Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

André is responsible for the strategy and execution of direct venture and fund investment, in addition to establishing partnerships in the reinsurance business space that generate accretive value for RGA.

With an insurance industry career spanning over 20 years, André has spent the last 17 with RGA in various roles from marketing, business and product development, venture investment and senior leadership.  Since first joining RGA in South Africa in 2005, he has worked in local, regional, and international positions, most recently transitioning to venture investments in 2015.  His team currently oversees a portfolio of more than 35 venture and 8 fund investments spanning the globe.

André holds a post graduate degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Fellowships with the Institute of Actuaries (FIA), the Actuarial Society of South Africa (FASSA) and the New Zealand Society of Actuaries, while being an affiliate member of the Actuaries Institute of Australia.

He regularly presents at industry and professional conferences and is an active thought leader on many current matters affecting life and health insurance industry. 

John Beal is Senior Vice President, Analytics, Insurance, for LexisNexis Risk Solutions. He is responsible for leading the company’s insurance analytics and modeling products and services. With more than 20 years of experience in data and analytics across the insurance and financial services industries and market-leading innovations, Beal and his team develop incremental predictive uses of existing data and processes with a strong focus on developing personal and commercial lines credit-based loss models as well as new non-credit industry solutions. Prior to LexisNexis, Beal held key leadership roles at First Union National Bank in Charlotte, where he was Vice President, Credit and Market Analytics within the Quantitative Analysis Group, and at Citicorp Bankcard, where he served as Assistant Vice President, Credit Policy Department.

Tracey is the director for small commercial underwriting at Verisk. She is responsible for the strategy and execution of small commercial and casualty underwriting products, focused on powering automated underwriting and digital transformation in the industry.

Jasleen Singh is a reporter at Employee Benefit News.

Heather Rudes is chief human resources officer at The Bonadio Group.

Judie McCarthy is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor (Advanced Certified), speaker, author, experienced accounting professional and co-founder of Client Hub, a web-based workflow and client collaboration tool built for accounting professionals.

Jon Cooper is the co-founder and CEO of Overalls, a tech-enabled benefits company that combines concierge-like services with personalized financial protection to help people save time, money and stress. Jon was also the founder and CEO of Life.io. Jon’s insurance expertise was developed during strategic roles from Chief of Staff to Strategy and Operations at TriZetto, Oliver Wyman, CodeRyte and Wellcare.

Justin Turner is VP of Strategic Partnerships - Shipping (Global) at Cover Genius, the insurtech for embedded insurance that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, Descartes ShipRush and Intuit. XCover is also available at Amazon, eBay, and Shopee. In his role, Justin is responsible for leading and executing the company’s logistics strategy and creating value for partners by delivering a seamless insurance experience for their customers. Prior to Cover Genius, Justin was the Asia Pacific Head of Sales and Operational Marketing at Neopost Shipping and the Regional Chief Executive of global logistics companies Pacific Network and GP Logistics where he was responsible for leading the sales and operation teams and executing the company’s strategic direction. Justin has an executive MBA from RMIT University and dedicates time to volunteer as Vice President of his local community football club and as a contributor to the Surf Lifesaving Association.

Anthony Macciola is chief innovation officer at North Carolina-based ABBYY, a global digital intelligence company. He holds more than 45 patents for technologies in mobility, text analytics, image processing, and process automation and is leading AI initiatives at ABBYY.

Jared Zola is a partner in Blank Rome’s policyholder-only insurance recovery practice in the firm’s New York office.