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31 Dec 2025
Reinsurance
ILS
Insurance
Meet Your Reinsurance & ILS Experts
At Synpulse, our Reinsurance & ILS team combines deep domain expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients transform operations, unlock data-driven insights, and scale innovation. From underwriting and middle-office digitization to AI strategy and advanced analytics, these leaders drive measurable impact across the global reinsurance and alternative capital value chain.
How We Help You Succeed with Reinsurance & ILS
We support reinsurers and ILS players in transforming operations, data, and underwriting—enabling smarter, faster, and more resilient business models. From strategy to system implementation, we help you navigate complexity and unlock measurable value.
AI-Powered Operating Models
Digitally transform inwards and outwards reinsurance operations. Our target operating models streamline processes, reduce risk, and improve transparency through automation and AI.
Underwriting Excellence
Equip underwriters with centralized workbenches and advanced analytics—standardizing data, automating triage, and accelerating submissions and renewals for better risk selection.
Middle Office Transformation
Drive efficiency in technical accounting, claims, collateral, and credit control with digital workbenches that integrate with your core systems and reduce manual effort.
RAS Implementations & Vendor Enablement
From DXC SICS to Assure Re, we lead full-cycle reinsurance system implementations and vendor assessments—ensuring accurate accounting, compliance, and scalability.
Palantir & Stoneborn Data Solutions
Build advanced reinsurance data pipelines and applications with Palantir Foundry, or deploy Stoneborn’s product suite (Weave, Codex, Watchtower) for ingestion, document intelligence, and monitoring.
AI Strategy & Innovation
Translate emerging AI into impact. We identify and implement use cases that improve underwriting, pricing, and operational performance—built on secure, governable frameworks.
Center of Excellence
Scale high-quality delivery across underwriting, claims, and finance. Our tech-enabled COE model combines standardization, automation, and deep domain expertise.
Our Experts In This Topic
OUR EXPERT
Konrad Niggli
Managing Partner, CEO Synpulse Group
Konrad, as Managing Partner, brings over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation in reinsurance. With extensive expertise across business and technology, he designs AI-enabled operating models of the future and builds strategic client relationships. He is also responsible for the European reinsurance and commercial insurance practice.
OUR EXPERT
Marcel Lötscher
Partner and Head of Synpulse Americas
Marcel is Partner and Head of Synpulse Americas. He built and continues to grow the U.S. and Canadian practices and leads Synpulse’s global commercial insurance and reinsurance practice. His focus spans transformations for insurers and reinsurers, including generative and agentic AI, underwriting automation, ceded reinsurance, pricing intelligence, claims innovation, target operating models, and end-to-end digital transformation.
OUR EXPERT
Joel Smith
Associate Partner • Insurance
Joel Smith is an Associate Partner at Synpulse, based in Zurich, specialising in enterprise and business architecture for (re)insurance and insurance‑linked securities. He drives digitally enabled operating models across assumed and ceded re and leads robust RAS implementations. He has contributed to Swiss Re Corporate Solutions programmes and the Bernina Re ILS launch.
OUR EXPERT
Ananya Phani
Associate Partner • Insurance
Ananya Phani is an Associate Partner with close to two decades of global experience in digital strategy and transformation across reinsurance and banking. Ananya specializes in operating model design, platform evaluations, and large-scale digital implementations, driving innovation through intelligent automation and AI-based solutions for leading insurers and financial institutions.
OUR EXPERT
Miguel Graf
Head of Palantir Delivery, North America Data & AI
Based in New York, Miguel leads Palantir engineering initiatives within Synpulse’s Data & AI practice. He specializes in designing and delivering advanced data integration and analytics solutions for reinsurance and ILS clients, enabling predictive modeling, risk analytics, and operational dashboards that drive strategic decision-making.
OUR EXPERT
Giulio Genillard
Associate Partner • Insurance
Giulio Genillard is an Associate Partner with a decade of experience across the reinsurance value chain. A CFA Level 1 candidate, Giulio specializes in process optimization, risk management, and capital/solvency strategies. He has led major projects in underwriting workbench design, data architecture, and operational transformation for global insurers and reinsurers.
OUR EXPERT
Martin Bielik
Head of IT Operations
Martin Bielik is Head of IT Operations with close to three decades of experience in infrastructure strategy and transformation. He specializes in cloud migrations, operational resilience, and compliance frameworks like ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. Martin has led major IT transformations for global banks, ensuring secure, scalable, and future-ready platforms through automation and cloud-native architectures.
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Reinsurance
ILS
Insurance
Meet Your Reinsurance & ILS Experts
At Synpulse, our Reinsurance & ILS team combines deep domain expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients transform operations, unlock data-driven insights, and scale innovation. From underwriting and middle-office digitization to AI strategy and advanced analytics, these leaders drive measurable impact across the global reinsurance and alternative capital value chain.
How We Help You Succeed with Reinsurance & ILS
We support reinsurers and ILS players in transforming operations, data, and underwriting—enabling smarter, faster, and more resilient business models. From strategy to system implementation, we help you navigate complexity and unlock measurable value.
AI-Powered Operating Models
Digitally transform inwards and outwards reinsurance operations. Our target operating models streamline processes, reduce risk, and improve transparency through automation and AI.
Underwriting Excellence
Equip underwriters with centralized workbenches and advanced analytics—standardizing data, automating triage, and accelerating submissions and renewals for better risk selection.
Middle Office Transformation
Drive efficiency in technical accounting, claims, collateral, and credit control with digital workbenches that integrate with your core systems and reduce manual effort.
RAS Implementations & Vendor Enablement
From DXC SICS to Assure Re, we lead full-cycle reinsurance system implementations and vendor assessments—ensuring accurate accounting, compliance, and scalability.
Palantir & Stoneborn Data Solutions
Build advanced reinsurance data pipelines and applications with Palantir Foundry, or deploy Stoneborn’s product suite (Weave, Codex, Watchtower) for ingestion, document intelligence, and monitoring.
AI Strategy & Innovation
Translate emerging AI into impact. We identify and implement use cases that improve underwriting, pricing, and operational performance—built on secure, governable frameworks.
Center of Excellence
Scale high-quality delivery across underwriting, claims, and finance. Our tech-enabled COE model combines standardization, automation, and deep domain expertise.
Our Experts In This Topic
OUR EXPERTKonrad Niggli
Managing Partner, CEO Synpulse Group
Konrad, as Managing Partner, brings over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation in reinsurance. With extensive expertise across business and technology, he designs AI-enabled operating models of the future and builds strategic client relationships. He is also responsible for the European reinsurance and commercial insurance practice.
OUR EXPERTMarcel Lötscher
Partner and Head of Synpulse Americas
Marcel is Partner and Head of Synpulse Americas. He built and continues to grow the U.S. and Canadian practices and leads Synpulse’s global commercial insurance and reinsurance practice. His focus spans transformations for insurers and reinsurers, including generative and agentic AI, underwriting automation, ceded reinsurance, pricing intelligence, claims innovation, target operating models, and end-to-end digital transformation.
OUR EXPERTJoel Smith
Associate Partner • Insurance
Joel Smith is an Associate Partner at Synpulse, based in Zurich, specialising in enterprise and business architecture for (re)insurance and insurance‑linked securities. He drives digitally enabled operating models across assumed and ceded re and leads robust RAS implementations. He has contributed to Swiss Re Corporate Solutions programmes and the Bernina Re ILS launch.
OUR EXPERTAnanya Phani
Associate Partner • Insurance
Ananya Phani is an Associate Partner with close to two decades of global experience in digital strategy and transformation across reinsurance and banking. Ananya specializes in operating model design, platform evaluations, and large-scale digital implementations, driving innovation through intelligent automation and AI-based solutions for leading insurers and financial institutions.
OUR EXPERTMiguel Graf
Head of Palantir Delivery, North America Data & AI
Based in New York, Miguel leads Palantir engineering initiatives within Synpulse’s Data & AI practice. He specializes in designing and delivering advanced data integration and analytics solutions for reinsurance and ILS clients, enabling predictive modeling, risk analytics, and operational dashboards that drive strategic decision-making.
OUR EXPERTGiulio Genillard
Associate Partner • Insurance
Giulio Genillard is an Associate Partner with a decade of experience across the reinsurance value chain. A CFA Level 1 candidate, Giulio specializes in process optimization, risk management, and capital/solvency strategies. He has led major projects in underwriting workbench design, data architecture, and operational transformation for global insurers and reinsurers.
OUR EXPERTMartin Bielik
Head of IT Operations
Martin Bielik is Head of IT Operations with close to three decades of experience in infrastructure strategy and transformation. He specializes in cloud migrations, operational resilience, and compliance frameworks like ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. Martin has led major IT transformations for global banks, ensuring secure, scalable, and future-ready platforms through automation and cloud-native architectures.