(Re)thinking Insurance Podcast

Magdalena is the EMEA InsurTech Innovation Leader for the Insurance Consulting and Technology business, leading the firm’s insurance-focused R&D efforts around InsurTech and blockchain technology. She has more than 20 years of experience in R&D and international consulting. She currently focuses on innovation and strategic consulting for the Insurance Industry.

Jamie is a Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) practice. He leads Willis Towers Watson’s reserving proposition in the Americas.

Nick is a Senior Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) practice. He is the ICT Life M&A Leader for North America.

Simon is a Senior Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Climate and Resilience Hub, focused on projects and programmes around the world to support building of resilience to climate risk and natural disasters. Prior to joining Willis Towers Watson, Simon was CEO of Caribbean Risk Managers, the facility supervisors for the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, and the founding CEO of the African Risk Capacity’s insurance arm.

Karen is a Senior Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) practice. She leads ICT's pension risk transfer (PRT) work, assisting clients on all aspects, including entering the PRT marketplace, assessing competitiveness and financial modeling.

Magdalena is the EMEA InsurTech Innovation Leader for the Insurance Consulting and Technology business, leading the firm’s insurance-focused R&D efforts around insurtech and blockchain technology. She has more than 20 years of experience in R&D and international consulting. She currently focuses on innovation and strategic consulting for the Insurance Industry.

Duncan is the Global Leader of the Insurance Technology team, which is responsible for developing, implementing and supporting specialist analytical and enterprise software solutions that are licensed by some 1,000 insurance companies globally. He has worked for Willis Towers Watson for over 30 years, predominately specialising in personal lines pricing analytics and related software.

Simon is a Marketing Director in the Insurance Consulting and Technology business, leading a small team responsible for developing and implement multi-channel marketing campaigns for the business in EMEA and globally. Simon has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional services marketer.

Alastair is a Director based in London for Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business.

Matthew is a Director based in London, where he leads the demographic risk and analytics team for Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business.

Stefanie is the deputy head of Willis Towers Watson’s insurance consulting and software business in the DACH region and has been with the firm (including legacy organisations) for more than 15 years. She specialises in non-life actuarial consultancy with a focus on risk modelling and risk management.

André is an Executive Director at Willis Re, based in the Munich office. He has worked on both the actuarial and the broking side and currently heads the analytics and service-offering teams for Nordics, German-speaking Countries, Holland, CEE and Turkey.

Joe is a Senior Director and the Global Product Leader for Business Process Excellence which includes our automation and governance technology, Unify, and our data solution, DataValidator. In this role he helps clients achieve more efficient and more effective business processes. Joe has a strong background in P&C claims reserving for U.S. and Bermuda based captives, insurers, and reinsurers, as well as extensive experience leading P&C due diligence engagements.

Tom is a Director in the UK Insurance Consulting and Technology practice, and the Technical Product Lead for the DataValidator software solution. He runs the firm’s internal Business Process Automation Centre of Excellence, as well as leading a number of teams globally in implementing best in class automation and technical solutions for our clients.

Richard is a Director in Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business and leads the development of mortality and demographic risk models for our UK business.

Keziah is a Risk Analyst in Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business who works mainly with UK Life Insurers.

Matthew Ball is the ILS consulting leader for Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business as well as the Bermuda office leader. He’s been in the insurance industry for more than 20 years and is an actuary by trade.

Bill Dubinsky is Managing Director and Head of ILS at Willis Re Securities. Prior to Willis Towers Watson, Bill worked at Swiss Re Capital Markets, Merrill Lynch and Aon Capital Markets. Bill has a background in law.

Chris Halliday is a Director in Willis Towers Watson’s insurance consulting and technology team for whom he directs consulting research and development in EMEA, and leads P&C practices in Southwest Europe. Chris specialises in actuarial and data science consultancy and delivers projects in the UK and across EMEA from his home in the UK.

Alice Underwood is the Global Leader of Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business. Prior to that, she led the Analytics team for Willis Re North America for more than 11 years. Alice is a mathematician by trade.

Richard Clarkson is Head of London Market Consulting at Willis Towers Watson. He’s a lawyer by trade, but spent most of his work life in operations and business development. One area of his expertise is around advising on the set-up of new trading and operating models and the required structures, processes and skills.

George Zarkadakis is the Director of Willis Towers Watson’s Digital Incubator and leader of the Future of Work Strategy Advisory Services for Great Britain and Western Europe. George advises companies on business transformation in the context of robotic process automation, artificial intelligence and robotics.