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Pete Lawson is an accomplished finance professional with a robust background in directing financial strategies for various organizations. Currently serving as Finance Director and Founding Member at ARK Venture Studio since March 2023, Pete is instrumental in building InsurTech, FinTech, and HealthTech companies aimed at addressing global challenges. Previously, from October 2018 to February 2023, Pete held the position of Finance Director at Education Partnerships Group, which supports governments in enhancing education systems. Earlier experience includes serving as a Fund Manager at The FSE Group, where Pete provided funding solutions to SMEs and social enterprises, and working as a Management Consultant at Step Advisory. Pete's career also includes a consultancy role at TechnoServe and experience as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor at Buzzacott. Pete holds an ACA from ICAEW and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Durham University.
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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