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The founders worked together navigating the complexities of risk transfer and observing the inefficiencies that slowed down the insurance industry

After years of collaboration, research, and development, Ixpan founders established the company in September 2019

The cloud-native technology was launched in 2022. Built on cutting-edge technology and enriched with the team’s unmatched experience

Working with global and regional market leaders, enabled faster placements, rationalized capital utilization, and smarter decision-making across the value chain

Executives and Consultants

Founder, CEO

Ronald Chidiac

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  • 30+ years of experience in the (re)insurance industry
  • Partner with PwC and SARIMA, where he developed actuarial practices and provided strategy-driven consultancy services
  • General Manager of Arab Reinsurance Company, and CEO of Broktech
  • Executive positions in Motor and Medical TPAs which he helped establishing and guiding in terms of business processes and systems
  • Professor at USJ teaching actuarial science since 2001 where he created the first partnership between two universities (USJ and ISFA-Lyon) to form this actuarial program
  • Qualified Actuary / Fellow of the “Institut des Actuaires” (France), and the Lebanese Association of Actuaries, both full member of the IAA
  • Engineering Degree in Statistics, Economics and Actuarial Science: Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE), France

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Founder, COO

Basma Barakat

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  • 25+ years of experience in the reinsurance industry
  • Assistant General Manager in Arab Reinsurance Company and partner with Broktech
  • Worked extensively in non-life facultative and treaty, and covered several markets Levant, Arabian Gulf, Africa, Southeast Asia, Turkey, and Cyprus
  • Was heavily involved in defining retrocession programs, in setting underwriting guidelines and strategy, in reviewing claims assessment processes, and in advising on in-house pricing tools
  • International Business degree from California State University of Fullerton, USA

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CTO

Omar Bader

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  • 30+ years of experience.
  • Omar was the first to introduce Mobile Payment in Lebanon with PinPay, and Mobile Banking app in Saudi Arabia in cooperation with Bank Saudi Fransi. He was also the driver behind the introduction of Payment Cards, POS, ATMs and Swift Systems, in Lebanon
  • Former CEO of PinPay, which he led to become a leading Fintech in Lebanon
  • GM at Zafa – Saudi Arabia
  • CTO at RS2 Software Group – Germany
  • CIO at CSC – Lebanon, and IT Manager at Lebanon & Gulf Bank
  • Electrical Engineer degree from American University of Beirut

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Product Architect

Bilal Chehab

  • 15+ years of experience in the software industry (development, design, architecture, leading teams)
  • Before joining Ixpan, leading loyalty & social platforms projects, and aggregator for the insurance industry
  • Master in Mechatronics Engineering
Consultant

Pascal Chidiac

  • 25+ years of experience in investment, consultancy (BPR, IT), software development, and electronic payments
  • 4 years of experience in the healthcare insurance sector
  • Co-founded WeMind, creator of a loyalty platform adopted by telecom operators with a combined subscriber base exceeding 55 million
  • Developed the SolidarityChain concept and platform to seamlessly embed Islamic values of giving and sharing into every transaction
  • Holds two MScRes-equivalent degrees: (i) in Fundamental Mathematics from Université Paris VII and (ii) in Theoretical Computer Science from Université d’Orsay, France
Consultant

Nabil Barakat

  • 30+ years in software development in the (re)insurance industry
  • (Re)insurance deep understanding
  • Avid hobbyist in the field of robotics, with a passion for designing, building, and programming robots
  • Electrical and computer engineering degree – California Polytechnic State University

Stars behind the scenes

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