The online motor vehicle insurer Movinx, which is the 50/50 Joint Venture between Daimler Insurance Services and Swiss Re, has named Carolin Gabor as the new Chief Executive Officer. She will take the new role as of 1 April 2021.

Based in Berlin, Movinx has been launched in October 2020 and it aims to transform and innovate automotive and mobility insurance. As of 1 April, the leadership team of Movinx will consist of Carolin Gabor, Andreas Roth and Sebastiaan Bongers.

Carolin has a wast experience as entrepreneur. Former Managing Partner of finleap, a large fintech ecosystem, she was instrumental in developing new business models from scratch and supporting the successful growth of the finleap portfolio companies such as solarisBank, Clark and finleap connect. Her last company building project was co-founding Joonko AG, a financial aggregator enabling consumers to find the right banking and insurance products in a radically simple and data-driven way.

"We are thrilled to have Carolin join Movinx. She is an innovative leader and has a proven track record in developing and deploying digital business models and guiding them into profitability." declared Carlo Bewersdorf, CEO of Swiss Re's iptiQ division.

"With Carolin Gabor we found an experienced entrepreneur with finance and insurance startup background for the CEO position. We are very happy to have her as a part of the Movinx management team and look forward to seeing her and the team further drive digital mobility insurance," coomented Ingo Telschow, CEO of Daimler Insurance Services.