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 AIP News Roundup Michael and Theresa talk about the launch of the new AIP website and its new functionalities. They also talk about the soft-launch of InsurTech Mentors, a global mentoring platform that connects insurers with startups and young talents. In collaboration with Aerate, the team is onboarding insurers and […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze talks to Karin Zulkarnaen, the Chief Marketing Officer of Allianz Life Indonesia. Karin has spent 15 years with Allianz and talks about the massive changes technology has brought to the insurance industry and how it is helping to shape the future of insurance in a country like Indonesia. With insurance penetration below […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze talks again to Kazy Hatta, the founder and CEO of JustInCase. We had Kazy on the show in May 2019 (find the episode here) and are excited to have him back and talk about its impressive progress over the past 10 month. JustInCase has recently raised USD 10 million in Series A funding and doubled […]
We round out February by welcoming Lyndon Reid as a permanent member of the AIP News RoundUp team! The team started by looking at the recent announcement by SwissRe’s iptiQ platform that it will partner with Ikea in Singapore and Switzerland to offer on-line home insurance to Ikea customers. We see this as part of a growing push by reinsurers to […]