MGAA Autumn Forum 2025: Consistency in the Soft Market – The Role of AI & Data

Naz EL-Sayegh is the VP of Sales at Unitary, working with insurers, MGAs, and brokers to understand where AI can make a real difference and how to put it into practice effectively. Drawing on experience deploying AI across diverse sectors, he focuses on helping teams navigate the journey from exploration to implementation, using technology to make operations more efficient and unlock new growth opportunities.

Currently, Matt is COO at AXA UK Commercial, heading up strategy, change, claims, operations, and data functions. Some of his focus areas have been advocating and driving forward AXA Commercial’s AI, Automation, and Data agenda over the past three years, overseeing an increased appetite for data and transforming the data function to build “data products” that can be scaled to meet a broader set of customer and business needs. He has also been leading the tech transformation strategy, working closely with the Tech and IT teams to consolidate platforms and reduce legacy technology to create a foundation for future growth.

Before joining AXA, Matt worked at Expedia Group, where he led several transformation programmes focused on using data to bring together supply and demand, and prior to that, worked in strategy consulting at Accenture.

Tim began his insurance career developing policy admin and claims systems for intermediaries and insurers. In 2017 he joined a private equity-backed insurance group pursuing an MGA-focused strategy. He led a management buyout, forming OneAdvent, in late 2023.
 
With Tim at the helm, the business has a clear mission to support MGAs through every stage of their lifecycle and has built a comprehensive suite of MGA services across multiple geographies. The platform successfully launched five MGAs in 2024 and is on-track to double that in 2025.

Gavin is a Chartered Insurer with over 30 years global P&C and Specialty Insurance Underwriting and Distribution experience having spent seven years at Royal & Sun Alliance, 22 years at Allianz; and most recently, Axio focusing on Cyber risk assessment and quantification working in both the Company and Lloyd’s market.

Throughout his career he has held a number of roles including Global Property & Casualty Underwriting, leading the Financial Institutions and Real Estate Underwriting portfolio verticals, Client Management and Head of Global Broker Management, latterly with a EUR4.2Bn portfolio under management with Aon and WTW in addition to previous work with Marsh, AJG, Howden, Lockton, McGill et al and numerous Broker Networks.

Having spent more than half his career in global roles he has expert knowledge of global insurance markets from the Americas to Asia Pacific and all territories in between across Property & Casualty, Specialty, Credit Solutions, Affinity, Asset Management and Life & Health.

He holds a post graduate Diploma in Advanced Management from The European School of Management & Technology, Berlin and in 2005 was also awarded The Burton Rowe Prize for Chartered Insurance Institute Best National Paper in Advanced Broking.