Assaf Wand

Assaf Wand is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Hippo, the home insurance group focused on proactive home protection. A serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience taking growth-stage companies to scale, Assaf saw an industry overdue for change and set out to reimagine home insurance through the homeowners’ lens. In just over six years, Hippo has grown to reach more than 90 percent of U.S. homeowners.
Prior to Hippo, Assaf was the founder and CEO of Sabi, a company that designed and developed consumer products and later acquired in 2015. Before that, Assaf served as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, and as a strategic investor for the venture capital firm Intel Capital. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago and both a BA in Finance and LLB in Law from the IDC Herzliya in Israel.