Background: A supply chain professional, specialising in “Supplier Relationship Management” with extensive experience of developing successful strategic partner relationships both in the public and private sectors.

Experienced Insurance professional working in claims to create added value throughout the supply chain whilst enhancing the customer journey

A strategic thinker with a proven track record of working with a diverse supply chain, driving innovation and value creation with mutual benefits.

Adele Sumner is the Head of Counter Fraud at RSA Insurance UK. She has over ten years of ‘hands on’ experience in counter fraud activity in the insurance sector, including leading RSA’s Fraud Intelligence Team where she developed techniques and experience in the use of the internet, both to assist individual investigations and to obtain data that will enhance fraud detection models. 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 developing strategies to tackle fraud and adopts a risk focused, intelligence led approach to combating the external threat fraud posed to RSA. In 2008 she obtained a Master Degree in Fraud Management from Teesside University.