Special Ep Amrit Santhirasenan CEO hyperexponential: How to win at the team sport of underwriting

Today’s guest is someone pretty unique for our sector because
he’s a software engineer who became a senior actuary and then
founded his own insurance-focused technology business. Amrit
Santhirasenan, Co-founder and CEO at hyperexponential’s story is
a classic of the entrepreneurial genre: Frustrated with a lack of
an insurance-specific decision-making platform to bring together
underwriters, actuaries and the exponentially growing datasets
that an increasingly digital world is producing, Amrit decided to
build his own. The longer I am around, the more I find that an
unorthodox combination of skills and experience often unlocks
extra value and Amrit is a great example of this. He’s also not a
stereotypical actuary because, amongst his many talents, he has
the sort of communications skills that would put many top brokers
to shame. So this podcast is an incredibly eloquent summing up of
hyperexponential’s business model and a wider and very detailed
examination of the state of insurance today. Ironically you could
argue that underwriters and actuaries used to work closer
together until technology started to get in the way. Amrit is on
a mission to bring back a much tighter feedback loop between the
actuaries who interrogate the data to uncover insights and the
underwriters who have to take those insights and turn them into
decisions out in the real world. Pricing is at the intersection
of all the most exciting things that are happening in insurance
today – it’s where data, brain power and market savvy all come
together to try and give carriers an edge over their competitors.
Amrit’s great company and a dream guest, so technologists and
technophobes alike do listen on as we set the world to rights.
You certainly don’t need any tech knowledge to get the benefit of
Amrit’s insights. LINKS: www.hyperexponential.com