Chapter 12Dr. Henna A. Karna: Racing to Last Place —The Criticality of an End-to-End Data Strategy

Photograph of Dr. Henna A. Karna, managing director of Re/Insurance and Risk Management Solutions, Google; and the former CDO of AXA XL.

Dr. Henna A. Karna, managing director of Re/Insurance and Risk Management Solutions, Google; and the former CDO of AXA XL

Source: Dr. Henna A. Karna

Henna is a highly respected global leader with more than 25 years of experience leading innovation across digital/data in high-tech, CPG, risk management, and insurance industries (across vendors, brokers, and independent agents). She has led businesses and advised Fortune 500 companies on digital innovation and disruption and has designed and developed patent-pending technology and applications in the field of genetic algorithms, behavioral analytics, deep neural nets, and digital-data technologies.

Henna currently serves as managing director of Re/Insurance and Risk Management Solutions at Google, leading Google Cloud's global insurance strategy and solutions, including a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) data and analytics platform for insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and so on. Previously, Henna served as chief data officer and managing director at AXA XL, the Property and Casualty, Specialty Risk, Risk Management, and Consulting entity of global insurance giant AXA SA.

Over the course of her career, Henna has served as the global actuarial CIO and managing director for AIG. Earlier in her career, Henna held positions ...

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