Val Yap

Founded in 2016 by Yap, PolicyPal is a digital insurance platform that enables shoppers to buy, manage, and track all their insurance policies in one place. By offering services such as its own automated analysis to find protection gaps in customers’ insurance portfolios, the startup has helped disrupt what is traditionally a staid industry. Earlier this year, Hong Kong-based AMTD Group announced it would acquire a controlling stake in PolicyPal. Before founding PolicyPal, Yap worked as a sales broker at Allianz, a risk assurance consultant at PwC in London, and an assistant vice president at OCBC Bank in Singapore.