Samuel is CEO of Akur8. He spent 15 years at IBM in various international sales and sales management positions before joining Insurtech Shift Technology as Head of Sales. At Shift, Samuel was instrumental in the successful internationalization of the company, including in the US. After 2 years at Shift, Samuel co-founded Akur8.

Tomonosuke is the Sales Director Japan/Korea at Akur8. Prior to joining Akur8, he worked at BlackRock where he served in different roles providing consultancy and implementation services to asset managers, insurers and pension funds leveraging Aladdin®, the integrated risk/investment management technology platform. Most recently, he was Director and the Head of the Aladdin Client Transformation (Implementation) team in Japan. He started his career at Nomura Research Institute as project manager and system consultant in Tokyo and Hong Kong implementing systems for sell/buy-side companies.

Suguru is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Japan, Associate of the Society of Actuaries, Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics, and Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary, with over ten years of actuarial experience, both in life and non-life insurance. He started his professional career with a large life insurer in Japan in 2013. Then he moved to a general insurance organization in 2016. Also since 2017, he had been involved in numerous analytical projects on reinsurance side at a global reinsurance broking firm. He joined Akur8 as an Actuarial Data Scientist in Tokyo in 2023 to support actuaries and pricing teams, thus helping them to make faster and smoother decisions thanks to Akur8’s transparent machine learning technology.