Insurance Technology Group




	Insurance Technology Group has developed unparalleled reputation for providing world class insurance expertise to our clients. All our consultants have at least 15 years of hand-on management experience from within the insurance industry. Here are profiles of some of our Industry Experts: Senior Executive Consultant Over 35 years of insurance industry experienced in North America Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice-President of 3 publicly listed insurance companies Held responsibilities for corporate actuarial and IT Participated in number of mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry Senior Executive Consultant Over 35 years experience in the Life Insurance industry in Canada, Central and Southern Europe. Held senior management and executives positions including President and CEO of two life insurance companies. As President & CEO established a successful record of pioneering business development and product innovation both in mature and developing markets. Competencies in life and non-life insurance, all distribution channels, as well as bancassurance.. Expertise and experience includes high level strategic and operational planning and implementation as well as day-to-day management of a life insurance company and business outsourcing company operations. Senior Executive Consultant Over 25 years of experience in Information Technology industry. Held senior executive roles within the multi-national corporations including positions of CIO at major international insurance company and global manufacturing company. Strong track record of turning IT investment dollars into cost effective business solutions and managing highly efficient operations. Advised C-level executives from mid-size and large P&C insurance companies on aligning business and technology strategies, IT management processes and operational improvements. Extensive experience in strategic IT planning, IT organizational design, enterprise architectures, core business process and applications and change management for financial services companies. Experience from international marketplaces and projects in USA, Canada and Europe. Senior Executive Consultant Over 35 years experience in the Financial Services and Information Technology industries. President and CEO of two life insurance companies, President and CEO of Canadaâ€™s first outsourcing company for the life insurance industry and CIO of a Canadian life insurance company. Expertise and experience includes high level strategic and operational planning and implementation as well as day-to-day management of life insurance company and business outsourcing company operations First 20 years focused primarily on progressively more responsible roles in the IT Industry â€“ systems analysis and design, sales, branch, region, and headquarters management of a major IT company and executive management of a consulting services company. Senior Executive Consultant An executive with over 30 years of insurance experience focusing on operations and underwriting Member of senior management team responsible for special project in an insurance company with $ 2.5 billion revenue and 2500 staff Managed underwriting and reinsurance for a major national and international insurance company Extensive experience and responsibilities for new product development Responsible for branch operations and customer growth for a major national carrier Senior Executive Consultant Over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry in Central and Eastern Europe Responsible for Claims operations in the largest insurance company in Central and Eastern Europe (3 500 of staff, over $ 2 billion in compensations paid annually) CEO of one of the most successful direct insurance companies in CEE Restructured operations for two major insurance companies in CEE Founded a CEE subsidiary of one of the 10 largest global brokers Senior Executive Consultant An executive with over 20 years of business experience from insurance and technology industries Member of the executive team of one of the largest companies in Central and Eastern Europe (P&C and Life) As an executive managed Operations and Information Technology functions Responsible for successful transformation programs in operations and IT. Executive Consultant Over 20 years of employment in the financial services sector, focusing on insurance industry. Includes Information Technology management, project management, systems development and maintenance, and business development. Specializing in aligning IT with the business needs of organizations. Extensive experience in management and value assessment of information technology, and advice on the due diligence portions of mergers and acquisitions. Held range of Information Technology management positions for a global insurance organization, software vendor to the insurance industry and management consulting. Executive Consultant Over 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Financial Services industry. Held progressively expanding positions from computer programmer to CIO level within the IT industry. Diverse expertise and experience in the business, vendor and management consulting environments. Exposure to international marketplaces and projects: worked and lived in Europe and North America. Executive Consultant 25+ years of experience in the Information Technology sector, 17 in the insurance industry. Key experience is in the areas of: Corporate IT Management (CIO), Business Development and Process Re-engineering, Software Development and Systems Maintenance, Infrastructure Re-engineering and Call Centre Architecture. Specializes in aligning IT with the business needs of organizations. Extensive experience in Project Initiation and Implementation as result of business process re-engineering, experience in managing IT teams concurrently in different time zones and cultural backgrounds. Executive Consultant Over 20 years of experience in application of Information Technology industry in the Financial Services and High-Tech sectors. Held progressively expanding management roles with large multi-nationals Extensive experience in Project Management, Six Sigma, Delivery Capability and IT Management with excellent track record in development and delivery of systems within banking, insurance, high-tech, and transportation industries. Extensive expertise and education in strategic IT planning, enterprise architectures, Enterprise Application Integration, CRM, Internet strategies and IT organizational structures and change management for financial services industries. Exposure to international marketplaces and projects: worked and lived in Europe, Canada and USA Executive Consultant Over 20 years sales and marketing management experience in Life insurance companies operating in Central and Eastern Europe. As a member of a management board responsible for setting up a green-field life insurance operation in Central and Eastern Europe; responsibility included development and implementation of a country-wide sales strategy. Extensive experience in development and management of sales and marketing insurance programs within Central and Eastern Europe and management of country-wide sales networks (Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia). Experience in developing of insurance products and programs (employment benefits, health insurance assistance and medical care assistance). Project Manager 20+ years of Information Technology experience in the financial service industry Expertise in Project and Program Management, software development, implementation and support for pension and banking industries Managed multiple simultaneous large end-to-end client implementations from launch discussions with the client through establishing the gap between their needs and offering, providing estimates for conversion, customization, design, development and implementation Managed Strategic initiatives â€“ Converted Vision and high level Business Objectives into the Strategic Development Plan, established and coordinated several programs Managed offshore project in multiple locations (US, India, UK) Pension Insurance Practice Lead A world-recognized expert in the areas of Social Pensions and Pension Reform. For the last fourteen years been engaged in designing, reforming and implementing Pension system in Poland. She was a member of a core group of original planners and designers of the new Pension system at Polish ZUS (1997-1999) and she also supervised its implementation. Between 2004 and 2009, first as Undersecretary of State and then as Deputy Minister in charge of Pensions she was responsible for oversight of the social insurance changes including changes to legislation related to bridging early-retirement pensions and annuity payouts from funded pillar, family policy and equal treatment. Between 1997 and 2009 the projects and responsibilities included: Acting as the Deputy Executive Director of ZUS Supervising reorganization and new system implementation at ZUS Supervising development and integration of I and II pillar of pension reform Drafting the major laws of the reform of the pension and disability system Making formal presentations to the Parliament and to the Government on key issues of the pension reform Analyzing and recommending changes to labor market integration for people with disabilities and options for private health care insurance Over the last 15 years Agnieszka shared her pension expertise around the world as World Bank, OECD and ILO consultant and advisor to many governments. She also participated in various research projects including assessment of pension fundsâ€™ costs in mandatory funded systems in Latin America, Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe Senior Pension Industry Expert Over 15 years of experience in designing, developing and implementing large systems in the areas of Social Pensions, Social Insurance and Healthcare. Examples of his projects and responsibilities: As a Project Director of the KSI ZUS Project (the biggest IT project in Poland for Social Insurance Institution) he was responsible for Development and implementation of the KSI ZUS system (including the PÅ‚atnik program, dealing with electronic documents, mass scanning of paper documents); Implementation of mass information output to the payers and the insured; Design of the workflow system including business process modeling; Designing business processes model and defining business requirements; Overall project management including planning, estimating and negotiating, organizing, supervising and coordinating work of analysts, developers and contractors As a Core member of the KSI ZUS Architecture Team he was responsible for: Development of the architecture model of social insurance sector and designing the process for social insurance sector change; Audit the business architecture of KSI ZUS subsystems; Coordination of the business architecture changes in KSI ZUS system Other projects and responsibilities included: Chief Business Architect for the National Healthcare Information System (the biggest IT project in Poland, similar to National Programme for IT in NHS, UK); Chief Consultant for the projects in the Office of the City of Warsaw and the National Health Fund (analysis modeling, business processes modeling, analysis and modeling of requirements for IT solutions); Chief Consultant for the audit of business processes in the retirement pension system in Social Insurance Institution [ZUS] Senior Pension Industry Expert Over 25 years experience in building, managing, and selling pension and financial software solutions in the government, insurance and financial sectors. Here are the samples of many projects he delivered As Senior Vice President and Project Director he was responsible for conversion of one of Canada’s leading pension administration system from a hierarchical database 3rd GL proprietary platform to an open relational database graphical user interface platform. That included selection of an appropriate platform to meet the company’s and its clients’ portability requirements, maintaining and reusing hundreds of back-end production-proven application programs (including actuarial and benefit calculations) and creating a middleware layer for generic access to the new front end As Senior Vice President built a team to develop a mutual fund shareholder administration system, including full registered and non-registered product support, all mutual fund and related fund types, full compliance with regulatory and dealer requirements, links to all significant related systems including general ledger. Sold the system to several of Canada’s top entrepreneurial fund companies (Admax, Beutel-Goodman, Freidman, Counsel Corp), and eventually to several of Canada’s best and largest (Fidelity, Dynamic, CIBC, Spectrum) fund companies, resulting in an acquisition of a 20% share of the Canadian market As Vice President and Project Manager he managed development of Canada’s first parameterized, “book of business” defined benefit pension administration system for a large Canadian insurance company. The system was based on a single database which stored pension rules such as eligibility, vesting, etc, and performed all of the termination, withdrawal, death and disability calculations including actuarial equivalents and commuted values