In conversation with battleface CEO Sasha Gainullin
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Catch-up with our most recent webinar where EmergeONE’s start-up CFO expert Aarish Shah talks with CEO of travel insurance start-up battleface, Sasha Gainullin.
Given their recent $12M raise and meteoric growth it was a great opportunity for Aarish to quiz Sahsa on how they’ve done it with some great insights into how battleface has raised money, their approach to finding investors that fit, and how they’ve handled the growth in their business.
A bit about Sasha
With over 20 years of experience in the travel insurance industry, Sasha knows how to deliver on customer needs in emergency travel, medical assistance, emergency evacuation, and claims management. Sasha combines this experience with a team-based approach to find innovative tech solutions for adventure-seekers, independent journalists, humanitarians, and more for today’s modern travelers.
Before battleface, he worked for AIG Travel Guard and the Tangiers Group, where he focused on customer service while developing new products and managing international medical, logistics, and travel assistance operations. Corporate social responsibility is important to Sasha. At Travel Guard, he helped build Nyumbani Village, a self-sustaining community in Kenya for AIDS-affected orphan children and elders. At Tangiers, Sasha supported MOAS, an organisation dedicated to providing search and rescue services, aid, and emergency medical relief to refugees and migrants around the world. Sasha grew up in Russia, studied at the University of Wisconsin, traveled the world, and now is based outside of Washington, D.C. along with his young family.
