Julien Antunes Mendes (Reacfin)
Julien graduated as an Engineer in Applied Mathematics with an additional minor in Management with Magna Cum Laude and also holds a Master in Actuarial Sciences with Summa Cum Laude from Université Catholique de Louvain. He is a qualified actuary of the Institute of Actuaries in Belgium (IA|BE). He is a member of the Life, Health and Pension Center of Excellence at Reacfin but he has various experience also in Non-Life insurance. Julien joined Reacfin in August 2011 and he has acquired a sound knowledge of Solvency 2 frameworks (Life, Health, Non-Life), Pricing models (Life, Health and Non-Life), ALM models and Pension valuation. As a Senior Manager, he is involved in various missions as in the modelling and implementation of pillar I deliverable, life DFA model development, Health Insurance modelling (multi-states models)…
Abdouraman Bakari (Reacfin)
Abdouraman has been a consultant at Reacfin since January 2019 and is an active member of the Non-Life Center of Excellence. Prior to this, he spent over 10 years as an Assistant Lecturer in Physics at the University. He holds two Master’s degrees: one in Actuarial Sciences (Summa Cum Laude) and another in Data Science (with honours) from the Université Catholique de Louvain. Abdouraman also completed a PhD in Atomic Physics after earning both a Master’s in Molecular Physics and a Master’s in Atomic Physics. As a Senior Consultant, Abdouraman contributes to various projects, including pricing for Worker’s Compensation, Corporate Property Fire and Property Engineering, as well as reserving (Economic view of claims computation in Worker’s Compensation, IBNR, ...). Additionally, he plays a pivotal role in enhancing and automating processes such as closing, BE calculation, and risk management for some insurance companies. As a data Scientist, he has recently joined Reacfin's training team, specializing in Non-Life Pricing, leveraging Machine Learning and Statistical Techniques to drive innovation in the field.
Xavier Maréchal (Reacfin)
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.
Olivier Soupart (Reacfin)
Olivier is Manager at Reacfin. He holds a MSc. in Engineering and a MSc. in Actuarial Sciences with Cum Laude from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve (UCL). He is Qualified Actuary of the Institute of Actuaries of Belgium (IA|BE) and a certified Base Programmer for SAS. After a first career in banking as a senior IT engineer, he became an actuary and has acquired sound knowledge of IFRS17 and Solvency 2 frameworks (Non-Life, Health SLT). As a Consultant and an in-house Actuary, he worked on various fields such as insurance modelling, non-life reserving, product management and pricing.
Julie Zians (Reacfin)
Julie is a Senior Manager at Reacfin. 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.