Henk van Biljon

Co-Founder & CEO @ Fount

About

Building the future of AI-native insurance growth - Taking insurance marketing from Volume -> Value at scale.We equip P&C marketers and media buyers with the marketing intelligence platform to analyze and manage high-value audiences, identify and prioritize the most profitable leads and scale your highest performing campaigns, adgroups and ads based on true insurance value using connected 1st and 3rd party data. Using value, not volume, as our north star we help insurers focus their growth on the activities that matter. By combining insurance mathematics and marketing analytics with agentic AI, we turn fragmented data into a ROI-focussed growth engine.

Country

United States

City

New York City Metropolitan Area

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Product Development, Actuarial Science, Risk Modeling, Machine Learning, Cloud Applications, Enterprise Risk Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Predictive Modeling, Retail Banking, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Python (Programming Language), SAS, SQL, C++, Public Speaking, Operational Risk Modelling, Stress Testing, RStudio

Experience

Co-Founder & CEO

Fount

2024-8 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

New York City Metropolitan Area

Building the insurance growth engine for the AI age

Senior Manager - AI/ML in Financial Services

PwC

2021-7 - 2022-6 · 1 yr

AI and Machine Learning for Financial Services - Proposition Lead Proposition lead for a team of Data Scientists, Software Engineers and Actuaries developing scalable AI/ML products such as recommender systems and forecasting systems for clients in the financial services sector and providing Responsible AI Assurance services to clients. ARQ Apps - Business/Product Lead Built a multi-disciplinary product development team that developed a cloud-based actuarial analytics platform to provide actuarial modelling services at scale across continents. Consistently rated as an Impact Tier 1 (Exceeds all expectations) performer.

Actuary and Manager: Actuarial, Risk & Quants

PwC

2019-7 - 2021-7 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Engagement and Client Manager Led various Tier 1 data science engagements related to capital, pricing, financial instrument valuation and various financial risk forecasting solutions. PANDA Designer and Initial Developer Ideated, designed, developed and implemented the PANDA resource management platform for performing integrated financial and resource management within PwC. The platform has subsequently been absorbed into the ARQ Apps platform. Consistently rated as an Impact Tier 1 (Exceeds all expectations) performer.

Actuary and Senior Associate: Actuarial, Risk and Quants

PwC

2016-1 - 2019-6 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2022-8 - 2024-5 · 1 yr 10 mos

Awarded Dean’s Fellowship in recognition of prior professional, academic and personal achievements Clubs: AI/ML Club SVP, FinTech Club, Entrepreneurship Club