Episode 5: Actuaries in Start-Ups with Kim Clough
“If you're ever considering joining a startup you need to be brave and just take a leap. I would say nothing fully prepares you for it and it will take you outside of your comfort zone and you need to be ready for a steep learning curve. But hopefully if you’re purpose and values driven and [it] all links to what you're trying to do, then you can create some great things”
Kim Clough,
Experienced Actuarial Leader
Kim is an Actuary with over 15 years' experience in the corporate world with varied roles across consulting, reinsurance and life insurance, focused on pricing and product development. Kim loves to build solutions that create genuine value for end customers, having been instrumental to the launch of new life insurance product offerings and supported the entry of an international reinsurer into the Australian market.
Kim has recently taken the leap to Retender, a 5 year old start up specialising in sourcing and managing risk pools. Driven by innovation, Retender has disrupted the way insurance capacity is sourced and Kim plans to expand their offering as Director and Chief Innovation Officer.
In this interview I asked Kim:
About her career path to date, as well as her current role as Chief Innovation Officer at Retender,
How she found herself ready for a role in a start-up,
What she likes most about working in a start-up,
What she found was the hardest thing about transitioning from a full time corporate role to a start-up role, and
Her advice for actuaries considering a move to a start-up.
