Speakers

Jeremy Keating
Founder
Price Writers

Jeremy Keating is the founder of Price Writers, a training and events company specialising in general insurance pricing. Jeremy started in GI pricing in 2009 and advanced from analyst to leader. At Price Writers he has worked with a wide variety of providers from The AA, Aviva, and Axa to Vitality and Zurich. Jeremy’s vision is to enable every pricing leader to reach their potential and become highly valued leaders.

Ambroise Lafont
R&D Director & Computer Science Professor
MasterActuary

Ambroise Lafont serves as Director of Research at MasterActuary, where he spearheads algorithmic development and optimization initiatives. A computer science professor at France's elite École Polytechnique, he brings his academic excellence to our development team.

Elliot Turvall
Head of Solutions Engineering EMEA
Earnix

Elliot Turvall is the Head of Solutions Engineering EMEA at Earnix, a global provider of intelligent, composable, SaaS solutions for insurers and banks. With nearly 15 years of experience in data analysis and statistics, Elliot joined Earnix in 2018 and currently leads an international team of solution engineers. His team performs demonstrations and leads workshops, including evaluations, of Earnix Price-It and Earnix Underwrite-It at world-leading insurance companies. Elliot holds an MSc with honors in Mathematical Statistics and Bioinformatics, as well as a BA with honors in French and Hebrew. He is fluent in English, French, Swedish, and Hebrew.

Paul Webster
Solution Engineer
Earnix

Paul has spent more than 25 years in insurance technology, working with insurers, MGAs, large corporate brokers and non-financial services businesses, across a broad range of transformation projects. His experience spans P&C, Health and Life insurance, working in more than 30 different countries, representing technology providers such as SSP, TIA Technology (Sapiens), FintechOS and eBaotech. He has a real passion for promoting the real benefit and value that technology can deliver to insurers, focussing on solving real business problems, whilst consulting on how organisations can transform using innovation. He has been with Earnix since 2023 and currently works as a Solutions Engineer in the EMEA region.

Kobus Rust
Founder
Exakt

Frustrated by the slow, outdated methods in insurance pricing, Kobus founded Exakt to bring a fresh, technology-driven approach to the industry. Drawing on his experience from both the insurance sector and fast-paced startups, Kobus is building a platform that streamlines pricing for short-term insurance through transparent machine learning. With degrees in Actuarial Science, Operations Research (Honours), and Data Science (Masters), he combines deep actuarial knowledge with advanced data science to tackle complex pricing challenges head-on.

Jalal Saleem
Business Consultant
SSP Limited

A technically competent and commercially aware Business Consultant with over 15 years' experiance across requirements analysis, solution design and implementation. A proven track record of delivering work to a very high standard and to the demanding requirements of a wide range of clients across multiple industry sectors; successfully meeting business objectives, solving business problems and driving commercial success. Joined SSP in October 2015 as the lead Business Analyst responsible for implementing Insurer solutions, principally with the flagship rating product IQH. Now its SME, role has expanded to additionally cover product development, pre-sales support and solution architecture across both Personal and Commercial Lines.

Sucheta Mohan
Director of Professional Services & Product Management
SSP Limited

With over 22 years of experience in the global P&C insurance market, I have deep expertise in insurance operations, pricing trends, implementations, and strategic leadership across diverse territories. Having transitioned from working within an insurance company to providing solutions for insurers, I now lead as Director of Professional Services & Product Management, driving strategic product vision, enabling customer-centric innovations, and delivering expert consultation and implementation for scalable success and growth.

Scott Holmes
Director
Quantee

Scott is responsible Quantee operations in Northern Europe and Africa having joined the company in 2022. Scott has over 15 years industry experience and worked across insurance companies and global technology providers.

Mikolaj Skraburski
Actuarial Consultant
Quantee

Mikolaj has over 7 years in actuarial experience having worked in teams across UK, Ireland, Poland and Germany. Mikolaj is responsible for the delivery and management of client projects in the UK and joined Quantee in 2022.

Claudio Senatore
Senior Global Insurance Solution Leader
SAS

Claudio is a distinguished actuary who serves as Sr. Insurance Solution Leader within the Risk Quantitative Solution team at SAS Institute. As a dedicated member of the Italian Actuarial Association, he actively collaborates with both the International and European Actuarial Associations, especially in the Data Analytics and AI areas. With a diverse background in consultancy, direct insurance, and reinsurance, Claudio's expertise spans multiple domains, including Insurance Data Analytics, Property & Casualty Ratemaking, as well as Explainable and Ethical Artificial Intelligence.

Oana Avramescu
Sr. Manager, Global Insurance Solution Leader
SAS

Oana, an expert in the field of risk management, offers her expertise to guide financial institutions in optimizing their insurance risk modeling and decision-making processes throughout the entire lifecycle. Since joining SAS in August 2012, Oana has been dedicated to assisting clients in overcoming their most significant challenges within the realm of Risk Management. She has served as a subject matter expert on Solvency II and IFRS17 initiatives for numerous leading insurance companies. At present, Oana is leading the Risk Insurance Solutions: Insurance Capital Management (Solvency II, ICS), Insurance Contract Valuations (IFRS17, LDTI) and Actuarial Transformation (Pricing, Reserving and Underwriting). Oana's credentials include an MBA diploma from CNAM Paris, with over 15 years of experience across diverse roles within the insurance, banking and software sectors. Her professional journey includes collaborations with prominent financial institutions and well-recognized regulatory software providers.

Joost van Bruggen
Partner
MavenBlue

Joost van Bruggen did an MSc in Physics at the University of Utrecht. He started his career as a software developer at a popular policy admin provider in the Netherlands. Following this he began in pricing working for several large Dutch insurers, ultimately working at Head of Pricing for Achmea. In 2018 he joined MavenBlue to realise his vision for Pricing.

Rick de Jager
Head of Sales
MavenBlue

Rick de Jager did an MSc in insurance/actuarial sciences at the university of Amsterdam. Throughout his career he has worked in a commercial capacity with various actuarial modelling platforms. This includes companies like WTW, Earnix, FIS and RMS. At MavenBlue he is responsible for business development.

Zouhair Himer
Managing Director
MasterActuary

Fellow of the French Institute of Actuaries, he previously served as Pricing Manager and Deputy Head of Product at La Vaudoise Assurances, a major Swiss insurer with over €1 billion in annual.