Episode Number: 72

Ep 72: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Financial Industry with Sabine VanderLinden

Ep 72: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Financial Industry with Sabine VanderLinden

July 20, 2022 - Matt Reiner

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Sabine VanderLinden, ‘The InsurTech Queen’ herself, joins me all the way from London on this episode of Bridging The Gap. 

Sabine is a pioneer in building digital business ecosystems, an author, entrepreneur, awarded in the ‘Top 50 Women in Tech, a FinTech/ InsurTech Influencer, and CEO and co-founder of the Alchemy Crew.

Join us for a great conversation as we dive into female innovators in the industry, innovation and entrepreneurship, the value of digital assets and their future, and she breaks down her knowledge on helping the small insurance companies and banks so they don’t get lost in the ‘innovation stress’ under the bigger companies.

Guest Bio:

Sabine is a corporate strategist turned entrepreneur.

Sabine is the CEO and Managing Partner of Alchemy Crew a venture lab using open innovation, parallel experimentation techniques, and ecosystem thinking to accelerate the curation, validation, and commercialization of new tech business models. Sabine has over 25 years of experience in insurance.

She was the CEO & a co-founder of Startupbootcamp InsurTech & Hartford’s InsurTech Hub Accelerators where she worked with over 30 corporate insurers, and accelerated over 100 startup ventures.

Sabine is a co-editor of the bestseller The INSURTECH Book, a top 50 Women in Tech, a FinTech and InsurTech Influencer, an investor & multi-award winner.

She was appointed as an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow of The Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in early December 2020 for her business model disruption work.

Visit Sabine VanderLinden on her website, and follow her on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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