InsurTech Magazine July 2021 | Page 105

TOP 10 08 Phil Ziedler
Alex Dalyac

TOP 10 08 Phil Ziedler

Founder of DeadHappy
Turning the business of life insurance and death on its head is all in a day ’ s work for Phil Ziedler . His vision of creating a frank and quirky platform where life insurance policies can be arranged digitally in under five minutes is a first for the industry .
Ziedler says , “ Life insurance isn ’ t meeting customers ’ needs . The majority of customers cancel it within nine years because it ’ s inflexible and fails to meet their changing requirements .”

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Alex Dalyac

Co founder and CEO of Tractable
Alex Dalyac holds a Masters in computer science from Imperial College London , where he led the Computing department ’ s first industrial application of deep learning . He founded Tractable in 2014 on the back of his research . The leading AI company specialises in visual tasks for the insurance and automotive market .
“ I was compelled by the idea that software was the one thing you could build in your bedroom , and use to serve millions of people ,” he says . insurtechdigital . com 105