Ep 14 – Nadia Suttikulpanich – Fuchia Innovation Center for Muang Thai Life Assurance – It All Starts With the Consumer

01 Jul 2019Posted By Michael Waitze

Host

Michael Waitze

Michael Waitze worked in Global Finance for more than 20 years, employed by firms like Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, primarily in Tokyo. Michael lived and worked in Tokyo from February 1990 until December 2011. Michael always maintained a particular focus on how technology could be used to make businesses more efficient and to drive P/L growth. Michael is a leader in the digital media space, building one of the biggest and fastest-growing podcast listener bases in the region. His AsiaTechPodcast.com show has listeners in more than 130 countries and his company, Michael Waitze Media produces some of Asia’s most popular podcasts.

Guest

Nadia Suttikulpanich

Nadia Suttikulpanich, head of Fuchsia Innovation Centre and Fuchsia Venture Capital for Muang Thai Life Assurance (MTL). She drives development and engagement between people and business through innovation from both tech and non-tech perspective. She wants to change the paradigm of insurance by making it more accessible and inclusive through the use of relevant data and healthcare technology. Fuchsia team have launched Asia’s first dynamic pricing health insurance coverage for diabetics and first health insurance coverage through telemedicine.

This episode is brought to you by:

Nadia Suttikulpanich is the Head of Fuchsia Innovation Center for Muang Thai Life Assurance Public Company Limited. Fuchia focuses on initiating innovations and embracing changes with businesses and start-ups that emphasize consumer needs. Prior to launching Fuchia, Nadia worked for Unilever for 8 years also focused on innovation. While there, innovation is most effective when it is consumer-centric as opposed to being technology-centric.

Fuchia was founded to accelerate innovation and to invest in it as well. Its two arms, Fuchsia Innovation Center and Fuchia Venture Capital were created to do just that. Implementing the idea of trying before buying helps Muang Thai Life Assurance understand which new companies and technologies are most effective, sometimes using itself as a live test-bed. The Company previously invested in Health at Home, a start-up that provides basic primary care training to registered nurse to customers’ place by acting as a reverse of telemedicine.

Nadia notes the different views people have about non-life insurance and life and health insurance and this impacts product penetration in the Tha market. She also mentions the impact a rapidly aging society have in changing the insurance landscape.

Companies mentioned in this episode:

Muang Thai Life

Health at Home

GoJek

Author: Chadhaporn Angpraphapornchai