The actuarial profession is exceptionally capable. It is also, in important respects, stuck — in spreadsheets that should have been replaced a decade ago, in modelling platforms that have not kept pace with modern computing infrastructure, and in a collective reluctance to engage seriously with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the data engineering practices that have transformed every adjacent quantitative discipline.
QARC was founded on a different premise. That the combination of deep actuarial expertise and genuine technology fluency is rare, valuable, and undersupplied in the market. That a network delivery model — combining senior actuarial leadership with specialist partner firms — can deliver work of the highest quality at a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting structures. And that the profession's next decade will be defined by those who engaged seriously with AI early.
Anthony chose not to take the EY Executive Director role he was offered in 2019. He chose instead to build QARC — smaller, more agile, and more forward-looking than any of the environments he had worked in before. The network model was a deliberate design choice: to access the depth and breadth of capability that engagements demand, without the overhead and inertia of a large firm.
