Upendra Belhe, Ph.D.

Dr. Belhe serves as a Chief Enterprise Business Analytics Scientist at Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. In this role, he is responsible for providing strategic direction to the organization towards the advancements in analytics . He is in particular responsible for identification, oversight and championing of Business Analytics solutions.Upendra’s expertise in solving complex business problems leveraging multiple computational and statistical techniques has allowed him to serve as an analytics leader for 17 years. Upendra is experienced in driving actionable business insights with the use of descriptive and predictive modeling using advanced statistical methods, optimization and machine learning techniques as well as building and mentoring analytics teams across the geographies.Prior to joining Chubb, Dr. Belhe was a National Director of Information Analytics Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he helped clients to design and execute their most critical business decision based on appropriate use of data and analytics. Prior to PwC, Upendra was leading research group at the Hartford Financial Group, where he helped many Insurance business segments with the use sophisticated modeling techniques leveraging on internal as well as external data.During his tenure as Director of Research, Dr. Belhe published his Insurance analytics work for the outside world consumption and was a repeated recipient of the Chairman’s inventor recognition award. Upendra holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Iowa and has published in several international journals.