NextGen Risk: Team Profile | Seneca Polytechnic

Warren Kowk Ting (Advisor)

I’ve been working in the insurance industry for 26 years now. When I first graduated with a business degree at Western, I fell into insurance. I’ve been teaching at Seneca College now for over 15 years.

I’ve mostly been in commercial underwriting for the most part. Now I’m working as a vice president of underwriting at a small mutual insurance company in Eastern Ontario and loving every minute.

I love spreading knowledge and trying to promote the P&C insurance industry to generations. I love the fact that colleges and universities are now creating programs for insurance, for people who are interested in going into insurance, not like me, who just kind of fell into it.

It’s a great industry. We need more young people in it, and I think this is a wonderful opportunity for the students participating in the competition.

Susan Shan-Shan Choi

My boyfriend is working in software with mortgages. He mentioned that he knew a little bit about underwriting and then he recommended that to me. So, I looked into Seneca, and that’s how I came to be here.

I’m mostly interested in underwriting, but I also I want to try out other opportunities in insurance as well as just to see like what I mesh well with

Andrei Anthony Maci

This is my second and last year at Seneca, and I’m working towards getting my CIP. I’m looking more into the underwriting side, but I still want to keep my options open.

I think the case competition is not only going to be a great experience, but it’s going to bring a lot of exposure for us. It will help us get that foot in the door, and get started in the industry.

I first started at Waterloo for accounting and finance, which I didn’t really like too much. But I still want to help people out with one of the financial pillars. I had some family friends recommend insurance to me. From there, I found Seneca.

Seowon Kim

I worked as a financial advisor in my country for five years. During the time I worked with a lot of a lot of financial products, including funds, ETF, stock, what else, including insurance. So now I’m in Canada right now and studying financial planning at Seneca College, because I wanted to gain new experience in broaden my perspective in the in this in in the industry. So I’m really happy to have this opportunity to participate in this competition.

Francine Joseph

I am actually in the insurance industry; I have been for nine years. I’m on the life side, though. I do health and wellness life insurance. I decided to take the plunge and go back to school as a mature student to expand my skills and essentially be able to offer clients a more holistic plan. And so I registered for the financial planning program at Seneca.

Last semester, which was my first semester. I had an insurance course, and I got an email with the invitation request [to the competition], and I said, ‘Well, why not?’ This is a great opportunity. This is a great way to get back into the industry with networking and being exposed to property and casualty side [of the business].

Now that I’m learning more about property and casualty, it is peaking in interest. So, who knows? I may end up on that side of things at the end of this.