Poovan Perumal

Poovan Perumal has extensive experience in various roles within the insurance industry. Poovan currently serves as the Head of Product, Pricing & Sales Enablement at Hollard Insurance since September 2021. Prior to that, they worked at Absa Capital as a Director and then as the Strategic Pricing & Analytics Lead for Transactional Banking from January 2014 to September 2021. Poovan also held the position of Head of Client Relationship Pricing at Barclays Capital, where they focused on developing pricing strategies and incorporating big data and analytics into the digital strategy. Poovan has also worked at Absa Group as the Head of Strategic Pricing, Data Analytics & Business Management from August 2019 to September 2021. Earlier in their career, Poovan served as the Head of Product Development at Absa Life, overseeing pricing for all risk products and expanding the group life business portfolio. Poovan also had a role at Swiss Re as a Client Manager, responsible for pricing and product design of medical and health insurance products. Poovan started their career as a Pricing Analyst at NMG Consultants & Actuaries, where they focused on medical schemes pricing and benefit design.

Poovan Perumal obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in statistics with a focus on actuarial science from Wits in 1998. Poovan then went on to earn the designation of Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries from the Institute of Actuaries, where they studied actuarial science from 2000 to 2014. Additionally, in 2018, they became a certified change management practitioner through Prosci. Poovan Perumal also attended Arena Park Secondary, although the dates and degree obtained are not provided.