{"id":519262,"date":"2021-09-08T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=519262"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:32:34","slug":"business-talk-in-conversation-with-discovery-insures-francois-theron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/519262\/business-talk-in-conversation-with-discovery-insures-francois-theron\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 In conversation with Discovery Insure\u2019s Francois Theron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francois Theron is the deputy chief executive officer of Discovery Insure and has 14 years of experience working with Discovery\u2019s shared-value business model.<\/p>\n<p>Theron joined Discovery in 2007 as the head of operations at Discovery Health.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, he became the chief operating officer at Discovery Insure and was then promoted to the deputy CEO of Discovery Health in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Theron is passionate about providing value to Discovery customers while simultaneously growing the Discovery Insure business.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Theron discusses Discovery\u2019s shared-value business insurance model, which is a unique value proposition to its clients.<\/p>\n<p>He also shares details about the Vitality Drive for Fleet product, which brings Discovery\u2019s popular Vitality Drive service to businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Theron explains more about Discovery Insure\u2019s latest product \u2013 insurance for heavy commercial vehicles \u2013 as well as the technological innovations that underpin this new product.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview is embedded below. You can find all Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qyN8X4pnro\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Avery chats with Discovery Insure\u2019s deputy CEO, Francois Theron, about interesting developments at the popular insurance business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":519366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15840,16057,13149],"class_list":["post-519262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-opinion","tag-businesstechs-business-talk","tag-discovery-business-insurance","tag-discovery-insure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519392,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519262\/revisions\/519392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}