AuthorKamesh Goyal

Chairman & Founder
Digit Insurance

Kamesh is the Chairman and Founder of Digit Insurance – a General Insurance Startup in India, redefining the industry by going completely digital. A business leader with over 32 years of rich industry experience, Kamesh’s role at Digit is to lead the company into unchartered territory with innovative solutions that will change the face of the insurance industry in the years to come.
Prior to Digit, Kamesh was the Head of H8 - Asset Management & US life insurance in Allianz Asset Management. Being associated with Allianz for close to two decades, Kamesh has held decision- making roles such as the Head of Group Planning and Controlling (Allianz Insurance), Regional Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific (Allianz Insurance) and Chief Executive Officer and Country Manager (Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd) among others. In these leadership roles, he was responsible for several large markets, including China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, besides India.

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EP 126 – Kamesh Goyal – Chairman of Digit Insurance – Don’t Only Go By the Scenario of Reverting to the Mean

The Asia InsurTech Podcast was catching up with Kamesh Goyal, a founder and Chairman of Digit Insurance, to talk about the massive volatility we are experiencing at the moment and what this means for risk assessment. The course of COVID has proven to be hard to predict, the same applies to weather patterns due to […]

EP 101 – Kamesh Goyal – Chairman of Digit Insurance – One Has To Really, Really Focus On Basics

Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke to Kamesh Goyal, the founder and the Chairman of Digit Insurance which has reached unicorn status in January 2021 with a valuation of USD 1.9 billion. Kamesh has been working in insurance for almost 33 years. Before starting Digit, he worked with Allianz for almost 16 years in Asia, the Middle […]

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