
Alberto M. Chierici
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Alberto is an experienced data scientist, product manager, entrepreneur, and actuary by training. Over the past decade, he's successfully bootstrapped machine learning projects in Fortune 500 insurance companies and founded and helped form five startups. His strengths are in management, strategy, product and customer validation, data products, machine learning, the design of experiments, data visualization, and communication.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Advisor | Business Strategy, Product, and Data Science
Orientami
- Worked with the funding team to develop and implement the startup strategy, including testing different business and revenue models, customer development, MVP, and validation of the distribution channel.
- Defined and implemented the product's first machine learning algorithms in Python to provide users with a smart recommender system.
- Coached and continuously mentored for the product management function.
Scientific Advisor | Product Manager
Miranda Italy
- Researched the market and competition. interviewed customers to generate user stories, and implemented rapid prototyping to validate and prioritize features.
- Supported sales pitches for industry partnerships.
- Managed the delivery of the beta product acting as the interim CTO.
Co-founder | Chief Product Officer
Spixii
- Co-founded a boutique agency specialized in automation frameworks, chatbot solutions, and customers.
- Optimized projects for enterprise insurance clients.
- Ran customer development, interviewing hundreds of customers in one month and validating problem-solution fit with the creation of the company's first product—a chatbot for insurance services.
- Built the product team and the delivery frameworks with in-house engineers and outsourced developers.
- Helped to build the recruiting and sales frameworks and sold three contracts.
- Served as the chief product officer when the company built the best chatbot implementation for Zurich UK Insurance which received multiple industry awards and outstanding user testimonials.
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
- Played a key role for bootstrapping a data mining platform that delivered accurate and granular risk scores for many use cases to Fortune 500 finance and insurance firms.
- Selected technology requirements, supported sales pitches, managed pilots with clients.
- Led the development of the technical solution and the product design.
Senior Actuarial Analyst
Chubb
- Deployed actuarial pricing models for commercial property and casualty insurance lines of business.
- Developed an analytics dashboard and reports for the company's capital model.
Pricing Actuary
Beazley
- Developed and deployed in production actuarial pricing models in R for specialty insurance lines (D&O, E&O, healthcare, and fidelity).
- Developed statistical models for predicting claims status changes.
Actuarial Student
Munich Re
- Built an automated reporting system in R.
- Supported quarterly reserving for commercial property and casualty insurance lines of business.
- Researched and developed innovative pricing models.
Project History
Spixii
http://www.spixii.comLaunched Spixii and set up the product and data science functions—achieving profitability.
Spixii (a multi-awarded European insurtech) worked with many top insurance enterprises in Europe, delivering conversational experiences for a travel insurance quote and buy and property, motor, and commercial insurance claims. I ideated the first product by interviewing hundreds of insurance consumers to draw compelling user stories and validate product-solution fit.
Tasks Accomplished:
• Led the product design and agile development enterprise client implementations.
• Set up the data science function.
• Sold some contracts. One of these implementations was Zara, a chatbot for the first notification of a claim.
Outstanding User's Testimonial:
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiLByQVaMZ0RRm3XYgUTSXg
• They advertised the application and the product won multiple industry awards.
Miranda
https://www.mirandabot.com/Managed the product, science, and launch of the first Italian chatbot dedicated to insurance agents and brokers.
Tasks Accomplished:
• Ran the early customer discovery, budgeting, and product beta launch.
• Conducted primary research and contextual interviews.
• Iterated five MVPs (building prototypes by myself).
• Supported sales pitches, landing the first partnership with Italy's major management-system software company.
• Currently acting as the scientific advisor on the NLP strategy, machine learning, and as the interim CTO.
HexScore
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/uk/Documents/financial-services/deloitte-uk-fs-hexscore.pdfLed the beta creation, early data science, and delivered the first pilot implementation at a major British insurance company.
Tasks Accomplished:
• Created the MVP.
• Selected technology requirements.
• Led the implementation of a beta release.
• Supported sales pitches.
• Managed pilots with clients.
• Led product design.
AI Mentor
Advised on initial product design methodology, team setup and skills requirement of a proactive business planning software.
I advised on product management best practices, agile methodology, and product requirements. I also helped to source the talent required to execute the project and advised on building and maintaining a proactive chatbot that helps entrepreneurs tackling challenging areas of their business plan.
Web App for Converting Arabic PDF Documents in Word
Led the design, strategy and feature analysis of the MVP for a web app that converts Arabic PDF documents in words.
Education
Doctorate Degree (in Progress) in Computer Science and Engineering
New York University Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Diploma in Actuarial Techniques (Actuarial Science)
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries - London, UK
Master's Degree in Statistics
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca - Milan, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Physics
Università degli Studi di Milano - Milan, Italy