Loren Nickel is a director at Google and heads the business risk and insurance team which is responsible for all Alphabet companies. Loren’s team provides risk advisory, captive management, insurance placement, and analytical support to Alphabet. He joined Google/Alphabet in April 2015.

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Loren has twenty-nine years of experience in the risk and insurance industry, including fifteen years as an actuary and four years as an underwriting manager with Aon and Allianz. He has been called on to explain in-depth actuarial, risk management, and underwriting concepts to a variety of audiences around the globe including Board members, CEOs, CFOs, and Risk Managers. He is a six year past-President of the Casualty Actuaries of the Bay Area, past Chairman and President of the M200 Association and is on the advisory board for the UC Santa Barbara actuarial program.

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He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and Charter holder of the CFA Institute. Loren is a 2011 and 2022 Business Insurance - Innovation of the Year Award Recipient and in 2017 he was named the Risk Manager of the Year by RIMS.