2018 Caribbean Insurance Conference

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Olivier Lafontaine

Olivier Lafontaine is Equisoft’s Chief Product Officer, responsible for ensuring the execution of the business strategies for all Equisoft products. Olivier maintains the product vision and strategy, as well as managing the sales team and product strategy directors. He is responsible for all aspects of the company’s product development. Olivier is a recognized leader in core insurance and wealth management systems, as well as large-scale agile system integration projects. He has forged strong industry partnerships over the past ten years, including Equisoft’s relationship with Oracle as their largest specialized insurance partner. Olivier has more than fifteen years of insurance industry Operations experience, and a proven track record of senior leadership success. He has been an executive with Equisoft since 2006. He is a licensed engineer and graduate of École Polytechnique de Montréal.

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Nazir Valani

Nazir is a Partner and North American Leader for AXIS Implementation at KPMG, where he works with the US team to leverage opportunities for end to end actuarial and finance transformation initiatives. He is also the National Leader of the Actuarial Practice and senior actuary for Life Insurance, Pensions and Property & Casualty in Canada, with responsibilities for providing actuarial services to audit and advisory clients. Nazir began his career in the life insurance industry in 1980 and has held various actuarial positions with three major Canadian life insurance companies including management roles in product development, reinsurance and corporate actuarial. He also spent five years with GGY, the developers and distributors of the AXIS actuarial software system. Valani Consulting Inc. merged with KPMG in August 2012 when it was the 2nd largest Life Actuarial Practice in Canada. As a consultant, Nazir has done a variety of work for direct insurance and reinsurance companies in Canada, the United States, Asia and the Caribbean.