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Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017) ★★★ — Philosophy in Film
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Matthew Jones
Head of Ventures at Transverse Ventures
London, England
Overview
Matthew Jones is the Head of Ventures at Transverse in London, England, with a background in strategy, leadership, and business development. Notable career highlights include serving as a Board Member and Chief Strategy Officer at Cowbell, and investing in companies like Flock, Hokodo, and Cowbell at various stages of funding.
Work Experience
Head of Business Development
2025 - Current
Responsible for all new business opportunities, strategic growth initiatives and client management for our hybrid fronting business, covering a range of traditional and alternative capital solutions.
Head of Ventures
2024
Manager of a portfolio of venture capital and private equity investments made by Transverse Ventures, a third party asset manager within MS Transverse. Our multi-LP fund structure leverages our in-house insurance experience and that of our strategic partners to make investments in insurance-related businesses globally.
Board Member, UK
2023
Chief Strategy Officer
2022 - 2024
Cowbell provides adaptive cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises using AI-driven risk assessment.
Raised $208,300,000.00 from Zurich Insurance Group.
Venture Partner
2022 - 2024
Managing Director
2017 - 2022
Customer Engagement
2016 - 2017
Centre of excellence for analytics and data, behavioural economics, customer experience and insurance technology.
Co-Founder
2015 - 2016
Startup focused on US direct to consumer life insurance.
Business Development / Strategy & Corporate Development
2012 - 2015
Structured transactions in property/casualty reinsurance. Followed by setting up new companies in life/health insurance (iptiQ).