Dr. Alberto M. Chierici, Product Manager in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Dr. Alberto M. Chierici

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Bio

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

Spixii
Launched Spixii and set up the product and data science functions—achieving profitability.
Miranda
Managed the product, science, and launch of the first Italian chatbot dedicated to insurance agents and brokers.
HexScore
Led the beta creation, early data science, and delivered the first pilot implementation at a major British insurance company.

Expertise

Work Experience

Head of Opportunity Scoping

2023 - 2023
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

2022 - 2023
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

2021 - 2022
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

2020 - 2021
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

2019 - 2020
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

2016 - 2018
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

2014 - 2016
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

2012 - 2014
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

2011 - 2012
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

2010 - 2011
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.

Spixii

http://www.spixii.com

Launched Spixii and set up the product and data science functions—achieving profitability.

As the chief product officer, I contributed to the development of an enterprise platform for insurance chatbots.

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.

Miranda is a multi-sided product. As the Italian first chatbot for managing insurance policies, policyholders talk to Miranda to connect to their insurance agents and products. Insurance agents sign up to the Miranda SaaS platform, where they can personalize some of the bot's answers and connect Miranda with their agency management system. The Miranda chatbot is a consumer-facing application available on Telegram and web that helps policyholders connect to their agents and manage their insurance policies.

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.pdf

Led the beta creation, early data science, and delivered the first pilot implementation at a major British insurance company.

I worked as a senior data scientist and product lead in the early stages of HexScore, a telematics software, that offers geospatial contexting for telematics insurance. The software reports on-road risk for every road in the UK at a granular level of resolution (500 meters) through the innovative use of open data, third party proprietary data, and machine learning algorithms.

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.

AI Mentor is a business planning portal that helps entrepreneurs fill up a business plan, documenting their assumptions, and pitch their business for applying to a government funding program in the Middle East. The platform is multilingual, covering English and Standard Arabic.

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.

PDF Arabic is a web application that helps to convert Arabic PDF documents in Word in the Middle East market. As a Technical Product Manager, I helped to design the first MVP and the early three phases of the product strategy. The launch of the MVP was very successful, with the website generating hundreds of users from day one. Furthermore, I helped the founder to validate technical feasibility, market demand (desirability), and advised on the economic viability.
2018 - 2023

Doctorate Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

New York University Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2011 - 2014

Diploma in Actuarial Techniques (Actuarial Science)

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries - London, UK

2008 - 2010

Master's Degree in Statistics

University of Milano-Bicocca - Milan, Italy

2004 - 2008

Bachelor's Degree in Physics

University of Milan - Milan, Italy

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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