Louis DiModugno

Global Chief Data Officer, Verisk · 1 appearance on the record.

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Louis DiModugno is a veteran data and technology executive who oversees enterprise data management, governance, and AI-driven analytics across the insurance and risk assessment sectors. Before joining Verisk, he was the Chief Data and Technology Officer at Hartford Steam Boiler and the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at AXA US.

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No argument clarity score for Louis DiModugno: only 6 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 6 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

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What they said8 Episodes1

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Disclosure

AXA augments point-of-sale customer data with external sources for predictive underwriting

“Our actuary, ah, efforts and our predictive underwriting efforts have really started to take advantage of the information that we're collecting at the point of sale, augmenting it with additional information that's accessible maybe through prescription databas…”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 5:30 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

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AXA spends 90% of data project time on preparation, 10% on modeling

“One of the biggest challenges that we've had in this two years of existence is that of the biggest projects that we've been working on, it's been, you know, 90% data access and preparation, 10% model building.”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 16:32 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

AXA leverages telematics in Europe for auto insurance pricing adjustments

“Ah, we also have a big, ah, initiative in Europe as well with telematics right now. So in the property and casualty space, specifically in auto, we get a much better, ah, capability to get better pricing based on how How people are using their automobiles and …”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 4:31 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Opinion

DiModugno: Diabetes patients are a heavily underserved community in the insurance industry

“In the insurance space, it's a very underserved community.”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 22:56 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

AXA aims to deploy algorithmic risk scoring across its entire book by 2017

“Our intent is that within the next, ah, year to 18 months, this scoring mechanism will be essentially across our entire book of business.”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 25:27 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

AXA converts younger actuaries into internal data science roles

“What we found is that, quite frankly, we had some data scientists essentially within our midst, and so the actuaries that we had within our organizations, especially some of the younger ones, it was a very nice conversion for them to be able to pick up R codin…”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 2:59 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

AXA US builds its analytics infrastructure on a Cloudera Hadoop stack

“So the one that we've got here in the U.S., it's primarily a Cloudera Hadoop stack that we've used a blueprint that was essentially blessed by our brethren over in French, in France and with that, we've got R and Python and Spark. We use some Dataiku along the…”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 10:44 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

AXA's opt-in customer data sharing initiatives remain on the drawing board

“We're looking at opportunities for customers to opt in, and provide us that data, so that we could then go ahead and provide them some benefit as well. But we have not progressed to that fact. It's still on the drawing board.”

Louis DiModugno May 23, 2016 ▶ 23:23 Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data D	May 23, 2016	17m

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