Interview: Matthew Reed, Equipsme
A veteran of brokers Towergate and Hyperion Group, and latterly insurer Axa, Matthew Reed is now fronting his own insurtech. Here he speaks to Jonathan Swift about how the managing general agent plans to make it easier for brokers to sell corporate private medical insurance and the advantages of boardroom experience when it comes to turning start-up ideas into reality
Did you hear the one about the chance meeting in a lift that led to the birth of an insurtech start-up?
It might sound like the start of a surreal joke, but in the words of Equipsme founder and
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