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.
Close to the end of 2022, we see more money pouring into InsurTech in APAC. Australian Cover Genius raises $70M in Series D funding, Hong Kong InsurTech platform CoverGo received a strategic investment from Middle Eastern venture capital fund Noria Capital and Singapore InsurTech Igloo increases its Series B to $46M. Many are predicting a […]
The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Rajiv Malhan, the Head of Strategic Projects and Business Transformation at Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance, about customer expectations today and how insurers can pleasantly surprise customers by predicting their wants and needs. Here is the transcript of our conversation. Michael Waitze 0:04 Hi, this is Michael Waitze and […]
The Asia InsurTech Podcast caught up with Cole Sirucek, a co-founder and the CEO of DocDoc, to talk about what is new with DocDoc, what entrepreneurship really means and why product innovation is so hard. You can find our previous conversations with the DocDoc team here. Michael Waitze 0:00 Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is […]
Another busy month and we see more investments pouring into the region. Warburg Pincus is investing $350m to set up a Southeast Asian digital general insurance platform called Oona Insurance. Similar to other players Oona starts with a range of existing insurance assets including Indonesia’s PT Asuransi Bina Dana Arta Tbk and Philippines’ Mapfre Insular […]