{"id":572922,"date":"2022-03-31T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T07:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=572922"},"modified":"2022-03-31T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T07:34:44","slug":"business-talk-josh-kaplan-on-how-onespark-is-transforming-the-life-insurance-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/572922\/business-talk-josh-kaplan-on-how-onespark-is-transforming-the-life-insurance-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Josh Kaplan on how OneSpark is transforming the life insurance industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Kaplan is the founder and joint-CEO of OneSpark \u2013 a company that is driving innovation within the life insurance industry.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Science and Actuarial Science, a Masters in Actuarial Science, and is a qualified actuary who has over 10 years\u2019 experience in designing and bringing world-first insurance and financial services products to life.<\/p>\n<p>He has been recognized as one of the top 10 most inspiring global CEOs to watch out for, and with global backing from technology giants like Google, Kaplan and OneSpark are committed to changing lives \u2013 one policy at a time.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Kaplan explains that he founded OneSpark because he was frustrated with the state of the life insurance sector.<\/p>\n<p>He then details how he set about to do things differently with OneSpark and its core products and services.<\/p>\n<p>He also talks about the success OneSpark has had since it began, as well as how the life insurance industry has evolved during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan then unpacks the big life insurance trends he expects to see in 2022 and beyond, before touching on OneSpark\u2019s exciting plans moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Josh Kaplan can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJBzX4QopgQ\" 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>In this episode of Business Talk, OneSpark CEO Josh Kaplan explains how OneSpark has done things differently within the life insurance industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":572924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[16750],"class_list":["post-572922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-onespark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572922","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=572922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573022,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572922\/revisions\/573022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}