Co-Founder & CIO (Chief Industry Officer) at Konduit at Founders Factory answer
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<p style="min-height:1.5em">Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Headquartered in London and operating globally, Founders Factory backs visionary founders with capital, dedicated support from a team of expert operators, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry leading corporate partners. Since 2015, FF has backed 450+ portfolio companies helping them to secure over 500 enterprise pilots with blue chip corporate partners such as Aviva, Vonovia, Rio TInto, and HSBC.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our Studio partners with entrepreneurs at day one, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong><u>About the Venture</u></strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The insurance industry is stuck in a legacy loop. Today, finding and deploying underwriting capacity is slow, opaque, and wildly inefficient—especially for new MGAs and insurtechs. We're here to change that.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="editor-module__link___3DTdj" href="https://www.konduitcapacity.com/"><u>Konduit</u></a> is building the rails for real-time insurance capacity allocation. Think Stripe for underwriting capital. We connect innovative MGAs with insurers via a standardized, intelligent platform, cutting deal times from 12 weeks to just 1, and transforming underwriting from a manual bottleneck into a dynamic marketplace.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Backed by Aviva and incubated by Founders Factory, Konduit has a built-in unfair advantage: unrivalled industry credibility, access, and insights from inside the machine. We’re at the start of a category-defining journey and we’re hiring our founding team to help shape the future of insurance infrastructure.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong><u>About the Role</u></strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As CIO, you will bring deep market credibility, relationships, and real-world operating insight into Konduit. You will serve as the <strong>product domain expert</strong>, ensuring the platform reflects how underwriting capacity actually moves through the US E&S market.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will work directly with the CEO to lead:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Market entry</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Early partner and design-partner engagement</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Product domain expertise grounded in real underwriting and capacity workflow</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Commercial execution and industry adoption</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong><u>Responsibilities</u></strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Market & Industry Leadership</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Act as Konduit’s industry anchor