Blink founders to step down
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
Chief Executive Paul Prendergast and Chief Technology Officer Peter Bermingham will continue with the business until 16 April to facilitate the transition to new management.
Founded in 2016, Blink was bought by AIM listed CPP Group just six months after it was set up. The company partners globally with insurance and financial services companies, driving innovation in Asia, Europe and North America, and now counts some of the 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.
‘A sense of immense pride’
Paul Prendergast commented on the departure: “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 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.”
Looking forward to pursuing new projects
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.”