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.

More about the directors

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-Rae

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-rae@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.

More about the consultants and associates

Adelia De Jager

Adelia joined Dynamo Analytics in March 2020 as a Consultant in the UK office. She graduated from the University of Witwatersrand with a B.Sc. Hons degree in Actuarial Science. She has subsequently completed all the Actuarial examinations through the Actuarial Society of South Africa. She has been working in the Actuarial field for the last 5 years with exposure to life insurance, banking and general insurance. Prior to joining Dynamo, Adelia worked for Capitec Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers where she gained knowledge in impairment modelling under IFRS 9 and insurance contract recognition under IFRS 17. Adelia has enjoyed building various Actuarial models in VBA, SQL and SAS.
Albert Ingwani

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.
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 four office moves, one office renovation, logistics of company conferences, creating marketing materials, social networking, website adjustments and client relations.
Andy Daniels

Andy joined Dynamo Analytics in September 2021 as a Consultant in the UK office. He is a qualified actuary, with five years' experience in general insurance. In 2016, Andy achieved a masters degree in mathematics from the University of Nottingham, before accepting a graduate role within the London actuarial team at PwC. In his time at PwC, Andy worked across a diverse range of projects, from audit and SAOs, to reinsurance pricing, and (more recently) digital transformation work. Andy enjoys learning new skills, as well as developing innovative solutions to challenging problems.
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.
Ashka Shah

Ashka joined Dynamo Analytics in April 2020 as a Senior Consultant in the UK office. She is a qualified actuary with over seven years’ experience in both the UK and Australia, specialising in general insurance. Ashka studied Physics at university, then started her actuarial career at PwC in the London office. During her time there, she worked on a wide range of projects and qualified in December 2015. She then went on an international secondment to the PwC Sydney actuarial team, before taking on a permanent role at Allianz Australia. In this role, she was responsible for the reserving for a range of classes of business, as well as liaising with the wider Finance team and mentoring junior actuaries.
Barend Marais

Barend joined Dynamo in March 2021 as a Junior Developer in the South African Office. Barend graduated from Stellenbosch University at the end of 2020 with a degree in Actuarial Science. He enjoys using technology and takes great satisfaction from programming. He is an aspiring Fellow and CERA Actuary and aspires to specialize in AI programming.
Carmé Rossouw

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.
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.
Chris Dunderdale

Chris joined the South African office in February 2020 as a Junior Developer. Prior to joining Dynamo, he just submitted his MSc Mathematical Statistics dissertation at Nelson Mandela University. During his studies and part time work, he has been exposed to several languages including SQL, Python, R and C#.
Christopher Green

Christopher joined Dynamo Analytics in November 2020 as the Information Security Manager in the UK office. He is a proven cyber and information security professional with a background in offensive and defensive security, as well maturing security practices within large digital transformation projects. Chris brings with him over 20 years’ experience working across many industries which gives him the unique ability to weigh security controls and business requirements to formulate appropriate solutions.
Conal Brown

Conal graduated from Stellenbosch University in December 2019 where he started with Electric & Electronic engineering and later finished his degree in Industrial engineering. He is joining Dynamo as a software operation engineer where he will focus on the operations side of Psicle.
Daniël Claassen

Daniël joined the South African office as a graduate analyst in January of 2021. He completed his BCom Actuarial Science degree at the end of 2019 and hopes to finish his Honours degree in Actuarial Science during 2021, whilst also studying for and writing several board exams of the Actuarial Society of South Africa. During his time at Stellenbosch University, Daniël gained exposure to programming in Java, SAS, VBA and R. He is very excited to kick off his corporate life at Dynamo and eager to learn about the business environment.
Freddy More

Freddy joined Dynamo in June 2020 as a Software Test Analyst in the South African Office. Freddy has a history of working in the Information Technology, Insurance and Financial Services industries. Before joining Dynamo, Freddy worked for MMI and MiX Telematics.
Gemma Smith

Gemma joined Dynamo as a consultant in the Australian office in November 2021. She is a qualified actuary with almost five years of previous experience as an actuarial consultant in general insurance. Her focus has been primarily on reserving and reporting for a range of different lines of business.
Giles Carey

Giles is a qualified actuary and consultant in the London office, who joined Dynamo at the start of 2018. 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. Giles has knowledge of SAS, SQL and vba and hands-on experience with automating and streamlining internal procedures. In his time at Dynamo he has been involved in helping to improve internal reserving processes and has significant experience and knowledge in Reserving and Solvency II TPs and SF.
Hayden Ware

Hayden joined Dynamo Analytics in 2021 as a consultant in the Australian office. He graduated in 2017 from the University of Wollongong with a degree in pure mathematics and finance, and has since gone on to qualify as an actuary. Prior to joining Dynamo, Hayden worked in a large Australian general insurer in the pricing, capital, and reserving spaces, with a focus on predictive modelling and reserving process transformation. From this experience, Hayden has developed a solid technical skillset, particularly in R, SQL, and machine learning.
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.
Issy Greenleaves

Issy started her career at the PRA in 2012, after graduating with a BSc in Financial Mathematics from the University of Sheffield. Issy originally joined Dynamo back in 2015, spending three and a half years in actuarial consulting. After gaining risk management experience within a top tier Lloyd’s managing agency, Issy returned to Dynamo in 2021 as our Actuarial Project Manager. Issy will support the delivery of our clients’ business transformation projects which rely on both consulting and Psicle.
Jack Manning

Jack is a part-qualified actuary and joined Dynamo at the end of 2019 in the London Office. He graduated with a first-class honours in Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics from Kingston University in 2017 and began his actuarial career at Enstar where his primary focus was reserving, both live and run-off. Jack is currently studying for his actuarial exams and is hoping to be qualified in a few years time.
James Campkin

James joined Dynamo in April 2021 as a Graduate Actuary in the UK office. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MSci and BA in Natural Sciences in 2020. Between graduating and starting work at Dynamo, he worked as a Maths and Physics teacher where he honed his ability to deliver concise explanations and manage groups of teenagers.
James Ellis

James joined Dynamo in May 2021 as a Junior Software Developer. Before joining Dynamo, James submitted his MEng thesis in Reinforcement Learning at Stellenbosch University. Prior to this, he studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University.
Kayla Van Der Watt

Kayla joined Dynamo as a Consultant in June 2021 in the Stellenbosch office. She is a qualified actuary with a wealth of experience in the actuarial industry since 2014. She graduated with distinction from the University of Pretoria with a BSc (Hons) in Actuarial Science in December 2013. Prior to joining Dynamo, Kayla worked for Platinum life for 4 years as well as Guardrisk for 3.5 years. During this time Kayla specialised in life insurance: SAM calculations (within a cell captive, Market Risk, Life Underwriting, Dividend calculations), ORSA, IFRS 4 as well as IFRS 17 (early implementation discussions). Kayla also has a keen interest for database design and automation using software such as SQL, VBA, Excel, Access, Prophet, Java, Python etc.
Kristhy Malliaris

Kristhy joined the South African office in September 2021 as the SA Office Manager. She graduated from Stellenbosch University with a bachelors degree in Human Resource Management in 2012 and has since gained generalist experience in both Finance and Human Resources. Kristhy is passionate about optimizing efficiency through implementing effective systems and strives to do so with the attitude of an early adopter.
Lance Randles

Lance joined Dynamo in March 2021 as Acquisition Manager in the UK Office. He completed a BSc Financial Mathematics degree at the University of Pretoria, spending a few years in the South African actuarial industry before moving to London in 2006 to pursue a position in specialist actuarial recruitment. During almost 15 years in recruitment Lance completed a MBA degree and also won an industry award as Recruiter of the Year in 2019.
Lara Loock

Lara studied at Stellenbosch University where she completed her undergrad and honours degree in Bcom Actuarial Science. She acquired some basic programming skills in Delphi during high school and Java, R, SAS and VBA during university. Lara is excited to finish off her last few exams through ASSA and become more confident and competent in the work she does at Dynamo.
Liesbet Wilken

Liesbet joined Dynamo in February 2021 as a Graduate Actuary in the South African office. She completed her BCom Actuarial Science (Hons) degree at Stellenbosch University and is studying to become a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA). During her studies and vacation work, she gained some exposure to R, SAS, and VBA and she is keen to develop her coding skills further.
Louise Gannon

Louise joined Dynamo Analytics in September 2021 as a Graduate Actuary in the UK office. She graduated from University College Dublin with a First-Class Honours Degree in Actuarial and Financial Studies. In her penultimate year of university, she undertook an eight-month placement at a Lloyd's syndicate (SCOR Channel) where she gained exposure to reserving, pricing and capital modelling. Louise hopes to sit her remaining professional examinations in the years to come and qualify as a Fellow of the IFoA.
Louw van den Heever

Louw van den Heever completed his BCom(Hons) degree in Actuarial Science at Stellenbosch University in 2019. Louw started working part time for Dynamo in October 2018. He has gained programming experience in SAS, R, Java, VBA, Xcode, F# and Google Script. Louw is excited and determined to complete his last couple of exams through ASSA to qualify as an actuary.
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®.
Marc Theron

Marc studied Financial Mathematics at the University of Stellenbosch, then began his career with Dynamo as its first South African hire in 2013. Through the 7 years as an analyst and consultant, in both the South African and UK offices, Marc worked on various industrialization and automation projects in the London market using our Psicle platform. He has specialized in the delivery of Solvency II TP and SF projects and, more recently, IFRS 17 projects. After gaining further IFRS 17 experience within a Bermudan/UK insurer, Marc returned to Dynamo in 2021 as a Senior Consultant in the UK office.
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.
Mitchell McGuinn

Mitchell Joined Dynamo in August 2021 as a Software Operations Engineer in the Australia Office. He graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2020 with a degree in Information and Communication Technology. Before joining Dynamo Mitchell worked at the City of Launceston in their IT department.
Mohamed Habib

Mohamed joined Dynamo as an Actuarial Analyst in 2019 in the London Office whilst also studying for his Actuarial qualifications, aiming to qualify within a few years. He is commencing his actuarial career at Dynamo after graduating from the University of Warwick with a BSc in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics; where he developed his skills in the statistical programming language R.
Othon Dibwe

Othon joined Dynamo Analytics in September 2021 as an Assistant Operations Engineer in the Stellenbosch office. Othon is originally from the Congo (DRC) and graduated with a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering at Stellenbosch University in 2015. He started his career as an Operation and Service Coordinator at Every Nation Stellenbosch Church. Othon enjoys learning new skills and is looking forward to adding value to the Dynamo Operation team.
Pierre Jacobs

Pierre joined Dynamo in August 2020 as a Junior Software Operations Engineer in the South African office. He has a BEng Mechanical degree and is currently in his final year of MEng Engineering Management at Stellenbosch University. He enjoys Python, Web development and Innovative solutions.
Reena Woolf

Reena joined Dynamo in June 2021 as Group Finance Manager. Prior to a career break to look after her two young children, Reena was a Partner with KPMG’s Financial Services Deal Advisory practice where she advised FTSE 100 Insurance companies on acquisitions, disposals and capital raising transactions. Reena’s core skills include financial due diligence (financial statement assessment, business plans and cash flow challenge, financial risks and controls assessment), stakeholder engagement and people management.
Stephan Marais

Stephan joined Dynamo at the end of 2016 after he finished his Actuarial Science degree at Stellenbosch University. He is experienced technical processes such as ETL, designing and building models and reserving insurance business. His passion is to create optimal functioning processes. Stephan's passion for optimisation also flows into other areas of the business. He is based in the South African office, currently working in the software development department as lead of Gadget Development.
Tolu Ogunleye

Tolu joined Dynamo in March 2020 as the Office Manager in Stavanger, Norway. Tolu has a Bachelor degree in Accounting. Through her working experiences within various industries she has gained a good understanding of finances, business administration/support and the importance of good communication skills and client relationship. Prior to joining Dynamo, Tolu worked in Nigeria and then in the UK for several years.
Tom Hallett

Tom joined Dynamo Analytics in May 2021 as a Graduate Actuary in the Australian office. In 2020 he graduated from The University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial Studies) and a Diploma in Mathematical Sciences (Statistics and Stochastic Processes). Throughout his studies, and prior to joining Dynamo, Tom worked in the investment management industry, where he was able to develop and apply his analytical and problem-solving skillset.
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.
Willem Boshoff

Willem joined Dynamo in January 2021 as a Software Developer in the South African office. Willem studied Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch and finished in 2019. He started working for MiX Telematics as a Junior Firmware Engineer prior to joining Dynamo.