NextGen Risk: Team Profile | Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Andre Hansen Lemke

I am in the second year of financial services. I learned the basics of insurance.

What I think is most relevant is there’s some options to invest using insurance products. I have some experience because I’m from Brazil. I’m a lawyer there. My experience with insurance is that I sue some companies on behalf of my clients.

It’s interesting how I can compare how [insurance] works in Brazil with how it works here. Some things are different; some are the same. I think it’s why I’m on the in the team, because I can bring this compliance and law perspective to help in the case.

I was studying for the Canadian Securities course, and I [learned about] some products that you buy to protect money if a business goes bankrupt. It’s very interesting how it works. Insurance companies sell some products that provide a good opportunity for wealthy people to protect their money through hedging.

Marie Theresa Lauretta Moody

I am studying finance. We’re looking at business finance and the investment side of business. But we have some perspective on what insurance is all about. Also, not being Canadian, we [international] students have a totally different perspective on how you run and manage insurance and how regulated it is in the country. So, for us, this is an opportunity to get to know you in the industry, connect, and see how the industry functions.

My background is in consulting. I’m from South Africa. And in South Africa, I worked in telecommunications. I worked with technology and on how to improve business based on data. I looked at efficiencies and I…would get engineers and IT people together to make a change.

One thing of particular interest to me is how the insurance industry is leveraging AI; how AI has affected, shaped, reshaped, and is transforming the industry. And how it is using AI to [detect] past patterns of claims and what type of claims are emerging. How the industry is using this data to forecast, so to speak, what changes they can expect.

And with that, how are they managing [the change to AI?] What are the gaps in skills and how are they managing that? How are they collaborating with the different industries to bridge the skills gap, to address all these emerging changes, and how would we fit into that space?

Unavailable for an interview: Elsa Alpeshkumar Patel, Navdeep Singh, Megan Moulding (Advisor)

David Gambrill

David has twice served as Canadian Underwriter’s senior editor, both from 2005 to 2012, and again from 2017 to the present.