Tom Hoad's guest appearances

Tom Hoad

Inspiring Stories Podcast

The Voice of Insurance

Inspiring Sport Stories

Mark Daniels

John Hughes

Jason Howard

Inga Beale

James Kent

George Jones

Catriona Bisset

David Ritchie

Peter Hughes

Andrew Newman

Dan Trueman

Andrew Robinson

Shaun Nannup

John Turner

Fleur McDonald

OwlTail

Innovation. We keep reading about it. We keep getting harangued at conferences to do more of it.   We also keep getting told that Innovation is really hard to do in insurance.   But is it? After all, innovation used to happen perfectly naturally and organically in the past.  It’s only in the last decade that we have started to take the business of innovation seriously and given it its own department and made people responsible and accountable for making it happen.   What have we learnt so far?   Meet today’s guest, Tom Hoad. Tom is Head of Innovation at Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) and has been in the role since late 2015.   That’s a lot of accumulated knowledge about how to go about implanting new ideas into insurance.   Tom is bursting with energy and enthusiasm and this podcast packs a huge amount of learning into a very short time.   We start the conversation by running through one of TMK’s latest product launches in the clean energy space. This is a really great sounding idea and is what brought Tom to my attention again recently and reminded me to get him on the show.  But soon the discussion develops into a really broad one that harnesses all that Tom has learnt about the art and science of bringing exciting new insurance products to market.   It’s full of mind-expanding and very useful bits of knowledge that Tom has learnt from six-and-a-half years at the bleeding edge.  Anyone who wants to improve their innovation hit rate will find this a fascinating and really useful listen.   NOTES I let BAU slip through the Abbreviation filter. This stands for Business As Usual.  We talk at the beginning about the Altelium battery warranty insurance deal. Here is the announcement in full  We also mention Parametrix cloud outage insurance.   The Episode with George Beattie of Beazley is Number 117. I’d recommend listening to these two episodes in conjunction with each other.   LINKS We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo: https://www.advantagego.com/

Innovation. We keep reading about it. We keep getting harangued at conferences to do more of it. We also keep getting told that Innovation is really hard to do in insurance. But is it? After all, innovation used to happen perfectly naturally and organically in the past. It’s only in the last decade that we have started to take the business of innovation seriously and given it its own department and made people responsible and accountable for making it happen. What have we learnt so far? Meet today’s guest, Tom Hoad. Tom is Head of Innovation at Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) and has been in the role since late 2015. That’s a lot of accumulated knowledge about how to go about implanting new ideas into insurance. Tom is bursting with energy and enthusiasm and this podcast packs a huge amount of learning into a very short time. We start the conversation by running through one of TMK’s latest product launches in the clean energy space. This is a really great sounding idea and is what brought Tom to my attention again recently and reminded me to get him on the show. But soon the discussion develops into a really broad one that harnesses all that Tom has learnt about the art and science of bringing exciting new insurance products to market. It’s full of mind-expanding and very useful bits of knowledge that Tom has learnt from six-and-a-half years at the bleeding edge. Anyone who wants to improve their innovation hit rate will find this a fascinating and really useful listen. NOTES I let BAU slip through the Abbreviation filter. This stands for Business As Usual. We talk at the beginning about the Altelium battery warranty insurance deal. Here is<a href="https://www.tmkiln.com/news-insights/news/altelium-and-tmk-partner-on-first-data-driven-insured-warranty-for-battery-energy-storage-systems/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> the announcement in full </a> We also mention <a>Parametrix </a>cloud outage insurance. The Episode with George Beattie of Beazley is <a href="https://thevoiceofinsurance.podbean.com/e/ep-117-channelling-araging-torrentof-insurance-innovationgeorge-beattiehead-ofincubationunderwriting-at-beazleyand-co-chair-ofthelloyds-productlaun/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Number 117</a>. I’d recommend listening to these two episodes in conjunction with each other. LINKS We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo: <a href="https://www.advantagego.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.advantagego.com/</a>

Ep 124 Tom Hoad Head of Innovation TMK: Innovation is really about doing stuff

Described as the Kevin Sheedy of Water Polo, the aquatic legend Tom Hoad joins Tim McMillan to share his story. Full of laughs, Tom recounts his eight Olympics as a player and a coach and the many funny stories from his time as a school teacher.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Described as the Kevin Sheedy of Water Polo, the aquatic legend Tom Hoad joins Tim McMillan to share his story. Full of laughs, Tom recounts his eight Olympics as a player and a coach and the many funny stories from his time as a school teacher.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Inspiring Stories - Tom Hoad - June 10