Insurance risk and pricing professional who designs and builds underwriting, catastrophe modeling, and pricing systems, including agentic AI tools. Twenty-five years in commercial property, E&S, and reinsurance. Led catastrophe modeling and pricing platforms and built modeling teams. Since 2017 has developed agentic AI underwriting tools and platforms for carriers and MGAs.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Domain Expertise: Insurance Business Strategy, Catastrophe Risk Modeling, E&S Markets, Global Reinsurance.
Technology & Innovation: Agentic AI & Machine Learning, SaaS Product Architecture, LLM APIs.
Analytics: Portfolio Exposure Management, Marginal Capital-Based Pricing, Simulation, Advanced Statistical Analysis.
Operational Leadership: Six Sigma Methodologies, Offshore Operations Management, Multidisciplinary Team Leadership.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pricing Platform Inc. (2017–Present)
Founder & President
Founder and sole engineer. Built underwriting, catastrophe pricing, and portfolio tools for E&S property carriers and MGAs.
Sparks AI (2024): agentic underwriting assistant for E&S that triages submissions, runs risk analytics, and supports quoting, binding, and guideline checks through a natural-language interface.
Multi-model design: LLMs for reasoning and language paired with a separate analytics engine for quantitative work. Tools included email, web search, internal databases, document extraction, risk queries, and broker communications.
Human-in-the-loop controls for high-value actions and systematic testing against fixed sample submissions with known outcomes.
Production stack: SQL Server backend; newer features on FastAPI microservices and Docker.
Consulting engagements with carriers and MGAs.
Ironshore Inc. (2007–2017)
Risk Officer, Global Property; Head of Global Cat Modeling; Portfolio Risk Manager.
Designed and built Ironshore’s proprietary catastrophe modeling, underwriting, and pricing platform, used by underwriters across a roughly $500M GWP property book.
Ran it as an internal product: gathered requirements from underwriters, shipped releases, trained users, and supported production.
Introduced marginal-capital pricing, accumulation control, and pre/post-event loss estimation; advised the CRO and Global Head of Property.
Led the catastrophe modeling team.
Swiss Reinsurance Company (2006–2007)
Specialist, Natural Catastrophe Modeling
Performed complex natural catastrophe modeling and detailed reinsurance treaty analysis for North America Treaty division.
General Electric (GE) Insurance Solutions (2000–2006)
Risk Manager; Six Sigma Black Belt; Modeler
Led multidisciplinary teams to optimize portfolio profitability and reduce process volatility.
Established and scaled offshore catastrophe modeling operations from the ground up.
Applied Six Sigma rigor to analytical processes and risk assessment frameworks.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Master of Statistics (M.Stat)
Bachelor of Statistics (B.Stat. Hons.)
Professional Designations
Six Sigma Black Belt (GE)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming & Tools: C, R, Python, SQL, LLM APIs, Docker.
Specialized Expertise: Catastrophe (Cat) Modeling, Portfolio Risk Analytics, Machine Learning, Electronics and Robotics (Hobbyist).