Giovanni Giuliani’s job entails a deep understanding of what adds value to the lives of almost 80 million customers of Zurich Insurance. He uses a customer-led innovation strategy to expand the business and direct the progress of the insurance industry.

His focus is on the modernization and simplification of the business and the ways of working of 53,000 employees worldwide.

Each year, Giovanni runs the Annual Zurich Innovation World Championship which gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to drive the transformation of the insurance industry. The competition is operating in more than 20 countries and gathers the brightest start-ups in the fields of mobility, smart homes and buildings, digital health and financial planning to compete for the next big thing in the insurtech space.

Giovanni’s extensive experience at McKinsey as Senior Partner and Generali as EVP has prepared him for the task of ushering Switzerland’s biggest insurer into the future.