Analytics

Deep expertise in actuarial, financial and predictive modelling.

Software

Underpinned by a strong understanding of technology solutions

Dynamo Analytics is an entrepreneurial actuarial and software consultancy. We have deep expertise in building, validating and industrialising actuarial, statistical and technical processes and models.

Over the past few years, we have heavily invested in building Psicle, an advanced enterprise-wide software platform in which to build, operate and report on these processes and models. Through a combination of our expertise and our software platform, we help our clients reduce their costs, shorten their timelines, increase their efficiency and minimise their operational risk. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in South Africa and the Nordics, Dynamo provides efficient, targeted and cost-effective solutions to help businesses of all sizes work smarter.

Meet the Directors

Analytics are powerful. Determined to bring this energy to the forefront of business practice, Adrian Ericsson and Hannes van Rensburg established Dynamo Analytics in 2012 with the specific ambition of helping organisations make smarter, analytic-led, business decisions.

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Adrian Ericsson

Adrian co-founded Dynamo after a 15 year career building and implementing actuarial and statistical models for global insurance companies. A qualified actuary with diverse practical experience covering capital, reserving, pricing and risk management, Adrian has established and led actuarial teams in both the UK and South Africa and sat at executive level in both countries. Adrian focuses on the modelling of capital requirements and business optimisation and has led engagements to build, embed and use actuarial models across a variety of the insurers. Previous roles include Chief Actuary for Argo International, UK Head of Capital for Swiss Re and Capital Modelling and Solvency II expert at Deloitte.

adrian.ericsson@dyna-mo.com
Hannes van Rensburg

Hannes is a qualified actuary with a BSc degree in computing sciences and statistics. He has a broad range of experience in the areas of pricing, capital management and reserving, working as an actuary in the London and South African markets. Before co-founding Dynamo, he was as a consultant at Towers Watson and pricing and capital actuary at Zurich Financial Services. At Dynamo he has assisted a number of clients with the development of technical rating models and underwriting guidelines, covering both the statistical analytics and model to market platforms. Hannes has presented several times at GIRO, and was a member of the working party examining the integration of pricing and capital.

hannes.vanrensburg@dyna-mo.com
Lori Tan

Consulting director globally and director of the Nordic office, Lori Tan is a fully qualified actuary, both a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and internationally qualified member of Den Norske Aktuarforening (the Norwegian Actuarial Association). An actuarial consultant since 2003, Lori brings to the team a diverse range of international experience. Prior to joining Dynamo, she was working for both an Australian and Norwegian consultancy. Her areas of expertise include reserving, premium estimation, capital modelling and risk management. Over the years, she has undertaken liability valuations for a wide range of insurers (including statistical case estimation) and has extensive experience in solvency modelling including validation. She prides herself on helping companies understand their business drivers and optimise capital. Locally, she has assisted clients with all three pillars of Solvency II, including the improvement of data and work processes. In addition to technical proficiency, Lori places a high emphasis on fostering good client relationships through open communication and timely delivery of service.

lori.tan@dyna-mo.com
Andrew Tinkler

Andrew is a Software Architect and Database specialist. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering and brings over 25 years of experience to Dynamo. He specialises in the design and development of software based solutions for the insurance and finance industry. These include a Basel II calculator, Self-Assessment tool, M&A management system, Balance Sheet Substantiation tool, Regulatory Reporting tools and Dynamo’s Psicle® software platform; used to model Economic Capital and other risk measures.

andrew.tinkler@dyna-mo.com
Shil Patel

Shil is the global director of our Psicle® platform and a qualified actuary, joining Dynamo Analytics when it formed in 2012. Shil is specialising in the industrialisation and automation of actuarial and financial models and has worked with 10+ clients implementing Psicle models. He has significant experience and knowledge of the Solvency II TPs and SF, and IFRS 17. Prior to leading our Psicle Software proposition, Shil worked as a senior actuarial consultant in our Consulting division. He has spent several years seconded to start-ups in Lloyd's and in the London Market, leading the design and implementation of ground up Reserving, Solvency II and Capital Models. Prior to joining Dynamo, Shil worked at Willis Towers Watson, predominantly focusing on London Market reserving.

shil.patel@dyna-mo.com

Consultants & Associates

The entrepreneurial Dynamo spirit attracts the kind of people who thrive on doing things a little bit differently. To support the high-quality and cost-effective advice and solutions our clients expect, we’re building a strong team of highly motivated consultants and associates across the UK, South Africa and the Nordics.

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Albert Ingwani

Albert Ingwani BCom(Hons). Albert is an analyst in the Cape Town office who began his actuarial career at Zimbabwe Actuarial Consultants in 2013 before joining Drimkoe Solutions as a data analyst. He gained experience in Corporate valuations and pricing of life assurance products and also acquired programming skills. He joined Dynamo Analytics in 2015 and is currently studying for the actuarial exams.

albert.ingwanir@dyna-mo.com
Alice Turner

Alice joined the London office in 2014 as our Office Manager and since January 2018, she has been managing Dynamo's Marketing. Alice has a Professional Diploma in Business from Quest Professional, where she acquired the knowledge and essential skills for the business environment. Since joining, Alice has been responsible for office operations and administrative activities, including three office moves, one office renovation, logistics of company conferences, creating marketing materials, social networking, website adjustments and client relations.

alice.turner@dyna-mo.com
Aliska Van Niekerk

Aliska joined Dynamo in 2016 as a consultant in the South African office. Aliska is a qualified actuary with six years’ experience in the South African Short term insurance industry. Her key areas of experience are Capital, Pricing, Reserving and data analytics. This includes technical rating tool development, rating tool implementation and roll-out, statutory capital calculations, reserving for all major lines of businesses, development of management information reports as well as strategic data analytics. Aliska has a working knowledge of VBA, SQL, SAS and model building in Access and basic knowledge of C#, R, Emblem, Duck Creek and Psicle®. Previously Aliska has worked for Outsurance and Zurich Insurance Company SA.

aliska.vanniekerk@dyna-mo.com
Anesu Shuro

Anesu joined as an Analyst in August 2015 in the Cape Town office. He graduated at the University of Cape Town with a BBusSc in Actuarial Science in December 2014 where he learnt programming in R and MATLAB. Anesu is currently finishing actuarial board exams with the Actuarial Society of South Africa.

anesu.shuro@dyna-mo.com
Bongani Dube

Bongani joined the South African office in April 2017 as a Developer and Junior Analyst. He is originally from Zimbabwe where he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Bongani has vast experience in delivering web based, distributed and online application solutions. He has worked for Lupane State University where he built their very first student results online portal. In 2016 he began his career as a C# and .NET developer when he was appointed senior developer at Drimkoe Solutions before moving to South Africa.

bongani.dube@dyna-mo.com
Bongumusa Bhengu

Bongumusa joined Dynamo in November 2018 as a Developer. He graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from the University of Greenwich by correspondence learning through the CTI Education group in South Africa. Bongumusa has exposure in developing online and desktop applications using C#. Net Framework, Java Scripts and SQL. Prior to Dynamo he was working in the public sector and for Capitec Bank. His prime objective is to assist in the improvement of the Psicle software for better end-user experience, reduce the complication from the end-users.

bongumusa.bhengu@dyna-mo.com
Briance Mathebula

Briance joined the South African office in November 2017 after completing her BCom(Hons) Actuarial Science degree at Stellenbosch University. Over her years at University, she acquired basic programming skills in R, SAS and VBA. She will be working as an Analyst in the consulting team while completing the rest of her actuarial exams.

briance.mathebula@dyna-mo.com
Carien Swanepoel

Carien joined Dynamo in January 2018 as an Analyst in the South African consulting team. She graduated at Stellenbosch University at the end of 2017 where she completed her BCom Actuarial Science Degree. She acquired basic programming skills in Delphi and SQL in high school and in SAS, R and VBA in University. She is busy with her actuarial exams and is excited to qualify as soon as possible as an actuary.

carien.swanepoel@dyna-mo.com
Carmé Leuvennink

Carmé joined our South African office at the end of 2015. She has a BCom(hons) degree in Financial Risk Management which she obtained at the University of Stellenbosch and is studying towards the CFA qualification. Carmé has been involved in a variety of projects for South African, UK and Nordic based clients. Since joining Dynamo, she has been involved in developing various pricing models, internal capital model validation, SAM capital submissions and reserving projects.

carme.leuvennink@dyna-mo.com
Catherine Halsey

Catherine graduated with both her BSc Actuarial and Financial Mathematics and BSc(Hons) Mathematical Statistics degrees at the University of Pretoria before joining First National Bank South Africa as a Data Analyst where she gained experience in customer behaviour modelling, campaigning and strategic insight analysis within the customer portfolio using both SQL and SAS. She joined Dynamo in 2019 as an Analyst in the London office and is studying for the Actuarial Board exams with the aim of qualifying in a few years’ time.

catherine.halsey@dyna-mo.com
Giles Carey

Giles is a part-qualified actuary who joined Dynamo at the start of 2018 as a Senior Analyst. He began his career as an actuary after graduating in 2015 from the University of Warwick, where he was awarded first-class honours in Mathematics; and worked first as a pensions consultant and then as a pricing and reserving analyst at an international MGA operating through Lloyds. Giles has knowledge of SAS, SQL and vba and experience with both catastrophe and financial lines business across multiple financial hubs. He also has hands-on experience with automating and streamlining internal procedures.

giles.carey@dyna-mo.com
Grace Stilgoe

Grace is a part-qualified actuary and Associate of the CII who joined Dynamo as a Senior Analyst in 2018. She graduated with a first-class honours in Actuarial Science from City University and began her Actuarial career in the reserving team at QBE, before moving to Axis where she gained four years’ experience in pricing and portfolio analysis. Prior to joining Dynamo, Grace held an underwriting role on the International Binders team at Axis. She has experience in pricing and reserving across multiple lines of business in different territories.

grace.stilgoe@dyna-mo.com
Human de Jager

Human is an analyst in our South African office and joined full time in early 2015. He obtained his BCom (Hons) degree in Statistics from the University of Stellenbosch which enabled him to be literate in statistical programs such as SAS and R coding languages. He is currently busy with the Certified Actuarial Analyst qualification to further his knowledge in the Actuarial field. Human is heavily involved in a variety of projects, both in SA and London. His primary focus is the expansion and implementation of Dynamo’s in-house software, Psicle®, in South African based insurers.

human.dejager@dyna-mo.com
Lucy Quemeneur

Lucy is a qualified actuary with 8 years' experience in general insurance sector. She joined Dynamo in 2015, bringing the team a range of experience from the London Market. Lucy began her actuarial career as consultant at KPMG where she gained experience in reserving and portfolio transfers. Prior to joining Dynamo, she worked in-house as a pricing actuary for a London Market insurer, working across a range of property and casualty classes of business. Since joining Dynamo, Lucy has worked on a wide variety of projects across pricing, reserving, capital, and internal model validation. Lucy’s current focus is on the industrialisation and automation of Technical Provisions, Standard Formula and IFRS 17 in Psicle®.

lucy.quemeneur@dyna-mo.com
Marc Theron

Marc is a Consultant and Head of Psicle UK. In 2015, Marc relocated to London from our South African office. He has experience in capital, reserving and specialises in the industrialisation and automation of actuarial and financial models using Psicle®. He has extensive knowledge of the Solvency II TPs, SF and Pillar III requirements, and the Bermudan BSCR. Marc has been involved in a variety of projects and most recently, Marc heads up the model builds and implementation of Psicle for our UK clients.

marc.theron@dyna-mo.com
Matthew Webster

Matthew joined the London office as a consultant in 2018 from Australia. A qualified actuary with six years’ experience in general insurance and analytics, he has been involved in a range of projects for insurers with a focus on reserving, pricing and reporting for both short- and long-tail lines. Matthew has also applied sophisticated predictive modelling techniques to a range of problems for private sector and government clients, which have found large-scale application.

matthew.webster@dyna-mo.com
Robyn Swart

Robyn joined Dynamo at the beginning of 2018 as the Office Manager of our South African team. Robyn studied at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where she achieved her Bachelor of Accounting degree. Through her studies and an internship program, she has gained a good understanding of business operations and finances, as well as strong organisational, administrative and communication skills.

robyn.swart@dyna-mo.com
Stephan Marais

Stephan joined Dynamo at the end of 2016 after he finished his Actuarial Science degree at Stellenbosch University. He is based in the South African office, working in the software development department as an actuarial analyst, gadget developer and software tester. His passion is to create optimal functioning actuarial models and processes using technology and clever functions. Stephan's passion overflows into other aspects of his professional life as he always tries to optimise the office environment around him. A normal day at work ranges from ad hoc capital & reserving tasks to Psicle installations & managing virtual servers to coding actuarial functions

stephan.marais@dyna-mo.com
Tony Mwila

Tony joined Dynamo in January 2018 in the software and systems development department. He is originally from Zambia and graduated at the end of 2017 from Stellenbosch University with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering where he gained programming exposure to languages such as C and Python. He is looking to learn and contribute to the team’s software development efforts.

tony.mwila@dyna-mo.com