About Us
Benefitster was set up in 2022 by two veterans of the insurance & employee benefits industry, with the aim to help financial services companies to quickly create and deploy solutions in the emerging pensions market in the GCC. Our team consists of a number of talented IT professionals and experts in financial services. Between our team and our partners, we combine many hundred years’ worth of relevant experience in IT and financial services.
The Founders
Ruan van Rensburg
30 years’ actuarial experience in insurance and employee benefits, founder of Lux Actuaries (2006)
FIA Fellow Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK)
FCAS Fellow Casualty Actuarial Society (USA)
CAIA Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (USA)
FIA Fellow Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK)
FCAS Fellow Casualty Actuarial Society (USA)
CAIA Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (USA)
Nick Frei
25 years in the insurance industry, 15 years of which as CEO of several insurance companies in the Middle East and Russia (t’azur, Allianz, Rosgosstrakh).
Previous experience with Willis Towers Watson, and Acturis Ltd (a SaaS InsurTech). Formerly a consultant with McKinsey & Co.
M. Eng. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL (Switzerland)
MBA INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France)