Lakeview Timbers offers advice, insight and operating expertise, and also invests or co-invests in insurance industry opportunities


Lakeview’s portfolio of advisory and investment partnerships:

 

Company Advisory Practice

  • Sompo Holdings - Executive Advisor to Group CEO, P&C CEO and other executives (Current)

  • Advisory Board Member - Cytora (CURRENT). Cytora manages a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to process risks at greater efficiency and accuracy. It is embarking on an exciting global growth phase.

Private Equity, Hedge Fund and Merchant Bank Operating Partnership and/or Co-Investment

  • Operating and business planning leadership with a PE firm planning an acquisition in Japan (PAST)

  • Operating and business planning leadership with a PE firm evaluating a potential transaction in Europe and Asia (PAST )

  • Strategic Operating Partner with Cedilla Capital (Merchant Bank) (PAST)

  • Insurance Operating Partner with Voce Capital (Hedge Fund) (PAST)

Start-Up/Early Stage Company and Fund Advisory and Investment

  • Advisor and Investor - Gangkhar (Current). Gangkhar is a digital Managing General Underwriter providing embedded insurance. It is currently developing business in Latin America and has global expansion plans.

  • Advisory Board Member and Investor - Machine Cover (CURRENT). Machine Cover creates and administers innovative parametric insurance products with a variety of public and proprietary data sources.

  • Advisor and Investor - BlueZoo, Inc. (CURRENT). BlueZoo utilizes proprietary sensor technology to provide “building telematics,” in the form of detailed, real time occupancy loads.

  • Early Investor - Amplify (PAST). Amplify is a fully digital life insurance distribution company.

  • Limited Partner - Transverse Ventures Fund (CURRENT). The fund focuses on early stage InsurTech companies. Lakeview rolled its interest in Amplify into the fund and has worked in the past with Transverse to source and/or evaluate opportunities.

Example of Advisory Engagement

In order to help promote its brand and position itself as an informed partner in the global commercial insurance industry, Cytora produces a monthly podcast with relevant views on trending topics. To listen to Jeff Hayman’s contribution click here and to see Cytora’s teaser on LinkedIn click here