FinTech & InsurTech Digital Congress

With a career spinning 28 years+ in software and technology based corporate businesses across US and Europe, Derek created, built and managed corporate start-ups and restructured established businesses to accelerate growth and provide shareholder value.
For the last 16 years he has held senior management and board positions including CEO of multimillion Euro businesses in several territories in Europe. He has led well known industry brands e.g. o2, Dimension Data, Solera and worked with leading insurers Allianz, Generali, AXA, and VIG delivering innovative and imaginative technology.
In 2017, he co-founded PetExpert, a fully digital pet health insurer and as CEO, built a multi-million Euro business spanning three countries with a plan to be in six countries by the end of 2022.
Derek is a lover of Dogs and Cats and is passionate about animal health, rights and welfare which was his inspiration for the creation of PetExpert.

Experienced Executive in omni-channel payments.

Author, Entrepreneur, Investor

Speaker Biographical Details

Norman Frankel has worked in mobile/digital payments for 30 years.

Currently, with Stanchion Payment Solutions, a 20-year old solution provider/system integrator, with 100+ customers. Stanchion brings deep technical integration experience and leading-edge solutions especially Open API and digital payment in nature, to help its client base drive new revenue, customer experience/engagement & reduce cost in payment operations.

Prior to Stanchion, Norman had roles with

• ePay, a Euronet company, a large digital content distribution & retail payments business.
• founded Mi-Pay, a Telecom industry PSP adding value to eCommerce payment transactions.
• spent 5 years as Group Mobile and e-Commerce Director for LogicaCMG Plc, and
• spent 10 years in NatWest Bank Card Services, delivering technology led innovations in the E&M-commerce area.

Simon has a background in behavioral economics, machine learning and design psychology, and has been a driven force of the development of the field behavioral design in Denmark and Scandinavia. Simon was a co-founder of /KL.7, the leading danish design agency specialized in strategic behavioral design, and has joined Penni.io as Head of Customer Success. His focus for the last 8 years have been on designing products in the financial sector, on the basis of how humans (the ordinary ones) perceive and use financial product (natural financial wellbeing), and with the clear focus of how to build a symbiotic, expanding and mutual beneficial relationship between the core business and the users behaviour. In many cases, this means fitting the business with the behaviour and not the other way around.
Furthermore Simon has written 4 books on behavioral design, one on strategic use of data and co-written one on design of habit-forming digital products, and is frequently used as a public speaker.

Founder & CEO of Wetterheld, the digital weather insurance for small and medium businesses.
Previously 5 years at Ernst & Young and Deloitte as consultant and manager in regulatory and risk management projects at German banks.
Member of the Hamburg parliament 2011-2015.

James Felton Keith is an award-winning engineer and economist who was the first Black LGBTQ person to run for US Congress or any of America’s federal offices. As an author and activist, his Data Unions redefined the labor movement and personal-data as the natural resource driving all industries. As an entrepreneur, he established the first international standard certification for corporate diversity & inclusion and parametric insurance for inclusion based on his „inclusion scores”. His bio-political philosophy, Inclusionism is at the forefront of Human Rights advocacy and International Relations in academia. Each week he hosts the WHCR 90.3 FM radio show Inclusionism from Harlem, NYC.

Hedi Mardisoo, the company’s CEO/Co-Founder, has more than 15 years of international management experience in banking and business development. Her passion is data & person-centric approach in designing services and educating people on how to benefit more from their data. Hedi has been the founding member of MyData.org. In 2019 Hedi, together with Cachet, was been nominated for several Estonian Startup Awards. In 2020 Sifted. eu listed her as a fintech Female founder to watch and 2021, Cachet among the 26 most disruptive Insurtechs by VCs.

Gero Reiniger is Sales Director DACH bei Zelros in Munich since January 2020. At Zelros he is responsible for market development of the DACH region and neighboring countries. Together with his team he facilitates technology and requirements of the insurance industry to achieve processual and customer excellence.

Prior to joining Zelros, he worked in sales and management positions for the worldwide credit insurance company, Euler Hermes (Allianz Group) in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Paris – providing an in-depth knowledge on insurance sales and customer processes.

Gero has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management der Bentley University, MA, USA.

Rauno Sigur is the CEO and co-founder of DriveX Technologies, a technology partner for the insurance sector.
With an extensive track record in e-commerce and technology, he has worked in the insurtech space during recent years.
DriveX offers AI-assisted verification that enables remote inspections for vehicles.
Insurers, brokers, MGAs and other insurtechs such as ERGO, Gjensidige, IIZI and more are using DriveX services in their motor policy sales or claim management processes.
Companies can save cost, reduce fraud risk and provide a better, digital customer experience.
Rauno is a member of the Estonian Founders Society.

Sergej Tolz jest COO/CSO w KASKO, firmie z branży InsurTech, która dostarcza najszybszą i najbardziej elastyczną platformę dla firm ubezpieczeniowych do digitalizacji i skalowania ich oferty produktowej. Ma ponad 15 lat doświadczenia w budowaniu, rozwijaniu i zarządzaniu firmami, działami i zespołami, a jego mocne strony to zarządzanie ludźmi, transformacja cyfrowa, sprzedaż konsultacyjna, finanse i rozwój produktów. Przed dołączeniem do KASKO, Sergej zebrał swoje szerokie doświadczenie w małych i dużych firmach, w tym Bloomberg, jak również w startupach i ukończył program MBA w INSEAD, który konsekwentnie plasuje się w pierwszej piątce najlepszych na świecie. Od 2016 roku koncentruje się na budowaniu KASKO jako zmieniającego branżę i innowacyjnego biznesu InsurTech.

Pietjan is CEO and co-founder of Rockestate, a data science startup, founded in 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. Rockestate specializes in the remote and real-time evaluation of buildings on a country-wide scale to help companies understand their customers’ houses. The building data, valuations and 3D models calculated by Rockestate enables property insurers and mortgage lenders to digitize their product offerings with frictionless customer journeys without compromising on risk management.
Before starting Rockestate in 2017, he worked ten years in the financial markets division of ING, where he held various roles in derivatives sales and trading.
Pietjan holds a Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the KU Leuven university in Belgium.