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.
In this episode of the Asia InsurTech Podcast, Ronak Shah, CEO of QBE Singapore, shares his 20+ years of experience in the insurance industry, shedding light on its significant impact on people’s lives. He emphasizes how insurance provides a critical safety net, protecting individuals and families during life’s most challenging moments. Ronak’s personal story of […]
“I do think AI is going to start to play a bigger and bigger role. Because I think it’s just naturally something, when you start to think about opportunities we talked about with data, AI can be used to produce data, so injecting that within business processes where it could take over some mundane tests, […]
In this episode of the Asia InsurTech Podcast, we sat down with Yamini Bhat, co-founder and CEO of Vymo, to discuss the intricacies of global expansion and the strategic insights she has gained from growing Vymo. Yamini highlighted the critical importance of localizing business strategies to fit different markets, from Japan’s preference for small, highly […]
“I feel like there’s a convergence going on. And that’s, that’s with InsurTech and FinTech. And what’s being left behind in the world of InsurTech is increasingly, in my view, core systems, a new generation of core systems. But everything else, like when you talk about embedded insurance, it’s becoming part of embedded finance. And […]