AkinovA, a technology-led insurance and reinsurance platform focused on increasing underwriting capital for large corporate risks, has confirmed the appointment of Matthew Gilpin as Group Chief Operating Officer, effective from 1 May 2026.
The appointment comes as AkinovA enters its next execution phase as the company expands its platform and underlying technology to improve underwriting capabilities for complex and high-value enterprise risks.
AkinovA continues to work with large corporates, reinsurers, brokers and institutional capital providers to address structural issues in global risk markets: enabling more efficient transfer, financing and management of increasingly complex risks while improving data quality and expanding access to long-term capital.
At the heart of AkinovA’s offering is its proprietary A1Policy framework, a technology-enabled, cross-category, multi-year excess umbrella solution designed for large enterprises with mature risk management capabilities and captive insurance structures.
AkinovA positions A1Policy on top of existing insurance programs, complementing broker and carrier relationships rather than replacing them, while supporting enterprise risks with more transparent access to progressive access to reinsurance and capital markets capacity.
In this role, Gilpin is responsible for leading the operational development required for the company’s next phase of growth. This includes strengthening governance, establishing a multi-jurisdictional operating structure, enhancing institutional readiness and maintaining execution discipline across AkinovA’s activities in London and Bermuda.
His responsibilities also include the ongoing development of AkinovA’s management general underwriting capabilities, technology-driven underwriting processes, enterprise data infrastructure and capital partner framework.
Gilpin has more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in regulated financial services, capital formation, governance and multi-jurisdictional platform development.
He is a qualified UK barrister specializing in financial regulation and previously served as chief operating officer and general counsel of Lodge Quai Group, where he led the transformation of the institution, introduced a governance and risk framework and supported the acquisition of significant capital support from insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds.
In addition, he founded and scaled a number of investment and risk transfer structures, including the Dutch Conservation Cell Cooperative, and co-founded businesses in the UK and Asia in the areas of artificial intelligence and quantum computing, with applications in marine risk, fintech and insurtech.
Dr Henri Winand, CEO and co-founder of AkinovA, commented: “Matthew brings the perfect combination of operational discipline, institutional capital expertise, additional regulatory financial services experience and the ability to build robust structures across jurisdictions that AkinovA needs now.
“AkinovA is solving the structural capacity problem of large enterprises. Many of the world’s largest companies retain more risk because traditional insurance and reinsurance structures do not always provide sufficient, efficient or durable capacity for the risks they now face. Our focus is on creating new underwriting capital for high-quality enterprise risks, supported by better data, better analytics and more direct paths to risk capital.
“Matthew’s experience in governance, capital formation and institutional-grade operating models will be core to our service offering to corporate members, reinsurers, brokers and capital partners as we move from platform development to scaled execution.”
Matthew Gilpin, AkinovA Group Chief Operating Officer, added: “AkinovA is solving one of the most important questions in global risk markets: how large corporates and underwriting capital can more effectively connect around complex, high-value risks.
“The opportunity is not just to digitize existing processes. It is to build a regulated, technology-enabled operating model that improves underwriting information, supports better capital allocation, and helps create new enterprise risk capabilities. I am delighted to join AkinovA at this stage and support the group’s transition to execution at scale.”
