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 170 countries and his company, Michael Waitze Media produces some of Asia’s most popular podcasts.
The Asia InsurTech Podcast team got together again to go over some of the biggest stories from the region in March 2023. We started off with the news that Grab has partnered with Dhipaya Insurance to create Thailand’s first-ever pay-as-you-go insurance for ride-hailing drivers and their passengers. We transitioned to a discussion of the nuances […]
The Asia InsurTech Podcast welcomed Anjana Rao, the Chief Strategy Officer of IndiaFirst Life. IndiaFirst Life’s new-age intuitiveness drives its value through state-of-the-art digitalization initiatives across its value chain. Some of the topics Anjana covered: Other titles we momentarily considered for this episode: Please read the best-efforts transcript below: Michael Waitze 0:08Okay, let’s start. Hi, […]
The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Arvind Swami, a director of Financial Services APAC at Red Hat, about the importance of data and the many opportunities advanced data analytics unlock. While data analytics is not a new topic, especially for the insurance industry, the way leading organizations are using it has shifted to enable hyper […]
The biggest news in InsurTech in February? The Asia InsurTech Podcast published its 200th episode! A lot has changed since Michael Waitze and Theresa Blissing started the Asia InsurTech Podcast in May 2019. The InsurTech landscape has matured and many Asian InsurTechs have become global players. InsurTech funding, however, has declined by 50% in 2022 […]