Allianz Insurance appoints chief analytics officer
New appointee Chris Varley has 18 years of experience working in the insurance sector
Allianz Insurance has announced that it has appointed Chris Varley as its new Chief Analytics Officer.
Varley, who is the position’s first incumbent following its creation, will take on the role from March 2022. He will be responsible for growing the company’s data and pricing capabilities to ‘deliver a single analytics strategy across the business’.
Varley will be joining Allianz from London-based insurance broker Willis Towers Watson, where he is currently Senior Director for Commercial Lines Pricing and Underwriting and has worked for almost five years. In this role, Varley specialised in developing analytics tools for the commercial insurance market and has previously worked with Allianz at both a Group and UK level.
Underwriting experience meets analytics capabilities
Varley also previously worked with Zurich Insurance for 13 years in various roles, including as the head of the firm’s Underwriting Transformation Programme, which focused on data-led decision making.
“I’m delighted to be welcoming Chris to this new position,” says Simon McGinn, Allianz Commercial’s CEO. “The appointment of a chief analytics officer reflects our ambition to embed and co-ordinate analytics across the whole of our Commercial business, underlining its importance as a core foundation for our future success.
“It’s a very exciting time to be joining Allianz and to be taking on a leading role in the adoption and development of the latest analytic techniques and tools in support of its Commercial business,” says Varley.