She joined the insurance industry in 1980 as a Direct Recruit Officer at the New India Assurance Company
Bengaluru-based Remedinet Technologies has brought on their board Asha Nair as an Independent Director. She joined the insurance industry in 1980 as a Direct Recruit Officer at the New India Assurance Company (NIA) and went on to become the first woman GM there and later at United India Insurance Co (UIIC) as well.
Other notable achievements of her include rolling out the first comprehensive insurance software, Genisys, in Delhi of New India in 1998. As the General Manager (IT), she launched the centralised insurance software for New India called CWISS, which consists of integrated software for insurance, accounting, customer relationship management, and human resource management. Additionally, she also supervised the foreign operations of the company, which had offices in more than 12 countries including the UK, Japan and Australia.
In 2010, she joined UIIC as the General Manager and later became the Director in 2012. She handled various departments at UIIC, the most significant being Health and IT where, she handled the implementation of the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme, which is running very successfully since 2012.
Asha Nair retired from UIIC in 2015 and is also, the member of FICCI’s health insurance committee and, a fellow of the Insurance Institute of India. She has an Economics (Hons) degree from Lady Shriram College, Delhi and a Masters in Social Work from Delhi School of Social Work.
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