Nicolas Fillion is a Director in Financial Performance, Capital and Treasury, Administrative Department in the Property and Casualty Insurance Finance and Corporate Actuarial Services Division at Desjardins General Insurance Group since September 2019. At Desjardins, Nicolas led and participated in various projects related to managing, measuring and improving the performance of the organization. His duties also include overseeing capital management and optimization work in addition to the financial aspect of agreements with Affinity groups. More recently, he played a central role at Desjardins in the transaction that took ICPEI private.

Before taking up his current position at DGIG, Nicolas worked for nearly 20 years in the actuarial field as a specialist in group insurance and in the audit of actuarial liabilities, in consulting services for companies in various industries, in financing and in mergers and acquisitions within professional services firms. He has also carried out a number of business valuation, asset fair value and purchase price allocation work, particularly in the context of mergers and acquisitions transactions. Throughout his career, he has developed an in-depth knowledge of insurance companies, particularly their financial information, including IFRS 17, their regulatory requirements, their risks as well as their organizational and business reality. Mr. Fillion holds a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial science from Laval University as well as the professional designations of CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), FRM (Financial Risk Manager) and EEE (Experts in Business Valuation).