Bryce Shephard is the Head of Strategy, Life and Health APAC at PartneRe (NYSE: PRE-H), a global reinsurer providing multi-line reinsurance to insurance companies with a total capital of over $9 billion.

His responsibilities include developing and growing PartnerRe in the Asia-Pacific region and researching and creating the market and client strategies aligning with the company’s risk tolerance and financial ambitions.

He has been working in the field of pricing and product development for over 15 years specialising in the insurance industry.

Starting as an Actuarial Analyst at Suncorp, Bryce has evolved through various business development, strategy, management roles across Australia, Europe, and Asia. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA), the highest level of qualification attainable with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA).

Bryce also has a passion for continuous learning and currently doing his master’s in business management with a thesis -- “An exploration of Organisational Effectiveness – A Life Insurance Industry Study”.

Through his research, Bryce wants to shine a light on how Life (Re)Insurance organisations are influenced by innovation, culture, leadership, knowledge management, and distributed teams. Based on these research findings, he crafts ways to increase company effectiveness for the benefit of their employees, shareholders, and ultimately customers.

He is also working on underwriting customer segments using alternative/proxy risk factors that eliminate the need for traditional risk scoring and lengthy statistical analysis. Also, it enables a simplified and seamless digital application process for insurance customers.

In this exclusive episode, Bryce and Jason discuss:

If you want to know how data works in the insurer and reinsurer, this is the episode you should not miss.

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