ARK Venture Studio
Dan White has a diverse work experience in the insurance and risk industry. Dan currently serves as the CEO of ARK Venture Studio, where they are focused on addressing the biggest risks of our generation using a systematic business model. Dan is also involved as an advisor and investor at Sotera, an insurtech challenger start-up.
Prior to their current roles, Dan was a Senior Partner at Ninety Consulting, where they helped bring new insurance ideas to market and provided innovation training and capability building for insurers. Dan also co-founded Alchemy Crew, a venture validation firm for the insurance sector.
Before their involvement in consulting and entrepreneurship, Dan held various positions at CACI Ltd, including Director of the Digital Solutions Group. Dan also served as the Head of e-Business & Digital Marketing at RSA and worked at Monitor Media, where they held directorial and managerial roles.
Dan's early career includes a role as Development Manager at Alphameric. Dan has also been actively involved as the Founder and CEO of Ninety CIC and as a Trustee of Ninety Foundation. Overall, Dan has demonstrated a strong track record in insurance innovation and business leadership throughout their career.
Dan White's education history is as follows:
In 2020, Dan attended the Cambridge Judge Business School, although the specific degree and field of study are not mentioned.
From 2017 to 2018, they enrolled in the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, participating in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. No field of study is mentioned for this program.
In 2015, Dan studied Effective Altruism at Princeton University, although they did not complete a specific degree.
Between 2003 and 2010, they pursued a degree in Astrophysics at The Open University, with a focus on Astronomy, Mathematics, and Cosmology.
From 1995 to 1997, Dan attended the College of Richard Collyer, where they studied Maths, Further Maths, French, and Business Studies. Dan did not obtain a degree.
In 1995, they also briefly studied at the Lycee Charles de Gaulle, with a focus on obtaining a Baccalaureat.
Starting from 1982 and continuing until 1995, Dan attended the Ecole Francaise de Bujumbura in Burundi. Dan completed their primary and secondary education there, although no degree is mentioned for this period.
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The insurance & risk industry struggles to know know how to address the biggest risks of our generation: extreme weather, ageing populations, biodiversity loss, refugee crises, disinformation and global supply chain collapse. We are going about solving that market failure. We’ve built a business model that is awesome at doing this systematically. We’ve earnt the trust of global players in development (UN, Gates), industry (Merck, Schneider), and insurance (AXA, Swiss Re, Lloyd’s, Generali, Dai-ichi, etc.), and now are super-charging our ambition to protect humanity’s future. ARK is Ninety's venture studio for systemic risks to people and planet. We’re picking off big systemic risk issues one at a time, working with global consortia to address seemingly intractable global risk problems via high-impact, high-value commercial ventures that combine the skills and assets of entrepreneurs, corporates and NGOs. On our workbench currently or of late are these: incentives for green energy transitions; solutions for vaccine coldchain logistics insurability; financial solutions to the housing crisis for vulnerable migrants and municipalities in Europe; public-private partnerships to drive farmers to adopt biodiversity-respectful methods; and models to increase access to modern healthcare for emerging middle-classes in Africa. On our hit-list in the months ahead: women’s safety, disinformation risk, plastic and damaged oceans. Sign up as a member of ARK at http://ark.ninety.com