Sylvain is the Chief Product Officer for B3i and has been instrumental in designing the initial prototype and ongoing development of the enterprise version that we aim to take into production and also for the longer term product development roadmap.

Sylvain was previously responsible for the research and development efforts of Aegon Blue Square Re, Aegon’s in-house reinsurer. He started his professional career in investment banking.

He holds a Masters in Physics from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. His focus in academia was in computational and statistical physics.

Sylvain has published numerous articles on longevity, blockchain and underwriting risk solutions and is a frequent speaker on the topic and related innovations.  He has done extensive research on longevity risk and geo-concentration risk and was one of the pioneers of stochastic longevity modelling and structured the first capital market longevity risk hedge.