Dr. Alberto M. Chierici
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Toptal member since December 3, 2019
Alberto is an entrepreneur, scientist, and director-level experience VP with a strong track record of delivering impactful AI products and projects in different industries. His expertise spans managing and growing product and data science teams, machine learning products, design of experiments, financial modeling, product management, and company building. Alberto is recognized for his excellent communication skills and leadership with a unique mix of experiences.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Head of Opportunity Scoping
ARK Venture Studio
- Spearheaded AI and market analysis, serving as a subject matter authority.
- Identified critical risks associated with rapidly expanding and adopting AI technologies.
- Conducted meticulous research and provided strategic insights, unearthing pivotal opportunities for venture creation.
Interim Head of Finance | Data Science Advisor | Product Manager
Around
- Advised Around on leveraging data science for achieving a 10x growth target, establishing priorities, data-products roadmap, and engineering requirements for the data science and finance functions and teams.
- Led data-driven decision-making in demand and supply teams by developing a comprehensive machine learning tool to track, predict, and monitor commercial real estate performance for various geographical areas.
- Improved financial reporting, accounting, data recording, and forecasting, achieving 90% data accuracy.
- Led and trained team members to enhance performance and improve processes.
Senior Data Scientist and Revolutionary Actuary
Tesla
- Acted as an actuarial and data science function owner for Tesla insurance products in EMEA. Set goals and product roadmaps.
- Developed and launched the Tesla Safety Score (Beta).
- Led technical efforts, including the analysis of terabytes of data generated by the Tesla fleet.
- Conducted feasibility studies in different regions.
Advisor | Business Strategy, Product, Data Science
Futurely
- Collaborated 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
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 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
University of Milano-Bicocca - Milan, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Physics
University of Milan - Milan, Italy
Skills
Tools
Slack Development, R, Trello Development, Tableau Development, Zoom Development, Confluence, Google Docs Development
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Agile Product Management, Scrum Master Consulting, Kanban Project Management, Human-computer Interaction (HCI)
Industry Expertise
Insurance Technology (Insurtech), Insurance App Design
Platforms
H2O Deep Learning Platform
Other
Product Strategy, AI Product Management, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Data Science, AI Product Management, NLP, Chatbot Development, Chatbot Development, Machine Learning, Product Management, Technical Product Management, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Feasibility Studies, MVP Design, Conversational AI, Startup Development, Feature Analysis, Business Strategy, Virtual Product Management, Business Modeling, Web UI, SaaS Product Management, Enterprise SaaS, Python, Adobe XD Design, Requirements & Specifications, Marketing Research & Analysis, UX Development, SaaS Product Management, Monetization Models, Product Roadmaps, Python, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, UX Development, Business Process Management (BPM), UX Development, Design Strategy, Customer Insights, Customer Journeys, CSS, Consumer Technology, TensorFlow, HTML, Big Data Architecture, MySQL, MongoDB, Google Meet, Notion Development, New Products, Core ML, Market Research Analyst, Customer Development, Analytics Development, Leadership, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Agile Sprints, DataViz, Finance, Financials, Venture Funding, Budgeting Consulting, Quarterly Reporting, Financial Statements, Risk Management, Complex Problem Solving, LLM, PyTorch, Software Engineering, UI Development, UX Development, Product Development, Product Delivery, Statistics, Physics, Marketing Strategy, UI Design, Latin America (LATAM)
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