2025 Bold Outstanding Operator Shaping Tomorrow's Actuarial Outlook

Honouring an operator whose leadership and practical work are reshaping actuarial practice and risk management at scale.

This award recognises influence, operational change and demonstrated impact across actuarial teams and communities.

Purpose & Impact

The Bold Outstanding Operator Award recognises an actuary or operator who has driven change through tooling, workflows or culture, enabling their teams and peers to deliver better, faster decisions. The winner will have a visible, measurable impact on actuarial productivity, reproducibility and knowledge sharing across the profession.

  • Highlights operational excellence and reproducible practices.
  • Rewards real-world impact on actuarial outcomes and team capability.
  • Amplifies examples peers can adopt to modernise actuarial workflows.

Jury Panel

Bruno Tremblay
Bruno Tremblay
Co-owner, Boostao
François Bornais
François Bornais, FCAS
Co-owner, Boostao
Nicolas Gauthier
Nicolas Gauthier
Co-owner, Boostao
Simon Laflamme (judge)
Simon Laflamme
Guest juror
Jean-François Morin (judge)
Jean‑François Morin
Guest juror

Winner - Jérôme Dubé

Jérôme Dubé is awarded for operational leadership that measurably improved actuarial delivery cycles and enabled better decision-making across product teams. His work has been widely adopted by peer teams and has raised the standard for reproducible modelling and deployment.

About the prize

The award is intended to motivate practitioners to share operational best practices and celebrate those who make their teams more effective. Winners receive recognition, peer visibility and opportunities to present their work in industry forums and conferences.

This prize highlights practical, reproducible improvements that materially speed up actuarial delivery and improve decision quality across teams.