CFO | COO | Web 3 Business Leader | Mentor | NED | Investor

I'm Amar, CEO at My Money Matters, where our goal is simple: helping employees to make the most of their money with financial education, tools, coaching and easy to use digital services.

Early on, I was more entrepreneur than economist, with ventures ranging from selling stick insects as a child to diving deep into the world of startups.

This path led me to a revelation: financial education is the key to unlocking personal and professional freedom.

At My Money Matters, we focus on:

- Jargon free education
- Simple tech
- Specialists coaches putting your mind at ease

Outside the office, you'll find me embracing challenges of a different sort — staying active, whether it's CrossFit, kickboxing, or exploring outdoors.

I share the insights gained from a life of contrasts — combining the discipline of finance with the dynamism of startups, and ambition with personal wellness.

Amar Mistry

Amit Patel

I didn't expect to care this much.

When I joined Independent Age's board in 2019, I thought I knew what I was signing up for. Governance. Oversight. Fiduciary responsibility. The usual.

I was wrong.

Somewhere between the investment committee meetings and the EDI working groups, between the strategy sessions and the conversations about what poverty actually looks like when you're 78 and choosing between heating and eating - somewhere in all of that, the mission stopped being something I supported and became something I felt.

That wasn't in the job description. It's entirely the fault of the people.

Joanna Elson is the kind of CEO who makes you raise your game without ever asking you to. She leads with clarity, conviction and a relentlessness about impact that's contagious. The Senior Leadership Team (Clare Wadd, Marios A. Leptos, Morgan Vine, Sofia Haque, Stuart Rogers) she's built doesn't just execute strategy - they embody it. And Richard Anderson's chairmanship has been a masterclass in how to steward an organisation through transformation while keeping purpose at the centre of every decision.

I've sat on both sides of boardroom tables. I've seen governance done badly and done well. What Independent Age has built - a board aligned around purpose, impact and operational rigour - is rare. It's why we've been able to move from strategy to action: £6.5 million in unclaimed entitlements identified this year alone. £3 million in grants awarded. Real change for older people facing financial hardship.

In September 2026, I'll step down alongside Karen Byrne. Two terms. Six years. That's how good governance works - fresh perspectives, planned renewal, no one becoming part of the furniture. The timing happens to be right too: the foundations are set, the strategy is working and the organisation is stronger than when I joined.

Which brings me to you.

Independent Age is recruiting three new trustees. They're looking for people with experience in finance, fundraising, marketing, business development, transformation and technology. But more than skills, they're looking for people who'll let the mission find them.

If that's you - or someone in your network - the deadline is 18 January 2026.

Details and the trustee pack here: https://lnkd.in/ew5Zra6G

I joined expecting to contribute expertise. I'm leaving having gained something I didn't anticipate: a cause I'll carry with me.

Some boards you serve. Some boards change you.

Helena Herklots Joan Elliott Joshua Greenspan Guillermo Donadini Julia Shelley Caroline Glendinning

#Trustees #CharityGovernance #NonProfit #LaterLife #BoardLeadership

Would you like to use your skills and experience to help us end poverty in later life?
 
Independent Age is the only national charity focused solely on improving the lives of people facing financial hardship in later life. This year, we answered more than 20,000 calls, emails and webchats via our helpline and identified over £6.5 million in entitlements not being received. We have awarded £3 million in grants, enabling local organisations to reach even more older people living in financial hardship, including our newest fund supporting those living in rural and coastal areas. We also successfully campaigned for the Winter Fuel Payment to be restored to a large number of older people who rely on it, and to improve protections for older renters through the Renters’ Rights Act and the Housing (Scotland) Act.
 
We are looking to appoint several new Trustees to our Board. We are interested in hearing from people who are concerned about the growing impact of poverty in later life on our society, and can bring us any of the following skills and experience:
 
• finance
• fundraising
• brand / marketing / engagement
• business development / transformation / innovation / technology.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, you can find out more about the position and apply here: https://lnkd.in/etJysxJt

Every health insurer looks at the same data. Almost none of them see the same thing.

Erwin Schrödinger said the task isn’t to see what’s never been seen. It’s to think what’s never been thought about what you see every day.

Health insurance boards are drowning in data. Claims patterns. Customer churn. Fraud signals. Operational costs. They’ve seen it all. For decades.

So have their AI-native competitors.

The difference isn’t access. It’s interpretation.

Traditional insurers look at claims data and see processing costs to reduce. AI-native players look at the same data and see underwriting models to reinvent. One group optimises. The other reimagines.

I learned this building Peachy Digital through FCA approval. We didn’t have more information than established insurers. We had different questions. Not “how do we process claims faster?” but “what would claims look like if we designed them for 2024, not 1994?”

Same inputs. Radically different outputs.

This is why pilot purgatory exists. Boards approve AI initiatives that make existing processes marginally better. Faster document processing. Automated triage. Incremental efficiency gains. Nothing wrong with any of it.

But it’s thinking old thoughts with new tools.

The insurers achieving escape velocity aren’t digitising their legacy. They’re questioning whether the legacy should exist at all. They look at a denied claim and don’t ask “how do we communicate this faster?” They ask “why did our product design create this denial in the first place?”

Schrödinger understood something most boards don’t.

Innovation isn’t about finding new things to look at. It’s about finding new ways to think about what’s already in front of you.

Your claims data contains the blueprint for your disruption. Your customer complaints contain your next product. Your regulatory constraints contain your competitive moat.

The question isn’t whether you can see them.

It’s whether you can think differently about what they mean.

What familiar data is your organisation looking at - but not really seeing?

#HealthInsurance #AIStrategy #DigitalTransformation #Leadership

Hot off the press and hot on OpenAI's heels - Claude for Healthcare by Anthropic ... let the race begin!

Time for a healthy launch... Claude for Healthcare 🏥 🩺 https://lnkd.in/gBHP8MjG + https://lnkd.in/g5cVFXEk

American healthcare doesn't have a knowledge problem. It has an alignment problem—$5.3 trillion optimized for processing transactions, not optimizing health.

I've spent the last year obsessing over this gap. We spend more on healthcare administration than many developed countries spend on healthcare, total. For example, physicians complete 39 prior authorizations per week while 93% report it delays necessary patient care. The system we've built actively blocks the care it's supposed to deliver.

Orchestration is the core bottleneck.

Today Anthropic is launching Claude for Healthcare—HIPAA-ready AI that connects directly to the systems clinicians actually use: CMS Coverage databases, ICD-10, NPI Registry, PubMed.

Claude can now help with tasks across healthcare workflows, such as:
Prior authorization reviews—pulling coverage requirements and checking clinical criteria
Claims appeals—synthesizing evidence across fragmented systems
Care coordination—triaging patient messages and surfacing what needs attention

What matters most is building infrastructure for a different kind of healthcare. Where AI handles the administrative burden so clinicians can do what they trained for—helping patients thrive, ideally proactively, not just survive, reactively.

The healthspan economy starts with removing friction from care.

Livestream launch tomorrow (10:30am PT): https://lnkd.in/gYMtueCr

Open article: The Briefing: Healthcare and Life Sciences \ Anthropic by website.anthropic.com

The Briefing: Healthcare and Life Sciences \ Anthropic

Future facing workforce transformation … where is the UK and US on this journey?

Keen to understand … comments welcome 👇🏾

Healthcare Compliance Leader & Technologist | Data Privacy & AI Regulations Expert (DPDP Act, GDPR, HIPAA) | Digital Health, Telehealth, Rural Health | Director, Founder, CEO & DPO | 27+ yrs in Web, Mobile, Emerging Tech

India takes a decisive step toward AI-ready healthcare

India has launched its first large-scale, structured AI training programme for doctors through the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS).

This fully funded, six-month online programme aims to train nearly 50,000 clinicians in the practical and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence across medical education and clinical practice.

The curriculum goes far beyond buzzwords. It covers:
 • Clinical applications and diagnostics
 • AI-assisted decision-making
 • Research and academic use cases
 • Teaching and medical education
 • Ethical AI, bias awareness, accountability, and patient safety

The emphasis is clear and reassuring: AI is meant to augment doctors, not replace them. Clinical judgment, trust, and responsibility remain central.

With 42,000 doctors already enrolled, this initiative marks a turning point for Indian healthcare systems becoming AI-literate by design rather than by accident.

It also creates a strong foundation for:
 • Healthtech startups
 • Clinical decision-support platforms
 • Medical data and analytics solutions
 • Responsible AI deployment in real-world care

For clinicians, educators, policymakers, and healthtech professionals, this is a landmark moment in India’s digital health journey.

Are you enrolling, contributing, or already part of this shift?

#AIinHealthcare #MedicalEducation #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #ArtificialIntelligence #ResponsibleAI

Here come the hyperscalers … I’m expecting more announcements like this in 2026 across insurance and healthcare 🦾

Allianz and Anthropic have announced a global partnership to accelerate responsible AI adoption at Allianz, structured around three areas: workforce empowerment, agentic AI automation and regulatory compliance.

“With this partnership, Allianz is taking a decisive step to address critical AI challenges in insurance. Anthropic’s focus on safety and transparency complements our strong dedication to customer excellence and stakeholder trust. Together, we are building solutions that prioritize what matters most to our customers while setting new standards for innovation and resilience,” said Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE.

“Insurance is an industry where the stakes of using AI are particularly high: the decisions can affect millions of people. Allianz and Anthropic both take that very seriously, and we look forward to working together to make insurance better for those who depend on it,” said Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic.

From an AI GRC perspective, the key takeaway is traceability. Allianz and Anthropic say they will develop systems that record what the AI decided, why it decided it and what information it relied on, with human review where stakes are high - ensuring governance and compliance aren’t an afterthought.

Daniela Amodei, Jack Clark, Jason C., Krishna Rao, Mike Krieger, Tom Brown, Sirma Boshnakova, Claire-Marie Coste-Lepoutre, Barbara Karuth-Zelle, Chris Townsend  

#AIGRC #AIGovernance #AICompliance #AIRisk

Big news on agentic commerce ... 🤖 💸 🦾

Today, we are bringing us all a step closer to an agentic commerce future with the launch of the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). This builds on the momentum of our recent introduction of the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to enable seamless, agent-led payments within the industry.

While AP2 helps agents transact, 💳 UCP helps them interact through the entire commerce journey. 🛒  And by building them to be compatible with each other, we’re laying the foundation for agentic commerce that works for everyone - from retailers, payment providers, and consumers. 

https://lnkd.in/gwHAXaeU

Open article: New tech and tools for retailers to succeed in an agentic shopping era by blog.google

New tech and tools for retailers to succeed in an agentic shopping era

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