In this episode, Greg Hendrick shares how he used his math background to become a successful underwriter and how he sees the industry evolving to write more intangible risks. While he says he's math-centric and not a creative person, Greg explains how he came to create a company that has a different approach to taking risk, baking alternative capital into the business plan to move property catastrophe risk to the capital markets.
With a lot of advancement in insurtech areas around certain solutions, we could now do a much better job of building a company from scratch, making talent the first bedrock anchor, but data the second most important asset, and turn that into a data analytics company, which is what an insurance company is in the end.
Greg Hendrick Chief Executive Officer of Vantage Risk:
Greg brings over 35 years of extensive leadership and hands-on reinsurance underwriting experience to Vantage. Greg was previously with numerous XL Group companies for 25 years. He served in various roles, including Chief Executive of Reinsurance, Chief Executive of Insurance, President of its P&C Insurance and Reinsurance businesses, and culminated as CEO of AXA XL. He began his career at AIG and later served as a VP in reinsurance underwriting at Winterthur Re.
Editor's Bio: Meg Green
Meg Green, our managing editor, is a former daily newspaper journalist who joined Insider Engage in 2021 after a storied 23-year career with AM Best. Since joining AM Best in 1998, she has covered nearly every facet of the insurance industry - and is still learning every day!
After two decades in print, Meg spent the last decade focusing on video story telling and enjoys speaking to the brightest minds in the industry about the opportunities ahead. Meg was thrilled to join the Insurance Insider family to take the helm of the newly launched Insider Engage - think of it as the multimedia Sunday magazine to the Insider's breaking news.
