Nikolaus Sühr
CEO
Kasko
(United Kingdom)
Nick has over 10 years of experience in the insurance industry as business development and product manager. He worked in the family business, the market leader in insurance intermediation for classic and premium cars in Germany, Switzerland and Austria in various research and admin roles. He completed his Management Studies from 2005-2007 at the highly ranked Nottingham Business School with an honourable degree. He continued on to do his MSc in Insurance and Risk Management at the prestigious Cass Business School in London in 2008. He then moved back to Hamburg to work for the top 3 commercial broker, Funk Gruppe, within product and business development. After 2.5 years he changed into the family business as head of business and product development at Oldie Car Cover. After one year he joined zeb, the market leading boutique strategy consultancy firm for banks and insurance companies in Germany, working on several strategy, restructuring and digitalisation initiatives for large banks and insurance companies. After a successful part-time app project with co-founder Matthew in 2014, he decided to quit his job and work on KASKO full-time since 01/15 as a first time founder. His role as CEO includes defining the company vision and strategy, business development on the supply and distribution side, fundraising and attracting talent. His areas of expertise are insurer-startup collaboration, agile insurance product development, the insurance industry and insurtech trends, entrepreneurship.