Due to the coronavirus / COVID-19 outbreak, the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA) cancelled its 2020 International Conference. The event had been slated to take place on March 8-10, 2020 in California, USA. No new date has been announced at the time of publication.

Aon named Eric Andersen as president of the company in February 2020, reporting to Chief Executive Greg Case. Andersen will continue to be based in New York City. Andersen first joined Aon in 1997 via the acquisition of Minet. Prior to that, Andersen also worked in London at Alexander Howden. He has been in the C-suite since 2010, when he was named CEO for ARS Americas. Andersen was named

Annette Decker in December 2019 has been made Senior International Benefit Consultant at Siemens, where she has been in various positions since 2011, including with Siemens Financial Services as Senior Pension Manager, M&A. Prior to her time at Siemens, she has held positions as Head of Company Pensions HypoVereinsbank, Account Manager at Aon Hewitt Consulting Deutschland. She started her career as a consultant for KPMG in 1992. Annette is

Christian Yates University of Bath Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology I’m a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology and also an author. In my first book, the Maths of Life and Death (https://amzn.to/2MkmdcM) I explore the true stories of life-changing events in which the application (or misapplication) of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupt by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of

Andrew J. Whelton Purdue University Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering Dr. Whelton is nationally recognized environmental engineer. Dr. Whelton has applied his unique skill set for 20 years to uncover and address problems at the interface of infrastructure materials, the environment, and public health. Topics pertaining to disaster response and recovery as well as construction site safety are just two of many topics his research has

William Rhoads Virginia Tech Research Scientist Ph.D. Student in civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech

Caitlin R. Proctor Purdue University Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow Caitlin R. Proctor currently works at Purdue University. She was previously working at the Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, where she completed her PhD through ETH Zurich. She completed her master’s degree at Virginia Tech. Since 2012, Caitlin has been involved in research at the nexus of civil engineering, molecular microbiology, and drinking water. She is concerned with the safety

Dr. François Iris francois.iris@bmsystems.org BMSystems Chief Scientific Officer Founder of BMSystems; Chairman, CSO-CTO – Geneticist, physiologist & molecular biologist; Inventor of the CADI methodologies and tools. He holds a Ph.D. in Zoology and is in charge of all model-building activities within the company. Creator of Millennium Pharmaceuticals’ (USA) high-throughput DNA sequencing unit. Former collaborator of Nobel Laureate Prof. Jean Dausset. Inventor of new technologies in molecular biology (6 issued patents). MRC Overseas

Dr. Athanasios Beopoulos athanasios.beopoulos@bmsystems.org BMSystems Integrative Biology Director Integrative biologist Director- Biochemist with a PhD in Biotechnology from INA-PG, France. He worked for several years on the metabolic engineering of yeast and bacteria for the production of oleochemicals, pharmaceuticals and antibiotics at CNRS and INRA genetic engineering departments. After a short period in the R&D of AKK Sweden, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT (USA), where he worked

Manuel Géa manuel.gea@bmsystems.org BMSystems Chief Executive Officer Co-founder of BMSystems, CEO and VP R&D Information Systems – Information systems specialist. Played key roles in the development of BMS and of the computing firm Formitel. Scientific Engineering (operational research specialty) degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. Dregree in sociology (General semantic specialty) Paris IX Dauphine University. Former Chairman of the Supervisory board of Pherecydes-Pharma (anti-bacterial bio-agents pharmaceutical company). Former McKinsey executive, creator of Practice Pharma services

Ignacio López-Goñi University of Navarra, Spain Professor of Microbiology Prof. Dr. Ignacio López-Goñi is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Navarra in Spain. He holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Navarra (1989). For several years he was a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA) in the departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the University of California – Berkeley and Molecular Microbiology at Columbia University.