Digital Insurer Network meeting

Omar Abbosh
Chief Strategy Officer
Accenture

Omar Abbosh is Accenture's chief strategy officer and the global sponsor of The Dock. Before joining Accenture, he started at one of the world's most innovative organizations—The General Electric Company—working in electronics research. He then joined Accenture in software engineering, before taking time to complete an MBA at Insead. He returned to Accenture's Strategy practice where for several years he worked on restructuring and M&A. For a year, he took a full time secondment working as head of M&A at Lattice Plc reporting to the CEO—this work resulted in the merger with National Grid in 2002. Since then he has worked as client partner, Global Utilities Industry managing director, Resources Growth and Strategy managing director and UKI CSG lead. Now as Accenture's chief strategy officer he is accountable for the firm's overall direction, our investments including Ventures & Acquisitions, our innovation initiatives, our industry programs, Accenture Research and our Corporate Citizenship agenda.

Michael Lyman
Global Managing Director, Insurance, Strategy
Accenture

Michael Lyman is senior managing director for Insurance within Accenture Strategy. His role focuses on business strategy development and implementation. He also serves as executive sponsor for the Accenture Chief Operating Officer Network, as a member of the Accenture Insurance Advisory Board, and as a member of the Accenture Strategy Leadership Team. Michael has more than 30 years of experience working with C-suite executives on major disruptive trends and transformational issues. During that time, he has led several industry research projects and has acted as a commentator on trends transforming the industry. Prior to joining Accenture, Michael served as executive vice president at BearingPoint. He held several leadership positions including: global lead Management Consulting, global lead Financial Services; Global Lead Healthcare, chief strategy officer, chair of Executive Institute for Research and Innovation, and member of the firm's Executive Committee.

Moshè Tamir
Head of Group Digital Transformation
Generali

Moshè Tamir is the global head of digital transformation in Generali, one of the world's largest financial and insurance institutions. Prior to this role Moshe was head of group innovation and sales, where he was responsible for the group's global distribution and innovation capabilities, with a strong focus on developing its multi-channel strategy and client-centric approach. Prior to his current position, Moshè worked for Migdal Insurance (a Generali subsidiary in Israel and its largest insurance company) for 10 years in a diversity of roles, including that of deputy CEO leading the marketing and business development division for the last six years of his time with the company. Before this, he was the employees' benefit manager for Intel Corporation Israel. Moshè is well-known in the financial services industry as an innovation leader with significant knowledge and experience of the implementation of innovation initiatives with a strong focus on the development and management of large distribution channels. He is an accomplished lecturer and is currently one of the steering committee members of the MBA program at Tel-Aviv University in the areas of innovation. Moshè has a bachelor's degree in Economics and Master of Business Administration degrees from Ben Gurion University.

Dr. Dadong Wan
Tech Labs Lead, The Dock
Accenture

Dr. Wan is an Accenture Labs Fellow, and currently leading the Tech Lab at the Dock in Dublin, Ireland, which is devoted solely to artificial intelligence (AI). In this role, he is responsible for ramping up the new research team, as well as defining the R&D agenda in AI. Prior to this role, he was leading the Industrial Internet R&D effort in Tech Labs in San Jose, CA, and driving strategic relationship with key ecosystem partners in the industrial internet, including Intel and GE. In addition, he is also responsible for Open Innovation for Health & Public Services. Dr. Wan has over 19 years of experience as a technology innovator. His work has been widely reported in the research and business community and media, including Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Associated Press, BBC and ABC News. Dr. Wan is the co-author the book "Pervasive Computing in Healthcare" (CRC Press, 2008), and has over a dozen patents to his credit. Prior to joining Accenture, Dr. Wan was a Fellow at University of California at Berkeley, where he helped launch the eCommerce research program at Fisher Center for Information Technology and Marketplace Transformation. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society and American Medical Information Association (AMIA).