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

Zaheer Hooda
Head of North America

João Domingues
Information 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, Non-exec diector at Brown and Brown. Former Group CEO, Hiscox and Deputy Chairman, Lloyds
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Burkhard Keese
Former CFO Lloyd’s of London
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Clive Buesnel
Managing Partner, Insurance Advisory Partners. Former CEO Tysers, Vice Chairman Deloitte

Ed Giera
Non-exec director at Rothesay Life. Former Senior Independent Director of Santander UK Group Holdings

Emmanuel Clarke
CEO of Intact Global Speciality Lines, former CEO 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
Non-exec director at Miller, Hamilton Insurance Group 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





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