Day 1 - SPEAKERS
John Pyall
Head of the Product and Underwriting, Great Lakes
John Pyall is head of the Product and Underwriting department for Great Lakes providing
product oversight and governance for all insurance products, including product approval and
review processes, product design and transition to market and oversight of wordings for Great
Lakes global insurance business. Originally in the legal section of the Munich Re office in London
he returned ten years ago to manage claims in the facilitated business for their direct arm Great
Lakes Insurance, he then headed up their MGA cockpit onboarding new business from a claims
and wordings perspective before transitioning to the new role.
Alan Strange
Head of Underwriting & Analytics, Sophro MGA Limited
Alan is currently Head of Underwriting & Analytics at Sophro MGA Limited, a role he has held for
six years. Prior to this he helped set up a specialist Gibraltar-based insurance company, of which
he was Underwriting Director and then CIO. He has 30 years insurance experience working with
data spanning multiple lines of business. Alan combines extensive insurance underwriting and
pricing experience with data analysis skills to cut through the background noise and provide
technical leaders with the insights they need to succeed.
Tavish Srivastava
Head of Pricing for Travel Insurance, Admiral Group PLC
Tavish is an MBA from INSEAD and Master in Technology from IIT Madras. His core expertise lies in
applying his analytical ability and strategic thinking to solve complex and ambiguous business
challenges through automation, artificial intelligence or process streamlining. He currently works
at Admiral Group as head of Travel Pricing. In his role he is responsible for all risk & retail related
pricing decisions, portfolio reports and managing relationship with affiliate acquisition channels.
He is also a proud co-founder of Analytics Vidhya
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2025