Leadership & Advisors

The named people behind every engagement.

Procurement can diligence us. Underwriters can email us. Reinsurers can meet us in Monte Carlo. Every FPT insurance engagement is owned by a named practice head — not a rotating account team.

Christopher Frankland, Lead Insurance Advisor
Advisory
Lead Insurance Advisor

Christopher Frankland

London, UK

Christopher is a globally recognised insurtech advisor with 25+ years spanning carrier innovation, venture, and product leadership. He advises FPT's insurance clients on where AI and platform investments create durable P&L impact — from submission automation to embedded distribution — and connects our engineering benches to the insurtech ecosystem across London, New York, and Singapore.

Focus areas
  • Insurtech strategy & venture scouting
  • Carrier–startup partnership design
  • GenAI use-case prioritization
  • Distribution & embedded insurance
Credentials
  • Founder, InsurTech360
  • Top 50 InsurTech Influencer (multi-year)
  • Advisor to carriers, MGAs, and reinsurers globally
  • Speaker: ITC Vegas, Insurtech Insights, Monte Carlo
Meet at Monte Carlo · Baden-Baden · ITC Vegas · Insurtech InsightsEvents →
Practice heads

Six practices. One accountable owner each.

Every capability on this site maps to a practice head with P&L accountability, a named bench, and a delivery track record.

Core01

Head of Platform Engineering — Insurance

Core Modernization & Guidewire / Duck Creek
Hanoi · Dallas

Leads FPT's 4,000+ engineer core-systems practice. Delivered 20+ Guidewire and Duck Creek programs across P&C carriers in North America, EMEA, and APAC — including two zero-downtime mainframe migrations for tier-1 specialty carriers.

Focus
  • Guidewire Cloud (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter)
  • Duck Creek OnDemand delivery
  • Legacy unbundling & strangler patterns
  • Cloud-native core on AWS / Azure
Credentials
  • Guidewire Consulting Partner
  • Duck Creek Delivery Partner
  • AWS & Azure Advanced Tier
Claims02

Head of Claims AI

Autonomous Claims & FNOL Automation
Ho Chi Minh City · New York

Runs the Claims AI product line — the models, pipelines, and pods behind our FNOL Autopilot and Subrogation Miner. Previously led claims transformation programs at two top-20 US carriers, cutting cycle times by 60% on auto physical damage lines.

Focus
  • Computer vision for damage assessment
  • FNOL orchestration & straight-through processing
  • Fraud & subrogation intelligence
  • Human-in-the-loop adjuster workflows
Credentials
  • AIC (Associate in Claims)
  • 20+ years P&C claims operations
  • Published on responsible AI in claims adjudication
Reinsurance03

Head of Reinsurance & Specialty

Treaty Analytics & Cat Modeling
London · Zurich

Twenty years across London Market and Continental reinsurance. Built FPT's Reinsurance Treaty Analyzer used by a top-10 global reinsurer to compress submission triage from four days to forty minutes. On the ground each September at Monte Carlo and each October at Baden-Baden.

Focus
  • Treaty submission triage & bordereaux extraction
  • Cat model integration (RMS, AIR, JBA)
  • Retrocession & ILS analytics
  • Lloyd's & Bermuda market delivery
Credentials
  • ACII (Chartered Insurance Institute)
  • Former Lloyd's syndicate technology lead
  • Speaker: Monte Carlo, Baden-Baden
Meet at Monte Carlo · Baden-Baden
AI & Data04

Head of Data, Analytics & GenAI

Underwriting Copilots & Model Governance
Singapore · Hanoi

Leads the AI Factory — the model pipeline, evaluation harness, and governance stack behind every FPT insurance deployment. Sets our responsible-AI standards for the EU AI Act, NAIC Model Bulletin, and Fed SR 11-7.

Focus
  • Underwriting copilots & submission triage
  • Model risk management (SR 11-7)
  • Snowflake / Databricks insurance data platforms
  • FPT.AI model routing & evaluations
Credentials
  • FRM (Financial Risk Manager)
  • PhD, Applied Statistics
  • Contributor to EU AI Act industry consultations
Trust05

Head of Cyber, Cloud & Compliance

Trust, Security & Regulatory
Da Nang · Frankfurt

Owns FPT Insurance's security and regulatory posture — the controls, evidence, and residency architecture buyers see on our Trust page. Runs the internal audit function that keeps every carrier engagement procurement-ready from day one.

Focus
  • SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001 delivery
  • HIPAA, GDPR, DORA readiness
  • Sovereign & regional data residency
  • Third-party & AI risk management
Credentials
  • CISSP, CISA
  • ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
  • 20+ years financial-services security
Distribution06

Head of Distribution & Embedded

Digital CX & Partner Ecosystems
Tokyo · Singapore

Runs the distribution practice — headless quote/bind/issue APIs and the partner tooling that lets carriers embed policy into any ecosystem in weeks. Delivered embedded programs for banks, retailers, and mobility platforms across APAC and EMEA.

Focus
  • Embedded insurance APIs
  • Broker & MGA platforms
  • Composable product factories
  • Partner onboarding kits
Credentials
  • 15+ years digital insurance distribution
  • Former product lead, APAC digital carrier

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