Samuel Burkart
Group Head Of Analytics Products at SCOR
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSamuel Burkart is a data and analytics leader with nine years’ experience designing and scaling high-performance analytics organizations across insurance, reinsurance and banking. Currently Group Head of Analytics Products at SCOR, he leads a 30‑person Palantir Foundry product organization embedding data into core decisioning for P&C, L&H, Finance, Risk and ESG. Previously he built and democratized analytics platforms at Swiss Re and implemented high-impact AML solutions at Credit Suisse, combining hands-on technical delivery with strategic product leadership. Samuel holds an MSc in Data Science & Statistics from UCL (top of class) and a summa cum laude BA in Economics from the University of Zurich, reflecting a rare mix of quantitative rigor and business acumen. He’s passionate about operationalizing Foundry for underwriting and capital management and about cultivating strong delivery cultures that translate complex data into trusted decision tools. Quietly, his background in the Swiss Armed Forces and early credit risk roles give him a practical, risk‑focused perspective that informs pragmatic product design.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)BA Economics summa cum laude, BA Economics summa cum laude at University of ZurichUniversity College London
German, French, English
Github Skills (9)
statistical-learning5
textbook5
statistics4
machine-learning3
data-science2
xgboost1
xgboost-classifier1
classifier1
testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alan-turing-institute/pcit
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:80 commits, 4 pushes, 1 issue in 6 months
SamBurkart/Supervised-Graphical-Models
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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