Julie Zians
Julie holds a BSc. Mathematics from the University of Liège (ULg) and a MSc. Actuarial Sciences from the University of Louvain (UCL). She is a qualified actuary of the Institute of Actuaries in Belgium (IA|BE). Julie is a certified Programmer in SAS from the SAS institute and further programs regularly in R or Visual Basic. After a six months internship at Reacfin in 2011, she joined the firm in 2012. She is a member of the Non-Life Center of Excellence and has performed several projects in Non-Life Insurance (pricing and capital modelling) but also in Health Insurance.
Michaël Lecuivre
Michaël holds a Bachelor and Master in Physics from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and a Master in Actuarial Sciences, also from the UCL. He is a qualified actuary of the Institute of Actuaries in Belgium (IA|BE) and also the winner of the IA|BE best master thesis in 2016.
During his time as a consultant Michaël has worked on multiple Non-life missions such as Non-life technical pricing, profitability analysis, competition analysis, BSCR computations and aggregations under Solvency II, reporting optimization and finally risk management. All this allowed him to gain a good expertise in SAS, R and Python as well as a good knowledge of statistical models (GLM, GAM,GLMM …) and machine learning algorithms (regression trees, random forest, GBM …). Michaël is also a trainer at the “Data Science Certificate” organized by IA|BE in Belgium.
Samuel Mahy
Samuel holds a Master of Engineering in Applied Mathematics from the University of Louvain (Magna Cum Laude), his thesis was dedicated to the application of neural networks models to classification problems. Samuel also holds a Certificate in Economy and a Master in Actuarial Sciences (Magna Cum Laude). He is a qualified actuary of the Institute of Actuaries in Belgium (IA|BE). Samuel did several lectures about Reinsurance, Non-Life pricing (R & Python) and Multi-state models at European Actuarial Academy, at the Instituto de formação Actuarial (Lisbon) and at IFE (Brussel and Luxembourg). Samuel Mahy is director at Reacfin and head of the Non-Life Center of Excellence. As a Director, he is involved in various missions as in the modelling, implementation and validation of pillar I deliverables (standard approach and Partial Internal models), reinsurance optimization, non-life pricing model, model documentation, non-life and health DFA model development. Samuel is also a trainer at the “Data Science Certificate” organized by IA|BE in Belgium.
Xavier Maréchal
Xavier is founder and CEO of Reacfin. Xavier is one of the co-authors of “Actuarial Modeling of Claim Counts: Risk Classification, Credibility and Bonus-Malus Systems” (Wiley, 2007). Xavier has obtained different academic degrees as Master in Engineering (Applied Mathematics), MSc. Actuarial Sciences and MSc. Management. Xavier is a qualified actuary of the Institute of Actuaries in Belgium (IA|BE). Xavier has extensive experience in the actuarial field obtained during his 18 years as a principal consultant for many national and multinational insurance companies. He has gained a complementary experience in various fields going from Non-Life ratemaking and provisioning to health modeling and ALM. After several years of intensive modeling activities in health, non-life and ALM, Xavier works now as reviewer and mentor for consultants. He performed several validation assignments and holds the actuarial function for a health insurance company.