Tony Lew
General Partner at InsurTech Fund
Tony Lew
General Partner at InsurTech Fund
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Director
2019 - Current
Support InsurTech community globally through startup programs, education & networking activities and the investing in startups through InsurTech Fund
General Partner
2021
Invest in seed-stage InsurTech startups
Co-Founder
2019 - 2023
Virtual peer coaching community for Independent Consultants.
Director of Product Management
2018 - 2018
Lead product management responsibility for North American sellers on Alibaba.com platform
Sr. Director of Product Management
2015 - 2018
Responsible for developing and managing products for IT leaders segment; product encompassed technology platform to access research content as well as service
Management Consultant
2013 - 2015
Devised high level cloud / SDDC business go-to-market strategy for a Telco ($17B Rev) via conducting attractiveness and feasibility study Assessed economic impact of building an integrated resort in Korea via designing and executing 1500 user online surveys, and building visitation / revenue model; wrote / submitted a 60 page official report to govt. Analyzed and extracted implications from the mature Korean designated driver market for newly developing China market’s future Developed transformation strategy & execution plan for a Telco via in-depth internal org. analysis & benchmarking global leaders
Director - Product Leader
2011 - 2013
Led a $10M project to build private cloud (VMware + BMC) and transform $100M IT group to a service oriented organization. Implemented faster automated build process at lower cost and self-service capability. Managed 50+ member project team.
Manager - Agile Methdology and Software Products
2009 - 2011
<Agile Coaching Service> Established enterprise Agile/Kanban service and conducted multiple training/coaching sessions; Provided Agile coaching services to 6 teams within a year; Result: client’s release time improved from yearly to quarterly and feature usefulness increased by 60%, exceeding industry standards <Product Manager> Expanded 5 member team’s capability to support additional software development and collaboration tools (Anthilpro - SW deployment tool, Wiki, Discussion forum etc.) for clients resulting in 125% increase in new service request tickets year over year while maintaining consistent service level agreement
Project Manager
2007 - 2009
Directed five PMs to build and upgrade IT platform infrastructure (Oracle, SQL Server, Jboss, Business Objects, Tibco etc.) using 90% of original $4.6M budget. Directly managed 3 additional capital projects. All together resulted in overall 1st year net savings of $6.1M
Software Engineer / BI Architect / IT Consultant
1999 - 2007
<Informatica> BI Architect Consultant, Aug 2005 to Mar 2007 At Pfizer PGRD and Bank of Tokyo, managed the integration project implementing the infrastructure and standards as well as training 10+ members in BI design and development team using Informatica products. At NAVTEQ, designed and architected overall Data Integration architecture for navigation map POI System. Once implemented, it would result in cost savings of $1M eliminating manual integration. <AMS/CACI/SRA> IT Consultant, Jan 2004 to Aug 2005 Developed BI tool component in the Momentum product via designing logical and physical models of Acquisitions sub-system. <Verizon> Software Engineer / Test Team Leader, Sep 1999 to Nov 2003 Created Taxing System Test team; decreased # of defects by 200% within the first year. Built reporting system that would help prevent annual $2 million tax fine. Developed code for Billing system in Tax team.