RGA names Michael Casale Vice President, Product Management, AURA®
ST. LOUIS, May 1, 2014 – RGA Reinsurance Company has named Michael Casale Vice President, Product Management for AURA® (Automated Underwriting and Risk Analysis®), RGA’s award-winning proprietary electronic underwriting solution.
Casale is responsible for providing strategic and tactical direction for AURA and its associated services. Previously, he was Executive Director of the AURA Project Execution Office, leading cross-functional teams of project managers for all AURA implementations worldwide.
His 25 years of in-depth enterprise software management experience includes solution development, support and leadership for financial services, education and energy extraction companies as well as government entities. Since joining RGA in 2009, Casale has directed successful implementations of more than two dozen AURA installations for RGA clients around the world.
“We are pleased to have Mike Casale lead AURA’s Product Management team,” said Patti Treis, Vice President and General Manager, AURA Technologies. “His expertise in all aspects of software development and support, as well as his deep knowledge of RGA, AURA and the insurance industry, will further strengthen our ability to offer innovative solutions for our clients’ e-underwriting needs throughout the world.”
RGA’s AURA e-underwriting solution leverages more than 40 years of RGA underwriting experience to provide complete rules sets integrated into a flexible technology package with advanced reporting capabilities. AURA, one of the most implemented e-underwriting solutions in the world, is designed to improve underwriting time service, manage risk consistently and reduce costs associated with processing insurance applications. It is offered as SaaS solution or can be installed within a client’s location. AURA may be used in traditional life insurance settings, by banks, in direct-to-consumer web portals and by call centers; it can be accessed by underwriters, agents, consumers, brokers and call center representatives. In 2013, more than three million life, health and annuity applications for clients around the world were processed using RGA’s AURA e-underwriting tools.
About RGA
RGA Reinsurance Company is the principal operating subsidiary of Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA), which is among the largest global providers of life reinsurance. RGA provides clients with individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, health reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting and product development. The company serves clients from operations in Australia, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Worldwide, RGA has approximately $3.0 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of $40.5 billion.
Casale is responsible for providing strategic and tactical direction for AURA and its associated services. Previously, he was Executive Director of the AURA Project Execution Office, leading cross-functional teams of project managers for all AURA implementations worldwide.
His 25 years of in-depth enterprise software management experience includes solution development, support and leadership for financial services, education and energy extraction companies as well as government entities. Since joining RGA in 2009, Casale has directed successful implementations of more than two dozen AURA installations for RGA clients around the world.
“We are pleased to have Mike Casale lead AURA’s Product Management team,” said Patti Treis, Vice President and General Manager, AURA Technologies. “His expertise in all aspects of software development and support, as well as his deep knowledge of RGA, AURA and the insurance industry, will further strengthen our ability to offer innovative solutions for our clients’ e-underwriting needs throughout the world.”
RGA’s AURA e-underwriting solution leverages more than 40 years of RGA underwriting experience to provide complete rules sets integrated into a flexible technology package with advanced reporting capabilities. AURA, one of the most implemented e-underwriting solutions in the world, is designed to improve underwriting time service, manage risk consistently and reduce costs associated with processing insurance applications. It is offered as SaaS solution or can be installed within a client’s location. AURA may be used in traditional life insurance settings, by banks, in direct-to-consumer web portals and by call centers; it can be accessed by underwriters, agents, consumers, brokers and call center representatives. In 2013, more than three million life, health and annuity applications for clients around the world were processed using RGA’s AURA e-underwriting tools.
About RGA
RGA Reinsurance Company is the principal operating subsidiary of Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA), which is among the largest global providers of life reinsurance. RGA provides clients with individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, health reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting and product development. The company serves clients from operations in Australia, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Worldwide, RGA has approximately $3.0 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of $40.5 billion.