Henri Winand
CEO and Co-founder @Akinova
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CEO and Co-founder @Akinova
London, GB
AKINOVA ‘AT A GLANCE’What field is your product in?One of the initial products is focused on cyber risk transfer to unlock explosive growth in this market, deliver for underserved customers, underwriters, reinsurers, capacity providers and ignite cyber risk transfer at scale. In one sentence, what are you building?AkinovA is building an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks: we are working in collaboration and partnership with the insurance industry to fundamentally transform and optimise the industry’s inefficient risk transfer value chain by providing a capital markets grade, industry regulated electronic trading platform, with clearing house, data and analytics. What problem/primary use case are you solving? What is your solution?Reinsurance needs growth and profitability. This is caused by a long-term trend of increased competition from capital markets and industry inefficiencies. Extreme risks are becoming more volatile and intense which means that re/insurers need to access alternative capital from capital markets more often, faster and more cost effectively than ever before. In particular, insured cyber losses are <0.5% of the $1Tn (set to reach $6Tn by early 2020s) annual bottom line losses. This situation results in numerous underserved customers and capital markets who already own these risks without a solution to effectively hedge their portfolios. Solution – initial use case The solution is AkinovA with a digitally native, ONE-STOP-SHOP, INDUSTRY STRENGTH ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE WITH CLEARING AND DATA ANALYTICS to deepen the marketplace, increase its liquidity whilst making sure the insureds are paid.
EDUCATION
Imperial College London
BEng, Engineering and Materials
University of Cambridge
PhD, Materials Science and Metallurgy
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies/Corporate Venturing
SKILLS
ABOUT HENRI WINAND
I am a growth and change oriented CEO with a passion for scaling up a broad set of technologies globally using different business models and team-based delivery. I now serve as CEO for AKINOVA Ltd, an insurance technology company I co-founded recently with a specialist ILS (insurance linked securities and related insurance products) London based City fund manager. Prior to this, I served as CEO of a British tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Intelligent Energy, a $1bn tech IPO) with in excess of $200m raised from a broad range of sources, leading to strong top line growth, largely from internationally-based customers. I served on several Boards in the UK, Singapore, India, Japan and the US in the energy, software services, film contents publishing and automotive sectors. I also served on the Board of an EU funded €1bn+ I served on several advisory bodies to Ministers, Secretaries of State and Officials in the new energy, automotive and materials science sectors in the UK as well as on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School and of the University of Cambridge. I have more than a dozen patents granted and pending and have several papers published in well-known, peer reviewed, scientific journals, topics including composite materials, neutron diffraction and processes to improve industrial product development cycles. I am regularly invited to speak at international conferences and spoke in the US Senate and French Sénat. I provide advice to selected major global institutional, venture capital and private equity funds. In addition to meeting several Heads of State, I have made several appearances on live and recorded TV and Radio programmes (e.g. Live CNBC TV, Live Bloomberg TV, Live BBC Radio 4 “The Today Programme”, recorded BBC and other programmes, provided thought leadership and quoted articles in broadsheets, e-newspapers and The Huffington Post). I am married to Anne and we have one child, Alexander.
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