Discovery Life CEO Riaan van Reenen discusses life insurance trends

Published: March 15, 2023, 11:01 a.m.

Riaan van Reenen is the CEO of Discovery Life and over two decades of experience with this business unit. He worked at Discovery Health until Discovery Life was founded in 2001 – and he has since served in various roles in the Discovery Life division. Van Reenen’s main goal is to help Discovery Life’s customers lead healthier lives through unique, shared-value offerings. He also chairs the ASSA Life Assurance tax committee and represents Discovery on multiple industry forums around tax and IFRS17 implementation. In this episode of What’s Next, van Reenen discusses the tech trends that are changing the life insurance landscape. He unpacks the impacts both the pandemic and climate change have had on the insurance industry.