Stefan Bateson

Legal Counsel @UnderwriteMe

UnderwriteMe is a market-leading insurance technology business developing high-tech products for the protection and life insurance industry. UnderwriteMe uses proprietary ML and AI advancements to automate insurance product risk underwriting and pricing so insureds receive a buy-now fully underwritten quote. We have 22% of financially advised UK life insurance written through the UnderwriteMe protection platform product marketplace. I cover EMEA, North America and APAC.\\\\n\\\\nIn this role I provide technical legal advice to the business, lead on contract negotiations (cloud computing, SaaS, etc.), develop the legal & risk function and manage projects across multiple disciples and jurisdictions. In ops, I build playbooks and internal knowledge centres to generate efficiencies in the business and promote self-serve to stakeholders. I bring value by applying an entrepreneurial understanding of the legal and business functions to facilitate strategic outcomes to build profitability.\\\\n\\\\nI also do transactional and advisory work for Pacific Life Re. I recently advised and negotiated the 3rd party critical outsource IT agreements underpinning the implementation and operation of a new global administration system for PL Re\'s re-insurance \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n