Farhana Alarakhiya
Board member, Pulsar Collective
Data analytics expert before it became a buzzword. Specialise in analytics, artificial intelligence, reporting and decision making, digital transformation, data technology stacks. Experience across analytics within financial services, retail, healthcare, and catastrophe modelling
Media
RMS' Alarakhiya: The Data Challenge Is Getting It to the Right People
Securis the first ILS manager to license RMS Exposure Manager
Claims management equals risk management
Property Casualty 360Online
URL: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2018/05/03/claims-management-equals-risk-management/
From insurance data management to data enlightenment
Assessing technology’s impact on insurance claims
Property Casualty 360Online
URL: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2018/05/22/assessing-technologys-impact-on-insurance-claims/
Biography
Farhana Alarakhiya has been deeply immersed in the world of Big Data analytics and AI for her entire career. She is a digitization champion and has spent the last two decades working in information technology, transforming organizations through analytics, and artificial intelligence. Her roles span from Vice President at Shopify, where she focused on helping entrepreneurs use data to make better business decisions, to Director at Watson Health where she built innovative software to enable proactive and preventative health measures. Alarakhiya holds an Electrical Engineering and Management degree, and serves on the board for Pulsar Collective, a not-for-profit committed to improving gender equality in STEM. She is also an advisor to several AI focused incubate firms. Originally from Kenya, Alarakhiya incorporates fair and equitable treatment of women in her work, to decrease the gap between the “have” and “have not.”