Nowadays, every industry is competing for top talent — those individuals who are tech forward and can respond to challenges with big ideas — and it’s certainly no different for insurers.

Luckily for the profession, George Kesselman singled out insurance as his career focus.

“Early on I realised I love the intersection of technology, finance and risk, so insurance became the perfect ‘hard problem’ that keeps me learning and building,” he says.

Kesselman initially trained as a computer engineer in Canada and spent his early career as a product manager at a Canadian tech startup.

After completing an MBA, he says “an irresistible leadership-development opportunity” emerged in Hong Kong.

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