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Bartosz Piwcewicz
Bartosz is a passionate leader with broad experience across different industries gained in both corporate and consulting roles. He has a proven track record in successfully building and leading actuarial and analytical functions, engaging with executives and boards, developing and implementing impactful data-driven strategies and improving business practices for companies in Australia and New Zealand.
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Amanda Aitken
amanda.aitken@actuaries.asn.au
Amanda is a member of the Institute’s Actuarial Education team. She brings her passion for teaching and years of actuarial experience to this role, which is focussed on redeveloping the Actuary and Fellowship exams for actuarial students.
Amanda has worked closely with universities and other members of the Data Analytics Practice Committee to design a new Data Analytics Principles subject, which will form part of the actuarial education program from 2020.
Her actuarial background is in workers' compensation, where she used her analytical skills to uncover scheme trends and develop initiatives and strategies to improve scheme outcomes. Amanda has also been involved in a variety of analytical projects, including forecasting membership profiles of sporting clubs and building.
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Mitch Prevett
Mitch leads the Product Analytics team at Quantium building advanced analytics into their products across all industries and solutions. In addition, he leads the analytics community at Quantium driving thought leadership and best practice across the company.
Prior to his current role Mitch led the retail business unit working with Woolworths and large FMCG suppliers consulting at a strategic level on pricing and promotions, forecasting, ranging and customer targeting. He also has deep experience in the Insurance industry and was central in the development of new approaches in price optimisation, risk modelling and competitor analysis.
Mitch has a Bachelor of Actuarial Studies with First Class Honours from The Australian National University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. |
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Rob Deutsch
@RobMDeutsch
Rob is the founder of Boxer which creates software for insightful and efficient financial modelling. He is an actuary with experience across analytics, DC & DB superannuation consulting, insurance and product design. Working in both Australia and Japan he’s driven a wide variety of analytics projects to success in a wide variety of fields including retail, forensics, supply chain, M&A, and management reporting.
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Chris Dolman
Chris Dolman has wide ranging insurance industry experience, having worked across multiple countries as both an advisor and in industry, in both traditional and non-traditional roles. He is currently GM, Analytics at IAG, helping to drive data driven decision making across all aspects of the organisation. |
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Hugh Miller
Hugh is an actuary at Taylor Fry, where he has worked since 2006 undertaking work for both Analytics and General Insurance. Over the past few years he has had a particular focus on government social services, including the annual valuation of the New Zealand Welfare system. Hugh is also a keen researcher, completing his PhD in statistics at the University of Melbourne in 2010. Topics of interest include combining approaches from statistics and actuarial science, as well as developing methods for individual level modelling of actuarial problems. |
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Alex Rowley
alex.rowley@au.ey.com
Alex is an Executive Manager at Quantium working in the product analytics team. His focus is on applying statistical and numerical techniques to solve real world business problems. To achieve this he has used and deployed a wide variety of statistical, analytical and machine learning algorithms to manage risk or improve performance. Alex’s experience has been broad across industries such as retail, government and financial services and includes twelve years at EY . Alex is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
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Bernard Wong PhD
bernard.wong@unsw.edu.au
Bernard is the Head of the School of Risk of Actuarial Studies at the University of New South Wales. His research is focused on actuarial modelling and insurance risk and capital, and teaches courses in data analytics and in enterprise risk management for actuaries.Bernard is a Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
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Aaron Cutter
Aaron was a physicist and is now an actuary and Principal at Finity experienced in general insurance and accident compensation. Recently he has set up and leads Finity’s Big Data practice, also known as Defin’d and is committed to actuaries in analytics playing a further significant role in this space. He is a strong believer that actuaries help organisations better understand their businesses, their customers and hence are well placed to help with issues of strategic importance. Actuaries, data and analytics in business problem solutions will only deepen as the world’s generation, retention and ability to interrogate data explodes.
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Basem Morris
Basem is a data analytics actuary at Deloitte. He is a qualified actuary with extensive experience in analytics, banking and insurance. Prior to joining Deloitte, he spent 10 years working in London where he advised some of the largest European, Asian and Australian financial institutions.
Bringing together a unique blend of technical expertise and commercial acumen, he focuses on bridging the gap between analytics and business needs.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (FIAA).
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Jas Singh
Jas is a Managing Consultant at SKL Actuarial, a specialist actuarial recruitment firm. He has over 10 year’s actuarial experience working in life insurance, non-life insurance and wealth management, both in Australia and the U.K. |
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Mike Fowlds
Mike Is head of actuarial management and is Appointed Actuary at Swiss Re Life & Health Australia. He has more than 20 years' experience in the insurance industry and is a qualified UK and Australian actuary (FIAA, 2005). He has a broad international background, having been located during his career in five different countries and for direct writer, consulting and reinsurance employers. Mike has strong management experience and experience with major system migration projects. He is interested in exploring how new data analytical techniques could be used to enhance the traditional actuarial fields of experience studies and monitoring, early warning systems and policy liability valuation.
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Bill Konstantinidis
Bill has extensive experience within the general insurance area. He is currently General Manager Product at Covermore where he looks after the product, underwriting and actuarial teams of the company for travel insurance. He was previously Executive Manager Pricing Commercial Customer at Suncorp within the Chief Data Office (where he managed a large team of actuaries and analysts covering valuation, pricing and analysis of a wide range of general insurance products across the Suncorp Group), having held other Executive Manager positions with Suncorp prior to that. He has also held Chief Underwriting Officer/Executive Manager roles with Allianz Global Assistance, RACQ Insurance and CUNA Mutual. In 2011 he was President of the Queensland Branch of ANZIIF (Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance). |
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Anthony Christie
Anthony is an Analyst at Quantium where he works with
big data in the retail sector to deliver transformational insights to
companies such as Woolworths. At Quantium he is currently gaining
practical experience towards Associate membership with the Actuaries
Institute. Anthony's Master of Actuarial Studies at The University of
New South Wales was preceded by a Bachelor's degree in Pure Mathematics.
He has an enduring professional curiosity for applications of machine
learning, gaining distinction in an open online course on the subject
via Stanford University. |
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Uma Joshi
Uma joined QBE in December 2014 as the Group’s Senior Manager, Risk Analytics with a focus on providing risk analytics, research and robust reporting to support the Group Risk Team in providing a robust second line of defence. This includes leveraging the information and data available to QBE to provide insights on potential risks and opportunities. Prior to this, Uma has worked with J.P. Morgan as Vice President in Equity Research covering Australian Insurance, with Quantium as a Senior Consultant focusing on 'big data' products, and with QBE’s Australian Operations as the Motor Pricing Actuary. |
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Estelle Pearson
Estelle is
a general insurance actuary and a Principal Managing Director of Finity
Consulting. She specialises in consulting to casualty insurers
operating in the Australian and New Zealand markets on a range of topics
including reserving, pricing and strategy. Estelle holds a number of
regulatory roles and was named Actuary of the Year in 2012. |
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Colin Priest
Colin is Director, Customer Success, Asia for DataRobot, a machine learning software company. He has worked in Australia and across Asia, applying predictive analytics to such diverse industries as healthcare, insurance, banking, oil and gas, security and retail. Colin teaches the data analytics subject in the Commercial Actuarial Practice course, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
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Angat Sandhu
Angat
is a Principal based in Oliver Wyman’s Sydney office. In this role, he
works in depth with major banks and insurers in Australia and Asia on
complex engagements, helping organisations fine-tune their strategy in
response to changing economic, regulatory and competitive dynamics.
Prior
to joining Oliver Wyman in 2007, he worked in the Funds Management
Group at Macquarie Bank and as a research analyst at Towers Watson.
Angat holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial Studies and
Finance) from the University of New South Wales. He is a holder of the
right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation, is an
Associate of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, and holds the
Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation. |
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Ada Tong
Ada is an analytics and data science consultant with 10
years of experience across multiple industries in both Australia and
Hong Kong. She is passionate about using data to help businesses make
better decisions. She is currently working for Quantium, helping
businesses make data-driven decisions with exciting new datasets. She
has just returned from a three year stint in Hong Kong where she led the
Modelling & Insights team at Asia Miles. Her team analysed customer
behavior to drive better customer experiences and business outcomes.
She also spent a year working for various Asian fintech startups. In her
spare time, she started the Hong Kong Analytics Community, a
networking group for analytics professionals in the city. Ada is excited
about the contribution actuaries can make to data analytics and the
data science world. |
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Alan Whitelock-Jones
Further to his Actuarial studies, Alan studied computer
science at University as an extra subject. He was interested in
computing and programming and it gave him the ammunition to persuade the
Dean of the Faculty to let him drop finance from his degree (which he
thought boring but he didn’t tell him that).
While working after university he tried to program himself
out of having to do anything repetitive, mostly with spreadsheet macros,
but also using other programming languages at work. His favourite
language being APL for the ability to get the most done with the
shortest code. He once programmed a 50 page premium rate book as a
single line of code.
He moved into actuarial modelling working for Classic
Solutions (later Tillinghast and Towers Watson) developing the MoSes
modelling platform and helping clients implement models.
Alan did a machine learning course on Coursera because he
was interested in the algorithms. This is only loosely related to data
analytics as it was mostly about algorithms to drive cars and read
characters, but he was persuaded that data analytics was fun and he
already knew more than the average would-be data analyst so would find
the transition easy.
He has recently completed all the John Hopkins University’s
Data Science Specialisation courses on Coursera while putting his skills
to use at work. |
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Richard Brookes
Richard is an actuary working for Taylor Fry in
the areas of data analytics, insurance pricing and accident
compensation. He co-leads Taylor Fry’s analytics practice, providing
analytics and statistical advice to Suncorp, Qantas Loyalty, Telstra and
the federal Department of Employment. He is the current actuary for the
QLD CTP regulator and provides peer review advice to NSW WorkCover. |
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Adam Driussi
Adam co-founded Quantium in 2002 where he now employs
over 150 staff. Quantium specialise in assisting clients realise value
through the combination of data, analytics and software development. Quantium's
major clients include companies such as Woolworths, NAB, FOXTEL,
Telstra, eBay, Qantas and most major financial services companies. |
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David Isaacs
David joined Quantium at its inception and is the Group Executive
– Data, Analytics and Innovation. Additionally, he manages Quantium’s
Brisbane office.
Joining Quantium from Trowbridge Deloitte, Dave
graduated from The Australian National University in 1997 with a
Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Pure Mathematics. He is a
Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
Dave has
experience in a wide range of industries and drives our thinking in
creating and deploying cutting edge analytics for our clients and data
partners. |
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Rachael McNaughton
Rachel is an Actuarial Analyst with Towers Watson, where she is currently involved in insurance focused Big Data Analytics projects providing advanced analytics and insights to clients in the insurance industry. Rachael specialised in Machine Learning during her Actuarial Studies and Computer Science degree at the Australian National University, and with a great interest in this area, lead to Rachael tutoring the Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning course at ANU, as well as lecturing the Neural Networks unit.
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Craig Price
Craig is the Executive Manager, Chief Data Office -
Advanced Analytics at Suncorp. Craig is an actuary with over 20 years
experience in fields such as Insurance Pricing and Personal Injury
Analytics. In his current role he leads a team of statisticians,
actuaries and data scientists that are applying predictive analytics
across a wide range of business problems within Suncorp. |
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Dimitri Semenovich
Dimitri is a Technical Director of Analytics at IAG. He has a particular interest in the advancement of practical actuarial methodology and its realignment with modern advances in optimisation and machine learning. His other interests are in market design and risk theory. Dimitri has a PhD in Computer Science. |