About

Pritesh is a Director and Chief Actuary (Asia) in LeapFrogâ??s Singapore office, focused on investments in Asia. 

An actuary with deep global experience in M&A, insurance and microinsurance, Pritesh holds broad functional expertise across strategy, risk management, product development and capital management functions. Most recently, he was a Senior Consultant at global consulting firm Towers Watson, where he was part of the team that started the companyâ??s insurance management consultancy in Asia. Prior to this, he was a Senior Manager at HSBC Insurance in Hong Kong, responsible for regional product development and strategy. Previously, Pritesh played a key role in shaping the emerging consumer strategy specific to insurance for an Indonesian bank and in defining a Scandinavian telecom providerâ??s strategy for a new micro insurance business in Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Actuarial Science/Finance) from Drake University, is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (2002), and speaks Gujarati, Hindi, Spanish and Swahili.