Mario Seddik

Oliver Wyman — insurance & asset management · New York

Over the past two years at Oliver Wyman, I’ve built a broad range of deterministic software and AI-powered solutions for our practice and our clients across insurance and asset management. My background spans finance, risk, technology, and consulting. I learn unfamiliar domains quickly, connect ideas across disciplines, and work with teams to identify the underlying problem. From there, I shape the product and its architecture, build the solution, and help people put it to use.

Business consulting

Management Consultant
  • Understand workflows and define the business problem
  • Align executives and delivery teams on priorities
  • Turn findings into recommendations and a delivery plan

Finance & risk

Finance & Quant (CFA)
  • Financial modeling and quantitative analysis
  • Investment strategy and analysis
  • M&A analysis and advisory
Actuarial & Risk
  • Actuarial modeling
  • Financial reporting
  • Risk assessment and assumption testing

Technology & delivery

AI Specialist

Recipient of Oliver Wyman’s AI Pioneer Award. Leading the practice’s AI initiative for 2+ years:

  • AI agents and automation built around teams’ day-to-day work
  • AI integrated into modeling, research, and decision workflows
  • Internal tools for the practice and AI-powered solutions for clients
Architecture & Delivery
  • Problem definition and solution architecture
  • Prototyping and evaluations
  • UI/UX and user adoption
  • End-to-end delivery and deployment
  • Feedback loops and product evolution
Data Engineering
  • Insurance ontology design and development
  • Web scraping and data pipelines
  • Data cleaning, reconciliation, and modeling
  • Databricks and MongoDB

Projects

Four selected systems built for our practice and our clients, from document intelligence to portfolio analysis.

Reviews

Verbatim, from my 2026 performance reviews.

“The strongest AI talent within the firm — single-handedly advancing initiatives 3–4 times faster than his peers.”

— AI Co-lead at Oliver Wyman

“One of the strongest technical problem solvers on the team. What sets him apart is that he steps up precisely when others step back.”

— Health Insurance Practice Leader

“The profile of a visionary builder: he is able to conceptualize, design, and implement capabilities that the practice does not yet have today. Very few people in the practice are able to span that full range from idea generation through technical execution.”

— Principal at Oliver Wyman, M&A and Asset Management

“He picks up concepts quickly, works effectively and independently, and consistently delivers solutions that hit the mark. We need more Marios!”

— Partner

How I work

Understand how the work actually happens. I work with the people doing the job to understand their decisions, handoffs, workarounds, and exceptions. Together, we identify what is worth improving and what success would mean: less manual effort, fewer errors, better decisions, or a capability the team doesn’t yet have.

Choose where AI belongs. I use deterministic software for steps that need exact, repeatable results and AI where interpretation or judgment adds value. I shape the architecture around existing systems and choose models to suit each task’s quality, speed, and cost requirements.

Build for exceptions, then test. Missing data, ambiguous documents, and failed calls are part of the design. I build in validation, recovery paths, source evidence, and human review where needed. Evaluations and regression checks use real examples to show what works, where it fails, and whether changes improve it.

Design for adoption from the start. I make the user experience part of the architecture and roadmap: how people start, understand an output, correct a mistake, and stay in control. I build around familiar tools, involve users as the solution develops, and support rollout with training and reusable tooling.