Michał Trochimczuk

Managing Partner, Sollers Consulting

Michał Trochimczuk is the co-founder of Sollers Consulting, where he supervises the advisory team. In the course of his over 25-year career he has gathered considerable experience in projects for financial institutions.
Michał was involved in various projects such as starting building a pension fund from scratch, the centralization of operational processes in a large insurance company, which led to increasing the efficiency of the company’s headquarters, design and implementation of applications that support the work of the back office and the front office of an insurer and building operational strategy for a large bank.
Michał graduated the Faculty of Electronics and Informatics of Warsaw Technical University. He was a member of the European Commission of AEGEE – Europe in 1994-1995. He was the founder and the President of AEGEE in Warsaw.

Marcus Ryu

CEO, Guidewire Software

Marcus Ryu is Guidewire’s Chief Executive Officer and President and has overall responsibility for operations and strategic direction. Since co-founding the company in 2001, he has held a variety of roles for the company, including securing key customer relationships, communicating the value proposition, and defining the product strategy. He serves on the Board of Directors and has managed the engineering, sales, services, and strategy departments. Before Guidewire, Marcus was Vice President of Strategy at Ariba and an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Marcus currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bloomreach, a cloud personalization platform company. He has an A.B. from Princeton University and a B.Phil. from New College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Branislav Siarsky

Product Owner, Basler Switzerland

Brani has over 20 years experience in the banking and insurance sectors, where he specialises at integration projects during which a standard solution is being integrated with existing IT architecture.
Brani has worked at Basler Versicherung AG since 2014 and is now the Product Owner of the Galileo project. Galileo takes Guidewire solution as the basis for motor, property, household insurance products.
Basler Versicherung AG is a leading Swiss insurer when it comes to integrated insurance and wealth solutions for individual customers, as well as SMEs. Currently Basler employs ca. 3700 people.

Hans Vranken

President and CEO, AXA Direct Japan

Hans has more than 20 years working experience in the banking and insurance industry. He has a broad expertise going from P&C insurance, over business transformation & change management to communication & HR. He is currently working as President and CEO at AXA Direct Japan. Before, Hans was appointed CEO of Touring Insurance in Belgium in August 2011 where he led a profound IT and cultural business transformation. Before joining Touring Insurance, Hans participated in the definition and launch of the AXA Global P&C Business Line. Prior to that, Hans was HR & Communications Director of AXA Group Solutions in France and member of the Management Committee of Winterthur Insurance Belgium. The first years of his career Hans worked in financial services for BACOB, Artesia Banking Corporation and Dexia.

Adam Melski

Project Manager, VHV

Dr Adam Melski is a Co-Project Manager responsible for the implementation of Guidewire at VHV. For several years he used to be charge of corporate development and IT coordination at VHV Solutions, where he could apply his business and IT background. Since 2012 he has been working intensively on the concept of agility and has managed the first agile software project at VHV.

Roger Hodgkiss

Member of the Management Board, PZU

Roger has extensive experience in the financial services industry. He holds an engineering degree with honors from Liverpool University. He is a qualified statutory auditor certified in the United Kingdom. From 1998 to 2007 he worked for GE Capital where he held managerial positions in Finance. From 2007 to 2008 he acted in the capacity of the CEO of AAS Balta, the largest insurer in Latvia. From 2008 to 2009 he was the director of sales in the Intouch Insurance Group, the holding company belonging to the RSA Group. From 2009 was in the Management Board of Link4 Towarzystwa Ubezpieczeń S.A. and from 2012 was its CEO. He received an award for being the Man of the Year in Insurance in 2014 conferred by Gazeta Ubezpieczeniowa. Since 2016 Roger has been a Member of the Management Board at PZU, the largest Life and Non-Life insurer in CEE. He is responsible for the P&C Business, both Personal and Commercial Lines.

Małgorzata Kruaze-Kulewska

Senior Process Manager/Product Owner, Santander Consumer Bank

Małgorzata Kruaze-Kulewska graduated from the Jagiellonian University and has been active in the banking sector for over 16 years. She launched her career in financial institutions with AIG Bank Polska S.A., and continues it in Santander Consumer Bank S.A.
Miss Kruaze-Kulewska is an experienced manager, on a day-to-day basis responsible for implementing changes in the systems and processes of the Bank, in particular concerning the sales of credit cards, cash loans and insurance. She has a professional title of Process and Quality Management Expert granted by the Polish Bank Association.
In the year 2018 she was a Product Owner in the first project implemented using the agile method in Santander Consumer Bank.

Marcin Grabowski

Managing Consultant, Sollers Consulting

Marcin Grabowski has more than 10 years of experience in delivering transformation projects in the banking and insurance industries. Since he joined Sollers Consulting in 2007, he has held a variety of roles in the company, including projects execution, building digital competence and defining product strategy. His projects portfolio includes, among others, supporting an insurance company start-up, performing a leading role in the biggest digital transformation in CEE in insurance, setting up Guidewire and Backbase competence teams, leading digital, innovative initiatives for international insurers and banks like omnichannel platforms, biometrics, portals, mobile touchpoints and open APIs. As an active enthusiast of design thinking principles, Marcin leads Digital Ecosystem product offering supported by the in-house built RIFE Platform.

Jarosław Bucoń

Chief Customer Officer, Sollers Consulting

Jarek started working for insurance industry 23 years ago. He started from group insurance sales at Amplico Life – the first international insurer to come to Poland. He has a unique experience in being part of the insurance company startup – spent almost 10 years at Cardif (BNP-Paribas), where he had built form scratch their group insurance business before becomin Chief Operating Officer. Jarek was COO and CIO of AXA in Poland, focusing on customer centricity, introducing Six Sigma and lean techniques. He joined Sollers Consulting in 2013 as Senior Manager responsible for Life Insurance and Bancassurance markets, supervising numerous projects connected to proces optimisation, requirement gathering, core system implementation.
Jarek is part of the RIFE team from its very beginning in 2014, was directly involved in the creation of this omnichannel platform and its commercialization. He sponsored and managed RIFE platform implementations.
Following his focus on customer needs and satisfaction Jarek became Sollers Consulting Chief Customer Officer early 2018.

Cyrille Dersch

Head of IT and Program Manager, Globality Health

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrille-dersch-74a2355/?locale=de_DE

Jeffrey Crawford

Global Claims Platform Lead, Beazley (UK)

Jeffrey Crawford is on a mission to digitally transform the insurance market into a fast moving, proactive, innovative hub, ready to take on the next disruptor. With 13 years’ experience in the Lloyds insurance market Jeffrey understands the drive and tenacity required to gain trust and thus manoeuvre the political headwinds to make change happen.

Steven Flood

Claims Operations Manager, Beazley (UK)

Steve began his career in insurance in 1988 when he joined the Corporation of Lloyd’s, just as Lloyd’s was celebrating it’s 300 year anniversary and he has the commemorative tie to prove it! Steve held a number of positions at Lloyd’s in claims, wordings and technical services before moving to Equitas to manage a portfolio of claims after Lloyd’s Reconstruction and Renewal. He returned to Lloyd’s in 2005 initially in the Lloyd’s Claims Team before taking a role as Project Manager in the Lloyd’s Market Operations team with responsibility for the market’s Electronic Claim File system. He joined Beazley in 2010 and is currently the Group Claims Operations Manager.

Carsten Vraa-Jensen

CCO, Tia Technology

Carsten is Tia`s Chief Commercial Officer with a global responsibility for clients, markets and partners. In this capacity, Carsten also has the responsibility of setting the strategic direction of Tia’s solutions, meeting customers’ short- and long-term requirements in the digital insurance industry.

Carsten has thorough experience from the global insurance and assistance industry with several executive positions with leading players, such as RSA and Munich Re(ERV).

Carsten is a recognized coach and advisor in the insurtech community in Europe and Asia and is frequently mentoring start-ups during hackathons and other insurance technology incubation programs.

He holds a law degree specialized in Insurance from Copenhagen University and Executive development program from IMD, Lausanne.

Henrik Hansen

Business Development Manager, Tia Technology

Henrik is Tia’s Business Development Manager with a responsibility for presales activities. In this capacity Henrik has more than 10 years experience from all sides of the table; insurer, implementation partner and vendor.
Having worked in most corners of the world has secured Henrik a broad yet deep understanding of insurers’ business needs and system short-comings, and his own operational insurance skills helps him secure a strong focus on configuration and digitalization.
He holds business and insurance degrees.

Ryszard Dyszkiewicz

Head of Group IT, Vienna Insurance Group (VIG)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dyszkiewicz/

Monika Siemaszko

Senior Consultant, Sollers Consulting

Monika specializes in implementation and advisory projects for insurance industry. She was involved in several initiatives, including implementation of bancassurance platform, development of upgrade strategy and several core system implementations. Apart from project work Monika is responsible for Tia area in Sollers taking care of Tia team, supporting Tia implementation projects and constantly developing the Tia competence and knowledge base at Sollers.

Christoph Baltzer

PR Manager, Sollers Consulting

As an editor, Christoph Baltzer has accompanied the insurance markets through two market cycles and many ups and downs. After sixteen years at VVW GmbH, the 50-year-old has been supporting Sollers Consulting in its public relations work since May 2017. Before joining VVW GmbH, the Slavicist and historian worked for three years as a German teacher in Eastern Europe, including Poland, Russia and Latvia. He speaks more than five languages, including Polish and Russian.