About David Piesse

Global Insurance Evangelist and Advisory Board Member of Guardtime, a cybersecurity firm specialising in data centric security and founder of data integrity standard Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI). He represents Guardtime for the business side of cyber liability, enterprise risk management and correlation of cyber risk to catastrophe and financial risks for embedding KSI into the insurance industry. This includes established blockchain technology. May 2016 Guardtime , EY and Maersk produced the first global commercial marine insurance blockchain platform to optimise and transform the sector. He assisted in introducing this development to the Asia market. This platform called InsurWave is now a separate commercial entity. In the U.K. In August 2020 he co-founded CREW ASSiST a not for profit group in Asia to help seafarers and other workers get immunity passports based on blockchain to facilitate travel passage cross border in the COVID pandemic. David is on the global advisory board for Ultimate Risk Solutions enacting capital/solvency modelling based on actuarial and stochastic methods, the strategy of world insurance regulation. Clients include insurers , reinsurers, brokers and corporations looking at enterprise risk management. Advisor to Analycat Artificial Intelligence services on applying small data set machine learning. Previously Global Insurance Lead at SUN Microsystems he developed top global accounts. Specializing in the insurance sector he comes from industry starting at Lloyds of London and Edward Lumley insurance brokers. Member of the CII, IIS and practitioner with the BCS. Combining insurance, IT and risk management over a 35 year career he has worked all financial sectors. He is a specialist in Asia. Holds a certificate of geology and remote sensing to apply to natural disasters and effect on the environment from socio economic and insurance claims aspect Specialties: Cyber Risk, Enterprise Risk Management , Blockchain, Dynamic Financial Analysis , Catastrophe Modeling , Microinsurance , AI and Disruptive technologies July 18th 2017 David received the Kenneth Black Jr Distinguished Service Award from the International Insurance Society.