As a cornerstone of the Asia Commercial Insurance Awards’ integrity-driven approach, we are proud to launch our inaugural awards programme with a diverse panel of experienced and respected judges.
Each award category is assessed using a transparent methodology, featuring rigorously tailored and weighted criteria. Our panel independently reviews every application to ensure a thorough, impartial, and merit-based selection process.
Cillin O’Flynn is General Partner at Noria Capital, an insurtech VC. A former Generali executive, CEO of Generali Hong Kong and Middle East and pan-European COO, he pioneered market-first digital insurance ventures across Life, Health, P&C and Reinsurance. He is a qualified accountant (ACCA) and electrical engineer.
With 30 years in the industry, half of which have been based out of Hong Kong, Greg Solomon has worked as an actuary in reinsurance, capital, risk, product design and pricing, and valuation. He has also done advisory board work in insurtech, regtech, AI, wellness, sales and moon-based projects, and is an author and part-time lecturer.
Jan Mumenthaler leads IFC’s Insurance Services Group in Asia, advising Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Agribusiness, Services and Financial Markets clients, supporting insurance market development, and managing IFC’s corporate insurance program. He also serves as a Board Member of PARIMA Thailand.
Jateen Vaghela is a qualified actuary accredited by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), with 22 years of expertise in financial services. He runs his own independent actuarial consultancy in Hong Kong. His previous experience includes an executive role at Sun Life Financial (Asia) and key roles at Aviva Group Plc, Mercer, and Firstrand Bank.
Joey Zhou is Associate Professor (Practice) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A qualified actuary and Financial Risk Manager, he has over 20 years’ experience across insurance, reinsurance, the public sector and higher education. He serves as an independent board director and trustee, specialising in life, health, retirement, climate risk and sustainability.
John Spence specialises in strategic advisory for Asia’s insurance sector, with deep expertise in M&A, bancassurance, and corporate development. Based in Hong Kong since 2000, he has held leadership roles at Generali Asia, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Macquarie Funds Group and Manulife Financial.
Randy Liu runs NexFrontier Risk Intelligence, an independent advisory practice helping insurance organizations transform analytics into better business decisions by building organizational capabilities, integrating analytics with underwriting, portfolio management, and capital strategy, and creating decision frameworks that enable leaders to make faster, more informed, and more holistic decisions.
Blake Evans-Pritchard has spent the past 25 years covering politics, economics and financial markets from three different continents: Europe, Africa and Asia. He has spent 10 years reporting on finance across Asia, including extensive coverage of insurance. During his career, he has also reported from Hong Kong, Brussels, Sudan, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.
Each award category uses tailored and weighted criteria. Applications are evaluated and graded by our independent panel of judges on a 5-point scale.
The scale considers relevance, clarity, and the demonstration of excellence within the criterion, and is defined as follows:
To achieve your highest possible score, your entry should:
