Marshall Lagani

Marshall Lagani has a strong background in data science and risk management. Marshall currently holds the role of Vice President, Modeling & Innovation at Securian Asset Management. In this position, they are pioneering the design and implementation of an intelligent document processing ecosystem to achieve significant labor hour savings. Marshall is also leading the adoption of informatica MDM and Axon for master data management and enhancing investments data governance capabilities. Additionally, they have implemented an INTEX Data API workflow for automating surveillance of a commercial mortgage-backed securities portfolio.

Prior to their current role, Lagani worked as a Consulting Director - Data Science at Securian Financial. During their time there, they successfully reduced costs for the claims operations team by 50% through the implementation of a Python-based XGBoost solution for predicting the condition assessment of auctioned vehicles. Marshall also developed an MLOps pipeline and web-based data mining tools to further streamline claims intake processes. Additionally, they designed an econometric model for Guaranteed Asset Protection risk by leveraging depreciation forecasts.

Earlier in their career, Lagani served as a Senior Manager - Risk Management at Transamerica. In this role, they directed personnel responsible for developing and implementing forecasting techniques in actuarial and financial risk models. Marshall also conducted statistical analysis of customer behavior and evaluated new sources of customer data to enhance models. Marshall played a key role in implementing these models into various projection systems.

Overall, Lagani's work experience showcases their expertise in data science, risk management, and innovative solutions within the financial sector.

Marshall Lagani holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Mathematics from the University of Louisville. In addition, they have obtained several certifications, including the "BUILD 2023 LLM Bootcamp Badge" from Snowflake in December 2023, "Building Resilience as a Leader" and "How to Make Strategic Thinking a Habit" from LinkedIn in 2023, and "AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty" and "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner" from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2020.