Chris Murumets is Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Americas, for RGA. In this role, Chris fosters partnerships and leverages his extensive background in direct insurance, reinsurance, and insurtech to drive growth and purpose-driven initiatives across RGA Americas. His primary focus for RGA’s markets in North and South America is to evolve products to meet consumer needs and achieve RGA’s purpose of making financial protection accessible to all.
Chris is a serial entrepreneur, having started several insurtech companies. Earlier in his career, he worked at a carrier, reinsurer, and retrocessionaire in roles spanning ceded administration, corporate actuarial, assets/liability management, and reinsurance operations.
With longtime service and leadership in the industry, Chris is a past president of the LOMA Society of Toronto, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (CAILBA), and a founding member of the Reinsurance Administration Professionals Association (RAPA). He has also served on the Board of Governors of Canada’s Most Admired CEO group, composed of leaders of companies who previously received Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures award. Chris earned a business degree from Woodsworth College at the University of Toronto, and serves as a mentor to the college’s current students and recent graduates.