Simon Phipps, Founder of The Digital Insurer, has over 30 years experience across Life & Health, GI and Asset Management businesses within insurers, consulting firms and start-ups. He started his career in intermediated distribution. Previously Aviva MD & KPMG lead partner for Insurance Advisory & Digital Innovation in Hong Kong. The Digital Insurer is the world’s largest knowledgebase and community of more than 50,000 professionals who share a common purpose of “working together to accelerate the digital transformation of insurance”. TDI Academy, launched in 2020, is dedicated to providing best-in-class learning and development on digital insurance to help as many people as possible be part of our digital future, whilst at the same time helping insurers increase their chances of digital transformation success. It launched the world’s first “mini-MBA” on digital insurance in the same year, to widescale industry acclaim. TDI also runs The InsurTech Directory - the world’s largest freely accessible, searchable database on Insurtechs, helping insurers and Insurtechs find each other more easily, to help further accelerate digital transformation across the industry. Simon is based in Asia, but increasingly spends his time supporting TDI’s growth across Europe and the US.