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.
Lyndon Reid came back to join Rahul Mathur and Michael Waitze on our bi-weekly trip through the most important news in the Insurance and InsurTech space in Asia. The three started with an announcement from Slice and Sompo Holdings, Asia about a roll-out of an on-demand travel insurance product. They determined that this product did not seem much different from most other travel insurance […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze talks to Celine Le Cotonnec, the Chief Data Officer at AXA Singapore. Celine has spent 17 years in Asia, mostly in China where she was in charge of new technologies for the French embassy and she worked for car manufacturer PSA before joining AXA and the insurance industry in 2017. With her unique experience of developing use-cases […]
In this episode, Michael Waitze talks to Rick Tsing, the Founder and CEO of OneOneDay. OneOneDay started in 2017 and is not an InsurTech. The startup is developing permission-based advertising for internet, smartphone and smart TV users that rewards viewers for consuming ads. The reason we got them on the show is their super fascinating […]
Welcome, 2020! We are looking forward to another year filled with exciting developments in InsurTech and innovation in insurance in Asia. The biggest financial news to kick of the new decade has probably been the race to become one of Singapore’s first digital banks. On December 31st the application period ended and we are seeing […]