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Andrew Berry is President and founder of Newport Risk Services, a professional services and consulting firm in the property casualty insurance industry. He has 20 years experience in property casualty insurance.

Prior to founding Newport Risk Services, Andrew was co-founder and President of GRX Technologies (GRX). GRX was an industry leader in the development of collaborative technologies streamlining the management of large commercial insurance programs. GRX was at the forefront of the use of XML data standards in the insurance industry and was active in the development of ACORD’s data standards initiative. Andrew served as founding CEO of the company raising early stage funding and recruiting senior management. During this time, the company was recognized as the recipient of the first HP Garage E-Scholarship and was featured in Business 2.0. As President of GRX he established and ran the professional services division of the company. This included the creation and management of The Joule, a member service of the OIL Group of Companies, a group of mutual insurers in the energy industry.

Andrew started his career as an insurance broker in the London and UK retail brokerage markets. He then spent nine years as a risk management consultant with Tillinghast – Towers Perrin in London and Boston. He consulted with Fortune 500 corporations, US and European multinationals and public sector organizations. He has also worked in the captive management industry with Strategic Risk Solutions, an independent captive management company. While at Strategic Risk Solutions, Andrew developed approaches for the use of web-based technology for managing the exchange of information on group captives. This approach used Sharepoint technology and was subsequently adopted across all of the company’s clients.

Andrew has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Nottingham University in the UK and a MBA (summa cum laude) with a concentration in entrepreneurship from Babson College. He holds Fellowship of the Institute of Risk Management (FIRM) and Fellowship of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII) designations. Andrew is an expert commentator for the International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) on the subject of Insurance Technology. He is a member of the RIMS Technology Advisory Committee and was the founding editor of RIMSTech, the Society’s technology bulletin.