Juan de Castro

speaker

569 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Aug

Juan de Castro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Making Risk Flow | The Future of Insurance · [Greatest Hits] Re-Architecting Insurance for Speed, Data and Resilience | David McMillan, Jensten · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

Because I think especially, obviously being backed by a private equity company like Bain Capital, there's a sense of urgency and probably a very healthy one.

And I know actually, probably not by design, but the timing of your joining issue wasn't probably the easiest either.

So tell me a bit more about some of the challenges you faced.

Yeah, so it sounds like a perfect storm, right?

Covid, Ukraine, soft market, initial challenges with the strength of your reserving.

I think I'm interested in how you as CEO kept the morale of the team, which I'm sure at least a couple of times it felt like it's just too hard.

So tell me a bit more, like give me a bit of an insight into how did you feel in the middle of that perfect storm and how did you keep your team excited and driven?

So one of the points you made earlier about the transformation you drove was about revamping the whole tech stack of Esure, right?

And driving a much stronger data and analytics sophistication in the business.

Can you talk a bit more about that?

Two follow-up questions, one on the technology stack and one on the agile point you just mentioned.

So when you were thinking about the technology stack and making that brave decision, even if they were the right ones, you were not following the herd in those decisions.

What was driving those architectural choices?

Were you trying to drive automation and lower cost?

Were you trying to drive...

better insights and data analytics for pricing or a combination of both.

You've touched on certainly a couple of reasons.

And this is where, like, execution eats strategy for breakfast, right?

Some of the concepts you've described are simple.

And obviously, like, you want to have all the data related to your policies.

Showing 41–60 of 569 · page 3 of 29