Eric Gesick

Eric Gesick leads the casualty modelling and analytics team in Extreme Event Solutions at Verisk and oversees the development of the Arium platform. An insurance expert with nearly three decades of experience in the global (re)insurance industry, he’s spent the last two years examining climate risk issues and solutions through academic research and advisory services.

He most recently served in the roles of group chief underwriter, group chief risk officer, and group chief actuary at AXIS Capital. Before that, he was the group chief actuary for PartnerRe, with leadership responsibilities including pricing, portfolio management, underwriting standards, reserving, ERM, natural catastrophe modelling, exposure management, and capital modelling for multiple lines of business, including liability, property, and specialty insurance.

Eric is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and a CFA Charterholder. You can reach Eric at EGesick@verisk.com.

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