France

Florian Graillot

Florian is co-founder and Partner at astorya.vc, a European early-stage / insurance fund launched in October 2017. He has been working in the investment industry for 10 years (including AXA Ventures) and regularly writes and tweets about InsurTech, AI and Startups.

Tanguy Touffu

Tanguy is one of the co-founders and the CEO of Descartes Underwriting, an InsurTech. The team offers innovative insurance policies to protect companies and governments against natural catastrophes and adverse weather conditions thanks to new data sources such as satellite imagery. The team deploys cutting edge solutions which leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. Tanguy was previously CEO and founder of AXA Global Parametrics and Head of parametric insurance and agriculture at AXA Corporate Solutions. Tanguy began his career at Oliver Wyman Financial Services as a Project Manager specializing in banking and insurance, working in a dozen countries across Europe, North America and Africa. In 2010, Tanguy joined AXA as Head of Global Property and Casualty Strategy, before moving to AXA Corporate Solutions in 2013. Tanguy holds a Master’s Degree in Science in Management from HEC Paris and a CEMS Master’s in International Management following his exchange in the University of St Gallen. He also studied in Tsinghua in China and holds a “DEA” in Economics awarded by l’Ecole Polytechnique, HEC and the EHESS.

Laure Damoiseau

Laure Damoiseau is Head of Marketing and Communication at Zelros, a leading AI based software provider dedicated to the Insurance industry. Before joining Zelros, Laure worked for 20 years in the telco and IT areas, holding different roles in international sales and marketing in France, Germany and Latin America. Laure holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from ESCP Europe.

Eric Sibony

Graduated from L'Ecole Polytechnique and with a Master's degree from l'Universite de Paris VI and a PhD from Telecom ParisTech, Eric Sibony co-founded Shift Technology in 2014. Eric Sibony is Chief Science Officer at Shift Technology.

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Ambroise Fargere

Ambroise first joined the insurance industry in 2015, launching a new business department for AXA dedicated to insurance partnerships with digital platforms of the Sharing Economy (Deliveroo, UBER, Blablacar etc.). He currently leads +Simple international development efforts, with live operations in Germany and corporate development initiatives underway in the rest of the EU (Italy, Spain...).

Guillaume d’audiffret

Guillaume d'Audiffret is co-founder of Seyna, a licensed insurer specialized in niche Property & Casualty products. Seyna was granted the first P&C insurance license for an independent player by the French regulator since the early 80's, and has been selling its policies since the beginning of 2020. Prior to Seyna, Guillaume d'Audiffret worked as an investor and an insurance operator in a variety of roles.

Laurent De La Porte

After 15 years in the energy industry in operational and then management functions, including investment responsibility for Europe & Africa at Schlumberger, I created Allphins in 2018 to help special risk insurers analyze their portfolios.

Soundar Adavane

Coordinator of Joltee, with strong capacity to perform Research&Development both in data science and in the actuarial field. Soundar graduated in mathematics at Paris Dauphine School a PSL University among Ecole Normale Superieure and Mines ParisTech. He started his career at Generali, a major insurance company, as an actuary. He integrated to business the Vitality program which is the first program launched by a European insurance company to reward clients based on their sport activities through IoT. Soundar was promoted to the Group Head Office as team leader in the Data Analytics Task Force, from where he helped Generali companies worldwide in developing data analytics tools. Churn modelling, fraud potential scoring, data collected through telematics devices analysis and image analytics with neural networks are under his scope. He is passionate about electric sport cars, motorcycle and tea, mainly the Chaï tea.

Alexandre Meyer

A graduate of ESCP, Alexandre Meyer has two passions: the automobile industry and the world of insurance. In 2015, he created WeProov, the first digital inspection solution with his partner Gabriel Tissandier.