Management handover at Irish Insurtech Blink

The co-founders of Irish Insurtech Blink Parametric are stepping down after deciding it is the right time to look at new opportunities having built a “successful platform, innovative product set and a strong sales pipeline”.

Chief executive Paul Prendergast and chief technology officer Peter Bermingham will continue with the business until 1 April 16, 2021 to facilitate the transition to new management.

Founded in 2016, Blink was bought by AIM listed CPP Group six months after it was set up. Its focus is on parametric insurance product innovation, transforming its clients' complex offerings into “superior service experiences with simple, intuitive, online products”. The company partners globally with insurance and financial services companies, driving innovation in Asia, Europe and North America, and now counts some of the world's largest insurers among its client base such as Allianz, Manulife, BlueCross, TuGo.

CPP Group intends to bring the Blink operations under central management to further leverage its expertise in distribution and drive growth in the parametric product set, including travel disruption and business interruption solutions.

Commenting on the departure, Paul Prendergast said: “The time is right to complete the handover. I leave Blink with a sense of immense pride in what we have collectively achieved over the years. Together with CPP we have developed an exceptional and passionate team dynamic, which has consistently delivered on creative innovation introducing Insurance Parametrics as a Service (PAAS) to a burgeoning mass market across the globe.

“Today marks a career milestone for Peter and myself, which we and the Group planned to initiate 12 months ago but successes and challenges over the past year meant it was better to wait. The additional period on board afforded us time and opportunity to develop and embed new partnerships, product and service lines that will continue to serve the business into the future. I have been truly honoured to play a part in this novel and exciting business and expect that the best is yet to come for Blink”.

Peter Bermingham added: “We leave the company confident in the knowledge that the amazing Blink team will continue to build upon all that it has accomplished to date and that the Blink client base is in safe and capable hands. I’m very happy with the progress made and the contribution of the Blink team to date: we have delivered a new platform for the CPP Group, migrated the first CPP Group product onto that platform as well as delivering the Parametric Blink Products, Travel and now Business Interruption.

We are looking forward to pursuing new projects we have in the pipeline, but we will be cheering Blink from the sidelines as it continues to thrive.”

Sid Mouncey, CPP group product and marketing director, said: “Paul and Peter have worked tirelessly alongside the rest of the Blink team to establish its brand, products and partner base and we thank them for all of their work.

“We’re looking forward to working with Blink’s existing partners and developing new relationships with other businesses that can benefit from the near-instant resolution, frictionless servicing and lower costs that parametric solutions provide.

“The Blink technology and products are very well established and they will form an important part of our core, Group-wide digital offering and benefit from an established global distribution network.”

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