About Axxion

The claims integrity and execution layer

The UAE's first dedicated motor claims TPA — built to give insurers, workshops, and regulators a single, governed infrastructure for motor claims.

Building the missing layer

Frederik Bisbjerg, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Axxion
Frederik BisbjergManaging Director & Co-Founder
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Until today, motor claims in the UAE had no dedicated, independent infrastructure. Insurers managed claims alongside dozens of other priorities, workshops operated without standardized quality benchmarks, and repair cost data stayed siloed inside individual companies with no market-wide reference point. The pressure on all sides to control costs, maintain margins, and deliver service was real, but the tools to manage those competing demands in a coordinated way did not exist.

Axxion was founded to build that missing layer.

Being the UAE's first dedicated motor claims TPA, Axxion manages the full claims lifecycle for insurance partners, from first notification of loss through repair coordination, quality control, and settlement. The model is not a technology platform sold to insurers. It is an operating partner with people on the ground, in the workshops, taking responsibility for cost, quality, and speed. The principle is straightforward: when claims cost is visible, controlled, and auditable, everyone benefits. Insurers get lower loss ratios; policyholders get faster, higher-quality repairs; workshops get fair, consistent pricing; regulators get the compliance trail they require.

The company is backed by a Group with four decades of automotive services experience across the Middle East, over 4,000 employees, and deep expertise in vehicle repair, parts supply, and vehicle data. Technology supports the operation; it does not replace the people who run it. Every insurer partner has a named claims team, not a support ticket queue. Headquartered in Dubai, Axxion serves the UAE market with planned expansion across the Gulf region.

Most motor claims still move through phone calls, disconnected spreadsheets, and manual follow-ups. The fix is not more people. It is a process that makes every step visible.
Elsayed Agag·Motor Claims Manager, Fidelity United Insurance

Launched at scale, not growing into it

Axxion is part of the Skelmore Group, a diversified automotive and services group operating across the Middle East for over four decades, employing more than 4,000 people across vehicle retail, repair, parts supply, and data services. That foundation gives Axxion something a standalone entrant cannot replicate: deep relationships with workshops, parts suppliers, and insurers built over decades.

The group's vehicle data and repair-cost intelligence, accumulated across millions of transactions, feeds directly into Axxion's claims operation — repair benchmarking, parts-pricing validation, and vehicle risk assessment drawn on proprietary data assets tested in production. The group provides the industry knowledge, the supplier network, and the data; Axxion provides the claims platform, the governance framework, and the insurer relationship.

Skelmore Group
AED 2.4bn
Annual revenue across the Group companies
330,000
Active customers in the UAE automotive industry
4,000
Employees across the GCC and Canada
40+
Years advising the automotive industry in GCC
30+
Years in insurance and claims management
8
Owned and operated OEM car dealerships
20+
Years of vehicle repairs and services in UAE
400+
Workshops / quick service centers in UAE, KSA, Egypt

Group figures across Skelmore Group companies.

Leadership

The founding team

A small team with deep domain expertise spanning insurance strategy, AI engineering, claims operations, and business development across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Amin Kadrie
Alexander Maas
Frederik Bisbjerg
Chairman, Skelmore Group

Amin Kadrie

Built a distinguished career leading and advising businesses across automotive, finance, and insurance. Born in Canada with an honours degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario, he joined Alghanim Industries in Kuwait in 1978 as Group VP Automotive, later becoming CEO before founding Skelmore Holdings in 1994.

Group CFIO, World Automotive Group

Alexander Maas

An automotive financial services executive with over twenty years across OEM captive finance, leasing, rental, and mobility in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. As Managing Director at Al-Futtaim he led a 500-strong team across auto finance, insurance brokerage, Hertz UAE, and the MOOV subscription platform.

Managing Director & Co-Founder, Axxion

Frederik Bisbjerg

An international insurance executive and AI transformation expert. He has led major digital initiatives as CEO of Al Wathba Insurance, Chief Transformation Officer at AXA Global Healthcare, and SVP at Daman Insurance, and was previously EVP at Qatar Insurance Group.

Senior leadership team

Industry heavy-hitters

Axxion's operations are spearheaded by leaders with extensive experience in AI, big data, and motor claims repairs and management.

Stijn Venrooij
James Mathew
Muhammad Ashad
Executive Director, Operations & AI

Stijn Venrooij

Career spanning international recruitment, management consulting, and insurance technology. As General Manager of InsureFlow.ai in Dubai he led an AI-powered platform serving 50+ insurers across 15 countries. At Axxion he drives AI strategy and commercial growth.

Head of Claims

James Mathew

Over 40 years of motor insurance and automotive experience across India and the UAE, including 22 years leading motor claims survey at RSA (now Liva Insurance). At Axxion he runs the entire claims operation, backed by deep relationships across the UAE garage network.

Integration Program Manager

Muhammad Ashad

Over twelve years in software engineering and solution architecture across fintech, insurtech, and telecom, including eight years at Democrance leading ML, GenAI, and Agentic AI. He oversees Axxion's technology architecture and AI automation delivery.

People first, AI second

Axxion is an insurance operations company that uses AI — not an AI company that happens to do insurance. The expertise, judgement, and relationships that close a claim come from the people. The breadth a lean team could never staff comes from the operating system behind them.

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Axxion Intelligence Operating System

A small team with the reach of a large one

Behind the people runs the AIOS — a network of purpose-built AI agents, each owning one domain: legal, finance, claims, IT, strategy, marketing, HR. On a person's instruction, a task is routed across them. They draft, fact-check across the systems of record, then challenge the result before it goes anywhere.

Specialists hand work to specialists; a quality gate and a "devil's advocate" stress-test it; and a human makes every decision and signs off every result. That is how a lean team covers ground a much larger one would.

Interactive map See how the system connects Specialist agents, one network

One operating partner for the whole claim

Whether you run a motor book or a repair workshop, the conversation starts the same way.