Maarten Ectors is the Chief Innovation Officer at Legal & General, the UK’s leading financial services group with over £1 trillion in assets under management globally, including homes, urban regeneration, clean energy and small business finance. Maarten is a name many will recognize from his pioneering IoT work at Nokia and Canonical, including developing the program at Nokia that launched Cumulocity (exited to Software AG), Yuave and Cloudstreet.
In our conversation, Maarten shares his digital industry start working at the forefront of a formative time of in Nokia as the “Internet of Things” was just emerging and shares key learnings from being an early IoT disruptor with Canonical. Maarten shares the leap from technology leader to Fintech and Insurtech innovator for Legal & General and what attracted him to the space. Lastly, he shares some exciting companies leading innovation as well as thoughts on COVID-19’s reset on the Financial Services industry.
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