About Octagram

Octagram was founded to help P&C carriers and MGAs gain a competitive edge in pricing through data and analytics. Our professionals have decades of experience and a track record of building models that deliver a competitive advantage. Why work with Octagram?

• We don’t just deliver models. We partner with you to drive profitable growth from our models and insights.

• We have developed proprietary data assets such Map360 which help us deliver differentiated insights for our clients.

• We are a small consulting firm, so we’re agile and easy to work with, but you get the expertise of working with industry leaders.

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Meet the Team

Jessica Leong started Octagram in 2022 because she saw there was an opportunity for a consulting firm that worked with clients to deliver game-changing impact, instead of just models.

Before starting Octagram, Leong was the head of data and analytics at Zurich North America, leading a team who built all of Zurich’s predictive pricing, claims and operational models. During her time at Zurich, Jessica saw that simply building models was not enough to generate value at scale. Solving the right problems, getting buy-in and collaborating on how to deploy the insights were equally as important. Jessica made it her mission to deliver measurable impact and was successful in working with underwriters, claims professionals, risk engineers and other colleagues to reduce loss ratios, reduce expenses and grow premium.

Leong’s leadership in the field of actuarial science was recognized in 2020 when she was elected President of the Casualty Actuarial Society, the premier property and casualty actuarial organization serving over 9,000 members. During this time, Leong worked with the Board to deliver a 3 year strategic plan, which painted a picture of The Actuary of the Future.  Instead of a vision statement of actuaries who “applied actuarial science” the Actuary of the Future solves business problems using data and analytics. This underlines Leong’s commitment to turning data and analytics into impact.

Before joining Zurich North America, Leong was a Senior Vice President at Guy Carpenter and a consultant at Milliman and Willis Towers Watson.  She lives with her husband and two boys in Chicago.

Richard Moncher is an actuary who has a track record for driving results. In 2013, he took the helm as Director of Actuarial & Analytics at USAA, recognizing the need for an approach that delivered more than just models. During his tenure, Moncher played a pivotal role in driving profitable growth for a $7B Property book by implementing improved pricing methods, developing new product structures, and streamlining processes.

Prior to USAA, Richard was a VP & Actuary at Farmers Insurance where he led a pricing, reserving and analytics team that delivered and explained quarterly results while minimizing variability in overall, line and state reserves and indications. During this time, he inspired colleagues and fostered a culture of collaboration to refine pricing methods, resolve anomalies and optimize claims expense allocations for increased profitability.

Prior to Farmers, Moncher served as VP & Actuary at Bristol West. Notably, he was instrumental in developing an expected vs actual reserve monitoring system and expanding analytical processes across states, products, channels, and lines. Moncher's ability to transform methods through automation and data-driven insights resulted in quicker indication and reserve processes and significant savings.

Richard learned workers compensation at NCCI where he coordinated, presented, and defended rate filings, after devoting years to determining the most appropriate residual market quarterly reserve levels. He also gained experience in workers compensation, other commercial, and specialty lines at The Hartford where he started his career performing pricing and reserving analyses.

In recognition of his leadership, Moncher was asked to serve as the next VP of Administration of the Casualty Actuarial Society, starting in November 2023.

Miriam Fucek is an actuarial analyst with a passion for turning data into meaningful insights for our clients. She specializes in building pricing models that help clients win in the market. Miriam enjoys working closely with underwriters to ensure we develop good strategies for clients.  Prior to Octagram, Miriam was at Zurich Insurance supporting European business units with pricing model development to improve the profitability of their business.

Kate Jordan is a data analytics and strategy professional with a decade of experience in the data and analytics workplace.  Most recently, Kate was a Vice President at Zurich Insurance North America, where she focused on building out a national data strategy and being the data and analytics leader for the Alternative Markets business unit. 

Prior to working at Zurich, Kate was a member of the Obama 2012 campaign's predictive analytics team. There she focused on using predictive analytics, testing, and targeting to improve the campaign's fundraising. She was an original member of Civis Analytics, a predictive analysis consulting and technology firm, founded by the Chief Analytics Officer of the 2012 Obama campaign.  While at Civis, Kate was an Applied Data Science Manager and led the firm's Healthcare Practice. 

She holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 

Ellen Dalrymple has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, specializing in working with clients, managing sales teams and leading the education department for a national brokerage firm.  She was a Registered Representative and a licensed insurance agent and holds the Chartered Financial Consultant and Chartered Life Underwriter professional designations.

Working with the team at Octagram Analytics, Ellen researches and assists in organizing data for our clients.  She also provides administrative support for the firm.