Meet Our Team
My-Insurer is today a team of 8 people and growing fast
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Dr. Matthias de Ferrieres - Founder - CEO - Data Protection Officer
Matthias has more than 19 years experience in the insurance industry in Asia. He joined AXA in 2001 and left the insurance giant as their Regional CMO. With a strong focus on innovation and digital, he created the first web app concept and "skin" focusing on insurance acquisition within AXA. Since 2014, Matthias has created a series of profitable start-ups, each of them offering a strong value proposition to the insurance industry. Strong believer in insurance intermediaries, he founded my-insurer in September 2017 to respond to the appetite of the financial advisors and insurance intermediaries to better serve their customers through to digital transformation. Matthias holds a PhD in International Entrepreneurship, a MBA from Chicago Booth - University of Chicago, a Master in International Law from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Business degree from a French Business School. |
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Regine Lai - Co-founder - Chief Growth Officer
Regine has more than 5 years in the insurance industry and 12 years in the business development. No stranger to the world of start-ups, Regine embarked on her first entrepreneurial venture in brand consultancy shortly upon graduation. She has developed a people focused business in retail, banking & finance and insurance for 17 years. She joined Matthias in late 2017 to bring her strong enthusiasm and experience in setting up from scratch a base of clients |
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Fiza Tuahhaini - Chief Operations Officer
Fiza has been in the insurance industry for more than 9 years. Her professional experience includes working with prominent insurers and Brokers and Financial Advisors. She left AXA Partners as an Operations Team Lead where she managed the team's performance and assisted in new member onboarding in Singapore and Malaysia. She later went on to Abacare where she honed her broking skills, focusing on employee benefits for SMEs and International Medical Insurance. Her expertise lies in customer experience, account management and operations. Fiza joined the team in June 2021 where she is leading the overall operations and assisting in the development of the business community of Wellnex Singapore and Wellnex Malaysia and assisting in the development of the business community of Wellnex. She is also a Certified General Insurance / Health (SCI). |
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Sebastien Khoo - Business Development Manager
Sebastien Khoo has spent his life using his personal and career experiences to help his clients create solutions. He is a Business Development Manager who helps financial professionals to build an audience and to navigate the increasing changing financial advisory landscape in Singapore. Before joining Wellnex, Sebastien spent five years as a non-commissioned officer in the Republic of Singapore Air Force and learning his trade in the insurance industry with AIA FA. After a successful stint in Premium Care Singapore, helping advisors and their clients navigate the medical landscape, Sebastien will developing the business of My-Insurer and Wellnex and helping the team to bring the company to a new edge! |
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Nicholas Lee - Business Development Manager
Nicholas is a Singaporean native who spent his early years in Jakarta before pursuing his university education in International Business at Curtin University in Boston, US. Nicholas Lee worked as a Sales Lead in at Giftano, a company that digitised gift cards for merchants and made them available to consumers in an online premium marketplace, and Waffle, a startup that provides customer loyalty point-of-sale digitalisation services in Singapore. Throughout his career, Nicholas has taken on diverse sales roles such as merchant acquisition, corporate sales, and account management. Nicholas will developing the business of My-Insurer and Wellnex and helping the team to bring the company to a new edge! |
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Thin Tran, August - Chief IT Officer
August joined the team in April 2018 with a strong background of IT and Quality Assurance. He has been instrumental in making the app and software viable, robust, secured and scalable. With more than 10 years experience in IT and insurance, he joined the project since the beginning and is in charge of developing new and maintaining current functionalities and modules, as well as monitoring the data flow and successful release of the app and software. |
