Carlo Nebuloni, chief data officer, AXA UK and Ireland

What has been your path to power?

My career began in consulting at Accenture. This gave me the opportunity to learn a vast amount across different fields, managing deliverables in a fast-paced environment. I then moved to AXA Italy where, with a few of my colleagues, I set-up QUIXA, a direct insurance startup. This took years of production and creativity to build a new product from the ground up. It was hard work, but we had a lot of fun!

My work as CIO of that company really cemented my interest in data as I started to realise its power, particularly in the insurance sector. For example, I had the idea of providing a motor insurance quote from just the numberplate, deriving all the necessary information from the available external and internal data sources. We were the first in the market to do this.

I subsequently took international roles across AXA in Italy, Spain and Portugal and then moved to the UK as COO of AXA Direct and Partnerships. I took responsibility of cross-selling across the various AXA UK business units in my role as transformation director and chief data officer. As AXA UK&I CDO, I focus on data strategy and on supporting our data teams to cross-pollinate on best practice and levelling-up our data maturity.