Ola Jacob

Ola has enjoyed working in the London Market Insurance Sector for over twelve years on UK Retail, Product Recall, Terrorism, Onshore Energy and Parametric. Ola’s background in Human-Computer Interaction and Psychology has fueled his passion for working on new approaches to risk transfer and managing risk for clients. He’s proud to be named Insurance Times Technology Champion of the Year.

He has just become the Business Development Director for the UK & Ireland for Descartes Underwriting, a specialist Parametric Insurance MGA and Insurer who covers Natural Catastrophe exposure Globally. As one of the Eearly Adopters of Parametric Insurance, He has enjoyed building a distribution strategy for one of the first successful Parametric solutions in the London Market. He wants the market to keep improving, transforming how we cover risk and to continue closing the protection gap.