Matt Potashnick Email & Phone Number

Egham, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Member, Executive Committee. Led major transformation to ensure systems secure, consistent and fit for purpose. Direct reports included CIOs of Insurance, Health Care & Ireland; Chief Technology Officer; Chief Business.
• Significant interface with Global IT Board, AXA Services Board, ABS Board, AXA UK Risk Committees. Represented group on Global IT Board.
• Devised and undertook wholesale group transformation to simplify, centralise and rationalise the IT estate across the different business lines and regions.
• Undertook digital transformation to create a customer first, digitally enabled group, drawing on customer-led start up infrastructure and experience.
• Significantly mitigated risk from cyber and other attacks, establishing flagship policies and programmes subsequently unrolled across group. Grew security team grew from six to 32 over tenure. Transformed security.
• Delivered IT & Operations Investment programme for AXA UK & Ireland.

London

AXA Direct covered all online insurance products, motor, home, travel, and commercial lines insurance this also spanned into corporate partnerships which covered white label insurance products for Lloyds and Countrywide.

Cobham

• AXA Direct covered all online products, including motor insurance. Partnerships covered white label insurance products.
• Developed and implemented IT strategy for AXA Direct & Partnerships.
• Managed all IT requirements relating to Swiftcover.
• Created and transitioned the AXA brand onto Swiftcover.
• Ensured compliant IT governance frameworks in place.

Cobham, Surrey

• Moved to AXA following sale, which effectively recreated a motor insurance category for AXA UK, AXA Direct, reporting to CIO, AXA Direct.
• Implemented IT strategy for AXA Direct.
• Managed IT platforms and teams and IT programmes.

Cobham Surrey

• Fast growth B2C insurance group founded by Andrew Blowers, Matt Potashnick and Steve Hardy in 2005 – first business to enable the purchase of UK motor insurance online through greenfield systems and online portal..
• Conceived concept of industry-disrupting full online offering.
• Responsible for all aspects of strategy, development, design and implementation of software, IT platforms and infrastructure, including cyber, risk, governance and control frameworks.
• Created data centre and telephony platform.
• Ensured quotation production in record time of under 60 seconds.
• Delivered a new way of working in a form of Agile as a methodology for the IT & Business teams

Alton, Hampsire

Alton, Surrey

Alton

• Insurance group founded by Andrew Blowers and Matt Potashnick – first business to provide UK travel insurance online. Additionally provided white label travel insurance to Boots, Argos, Asda, Churchill. Grew to full.
• Conceived industry-disrupting vision of offering online travel insurance, empowering consumers.
• Responsible for all aspects of IT strategy and approach and subsequent creation and execution, encompassing software and systems, including e-commerce design and development and creation of large contact centres and 24.
• Provided all IT infrastructure for a group which went from 2 to hundreds of staff over eight year period and expanded to offer claims and assistance services

Leatherhead

Mainframe IT software and services provider to the financial services sector