About

Adele Sumner is the Head of Counter Fraud Strategy & Financial Crime at RSA Insurance UK. She has over twenty years of ‘hands on’ experience in counter fraud activity in the insurance sector, including leading Fraud technology projects, intelligence and investigation teams, whilst managing Financial Crime risks for the organisation. Adele is the Chair of the General Insurance Fraud Committee and is passionate about the market strategy to combat insurance fraud across all lines of business. She is widely acknowledged for her expertise in the practical deployment and use of technology to identify fraud and has been an important figure in various fraud technology programmes both in RSA and at an industry level. In her current role she is responsible for the implementation of the counter fraud strategy and ensuring that RSA has the best technology and skilled people available to defeat the modern-day fraudster. In 2008 she obtained a master’s degree in Fraud Management from Teesside University.