aon)
Karen Green
Former CEO of Aspen UK; Non-exec director at Phoenix Group Holdings and Admiral Insurance Group
Kelly Lyles
Board member at Convex and Howden. Former Chief Executive, Client and Country Management, AXA XL
Laurent Rousseau
CEO of Guy Carpenter EMEA and Global Capital Solutions and former CEO of SCOR
Thomas Huerlimann
Former CEO, Global Corporate at Zurich Insurance; Non-exec director at Hiscox
What can you do in a day?
We do rather than talk and take action rather than speculate. We will try things that fail and we learn faster by doing.
Make success inevitable
We have courage to take ownership, the grit to overcome obstacles and commitment to cross the finish line.
Individuals don’t scale
We strive to build something that is bigger than just one person, better than what we are each capable of, more impactful than we can imagine today.
We put customers first
Our highest priority is the success of our customers. We are genuine, committed and we strive for their success.
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