He has 11+ years of experience in financial services in various executive roles, most recently as COO for a European insurer. His areas of expertise include business transformation, restructuring, cost-containment and merger/integration within the insurance industry. International experience in developed and developing markets. He holds a BS degree from Queen’s University, M.Sc. from the University of Toronto, and Executive MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School.

He is the founder of GLC in China. His previous work experience includes positions such as VP and deputy practice leader of Marsh Risk Consulting China for more than five years and loss prevention consultant for FM Global for several years. He has more than 11 years of extensive experience in property loss prevention engineering and project risk consulting service as a senior risk consultant. He holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology.

He is associated with major industries in India and Asia in various roles for over 20 years - mainly as a management systems auditor and then property loss prevention consultant. He is currently based in Bangalore, India and is responsible for Mimansa Risk Consulting in India and Asia. He started his career in 1990 at a petrochemical plant and then moved to safety and risk consulting with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, conducting safety assessments for various large ports, oil and gas terminals and a wide range of onshore industries. He joined FM Global in 2003 and managed the engineering team in India until 2013, after which he joined Marsh Risk Consulting (MRC) as Practice Leader to establish the risk management practice in India. In 2015, he started Mimansa Risk Consulting, a company providing risk management services including fire protection design work for clients in India and Asia.

He has 20 years of experience in financial services and fintech companies in various executive roles, most of them as the head of distribution & sales for the largest insurance and asset management companies in Israel. Main areas of expertise: Business development, sales & marketing, business innovation and capital raising. He is a graduate of Business Management (BA) Tel- Aviv Open University. He is licensed by the Israel Securities Authority & Ministry of Finance.

MALAYSIA | Kumar Rajasegaram He has over 21 years of management, engineering and technical experience involving plant operations and maintenance, plant optimization, plant safety, fire and loss prevention coupled with experience in people management and training. His career in the insurance and risk management industry spans over 19 years with international exposure and people management in global settings. He is involved in development of engineers and underwriters in the property and casualty segment of the international insurance business and competent in the concept of “highly protected risk” concept and “large limit” underwriting practices such that he supported the Asia Pacific initiative to “large limit” underwriting approach to risk acceptance and risk avoidance at AIG. Currently running his own consultancy in fire protection and risk survey / engineering practice supporting primarily the South East Asia region.

Paul Bravin has 30 years of extensive experience in risk management, business continuity, property conservation and business interruption consulting across a wide range of industries and 55 countries. He specializes in assessing flood, general NATHAZ and arson / terrorism exposures. He is a Flood Specialist for UK and Asia Operations at FM Global. His professional areas of expertise include semiconductors, airports, electronics, telecommunications, power generation, cement, aluminum, vehicle manufacturing, food and beverages.

Sema Tüfekçiler has 30 years of insurance experience in several lines, focused highly on claims, operations, and reinsurance & insurance law. She worked for several insurance companies including AIG, recently in global roles for East Zone. She is a Risk Management and Claims Lecturer at several institutions and universities, and also a Columnist and Moderator for Sigortaci Gazetesi (Insurer Newspaper) and their YouTube channel. She published five books in the insurance industry, including two children’s books on insurance. She studied at the Economics Department of Marmara University. She earned her MBA at Bilgi University and Executive MBA degree at Kansas University. She is the Founder and President of the Association for Women in Insurance.

Selas Sigorta Eksperliği Ltd. Şti. (Virtual i - Aegean Region Solution Partner) was established in 2012, the head office in İzmir / Karşıyaka. Company aims to provide service to the insurance sector in order to investigate fire and allied perils coverages, compulsory earthquake insurances, vehicles-aircrafts and marines, natural disasters, theft, machinery breakdown and electronic equipment, construction & assembling, liabilities, loss of profit, legal protection and marine losses and evaluate in the fastest and the most proper way with the aim to ensure by its founders’ wide experiences and knowledge in different sectors and areas. Selas Sigorta Eksperliği Ltd. Şti. also provides service to prepare the risk assessment and agreed valuation reports in Turkish and English languages primarily for Turkey and foreign countries with 7 professional loss adjusters and 15 loss adjuster experts all around the Aegean region.

25 years of successful management & operations experience with global renowned construction, insurance, risk engineering, zonal & international companies (AIG - ViT - CHUBB). Positioned as (Independent/Operations Director/Manager, Project/Construction Manager, Lead/Senior Consultant/Engineer). Development initiatives with complete prime responsibilities in the {Construction Risk Engineering} and {Project & Construction Management} industries sectors on numerous mega projects practiced in [Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) / Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) / South Asia (SA) / (Global)].

He is an accomplished IT Executive with extensive experience spanning more than 35 years in various technology and operations in management and advisory capacity. From managing total business process outsourcing for major governmental and private organizations in Saudi Arabia to serving as the VP of Professional services, he defined and set up agile / solution-based practices offering of 400 resources with a projects, support and operations portfolio of $100+ million, to researching AI and fintech innovations in the UAE and Saudi Arabia with Tier1 universities and governmental bodies.

He is the principal engineer at SEK Safety & Risk Management after recently serving as the Loss Control Manager for Hyperion’s Dual Commercial group, based in New Jersey, USA. SEK provides property and casualty risk engineering services for insurers, agents, and brokers, as well as industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and warehousing clients. He has participated in thousands of client engagements since his first risk engineering position at Great American Insurance in 1989 after six years as a US Navy nuclear submarine engineer. He has worked in all lines of insurance risk engineering including property, business interruption, liability, products liability/completed operations, construction, inland marine, auto, marine, aviation, and workers compensation. He has served globally recognized companies as a principal risk engineering consultant and served as the Director of Safety & Risk Management for a large Silicon Valley electrical contractor. Tom is an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) and a Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS). He is a principal committee member on the NFPA 5000 and NFPA 915 committees.

Konstantinos has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry in various executive roles, most recently as Operations / IT / Claims Director & Business Continuity Officer for a multinational insurance company. Currently he runs his own Risk Management & Claims Handling Company based in Greece. He studied Business Administration at the Piraeus University.