No man is an island…
That’s why we collaborate closely with consultants, industry experts, and skilled practitioners to ensure our clients consistently receive the best possible advice from knowledgeable professionals in the field.
Our partners have experience working with (re)insurers and other financial services firms in Asia, Europe and North America.They are experts in areas such as mortality and longevity, commercial risk pricing, health insurance and pensions.
Collaborators and Colleagues
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Siva Kumar
Director and General Insurance Expert
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Jaap Plugge
Partner and Life Insurance Expert
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Richard Galbraith
Risk Management and Systemic Coaching
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Jibreel Ismail
General insurance
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Rachael Guest
Operations Director
Siva Kumar
Siva is the founder of RYSKK Ltd, based in the UK. He has 15 years of experience, working in both Life and General Insurance across the UK, Europe, North America and Asia. He is a qualified actuary, with significant experience in reserving, pricing, capital, risk management and strategy. Siva’s experience includes:
Appointed Actuary for GI (re)insurance companies in Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines
Life statutory liability valuations in the UK
Advising regulators on risk-based capital frameworks
Experience analysis for life insurance portfolios
Solvency II and IFRS 17 implementation
Supporting insurers in risk management, asset-liability matching and pricing strategies
Building, parametrising and validating economic capital models (particularly, for use under the Solvency II capital framework)
Capital management, including capital optimisation, strategic allocation and risk management
Credit Risk modelling
Jaap Plugge
Jaap is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of the Netherlands. He has over 30 years’ experience working in the insurance industry. Jaap has worked 15 years in the Netherlands on various assignments and for 10 years in Sri Lanka as the Appointed Actuary for one of the largest local companies. Over the last two years, Jaap has worked on two M&A projects and was engaged with the Philippines’ insurance regulator and the local life insurance industry in the implementation of RBC2. Jaap’s prior experience includes:
Appointed Actuary for a life company in the Netherlands
Appointed Actuary for a large composite company in Sri Lanka (life and general)
Appraisal valuation and M&A advisory services
Setting up projection models (Model Office) for several companies
Developer of several system specifications
Manager of several system implementations
Life product development pricing and reserving
Business planning and forecasting
Company valuation and pricing
Risk management
Managing implementation of RBC
Richard Galbraith
Richard is a risk management professional with more than 20 years experience in the UK and Europe across Life and Health. He is also an active member of the actuarial profession, supporting in roles at the Institute and Facutly of Actuaries (IFoA) and the International Actuarial Association (IAA).
He is also a systemic team coach and founder of Clandesitne Coaching.
Jibreel Ismail
JJibreel is a senior consultant with 5 years’ experience in Southeast Asia, Europe and North America. He has developed stress testing models for AM-Best rating applications and has successfully implemented a Solvency II reserving, capital and reporting model for a medium sized European insurer.
Much of Jibreel’s work focusses on advanced analytics, providing deep insights on clients insurance portfolios. He is a seasoned programmer with experience working across the tech stack.
He recently co-authored a paper on his work developing pensioner mortality tables for the Canadian industry.