All Authors

Dr Alexandra Helmert studied sociology at the universities of Munich, Marburg and Bielefeld. She has been working in Product Management and Standard Development at msg life since 2019. In this role, she is setting up R&D structures, supporting the agile transformation and driving the standardisation of processes within the company. Before joining msg life, she held management positions at the universities of Bielefeld and Kiel. Most recently, she headed the Business Administration department at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg.

Axel Helmert holds a degree in mathematics from Leibniz University Hanover and is Managing Director of msg life Austria. During the last decades, he and his team constantly generated product innovations that answer the needs of life insurance companies. Driven by the enormous potential of machine learning, he is now seeking for basic innovations to improve the efficiency of processes, services and quality. His vision is to make intelligent use of deep neural networks (DNNs) with the aim of strengthening life insurers’ capacity to manage their business in times of ultra-low interest rates and the guarantees associated with pension benefits.

Axel Scheinpflug studied business administration (Master of Science) at the University of Leipzig. Since January 2021, he has been working at msg life as a business consultant in the Product and Project Allowance Management department. Previously, he held various positions in the insurance industry and was active in the area of strategy and innovation at the R+V Insurance Group and in composite insurance at Allianz Deutschland AG.

Dr. Christian Weber studied technical mathematics at the university of technology TU Wien in Vienna (obtaining his degree in 1988 and his PhD in 1994). Following a postgraduate degree at the Institute for Advanced Studies, he became an assistant at the Institute for Statistics and Mathematics of the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 1990. He joined FJA AG, now msg life ag, in 1999. He works with mathematics for msg.Life Factory both in projects for customers and standard development. He has been in charge of coordinating the development of the calculation engine since 2012. He is also a visiting lecturer at TU Wien.

Danny Wadewitz is a qualified insurance and finance specialist. He acquired his expertise in 16 years of insurance sales in exclusivity, bank sales and digital sales. Consulting private and commercial customers was the daily focus of his professional activities before he found his new sphere of activity as a business analyst at msg insur:it.

Dominik Geller is Senior Business Consultant and currently responsible as "Chief Project Manager Claims" for the implementation of customer projects for the claims component of msg.Insurance Suite. He is a trained insurance and finance specialist and has since continued his education to become an insurance and finance specialist, DVA business economist and Bachelor of Arts - Insurance Management.

Heinz Wolf holds a degree in electrical engineering and is Head of Architecture & Technology at msg life.

Katharina Kammerer has been active in the health insurance world for 20 years and has been working for msg insur:it since 2021. She is currently a specialist consultant in the Life Cross division and is responsible for the technical topics relating to msg.Tax Data.

Markus Pabst has been a Senior Account Manager in msg-life's sales department since 2017. After studying computer science and business administration in Dortmund, he began his career as a consultant and sales manager in a medium-sized software company with a customer focus on state authorities in the new federal states. After moving to T-Systems, he initially took on responsibility as a key account manager and sales manager for the insurance and banking sector in the West region, where he coordinated Telekom AG's strategic partnership with the ERGO insurance group. In addition to other professional positions as an interim manager at various software companies for the target markets of banking, insurance and healthcare, he worked as a key account manager for the insurance industry at Terradata and Software AG before msg life.    

Since April 2010, Michaela Duhr has been working as a freelance PR journalist and editor for different media outlets and companies. She studied business economics, worked as an online newspaper business editor for many years, and thus acquired great knowledge of both the business world and the financial world. Michaela Duhr gained international experience in financial market reporting and corporate reporting through her work in a correspondent office on New York’s Wall Street.

Dr. Stefan Nörtemann has studied mathematics and computer science at TU Dortmund University. After earning his PhD in mathematics, he started his professional career at an occupational pension consultancy. Since 2002, he has been working for FJA Feilmeier & Junker GmbH, today’s msg life central europe gmbh, in the field of Financial Reporting and Risk Management. In 2004, he became a member of the DAV (German Association of Actuaries) and has been involved on different committees and working groups ever since. He also heads the DAV expert group on Actuarial Data Science, established in the beginning of 2017.

Stefan Reifeld is an insurance specialist (BWV) and, as Lead Business Analyst, is the professional contact person for our customers in the PreSales division of msg nexinsure when it comes to the topic of P&C insurance. Stefan Reifeld has been working as a consultant in the insurance environment for 20 years.