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.
We had the pleasure of speaking with Maureen Nova Ledesma, a co-Founder and the CMO of Vesl. In its own words, Vesl is a financial technology company that is innovating in the trade finance sector by providing a platform that connects trade lenders and businesses to per invoice trade credit insurers, among other specialized insurance […]
During this special episode of AIP’s bi-weekly News RoundUp, Rahul Mathur and I were joined by Lyndon Reid, the Chief Commercial Officer at Shift InsurTech. We had a spirited, fun and informative conversation as we wrapped up the previous two weeks of news in the InsurTech universe. As always, there was a ton of news […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze spoke to Mitesh Jain, the co-founder, and CTO at Symbo Insurance. Mitesh previously worked for Deloitte and worked on the rollout of Obamacare in several US states. After coming back to India he founded and exited tech HR startup Happy2Refer before he co-founded Symbo in India in 2017 and which […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze talks to Stephen Barnham, CIO for Asia Pacific at MetLife. Stephen shares some fascinating insights on MetLife’s view on the InsurTech startups ecosystem and its appetite to partner and work with startups. Stephen and Michael have known each other since the early 1990s when both were working for Morgan Stanley […]