Kim is an Actuary with over 15 years' experience in the corporate world with varied roles across consulting, reinsurance and life insurance, focused on pricing and product development. Kim loves to build solutions that create genuine value for end customers, having been instrumental to the launch of new life insurance product offerings and supported the entry of an international reinsurer into the Australian market.  Kim has recently taken the leap to Retender, a 5 year old start up specialising in sourcing and managing risk pools. Driven by innovation, Retender has disrupted the way insurance capacity is sourced and Kim plans to expand their offering as Director and Chief Innovation Officer. In this interview, I asked Kim: About her career path to date, as well as her current role as Chief Innovation Officer at Retender,How she found herself ready for a role in a start-up,What she likes most about working in a start-up,What she found was the hardest thing about transitioning from a full time corporate role to a start-up role, andHer advice for actuaries considering a move to a start-up.Thank you for listening to the We Are Actuaries podcast. Connect with Julia and Guardian Actuarial on LinkedIn. For more interviews and articles, visit our website.