Mr. Thomas Lillelund is the Chief Executive Officer for Europe Middle East and Africa, AIG General Insurance.

Before joining AIG in November 2018, Mr. Lillelund was the Chief Executive Officer of Aspen Re based in London from May 2016 and prior to this the Managing Director of Asia Pacific, Aspen Re from 2008.

Previously Mr. Lillelund spent four and a half years at AIG in Southeast Asia where he was the Regional Vice President for Commercial Property. He has also held senior underwriting management roles at Swiss Re in Hong Kong and South Africa and originally began his underwriting career at Gen Re in the United States in 1995

Mr. Lillelund has also served as the Chairman of the Singapore Reinsurance Association (SRA) from 2014 to 2016.

Alison Martin has extensive management, financial and commercial experience within the insurance sector. She was appointed Chief Executive Officer Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and Bank Distribution in July 2019 and is responsible for Sustainability at Zurich Insurance Group. Prior to that, she served as Group Chief Risk Officer from January 2018 to September 2019. A qualified accountant, Ms. Martin began her career at PwC, where from 1995 to 2003 she worked with insurance clients in audit and advisory roles. She then served in leading executive positions at Swiss Re, starting in 2003 as Finance Director, Life & Health. Starting in January 2011 she served as Group Managing Director of Swiss Re’s Life & Health Products Division. She was appointed Swiss Re’s Head of Life & Health Business Management in 2013, a position she held until joining Zurich as Group Chief Risk Officer-designate and a member of the Executive Committee in October 2017.

Laurent joined SCOR in 2010 as Advisor to the Chairman. In 2012, he became Head of SCOR Global P&C’s Strategy and Business Development, and in 2015 he was appointed Chief Underwriting Officer for P&C’s treaty business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In April 2018, he was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global P&C and also became a member of the Group’s Executive Committee. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of SCOR on June 30, 2021.

Before joining SCOR, he spent nine years in the investment banking industry in London, first as an insurance equity analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, and then as part of the insurance investment banking team at J.P. Morgan, where he executed M&A, capital raising and restructuring transactions for European insurers and reinsurers.

He is a graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris).

Xavier Veyry is CEO of AXA XL’s APAC & Europe Business Unit. Since joining AXA Group in 1996, he has built a proven track record in business development, operations and change management, and was involved in several of the Group’s strategic initiatives in Europe, the Middle East and in Asia.

Amélie brings more than 25 years of international insurance markets experience in finance, transformation, strategy and development, in a number of senior leadership and executive committee positions as well as board member roles in Hong Kong, mainland China, India, the UK and Ireland, including 16 years at AXA as Head of Group Strategic Planning & Controlling, Regional CFO for Asia and CFO for UK & Ireland. Prior years include roles at KPMG and Allianz.

Adrian began his career at Gen Re in 1993 writing short tail facultative reinsurance before moving to the treaty department in 1997, where he wrote both short and long tail business specialising in financial lines. He joined Specialty Lines at Beazley in 2001 where he has performed a variety of roles, including underwriting manager, building the long tail treaty account, managing the private enterprise teams, and the large risk teams before taking responsibility for Specialty Lines in 2008. Adrian then took on the role of Chief Underwriting Officer in January 2019 and he was appointed Chief Executive Officer as of April 2021.

I look forward to receiving the logistical information about his interview nearer the time, and in the meantime please feel free to contact either Sam (cc.ed into this mail) or me if you require any further information.

Philipp Gmür has shaped the successful development of Helvetia Group into a European financial services provider in recent years. The acquisition of the Spanish insurer Caser is a further milestone in this respect. During his time as head of the Swiss market, Helvetia made several successful acquisitions in its home market. Helvetia has therefore built up an excellent track record in acquisitions and integrations under his leadership. As Group CEO, he is dynamically developing the company and driving forward the diversification of the portfolio. At the same time, Helvetia has not lost its Swiss reliability, and the purpose of the company remains unchanged: «Life is full of risks and opportunities. We are there when it matters.»

Silke Sehm is a trained mathematician. She has been with Hannover Re since 1996 and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2019. Her responsibilities include property and casualty reinsurance for large parts of Continental Europe and Africa as well as Hannover Re’s worldwide business in structured reinsurance, insurance-linked securities, natural catastrophe coverage and retrocession. She also holds responsibility for digitalization and innovation projects at Hannover Re. In her private life, she prefers cycling to taking the car, enjoys the Baltic Sea and spends as much time with her family as possible.

Steven was appointed Group Chief Digital Officer for Generali in April 2019 and has responsibility for driving Digital Transformation, Data Analytics and Innovation at a global level.

Steven joined Generali from RSA, where he designed and drove the digital transformation agenda across the Group. From 2015 to 2016 he was Chief Digital Officer at Zurich, driving digital transformation across its UK businesses, with focus on marketing, distribution, sales, underwriting & claims. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2015, he was Chief Digital Officer at Bupa, the international healthcare group, responsible for setting out their transformation ambitions, identifying new digital commercial opportunities, supporting and challenging business performance and establishing a series of centres of excellence to drive best in class customer experiences and business performance. In 2005 he took the role of Head of Online & ecommerce at Prudential PLC and before that he covered several roles at Barclays PLC, including Online Banking Director for the retail bank, where he oversaw the rapid development of its digital assets and capabilities.

Steven has a particular interest in start-ups and InsureTech. He is an ambassador for Momentum London and holds advisory roles for a number of start-ups.
Steven holds two Batchelor’s degrees: the first, in European Business from Brunel University in London, the second, in Financial Services from The University of Manchester (UMIST). He also has undertaken an Executive Leadership Programme at London Business School.

Fabian Rupprecht was appointed to the Management Board as Chief Executive Officer International Insurance as of 1 September 2018. Fabian Rupprecht is responsible for NN Group’s insurance businesses outside the Netherlands: Insurance Europe and Japan Life.

From 1996 to 2018, Fabian Rupprecht worked for AXA. From 2016 to 2018, he was Regional Chief Financial Officer and member of the Regional Executive Committee at AXA Emerging Markets (CEE, MEA, LATAM). From 2013 to 2016, he was Regional Chief Financial Officer at AXA Mediterranean Holding, and member of the Regional Executive Committee. From 2010 to 2013, he was Head of AXA Global Life, and member of the Global Life & Health board. From 2008 to 2010, he was Head of Individual Life, and member of the executive board of AXA-Winterthur. From 2001 to 2007, he was head of Life & Annuity Offer at AXA Germany. From 1998 to 2000, Fabian Rupprecht was Head of EquiVest Product Management at The Equitable Life Assurance (AXA) USA. From 1996 to 1998, he served as head of accounting for Health & Life Insurance at Colonia Konzern AG (AXA/UAP). From 1994 to 1996, he was assistant to the executive board at Colonia Konzern AG (UAP).

Fabian Rupprecht holds a Diploma in Business Administration, with majors in finance and controlling, from the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Koblenz, Germany).

Petra is EIOPA Chairperson and is leading the Authority since September 2021. On 27 May 2021 the Council adopted the decision to appoint her after the confirmation by the European Parliament on 18 May 2021.

Prior to that role she was Division Director Insurance Supervision at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB, the Dutch Central Bank). The division is responsible for the supervision of the Dutch insurance sector. Petra joined DNB in February 2007. In 2013 she became Head Insurance Policy. In 2015 she was appointed as Head of the DNB Expert Center for Fit & Proper testing, assessing (supervisory and management) board members in the financial sector. In February 2017 she started as Director of Payments and Market Infrastructures and was responsible for the payments and collateral operations of the central bank, oversight, policy and cyberintelligence. Also the TIBER project (Threat Intelligence Based Ethical Red teaming) was part of her responsibilities. Prior to joining the Dutch Central Bank Petra had an international career in the oil and gas industry.

Petra was an Alternate Member of the EIOPA Board of Supervisors. She was also the Chair of the EIOPA Policy Committee.

Petra has a European Masters in Law & Economics and a Masters in Russian Studies. She is married and proud mother of three children.

As Chief Claims Officer for European Markets, Cyril is driving the Claims transformation journey in line with the AXA strategy.

Cyril is a highly competent and internationally experienced Operations & Claims manager, with a proven track record in the insurance industry, conference speaker, and university guest lecturer.

2020 - today: Chief Claims Officer for European Markets, Director - AXA
2017 - 2020: Chief Operating Officer, Member of the management / Secretary of the Board of Directors - Dextra Insurance Ltd (InsurTech Startup)
2013 - 2016: Head of material and financial loss division / Deputy Head of Claims - Allianz Suisse
2009 - 2012: Senior Claims Expert Casualty / Deputy Head Claims Property, Casualty, Marine - HDI-Gerling Industrieversicherung AG
2007 - 2009: Head of Claims Management / Legal & Compliance - smile.direct versicherungen
1996 - 2007: Various positions within Winterthur Insurance & Winterthur Group

With more than 24 years of working experience in P&C Operations & Claims Management (local and international), and a strong working knowledge of strategy, management and implementation across the insurance value chain, Cyril has an in-depth understanding of end-to-end business processes and customer touch-points; with expertise in technology and digital transformation/acceleration.

Anna Sweeney is an Executive Director at the Prudential Regulation Authority. She has responsibility for the Risk & Operations function of the PRA, which includes the Chief Operating Office, ownership of the PRA’s supervisory approach and risk model and support for the PRA’s senior committees. Anna also co-leads Insurance Supervision with Charlotte Gerken, where she is responsible for the supervision of the UK’s general insurance sector, including the Society of Lloyd’s.

The PRA’s approach to insurance supervision seeks to deliver the PRA’s statutory objectives to:

• promote the safety and soundness of the firms we regulate; and
• contribute to the securing of an appropriate degree of protection for those who are or may become policyholders.

Anna was previously Director of Insurance Supervision between 2017 and 2019. Anna is an experienced insurance and banking regulator, having previously led the supervision of a number of the largest banks and insurers.

In 2019 David was ranked ninth in the Financial Times Top 100 Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) Technology Leaders. He was a Finalist for CTO of the Year 2019 awarded by the Inclusive Technology Awards, and also a Finalist in the STEM category awarded by the Black British Awards.

David was featured in 2021 HotTopics Global CIO100 list for his leadership excellence, resilience and innovation. The 2020 and 2021 Power-list CX50 as one of the most influential Customer Experience influencers in the UK by Marketing Week. He was awarded the prestigious Inspirational Leader in the UK 2020 for services to society, awarded by Computing and the British Computer Society. David is a Non-Executive Director and honorary fellow for a number of institutions. Member of the Bank of England CIO committee, technology author / advisor. David is married with three children.

Fabrice Brossart is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for AIG International General Insurance and oversees AIG’s risk management function in 70+ entities outside of North America, ensuring these operations have a risk management system proportionate to their exposures and in line with local regulatory and corporate governance requirements.

Fabrice joined AIG in February 2011 as Chief Actuary for the European region, subsequently taking additional responsibilities for risk management and leading the Solvency II program. Between 2014 and 2015 Fabrice worked in several risk management roles at the AIG head office in New York, enhancing significantly the Group capital model. Returning to London in 2016, Fabrice played a key role in AIG’s response to Brexit and the standing up of AIG Europe SA. More recently he has focused on business resilience, risk culture and conduct, climate risk and transformation.

An alumnus of France’s Ecole Polytechnique, Fabrice holds actuarial qualifications in France and the UK as well as the Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary designation. Previous employers include AXA Insurance UK and Willis Towers Watson. Fabrice has represented AIG at the CRO Forum and supported two AIG Group CEOs in their engagement with the Geneva Association. He is a member of AIG’s Executive Diversity Council and has co-led ERM’s Diversity and Inclusion Council since 2017. Fabrice was named CRO of the year by Insurance ERM in January 2018.

Ian M Thompson has more than 25 years’ experience in numerous senior insurance leadership roles. His career to-date has spanned risk engineering, operational risk management, strategy development, strategic innovation, transformation and operational delivery.

Ian spent 19 years with the multinational insurer RSA in a range of positions before focusing on claims 18 years ago. He led several global and UK strategic change programs before he was asked to integrate RSA’s UK motor claims operations, building an award-winning team delivering market leading service and performance.

Ian joined Zurich Insurance in 2012 as European and Zurich Insurance Plc Chief Claims Officer (CCO) based in Dublin, Ireland. Two years later, he led the integration of the newly merged Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regional claims operation as CCO for EMEA.

Ian was appointed Zurich’s Group Chief Claims Officer in October 2018, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently driving innovation, workforce and cultural transformation across 8,500 claims professionals operating in more than 40 countries and accountable for an annual claims spend of USD 19bn.

He has served on the Board of Thatcham UK, Zuritel SA, Italy, and as Chairperson of Zurich Sigorta, Turkey. He is currently a Board Director of Zurich Santander Insurance America. Ian is a member of the Zurich Leadership Team.

Outside of work, as well as spending time with his family, he enjoys watching live sport, walking and enjoying good food and drink. Ian is now also learning to sail and kayak in addition to building a new house.

CEO of classic car insurance specialist OCC Assekuradeur GmbH in Germany is Désirée Mettraux. OCC is the market leader in the DACH region for the insurance of classic vehicles. The 40 year old joined the company with a wealth of experience from various areas of responsibility in the insurance industry: between 2007 and 2012 she headed the department of motor vehicles and vessels at National Suisse, based in Basel/Switzerland. In this position she held responsible for developing various motor vehicle insurance products. Désirée's focus is digital business, for which she's also consulting the management team of online classic vehicle trading platform 'Classic Trader'. The Swiss national worked as a mentor for various startups in the digital realm and is a co-founder of Swiss camper van hire portal mycamper.ch, where she's still an active member of the board. Désirée left Creadi AG, a Basel based InsurTech startup which she co-founded in 2016 and headed as CEO since, as per 1st July 2019. The music enthusiast and mother of twins lives in Hamburg/Germany with her husband and daughters

Vincent began his career at Société Générale in Asia, before joining the Allianz group in 2001 as an Investor Relations Officer. In addition to his functions he took on the management of the AGF Chairman’s Office, adding the management of the long-term investments portfolio in 2006. In 2007, he became Managing Director of the asset management company Tocqueville Finance. He joined SCOR in 2009 as Manager of the Chairman’s Office, before taking on the role of Group General Secretary. More recently, he contributed to the development of ILS Strategies for SCOR and in May 2014 took over the Alternative Solutions Specialty Line, acting as CUO. In 2018, he was appointed Deputy CEO of SCOR Global P&C Partners. He will become CEO of P&C Partners in Q1 2022, following the retirement of Sylvie Van Viet.

Passionate about technology and people, Eduardo is now Director of Transformation and Efficiency of Ageas Portugal Group, a reference in the Insurance industry. He spent his career immersed in technology and transformations, having gone through several and diverse management positions in areas of technology consulting, leader in information systems roles and recently, general manager for a digital business unit.

Ben Wilson joined the ABI as Director of Advocacy in January 2020. He was previously an Executive Director at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and has held senior communications roles in a number of Government departments including DWP, DfE and No10. He also worked as Head of International Communications at the BBC and is rostered to serve in UN peacekeeping missions. Ben recently completed studies at the University of Helsinki on AI, and has a young daughter Hilda (who is also Finnish).

Italian born, Swiss based, Beppe has built a deep and diverse experience and network across industries, roles and markets. Fluent in four languages, has experience of living and working across diverse countries. 

Driven by a commercial mindset, Beppe sits at the crossroads of consumer value, technology, people and technical knowledge to foster innovation in  insurance.

Besides his corporate roles, Beppe actively mentors startups and has lately co-founded the Swiss Insurtech Hub (www.swissinsurtech.com).

He enjoys spare time traveling and undertaking outdoor activities with the family.

Marie Niemczyk is Head of Insurance Relations at CANDRIAM. In this role she monitors the factors impacting insurers’ asset management - including market, regulation and accounting-related matters – and works to ensure these insurance-specific requirements and objectives are integrated into investment solutions and strategies.

Prior to joining Candriam in 2018, Marie was Insurance Strategy & Development Director at AXA Investment Managers in Paris. Previously, Marie held several positions with Fidelity in London, Frankfurt and Paris. Before that, she was an Economist with EY in London. She started her career in 2004 as a Research Associate with The Advisory Board Company in Washington D.C.. Marie has an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, a B.A. from Swarthmore College, and holds IMC and SII qualifications.

He is leading the Augmented Claims department within Group Emerging Tech & Data. The aim of Augmented Claims is to leverage AI and ML for transforming the Claims experience, particularly on Fraud Analytics and Claims Automation. In 2018, Joel was Chief Data Officer for AXA International & New Markets, in charge of leading and supervising the implementation of the Data Strategy for the AXA emerging entities. Joel supported the setup of AWS Data Analytics platforms for several entities. Joel was appointed as Head of Regional Architecture, Data and Innovation in August 2015. Joel joined AXA in 2012 as the Head of Architecture, IT Strategy and Innovation for Life & Savings. Prior to this, he worked at Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB CA), BNP Paribas and Societe Generale CIB (SG CIB). Joel holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metier’s in Paris, France.

<p>Rebekah Ratliff is an international Mediator and Arbitrator with the Judicial Mediation and Arbitration Service (JAMS), the largest private provider of alternative dispute resolution services in the world. She is a credentialed former commercial insurance claims professional with over 25 years of experience evaluating, negotiating and settling casualty claims, nationwide and internationally. Having a wide range of subject matter expertise, she managed and held the authority to negotiate and resolve complex claims for global commercial insurance carriers, with settlements totaling in the millions. </p><p>Rebekah is the President of the Atlanta Chapter of the National African American Insurance Association (NAAIA). She is a member of the Insurance Supper Club (London) and Advisor to the London-based African Caribbean Insurance Network. Rebekah is an internationally sought-after presenter, panelist, and lecturer in the insurance and legal industries. She is the recipient of various prestigious awards to include a 7^th U.S. District (IL) Congressional Award, for her work in alternative dispute resolution. Ms. Ratliff is a native of Chicago, IL, and graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana, holding a degree in Psychology. She is based in Atlanta, GA and operates in the US, London and the Caribbean.</p>

Susanne Chishti is the CEO of FINTECH Circle, Europe's 1st Investor Network focused on fintech and insurtech investments & Founder of the FINTECH Circle Institute, a leading fintech learning platform offering Innovation Workshops to C-level executives. She is also the Co-Editor of the Bestseller "The FINTECH Book" which has been translated into 10 languages and is sold across 107 countries, The WealthTECH Book, The InsurTECH Book, The PAYTECH Book, The AI Book and The LEGALTECH Book (published by WILEY in 2020). Awards:

1) Top 32 Fintech Leaders in the UK (Business Leaders, Sept 2020)
2) Top 24th Fintech Influencer in the World (Onalytica, 2020) - among the Top 100 Fintech Influencers globally
3) Winner of the Fintech Champion of the Year Award 2019 (Women in Finance Awards)
4) Social Media Influencer of the Year 2018 (Investment Week)
5) Top 7 Crypto Experts globally 2018 (Inc Magazine)
6) City Innovator - Inspirational Woman in 2016
7) Top 5 ESG Influencers Globally (Refinitiv, 2020) and top 100 Fintech Influencers globally (Refinitiv, Sept 2020)

She has also been a fintech TV Commentator on CNBC and a guest lecturer on financial technology at the University of Cambridge and Warwick Business School. After completing her MBA she started her career working for a fintech company (before the term "fintech" was being invented) in the Silicon Valley 25 years ago. She then worked more than 15 years’ across Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Stanley and Accenture in London and Hong Kong.

Susanne is an award-winning Entrepreneur and Investor with strong FINTECH expertise. She is a Judge & Coach at global FINTECH events and competitions and a conference keynote speaker. Susanne leads a global community of 200,000 fintech entrepreneurs, investors, financial services professionals globally (www.fintechcircle.com).

Matthew has recently been appointed as CFO of RSA’s European business based in Luxembourg.  He has been with RSA for over five years, undertaking a number of roles within finance including as Group Head of Investor Relations.  Prior to joining RSA, he worked for KPMG in London working within the financial services M&A team.  Matthew is also a qualified Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Lara joined the insurance sector in 2016 and now works as the Global Managing Director for ISC Group where she is responsible for executing the global strategy of the group as well as managing operations in each region. Lara has been responsible for launching an ISC Group franchise model and building on the strength of local ISC regions. Further to this, Lara has been busy working on launching the business in APAC and LATAM as well as continuing to spread across EMEA. Lara is motivated by culture change and bringing it to the insurance sector, to make everyone's work lives better. Lara is focused on streamlining development resources to women so they can move through the ranks into leadership positions more quickly. Lara has developed and driven these development programmes and memberships for the last 5 years, continuously adapting it to the relevant issues and challenges we face today.

Marcos Malzone is the VP of Product Marketing for Solera. Based in the UK, Marcos has over 25 years experience in the Technology, Telecommunications and Insurance sectors. Marcos has held various senior roles in product management and business development, and has dedicated the last 10 years of his career delivering digital transformation to large enterprises worldwide. For the past 2 years Marcos has been responsible to bring to market new product innovation including AI-based estimating solutions. Marcos holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University and an MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas, both in Brazil.

James is a Partner at EY, based in Ireland with responsibilities in the local market as Head of Insurance and across the region within the context of risk and actuarial matters, including a regional role as EMEA Head of Sustainable Insurance. James is an actuary, having qualified in 1995 and is a member of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland. He holds a master’s degree in management science and a diploma in corporate governance. Prior to joining EY in 2020 James worked in industry (primarily reinsurance) for over 20 years holding a range of leadership roles.

Olly Venables started with CTI in 2019 and his current role in Strategic Accounts gives him exposure to multiple different insurance markets on a day to day basis. Having spent more than 18 years in the insurance and banking sectors his previously held roles include: - International IT Delivery Manager, Head of Business Applications & Business Solution Architect. Olly’s primary focus at CTI is to understand and advise Clients on the way in which CTI’s solutions can create business benefit through digital transformations. He has successfully implemented and overseen numerous projects both in London and Globally that span the whole insurance lifecycle from Quote and Bind to Reinsurance management.

Shannan is a Partner within the Financial Lines team at McGill and Partners, where she currently leads the Cyber and Commercial Errors & Omissions placements, product development and innovation in the London market. 

Prior to McGill and Partners, Shannan was with Aon from 2006 until 2020, most recently as the Product Development and co-Team Leader of Cyber in the London Global Broking Centre.

Shannan is known to many within the cyber market and has been nominated for various awards over the years, including Most Skilled Broker (Insurance Insider) and Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – London (Advisen).

Bob brings 25 years of technology services experience across various industries but primarily within the Insurance domain. Following a long career at CSC where he was responsible for the L&P half of the $750m p.a. Global Outsourcing contract with Zurich, Bob served as NTT DATA Switzerland's interim country lead returning that business unit to profitability, serving a range of domestic Swiss banks and insurers, before a 3-year stint leading their UK Financial Services division delivering across London Markets and a range of domestic carriers.

Latterly Bob has seen roles as an independent director and advisor to a number of US and UK tech start-ups, exploring a range of interests from Fintech through logistics. He acts as Account Director at AdvantageGo bringing a wealth of practical, customer-focused experience, a deep understanding of product value and a legacy of industry know-how.

Christian Wiens wants to challenge one of the largest industries in the world by building one of the world’s up and rising digital insurance companies – as the founder and CEO of Getsafe. Holding a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, he is an already experienced digital entrepreneur with a strong background in tech, entrepreneurship and product development. At Getsafe, Christian is responsible for the company's strategy and product, investor relations and communications. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of gourmeo.com, which he successfully sold to the Müller Media Group.

Na Jia is a Fellow of Society of Actuaries and holds a Master’s Degree in Statistics from Renmin University of China. Qualifying as an Actuary in 2001, she was one of the earliest FSAs in mainland China.

Na began working for Swiss Re Life & Health Australia and later on worked in Zurich, London and South Korea in various pricing and client management roles. In 2004 she joined ReMark in Singapore as the regional pricing actuary for Asia. She since has held various positions in ReMark, including the International Chief Marketing Officer (based in Amsterdam) and Head of Asia (based in Singapore). Na was instrumental in building ReMark’s proprietary capabilities in data modelling and digital channel and played a key role in acquiring strategic clients contributing to ReMark’s success in Asia today.

In addition to the distribution field, she is also active in actuarial academic research. Her research paper on Epidemic Modelling and SARS as a Case Study was published in the North American Actuarial Journal in 2005.

In August 2017, Na was appointed as CEO, ReMark International

Pascal Millaire is the CEO of CyberCube, which provides data and analytic tools to the cyber insurance industry.

CyberCube was established under Pascal’s leadership in 2015 within Symantec and has operated as a standalone venture-backed business since January 2018. Today, CyberCube provides software as a service tools that support data-driven decision-making for over 60% of the global cyber (re)insurance market by premium. CyberCube’s clients include globally leading insurance brokers, insurers and reinsurers who benefit from CyberCube’s distinctive data and analytics that are fine-tuned across the entire insurance value chain.

Previously, Pascal was President of a hotel software company and a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he served companies in the insurance industry. Pascal holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Alena Tsishchanka, Insurance Lead EMEA at SAS, has been trusted to lead business development strategy in Insurance in EMEA region supporting insurance customers for over a decade. Her focus has been around meaningful Analytical Transformation of insurance companies. Her design priority has been the blending together of machine learning and other advanced applications with Human Intelligence. Together with local teams Alena Tsishchanka has guided customers on technology and process innovation helping them efficiently face market challenges and succeed in their Customer-centric approach.

Felix Kugelmann has been working in the insurance industry for over 20 years. He gained his extensive experience in the worlds of small and large insurers, such as at Debeka Krankenversicherung as Area Sales Manager or also at Allianz as Project Manager Regulatory Strategy, start-ups and software companies. Most recently, Felix supported the technical development of Ottonova, the first completely digital health insurer. Today, Felix Kugelmann works at SAS as Principal Advisor Insurance and helps insurance companies to use advanced analytics to work in a more customer-centric way.

19 years’ experience in the insurance industry, working with leading insurance organizations, consulting companies, tech companies and insurtechs. After 10 years within multinational insurance companies like Assicurazioni Generali, Reale Group and Aviva, covering cross-functional roles with growing levels of responsibility in the underwriting, claims and sales/distribution departments, in the latest 9 years I have been advising Board and Leadership teams of insurance and reinsurance companies on insurance innovation, open and embedded insurance, and collaborating with leading consulting companies as insurance innovation subject matter expert.

Dr Bronwyn Claire leads ClimateWise, a group of near 40 insurance industry members who are responding to the risks and opportunities of climate change. The ClimateWise Principles Independent Review 2020 shows member insurance industry firms have made significant progress in their preparedness and response to climate change and TCFD aligned disclosure. ClimateWise also leads in research with recent reports Climate product innovation within the insurance sector and Policy opportunities on the road to net zero underwriting that explore the critical role of the insurance industry in enabling the transition of the wider economy towards decarbonisation.

Bronwyn joined CISL in 2018 from KPMG, where she worked with insurers and banks in Australia and Hong Kong to improve risk management and internal controls. Bronwyn began her career in environmental economics at the University of Western Australia, focusing her PhD on the design of incentives and risk management for environmental sustainability.