Raising transparency and trust in insurance with AI
How AI can materially improve transparency and trust across the insurance value chain.
C-level executive · Board member · Author
Transforming insurance with AI, grounded in the real world.
For over two decades I've helped insurers across the MENA region and beyond turn digital ambition into working, profitable reality. This is where I publish my writing, white papers, and thinking on what actually moves the industry forward.
24+
years in insurance & transformation
CEO · CDO · COO · CTO
C-level roles across leading insurers
MENA
focus, with a global track record
Author
of the best-selling Insurance_Next
What I do
Bridging traditional insurance and digital excellence.
I've spent my career at the forefront of change: as a C-level executive inside insurers and global TPAs, a co-founder, a management consultant at Bain & Company, and a leader in AI and big-data companies. The common thread: turning innovative technology into measurable improvements in profitability and efficiency, without losing sight of the real, physical world insurance actually operates in.
Today I'm Managing Director & Co-Founder of Axxion Claims Settlement Services in Dubai, Head of MENA at The Digital Insurer, a board member across several ventures, and a lecturer on the world's first mini-MBA in Digital Insurance.
GCC Insurance Daily
Latest insurance news
Regulation, governance, AI, and people moves across the region's insurers, updated daily.
Writing & research
White papers
Practical, no-nonsense pieces on digital transformation, AI strategy, and building insurers ready for the new normal.
Motor claims compliance under Federal Decree-Law No. 6 of 2025
What the new UAE insurance law means for motor-claims handling, documentation, and process.
The electric vehicle repair gap
The widening gap between EV adoption and the region's capacity to repair them safely.
Keynote speaker
Catch me on stage.
Keynotes on AI, insurance, and real-world transformation, for boards, operators, and insurtechs.
Latest thinking
From LinkedIn
Short, practical notes on AI, motor claims, and insurance regulation across the GCC — published as I write them.
18 Jun 2026
UAE comprehensive and TPL motor premiums rose 25-40% in 2024. EV premiums rose 50-70%. Deductibles went up too. The April 2024 floods caused industry-aggregate insured losses exceeding AED 4 billion in the UAE. Motor was the…
3 reactions · 1 commentRead on LinkedIn → 17 Jun 2026Most coverage of CBUAE Federal Decree-Law 6/2025 I've seen has stayed at the legal-recap layer. The operational consequences for motor insurers — the changes that touch how the claims operation runs day to day — are getting less…
19 reactionsRead on LinkedIn → 16 Jun 2026In the UAE, rate has done what rate can do. The next 24 months will be won on operations. Across the white paper and this campaign, the same pattern shows up in different forms. UAE motor recovered through rate, but cost-of-claim…
24 reactions · 1 commentRead on LinkedIn → 15 Jun 2026Axxion's hiring rule for 2026: every new role is one person, one outcome, no hiding. Every hire is one outcome owned, not one process coordinated. The old shape had three kinds of role. Builders made the thing. Coordinators…
29 reactions · 3 commentsRead on LinkedIn →