Max Samadov
Manager, Pre-Sales, Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions at SAS
Max Samadov is a Manager, Risk Solutions for SAS Institute, based in New York, where he focuses on the technical sales support for the insurance industry. In this role, Max was instrumental in positioning SAS as a leading IFRS 17 vendor in North America. Before joining SAS, Max held several roles at IBM, where he was responsible for the business development of risk solutions in the Canadian and Eastern European markets. Before IBM, Max worked as a product manager and a financial engineer in Toronto-based risk management vendor Algorithmics. Max holds master’s degrees in data analytics from Cornell University, public relations (Ball State University), as well as bachelor's degree in economics from Donetsk National University, and he is a certified Financial Risk Manager from GARP.