The IT Matters Podcast is about IT matters and matters pertaining to IT.

In this episode of IT Matters, host Aaron Bock interviews Jeremy Campbell, VP of Technology at Velogica US, a SCOR Global Life Americas company.

Conversation Highlights:

• The challenges of working in IT at a local county government (4:57)
• How Jeremy went from programming as a young boy to a VP of Technology (9:16)
• Jeremy’s advice for young people who want to pursue a career in IT (14:35)
• What SCOR Global Life Americas does and how reinsurance works (17:00)
• How Jeremy prioritized the process of digital transformation at SCOR (22:03)
• Challenges that the complex regulatory environment of reinsurance creates for IT innovation (25:02)
• Why SCOR decided to migrate to the cloud in 2014 (27:43)
• How the cloud has evolved over the past 8 years (32:48)
• What technology trend Jeremy is most excited to follow over the next 5-10 years (36:16)
• The #1 piece of advice Jeremy would give to millions of people, in his technology state of the union address (39:20)