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Erik Abrahamsson
Digital Fineprint
Erik Abrahamsson is the founder and CEO of Digital Fineprint (DFP), which helps insurance carriers and brokers with actionable insights for SME insurance. Before founding the company, Erik worked in strategy for Twitter in Singapore, and prior to that at Procter & Gamble's European HQ in Switzerland. DFP's award-winning software is used by insurers like AXA, QBE and Hiscox, and the company is backed by InsurTech investors Eos Venture Partners and Pentech Ventures.
Jodi Adolf
Jodi has practiced insurance law for more than 15 years. She focuses on regulatory and compliance matters related to life, accident and health, and property and casualty insurance. She has advised many clients on the formation of onshore and offshore captive insurers, licensing and registration, and is working with a number of Denton's insurtech clients to meet their regulatory compliance obligations. Committed to keeping clients abreast of the newest developments in insurance law, Jodi has served as lead organizer of Dentons' Heartland Insurance Symposium, a seminar for insurance and reinsurance professionals for more than a decade.
Eran Agrios
Head of Global Go To Market, Financial Services Cloud
Eran Agrios leads the Go To Market strategy for Financial Services Cloud at Salesforce. Eran has over 15 years of experience in customer relationship management technology. She has spent the last 10 years at Salesforce working with Financial Services companies on innovation and digital transformation. Most recently, her focus has been on the success of Salesforce's first industry product, Financial Services Cloud.
Tzvika Agassi
CEO & Co-Founder
Salient Eye
Tzvika Agassi is a Co-founder & CEO at Salient Eye, an InsurTech startup allowing insurers to reduce homes & commercial property claims cost (due to water leak, fire or burglars). Before Salient Eye, Tzvika founded Ymore, an insurance aggregator for the Israeli market. Prior to Ymore, he spent a few years in the Insurance industry where in his last position, he was the VP operation at one of the largest Israeli Insurers. Tzvika has a vast managerial experience, both in large corporates and startups. He holds B.Sc in Computer Science and M.B.A with specializes in finance, both from Bar-Ilan University.
Joel Albarella
SVP & Head
New York Life Ventures
Joel Albarella is head of New York Life Ventures (NYLV), the corporate venture capital arm of New York Life. Joel founded and has run NYLV since 2012. He is responsible for the sourcing and management of venture capital investments and the delivery of strategic value via partnership with start-up technologies. Prior to founding NYLV, Joel served in several roles within NYL's asset management business. Joel earned a Master's in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University.
Drew Aldrich
Managing Director
AmFam Ventures
Drew is a Managing Director of AmFam Ventures, a multi-LP VC fund, focused on the future of Insurance. He invests in early stage startups across many sectors including InsurTech, Fintech, Cyber Security, and AI. Drew started in venture capital in 2014 by supporting the development of, and then joining AXA Venture Partners. Prior to AVP, he was part of AXA US's Strategy and M&A team. Early in his career, Drew co-founded CalendarFly.com, an ed-tech startup. He has a deep finance and strategy background having led restructurings, capital raising, and partnership negotiations in North America, Europe and Asia.
Toby Alfred
Digital Transformation Strategies
Toby Alfred was managing director of customer acquisition for Marcus by Goldman Sachs® growing their personal loan business to over $3B during a 20-month period. Prior to that, Toby was an executive at Progressive Insurance where she led Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Customer Acquisition. She was responsible for developing the award winning progressive.com website and growing it into the multi-billion-dollar business it is today. Toby currently is principal of Digital Transformation Strategies LLC, consulting and advising businesses on digital strategies for transformation and growth. Toby has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University. She is passionate about education and providing opportunities to disadvantaged youth.
Hanni Ali
SVP, Risk & Analytics
Hamilton Re
Hanni Ali joined Hamilton Re in July 2014 and, as SVP, Risk & Analytics, leads the risk and analytics function with responsibility for providing the portfolio reporting for Hamilton's management, Board, regulators, market bodies and rating agencies. Hanni directs the development of the Hamilton Risk & Analytics Platform (HARP), a comprehensive reinsurance system utilized across the group to provide high performance stochastic pricing and portfolio calculations. He and his team have developed portfolio optimization approaches using genetic algorithms; extensively automated numerous processes; implemented data augmentation for incoming data; and designed advanced stochastic simulations for reinsurance.
Sharena Ali
SVP, Partner Distribution
Homesite Insurance
Sharena has been speaking Insurance and Incumbent for the better part of the last two decades, while serving with insurance industry leaders – Progressive, Travelers, AIG and now Homesite. With deep local and international experience in P&L management and driving profitable growth strategies, Sharena's experience and associated vocabulary spans the breadth of personal and commercial insurance products, pricing, onmi-channel distribution, customer experience and ecosystem transformation – leveraging technology and data in all areas to gain competitive advantage. At Homesite – a digital, tech enabled insurance company – Sharena blends incumbent with startup and innovation, and stands ready to help you with the translation layer!
A.J. Altman
CEO & Founder
A.J. Altman is founder & CEO of HOVER, a mobile app that is transforming homeownership by created 3D interactive home models from smartphone photos. Prior to founding HOVER, A.J. was an engineer at Intel Corporation and served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps.
Janet Anderson
Janet Anderson is CMO of Lapetus and brings over 25 years of international sales and marketing experience for global insurance organizations to her role. She has and led direct response marketing teams in multiple markets including: Europe, Latin America and North America. Janet spent most of her career with AEGON, and most recently, worked with ReMark, a subsidiary of SCOR, as CEO of their North and Latin American business. Speaking on Monday's "Insurtech Meets Coretech" panel.
Danielle Andrew
Department Manager, Business Transformation
American Capital Assurance Corporation
Danielle is responsible for all technology aspects at AmCap Insurance, which include building the policy, billing and claims system, rolling out new products, updating existing products, and producing KPI metrics for the company's senior leadership. Danielle has worked at AmCap for five years, and she values the positive environment that allows her to thrive and grow as a professional. "I enjoy working for a company that cares about its employees as much as it cares about its customers," she says. Prior to working at AmCap, Danielle worked as a project manager for a Fortune 100 company where she was responsible for the technical support team for the company's online payment system. Danielle's work experience in software configuration and management allows her to provide unparalleled insight and expertise in both technology and innovation at AmCap Insurance.
Dorothy L. Andrews
Principal & Chief Behavioral Data Scientist
Actuarial & Analytics Consortium LLC
Dorothy L. Andrews, Principal & Chief Behavioral Data Scientist,
Actuarial & Analytics Consortium LLC
- MA, Mathematics Statistics – Boston University
- BS Mathematics & MA Mathematics & Education– SUNY Albany
- D. Candidate – Media Psychology – Fielding Graduate University
- Chair, American Academy of Actuaries Data Science & Analytics Committee
- Adjunct University North Carolina at Charlotte Mathematics & Statistics Department
- 2019 Michael R. Neil Legacy Award Recipient in Media Psychology
- Contributing Editor for The Actuary magazine
Stephen Applebaum
Managing Partner
Insurance Solutions Group
Stephen Applebaum, Managing Partner, Insurance Solutions Group, is a subject matter expert and thought leader providing consulting, advisory, research and strategic M&A services to participants across the entire North American property/casualty insurance ecosystem focused on insurance information technology, claims, innovation, disruption, supply chain, vendor and performance management. Mr. Applebaum is also a Senior Advisor to Waller Helms Advisors. WHA is the premier investment banking boutique focused on the crossroads of the Insurance, Healthcare and Investment Services sectors. Stephen is a frequent chairman, guest speaker and panelist at insurance industry conferences and contributor to major insurance industry publications and has a passion for coaching, mentoring, business process innovation and constructive transformation, applying disruptive technology, and managing organizational change in the North American property/casualty insurance industry and trading partner communities.
Preeti Asthana
Director, Head of Global Programs - Innovation & Partnerships
Preeti Asthana serves as Director, Head of Global Programs – Innovation & Partnerships. She is responsible for managing innovation programs globally across Aon and developing partnerships with the emerging technology ecosystem to create value for clients. She joined Aon in July 2010. Preeti has 17 years of experience with a background in business strategy and consulting. Her previous roles at Aon include Global Strategy & Planning where she was responsible for executing portfolio strategy and long-range planning initiatives. Prior to joining Aon, Preeti served as a consultant at Bain & Company responsible for creating insights and analysis to support client development and delivery. Before joining Bain, she worked with Airtel, an Indian multinational telecommunication company in strategic marketing and product development. She has also been involved in pro bono consulting for social enterprises associated with community development and fundraising activities for civic networks. She holds a Bachelor's in Business Economics and an MBA in Marketing from University of Delhi, India. She also completed her Certificate Program in Project Management Strategy from the University of Chicago. She currently stays in Chicago and has previously lived & worked in India.
Bill Atlee
Chief Strategy Officer
Bill Atlee founded iPipline in 1996, creating the first multi-carrier network offering digital access to insurance quotes, underwriting status, and electronic applications through cloud-based software. Bill began his career as a life insurance agent, gaining valuable experience in estate planning techniques for high net worth individuals. In 1992, he founded Direct Quote America, Inc., a nationally licensed brokerage firm that developed one of the first automated term insurance shopping services. Today, Bill is a renowned thought leader, utilizing his decades of experience to deliver humor-based messages provoking the industry to advance digitally. As Chief Strategy Officer of iPipeline, he drives innovation and go-to-market strategy based on customer needs and industry pain points.
Mohamed Attahri
Chief Product Officer
Mohamed Attahri is Chief Product Officer at Enigma, overseeing product strategy, development, go-to market and customer success. Previously, Mohamed founded Greendizer, a B2B invoicing solution based in Paris, France, and Megapolis, a road traffic management solution based in Casablanca, Morocco.
Hari Balakrishnan
Chairman, Co-Founder & CTO
Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT),
Hari Balakrishnan is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) and also the Fujitsu Professor in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, where his research led to the creation of CMT. CMT's mission is to make the world's roads and drivers safer. Since launching the first mobile usage-based insurance product in 2012, CMT's award-winning DriveWell platform is today used by more than 35 customers across 25+ countries, benefiting millions of drivers. CMT recently announced a $500M investment from the SoftBank vision fund to fuel its expansion and growth as an InsureTech leader. A world-reknowned researcher in computer science, Balakrishnan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
Blair Baldwin
AgeUp Founder & General Manager
Haven Life / MassMutual
Blair Baldwin is the Founder and General Manager of AgeUp, a new product designed to help families protect against the financial downside of increased longevity. Prior to AgeUp, Blair was the cofounder and CEO of Quilt, an early stage insurtech that was acquired by the Haven Life subsidiary of MassMutual. Blair entered the world of insurance when he became the CMO of Goji, an auto insurance startup that raised over $100M in venture capital. Blair is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Brad Barnett
VP, Emerging Businesses Marketing
Brad Barnett is a senior executive for Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with more than $225 billion in statutory assets. Brad serves as Vice President of Emerging Businesses Marketing and is responsible for leading Marketing for all new-to-market businesses, as well as businesses that are commercialized successes and scaling. Prior to this role, Brad led Nationwide's Enterprise Media and Sports Marketing for 5+ years. This combined portfolio in Media and Sports was $300M+ in annual investment and included overall strategy, negotiations, user engagement, emerging trends, measurement and analytics.
John Barr
Senior Analyst
John Barr is a Senior Analyst with Celent, a subsidiary of Oliver Wyman, providing research, advisory and consulting services to carriers, software, and service providers and investors in the life, annuity, and general insurance industries. John has 25+ years of experience in management and executive roles with information technology, consulting services, and insurance companies. He brings deep domain expertise across the life, annuity, pensions, and P&C insurance spectrum, and has held leadership positions with Wipro, Capgemini, and CSC/Continuum. John has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, and was in a Ph. D Program in marine neurophysiology at UTMB.
Andres Barragan
Andres Barragan is the President of insuretech startup Gainbridge, a Group1001 company. Prior to joining Group1001, Andres was SVP at Fidelity, leading omni-channel personalization and hybrid service models. Since his early days as a brand manager for P&G, Andres has held leadership roles in branding, user experience design, technology and marketing in financial services and consumer health. When he is not exploring NYC with his daughters Inés (12) and Emma (11), Andres enjoys playing squash, traveling to architecture and food-rich destinations and creating dishes for his family of restaurants that democratize delicious, simple food in reclaimed shipping containers.
Bruce Baty
Bruce is the chair of Dentons' Insurance Regulatory Practice Group and co-chair of the Firm's Insurance Sector. With more than 30 years of experience, his practice focuses exclusively on representing property & casualty and life, accident and health insurance companies and reinsurance companies in regulatory, transactional and litigation matters. He is particularly known for his work in designing and implementing reinsurance programs and other alternative risk transfer vehicles.
Bruce Baude
Chief Operations & Technology Officer
CNO Financial Group
Bruce Baude is EVP, Chief Operations and Technology Officer of CNO Financial Group. Serving in this role since 2012, he leads all of CNO's back office operations and IT functions. He was previously COO at Univita Health. He joined LTCG in 2005 and served as CEO through 2008, until its acquisition by Univita. Prior to LTCG, he was CEO of ProCard, a subsidiary of global payments processor TSYS. Baude also spent 9 years with Bank One Corporation, where he held various roles including CEO of its payment processing business. He serves on the board of MIB and the Alzheimer's Association.
Carl Bauer
Founding Partner
EOS Venture Partners
Carl is a co-founder of Eos Venture Partners, alongside his fellow partners Sam Evans and Jonathan Kalman. Eos is one of the first international VCs solely focussed on the rapidly emerging Insurtech space. The LPs of the fund are insurers and reinsurers who work closely with Eos to identify, develop and grow promising Insurtech platforms. Prior to that he spent over 25 years in the financial services industry as a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group of Goldman Sachs, co-head of the Financials Institutions Group of JP Morgan, Vice-Chairman at Credit Suisse and Partner of Greenhill & Co. He advised on over 400 transactions in the area of principal investments, IPOs, M&A, capital raisings and restructurings, mostly in the insurance sector. Carl manages a broad investment portfolio and is an advisor and board member in the Insurtech and Fintech space. He is fluent in German and French with an intermediate level in Japanese. He completed his studies in Geneva, Switzerland and Tokyo, Japan.
Andre Belelieu
Head of Insurance & Asset Management
World Economic Forum
As Head of Insurance & Asset Management at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Andre Belelieu is responsible for engaging insurers in all WEF initiatives with a relevance for the future of insurance and asset management. During 6 years at the WEF, Belelieu has held other leadership roles, including Head of Infrastructure Investment Initiatives and Associate Director for Financial Services. Prior to joining WEF, Belelieu spent 6 years at American International Group Inc. (AIG). Andre earned a MSc in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto.
Dina Belyayeva
Operations Officer
InsurTech Hartford
Dina Belyayeva is Operations Officer at InsurTech Hartford and brings extensive insurance industry knowledge, innovation management and growth strategy expertise from her prior corporate innovation and strategy roles – including a stint in the innovation group at Hartford Insurance – as well as her first-hand experience of running a startup. She is responsible for strategy execution, which includes corporate innovation initiatives, startup engagement, sponsor relations, community outreach, and event management. Speaking on Monday's "Insurtech Meets Coretech" panel.
Inaki Berenguer
CEO & Co-Founder
Inaki Berenguer is Co-founder and CEO of CoverWallet, a tech company reinventing the $100B commercial insurance market for SMBs. Previously, he was Co-founder and CEO of Contactive (aka Klink), a big data platform for telephone calls that was acquired by Fuze (formerly Thinkingphones) in 2015, and Pixable, a mobile photo management app that was acquired by SingTel for $30M in 2012. Prior to that, Inaki held positions at McKinsey, Microsoft and HP. He earned his Masters degree and PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and his MBA from MIT. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University.
Elsa Beytell
Managing Director
Elsa is the managing director of Old Mutual Alternative Risk Transfer Ltd (OMART), a cell captive insurer supporting innovation in South Africa. A qualified actuary, Elsa joined OMART in 2013 and brought with her a wealth of international life insurance and reinsurance experience with a focus on business development and partnering with innovative distribution partners. Prior to joining OMART, Elsa spend 12 years in the UK. Her roles included new business manager at Swiss Re and corporate development and M&A roles with Old Mutual Plc. She started her career in Product Development in Old Mutual South Africa in 1999.
Yamini Bhat
Louise Billmeyer
VP, CIO U.S. Insurance Solutions
Louise Billmeyer is vice president & CIO for the U.S Insurance Solutions division with the Principal. Her current responsibilities include IT strategic oversight and operational support for the division.
Billmeyer joined the company as an assistant information analyst in 1985 and has held several IT positions during her career at Principal. She has held the CIO position for other divisions within the organization. In 2005, she became vice president & CIO for the Health division. In 2010, she took responsibility for Claims, Call Center, Plan Administration, and Business Modeling/Business Process Engineering in addition to her IT area. And in 2011, she became vice president & CIO for the IT corporate services business units. She moved to her current position in 2015. Billmeyer was awarded Iowa Women of Innovation from the Technology Association of Iowa in 2009. A native of Grinnell, Iowa, Billmeyer received her bachelor's degree in 1985 from the Central College in Pella. She is a Fellow of the Life Office Management Institute.
Charles Birnbaum
Bessemer Venture Partners
Charles Birnbaum is a partner in Bessemer's New York office where he leads the firm's investing in early stage financial services companies. Charles' fintech portfolio includes many high-growth companies, such as Betterment, Shift Technology, Fabric, Bread, Eave, United Capital, and Zopa. Before venture, Charles spent three years at Foursquare helping to bring forth the company's first merchant-facing tools. Prior to Foursquare, he spent six years in investment banking and equity capital markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecom sectors. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School, Master of Arts in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University.
Ruth Foxe Blader
Managing Director
Anthemis Group
Ruth Foxe Blader is a thought leader in insurtech and fintech, and a Managing Director at Anthemis. Ruth began her career working to enable Fortune 500 companies to adapt to the digital age, first as a digital project manager and eventually as SVP/Director at Ruder Finn. She ran early web builds and developed comprehensive digital strategies for numerous organizations across many industry verticals; from finance to pharma to governments and NGOs. Following this diverse mandate, which spanned both the US and Europe, Ruth moved to PepsiCo to design and execute the company's global digital and social strategy. As part of her remit, she launched and ran PepsiCo10—PepsiCo's marketing startup accelerator initiative—which led to her first experiences with early stage startup investing. In 2011, Ruth joined Allianz SE to help Allianz bridge its gap with the emerging tech ecosystem. As the founder of Allianz Digital Labs and Allianz Digital Accelerator, Ruth successfully evangelized about the necessity to invest in startups as part of a successful emerging tech strategy. Ruth was a founding member of the Allianz Ventures team, where she led investments
in Quantemplate, MoneyFarm and Lemonade, and helped to build a portfolio including SimpleSurance, Nauto and Argus Cyber Security. At Anthemis, Ruth leads two investment partnership vehicles, ABSV (with Baloise) and AEVO
(with UniCredit). Ruth currently sits on the boards of Hokodo, Flock, Fluidly, InsurData, Omnius, PlusSimple and
Farron Blanc
CEO & Co-Founder
Farron is the Co-Founder & CEO of Gerry – the first expert concierge for long term care. Inspired by personal experiences of assessing care for loved ones wiht dementia and cogitive decline. Prior to that, Farron was named by Digital Insurance as one of the 20 Insurance Innovators to know, as well as one of the top 35 young executives by Intelligent Insurer in 2017. He previously was a global reinsurer, corporate VC, life insurance carrier President, BCG Strategy Consultant, and primary life insurance Chief Marketing Officer
Marcelo Blay
CEO & Founder
Minuto Seguros
Marcelo Blay is the founder and CEO of Minuto Seguros, the leading online insurance broker in Brazil since 2010. For 10 years he was the head of auto and health insurance products at Porto Seguro and COO of retail insurance at Itaú Seguros for 6 years. Marcelo graduated in mechanical engineering at Maua Engineering School and has an MBA from FGV in Brazil with finance and HR specialization at Columbia University in New York. Marcelo is the broker's union (SINCOR-SP) head of technology and a member of the board at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein.
Vince Bodnar
Partner and Long-Term Care Practice Leader
Oliver Wyman
Vince Bodnar is a Partner and leads the Long-Term Care practice of Oliver Wyman. He is recognized as one of the leading long-term care insurance experts in the country, having worked with such products since the 1980s. Vince was recently named one of the "20 Most Creative People in Insurance" by ThinkAdvisor. His long-term care experience includes both stand-alone long-term care products and hybrid products in which long-term care benefits are provided through life insurance and annuity chassis.
Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Vince was Senior Vice President of Product Management at Genworth. Through is career, he has been a highly visible actuarial consultant with a focus on solutions for in-force blocks of long-term care insurance policies and new product innovation.
Vince is a very active contributor to the long-term care industry. He has twice chaired the Society of Actuaries Long-Term Care Insurance Section, its Long- Term Care Think Tank and the ILTCI Conference.
Greg Boutin
Relay (Reinsurance Platform)
Greg Boutin is CEO of Relay Platform Inc., a Toronto-based insurtech venture backed by backed by American Family Innovations and startup co-creation & VC Highline Beta. Relay is a cross-platform SaaS collaboration hub for P&C reinsurance placements, bringing a visual & intuitive solution to a highly manual, fragmented process that resisted digitization so far. Greg previously launched the successful Techstars-graduate blockchain venture Velocia, managed 900 people and rolled out workflow automation at Deloitte Canada, operated a large eCommerce retailer's operations, drove organizational transformations with BCG, and obtained a Stanford MBA as a Fulbright scholar and Idealab intern.
James Bowen
Energetic Insurance
James Bowen is the Co-founder and CEO of Energetic Insurance, an insurtech company focused on developing innovative risk management solutions for the commercial & industrial renewable energy market. Energetic created the EneRate Credit Cover insurance product, a first-of-its-kind policy which covers electricity payment default risk on long term commercial energy contracts in order to enable more financing for unrated and below-investment grade businesses. Prior to Energetic, James was the Co-founder of a solar project development firm and was the Director of Business Development at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
Jim Bramblet
Managing Director, Insurance, North America
Jim is Accenture's North American Insurance Practice Leader. Throughout his career, he has focused on large-scale transformation programs at large and mid-sized carriers in the P&C and life/health businesses. His experience with clients has traditionally been at the intersection of technology platform transformation and operating model redesign – across distribution, policy administration, operations and claims. Jim holds a BBA in international finance and marketing from the University of Miami. He joined Accenture in 1995 and – with the exception of a year with a dot-com and three years leading Cognizant's global Insurance Consulting business – he has been with the company ever since.
Vincent Branch
Accelerate Chief Executive
Vincent joined AXA XL three years ago to set up Accelerate, the AXA XL, innovation group focused on developing commercial opportunities and new disruptive business models. Vincent is also the Head of Strategic Analytics for AXA XL which brings industrial grade implementation of analytics, machine learning and AI for the business. Vincent has over 25 years' experience in the insurance industry, most recently, he held the position of Chief Underwriting Officer and Chief Actuary for VitalityHealth (part of the Discovery group). Prior to this role, Vincent was the Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Personal Lines at Zurich Insurance. In these roles he implemented a wide range of product and pricing innovations. He holds a BSc Honours degree in Mathematics from Loughborough University of Technology, and qualified as an actuary in 2000 and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute.
Mark Breading
Strategy Meets Action
Mark Breading, Partner and Chief Research Officer at SMA, is well known for his perspectives on the future of the insurance industry and innovative uses of technology in insurance. His specialty areas include InsurTech, transformational technologies, customer experience, and digital strategies. Mark is ranked as one of the "Top Global Influencers in InsurTech" by two organizations, InsurTech News and Onalytica. He was one of the 10 finalists for the "Top Global IoT in Insurance Influencer Award." Before joining SMA in 2009, Mark spent 25 years with IBM as the global insurance strategist, and had leadership roles in consulting and marketing. Mark consults with both insurers and tech companies on forward thinking strategies and plans for success in the digital age. Mark is a frequent speaker at industry events; an InsurTech mentor with the Global Insurance Accelerator; and a frequent contributor of articles to Insurance Thought Leadership, Digital Insurance, ITAPro, PC360, LOMA Resource, and many other industry publications.
Bruce Broussard
Partner, Data & Analytics Practice Leader
MVP Advisory Group
Bruce is a partner at MVP Advisory Group and is the practice leader for Data & Analytics.. He has more than 30 years of insurance experience covering both the P&C and Life & Annuities markets, focused on insurance data solutions. Prior to MVP Advisory Group, Bruce served as the SVP & General Manager of the Data Solutions Business Unit for Insurity. He led the product strategy, development, client implementations, and sales for Insurity's DataHouse product (formerly IEV). DataHouse became the leading P&C data solution under Bruce's leadership. Previously, Bruce was an Associate Partner for IBM's Insurance Consulting Practice, where he led IBM's global insurance data practice. Bruce also served as VP, Application Development for Pan-American Life Insurance Company, responsible for all U.S. & International systems. He also was the lead architect at Pallm, a life insurance software vendor, specializing in UL and VUL products.
Terry Brown
With more than 10 years of service to Insuresoft, Terry has complete P&L responsibility for the company. Before becoming President, she held the role of VP, Product Management, helping to develop the Diamond System. Under Terry's leadership, Insuresoft expanded its market share and attained a 100-percent implementation success rate. In a career of more than 30 years, Terry was an independent agent before spending more than 17 years with a regional P&C carrier in Underwriting, Policyholder Services, and as VP, Information Systems.
Kassie Bryan
Head P&C Solutions Americas
Swiss Re
Kassie Bryan joined P&C Americas as Head of Solutions in May 2018 and is responsible for the execution of Swiss Re's Solutions strategy across the Americas region. Solutions is the newest strategic pillar leveraging Swiss Re's risk expertise, strong capital base and new technology to help clients grow and improve profitability by developing innovative solutions and sharing the risk. As part of this role Kassie leads innovation activities to develop differentiated propositions and strategic partnerships to offer customer-centric solutions that help reduce the protection gap across the Americas region. Prior to this role, Kassie worked in various roles in the Swiss Re Group including as an underwriter in Corporate Solutions, an Investment Professional executing on Swiss Re's M&A strategy and, most recently, leading the Reinsurance North America Business Development team to create and commercialize new reinsurance opportunities to support P&C clients' strategic goals. Kassie holds a Bachelor's Degree from Duke University and was named a 2018 industry rising star by Reactions magazine.
Asher Bundlie
Managing Associate
Asher has extensive experience representing companies in all stages of their development on issues such as organization and reorganization, financings, acquisitions, sales, partnerships and exits. He also represents investors from diverse backgrounds, including angels, family offices, venture capital funds and private equity growth funds.
Eric Carlson
Principal and Life Actuary
Milliman IntelliScript
Eric Carlson is a Principal and Life Actuary with Milliman IntelliScript. While at IntelliScript, he has measured mortality implications of Rx and created new Rx based tools applicable in the US life market. His previous experience includes both direct companies and reinsurance companies in a broad range of actuarial and marketing roles. Eric is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries (SoA), and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA), and a frequent speaker and industry meetings.
Max Chee
Head of Aquiline Technology Growth
Aquiline Capital Partners
With over 18 years of private equity and venture capital experience, Max is investing ATG's first fund, raised in 2017 and focused on the InsureTech/FinTech/Enterprise Software sectors. Prior to ATG, Max was Managing Partner at Millennium Technology Value Partners, where he led more than 20 investments across consumer, enterprise and financial technology, from early growth to pre-IPO companies. Previously, he led technology growth investments for Mellon's Private Equity Group and worked with Salomon Brothers' Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance groups. Max led ATG investments in BitPay, Hippo, Health IQ, and serves on the Boards of Carpe Data and Super Home.
Hannes Chopra
RaSa Future Fund
Hannes is the CEO of RaSa Future Fund, a small InsurTech venture fund focusing on early stage start-ups. He has over 23 years of experience in insurance, thereof 16 years in leading positions with Allianz Group, one of the top global insurers. Hannes was CEO of ROSNO, one of the top 3 insurance groups in Russia and the founding CEO of Sberbank Insurance, a start-up of the largest Russian bank, Sberbank. Hannes is also a certified Executive Coach and Partner at Bossert Associates, a leadership development firm. He supports CEOs/top managements in their leadership transformation. And he is an adjunct professor at Harbour Space University, Barcelona. He speaks 6 languages and is a performing artist in Indian music.
Michael Clifton
SVP, Insurance Strategy, Platforms & Ventures
Michael Clifton leads the Emergent Business Group within Cognizant's Global Insurance Practice to bring next-generation venture start-ups, partnerships and platforms to market. He is known as a senior leader and strategist with broad expertise in assessing operations and business challenges, developing strategies and delivering results. Michael brings extensive experience in driving innovation and change for business transformation. He has a diverse background in the insurance, Financial services and technology industries (software and services), focused on delivering global initiatives that align corporate targets. His specialties include IT modernization of infrastructure and legacy apps, and guiding our global clients in developing digital narratives across the value chain. Michael has worked closely with large-scale and geographically distributed work forces to enable change. Prior to Cognizant, Michael held C-level positions at the Federal Bank of Boston and the Hanover Insurance Group, and he founded and divested a number of start-up businesses.
Andy Cohen
Andy is a global executive with deep experience across the Insurance industry building and implementing digital customer and operational strategies to drive profitable growth. As Chief Operating Officer, Andy Cohen is accountable for the execution of Snapsheet's end-to-end customer service and engagement. Prior to joining Snapsheet, Andy was vice president of global operations at CNA Insurance where he was responsible for driving growth and building consistent customer service experiences for P&C operations, accounting for more than $8 billion in annual revenue across various industries. Before CNA, Andy served as vice president of strategy for the middle market business unit at Travelers Insurance. Prior to Travelers, he worked with a variety of insurance clients at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, implementing technology-enabled growth strategies and delivering operational efficiency initiatives. Andy has authored multiple articles and white papers that have been featured in the Wall-Street Journal, Best Review Magazine and Carrier Management. Andy received his bachelor's degree from Indiana University Bloomington.
Chris Colborn
Chief Experience Officer
Chris Colborn is a Senior Partner at Oliver Wyman's creative consultancy, Lippincott. He heads the global Innovation practice from the firm's New York Office. Chris joined Oliver Wyman in 2018 from R/GA, where he spent the past 20 years leading the design and development of new products, services and ventures around the world across a variety of industries, including financial services, banking and payments. His core areas of focus include: digital service design and innovation, omnichannel experience strategy and design, brand and business transformation.
Keia Cole
Head of Digital Experience
Keia Cole is Head of Digital Experience at MassMutual. She leads the development of innovative, customer-centric technology solutions for MassMutual clients. Keia is responsible for driving MassMutual's digital transformation efforts including design and build of MassMutual's web and mobile properties. Previously, Keia was Head of Customer Experience Strategy at MassMutual. Prior to MassMutual, Keia served as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Education during President Obama's administration, was a litigator at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley. She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a JD/MBA from Stanford.
Michael Coles
Managing Partner
Michael Coles is the founder and Managing Partner of Cedent. He advises board members of global insurance organisations on strategy and innovation.
Melissa Collett
Professional Standards Director
Chartered Insurance Institute
Melissa Collett is Professional Standards Director at the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), leading its professional standards, ethics and conduct activity across insurance and financial planning. She is keen to raise awareness of best practice and drive ethical behaviour in the digital environment and developed the CII's Digital Ethics: A Companion to the Code of Ethics. Formerly an insurance lawyer, ombudsman and judge, she is the author of numerous articles and publications on consumer insurance law subjects and is a frequent speaker at insurance conferences and events. She holds an honours degree from Oxford University.
Janet Comenos
CEO & Co-Founder
Spotted CEO Janet Comenos is the brainchild behind the company's "disgrace insurance," a product which provides protection to companies who hire key or famous people, in the case those individuals are disgraced. $10M limits are available, and a consortium of Lloyd's markets have put up the capacity. Janet has been quoted in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Forbes, and several other reputable sources. At Spotted, Janet oversees sales, marketing, operations, and investor relations in addition to playing an instrumental role in the company's $11.5M capital raise. Janet holds a B.A. from The University of Pennsylvania.
Martina Conlon
EVP, Research and Consulting & Practice Leader for Property/Casualty
Martina Conlon is an Executive Vice President of Research and Consulting and practice leader for property/casualty at Novarica. She is an expert on IT strategy, best practices, organizational approaches, and technology architecture and is the primary researcher and author of market-leading reports on core systems and technology strategy. Prior to Novarica, Martina served as Director of Enterprise Technology for Arbella Insurance, where she was responsible for all business applications, analytics, websites, and portals. She has also served as Principal Consultant with major technology and consulting firms, where she partnered with client executives to launch technology solutions to meet strategic business goals. She holds an MBA from Boston University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University.
David Connolly
Global Insurance Digital Leader
David Connolly is a Principal with EY's Financial Services Organization, the lead of the Global Insurance Digital Practice, and the Americas Information Technology Group Leader for the Insurance sector. David and his team have defined a multitude of technology-enabled business offerings that help insurers define their digital strategy to remain competitive in the digital marketplace. He has also led the EY Guidewire practice globally since 2008, and has been involved with over 30 Guidewire programs and over 100 implementations around the world. David is based in Silicon Valley, California.
Sean Conrad
Vice President - Pricing
Hannover Re
Sean is a pricing actuary at Hannover Re. He is based in Charlotte and is responsible for pricing and client consultative activities related to various life markets with a focus on Alternative Underwriting opportunities including predictive modeling and accelerated underwriting. Sean's career spans 20 years in the life insurance and reinsurance industry including three years working in the UK and Irish market.
Kacie Conroy
Director of IT
M3 Insurance
Nicole Cook
Managing Director
Global Insurance Accelerator
Nicole Cook is currently the Managing Director of the Global Insurance Accelerator. She has startup experience, most recently as the Chief Operating Officer of Speeko, which went through Techstars Chicago in 2018. Prior to, Nicole worked for Dwolla, a payments technology company where she grew into an executive role, starting as an MBA intern and becoming Vice President of Sales and Strategy over five years, working in Des Moines, San Francisco and New York. Out of undergrad from the University of Iowa, Nicole joined BMO Capital Markets where she worked for nearly seven years in various investment and corporate banking roles in Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. Following BMO, Nicole completed MBA coursework at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Trent Cooksley
Cowbell Cyber
Trent Cooksley is the COO for Cowbell Cyber. Cowbell is a cyber insurance MGA focused on solving the insurability gap between cyber exposures and coverage. Cooksley is an insurance executive and 3-time startup co-founder. He has held underwriting, operational, finance and business development roles in all stages of company growth. Cooksley built some of the first pay as you go insurance technology solutions and has worked with many of the most dynamic insurtechs and carriers as partner or investor. Most recently prior to Cowbell, Cooksley was Head of Open Innovation for Markel Corporation and Managing Director of Markel Digital.
Quentin Coolen
CEO & Founder
Quentin is the Co-founder & CEO of Waffle, a Barclays' Techstars & MIT Delta V company dedicated to reinventing personal insurance. Prior to Waffle, Quentin worked at the UN where he co-created the Insurance Development Forum, one of the world's largest public-private insurance partnerships. Quentin also served as a speechwriter for Kofi Annan, a litigator in an international law firm and a lecturer at Columbia University. Trained as a lawyer at UCLouvain, Quentin also received a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and an MBA from MIT where he was a Sloan Fellow for Global Leadership in Innovation.
Jon Cooper
Jon co-founded Life.io in 2012. He brings to the company more than 15 years' experience driving strategic growth, operations and product for leading companies in the insurance and technology space. Most recently, Jon served as Chief of Staff at TriZetto, helping the business grow and ultimately selling to Cognizant for $2.7 billion. Jon holds an MBA from The Wharton School where he received the Wharton Entrepreneurship Award and was twice the recipient of the Snider Seed Grant. Jon received a BA from The University of Pennsylvania.
Richard Counsell
Founder and CEO of Stable. Richard previously led software companies in Chicago, Melbourne and London and is a former winner of the Barclays Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2016 he was inspired by his farming background to democratise hedging for millions of businesses around the world that are exposed to volatile commodity prices. After 4 years of R&D, Stable's parametric insurance platform now offers volatility insurance across hundreds of commodity indexes from agriculture to metals, plastics, and energy in over 15 countries around the world.
Gijsbert Cox
Industry Leader, Insurance – EMEA
As Industry Lead Insurance for Europe, Gijsbert is providing Appian's customers support in the many ways on how Appian can be beneficial in the Insurance industry. For this he uses his 14+ years experience as an Operations and Change Manager in Insurance at Hiscox and PartnerRe. During this time he built an in-depth knowledge in P&C insurance processes and solutions in Insurance, and worked closely with underwriters and brokers to find product, distribution and processing solutions in Europe. Before working in insurance, Gijsbert worked for 9 years on several international blue chip projects (at Accenture and KPMG). Professionally, Gijsbert gets enthused by growth and transformation plans, business development, inspiring teams, building bridges between Business and IT and working in international environments.
Alex Dalyac
CEO & Co-Founder
Alex Dalyac is co-founder & CEO of Tractable, a company that develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. Tractable's market-leading tools use photos to automate damage appraisal, allowing industry players to improve accuracy, reduce turnaround time, and deliver a revamped customer claims experience. Founded in 2014, Tractable has a world-class research and development team with over 30 years of combined research experience, and has raised over $30m from Insight Venture Partners and other top-tier investors. The company is based in London, with offices in New York and Tokyo.
Gary Davis
National Leader for Distribution Partnerships
Gary is Humana's National Leader for Distribution Partnerships serving employer group customers and agents. These partnerships include general agents, private exchanges and technology partners providing quoting, enrollment, benefit administration services, and other digital services. He has 25 years of experience with Humana in sales and leadership roles. Gary lives in Milwaukee and is supported in his travels by his family. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and enjoys coaching hockey.
Bastiaan de Goei
Head of AXA Next US
AXA Next
Dr. Bastiaan de Goei heads up AXA Next US. AXA Next is the innovation company and subsidiary of the AXA Group, one of the largest insurance and financial services groups in the world. AXA Next encompasses a VC fund, an incubator, a partnerships group, and an M&A team. Together, they represent a USD 1 billion commitment towards innovative growth initiatives by the AXA Group. AXA Next is focused on healthcare, mobility, business continuity, and the platform economy. Dr. Bastiaan de Goei has been with AXA in successive management positions for the past 8 years. Prior to joining AXA, Dr. Bastiaan de Goei worked as an investor for PE fund Doughty Hanson and as a strategy consultant for L.E.K. consulting. He obtained his PhD in business economics from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in Management from the London School of Economics.
Katie DeGraaf
Director of Product - Mobility Intelligence
Katie DeGraaf oversees Product Management for Mobility Intelligence at Arity, including the development and recommendations of new techniques and processes to build innovative solutions for Arity's Insurance customers. Before joining Arity, DeGraaf spent more than a decade at Willis Towers Watson where she played a key role in launching its telematics rating solution, DriveAbility. Katie has a deep passion for telematics and has spoken on the subject across the globe. She also serves on the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Personal Lines Conference Planning Committee and is a mentor for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation.
Marc DeLeonibus
Bold Penguin
Marc DeLeonibus, Co-founder and Director of IA Terminal at Bold Penguin, has been around the insurance industry for over twelve years. In that time, he discovered the inefficiencies that exist for both agents and consumers. Since then, Marc has built technology solutions that bring efficiency to buying, selling, and managing commercial insurance products. Each solution enables the agent, the trusted advisor, to add the most value possible to their relationship with their clients. Marc's current project is the Agent Terminal at Bold Penguin, which is a commercial insurance portal dedicated to making business insurance simple for customers, agents, and carriers.
Adam Demos
CEO & Co-Founder
Tower IQ
Adam Demos has empowered a new generation of data-driven trusted advisors by putting their customers at the center of the conversation. Adam is the founder and CEO of towerIQ inc., a data normalization company focused on bringing transparency to the insurance market. TowerIQ is headquartered in Boston, MA and backed by General Catalyst, Hyperplane Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Vestigo Ventures & Laconia Capital. Adam previously helped build App Annie the global leader for intelligence data in the mobile economy which was also founded with a "data-first" approach.
Sachin Dhamane
AVP, Product Management
Sachin Dhamane is the AVP, Product Management and leads the Digital1st team. He has 18+ years' experience in engineering insurance software. He has worked with Synechron and Patni Computer systems before joining Cover-All in 2003. His previous role was Director of Product Management at Cover-All before Majesco's acquisition. Sachin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering majoring in Mechanical from Pune University.
Dave Dillon
Senior Vice President & Principal
Lewis & Ellis
Dave Dillon is a Senior Vice President and Principal with Lewis & Ellis. Since 1999, Dave has focused on healthcare reform issues, the development of health insurance products, and financial solvency of insurers. Dave has extensive experience working with a wide range of regulators. In the last five years, Dave has assisted 20 states with actuarial issues, including ACA implementation, policy and rate filing reviews, and financial analysis. Dave is very involved in the affairs of the actuarial profession and the health insurance industry through his volunteer efforts. Dave currently serves on the Society of Actuaries' Board of Directors. From 2017 to 2019, Dave led the SOA's strategic initiative Commercial Healthcare: What's Next? In 2017, Dave was a recipient of the Society of Actuaries' Outstanding Volunteer Award. Dave is also the co-Chair and Host for the SOA's Health Section Podcast series.
John Donahue
CEO & President
Topa Insurance Group
With over 27 years of experience in personal and commercial lines insurance, John has overseen insurance operations for personal and commercial lines property and casualty products distributed through a wide range of models including captive agents, independent agents and brokers, direct operations as well as wholesalers and managing general agents. Prior to joining Topa, John's work experience included GMAC Insurance, MAPFRE Insurance, and the California State Automobile Association. John is a CPCU and graduated from St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.
Becky Downing
Becky Downing is the CEO and founder of buzzvault, the world's first digital asset vault. By making it effortless for customers to securely catalogue their possessions, all from the convenience of their mobiles, buzzvault is creating a new kind of home insurance: transparent, data-rich and tailored perfectly to customers' needs. Already recognised by TechCity Insider in 2015 as 'One of the 200 Most Influential People in Tech (UK)', she won 2017's Connecticut County VentureClash competition and, most recently, the prestigious DIAmond Award at the Digital Insurance Agenda in Amsterdam in May 2018. Prior to founding buzzvault, Becky worked as a commercial litigation lawyer at top City law firms.
Max Drucker
Carpe Data
For two decades Carpe Data CEO Max Drucker has trailblazed the insurance industry as a data visionary, always on the forefront of technological change. Before Carpe Data's launch in 2016, Max excelled as both executive and entrepreneur—in 1998 he served as CIO and co-founder of eCoverage, the nation's first online auto insurance company. Looking again toward the future Max founded Steel Card, one of the world's first InsureTech companies, which was acquired by ChoicePoint in 2006 and now owned by LexisNexis, earning him recognition by Insurance & Technology Magazine as one of the Top 10 Innovators of the Decade. In 2010 Max co-founded the nation's first social media background screening company, Social Intelligence, whose technological innovations in online data and analysis paved the way for Carpe Data's current suite of products. Max is a graduate of Colorado College where he received a Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Political Science.
John Drzik
President, Global Risk & Digital
Drzik is President of Marsh's Global Risk and Digital division. In this role, he has global responsibility for the Marsh businesses that provide risk and insurance solutions to small businesses and individuals, and he manages Marsh's global operations in consulting, captive solutions, digital, data, and analytics. Prior to this role, he was CEO of Oliver Wyman, which he joined in 1984. Drzik is also chair of MMC Insights, a Marsh & McLennan Companies research group focused on identifying breakthrough perspectives and solutions to society's most complex challenges. He serves on the advisory board of the International Risk Governance Council and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and was a member of the 2018 NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Disruptive Risks.
Varun Dua
CEO & Founder
Acko General Insurance
Varun Dua is the Founder and CEO of Acko, an insurance carrier in India that operates in the P&C space. Prior to Acko, he co-founded Coverfox (a digital broking platform), and an insurance software services firm. He started his career with AIG as part of the early team that set-up AIG's business in India. Acko is India's first digital only insurer to receive the regulator's nod and is backed by investors such as Accel, Intact, Swiss Re and Amazon. Acko creates high frequency use case products around ride sharing, online travel booking etc. Acko operates on sharp pricing and digital distribution model for traditional products like auto insurance.
Louis Ducruet
Head of Product
Graduated from Texas Christian University. Member of the Interaction Design Foundation. Previously designed and created "Configura", a research methodology called that utilizes psychology and social sciences to understand customers ́ hidden needs. Currently Head of Product @ Eprezto.com, responsible for designing and developing Eprezto ́s product experience.
Robert Eaton
Consulting Actuary
Robert Eaton ( @loveactuary ) is a consultant with Milliman in Tampa, Florida. He is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. Robert focuses on long-term care insurance, life insurance, and combination life and health products. Robert works in pricing, inforce management, LTC wellness, valuation, mergers & acquisitions, and in predictive analytics. He was the 2018 Chairperson of the SOA's LTC Section Council and is the Chairperson of the 2020 ILTCI conference.
Mary Beth Eckert
CIO, Property and Casualty
Mary Beth is an execution driven leader, renown for her ability to attract, develop and retain high-performing teams that purposefully encourage a corporate culture of diversity and inclusion. As USAA's Property & Casualty CIO, Mary Beth is focused on successfully supporting a $21B book of business on existing platforms, while planning and executing a multi-year, strategic system modernization program that solidifies the USAA mission of facilitating the financial security for military members, associates, and their families.
Gareth Eggle
CEO & Co-Founder
InShare SMART Risk
We are InShare SMART Risk, providing a smarter approach to risk via our digital risk ecosystem – an efficient way to share; manage; reduce and transfer risk. We enable our customers to share risk through the creation of a risk sharing community. Our knowledge and expertise provide a solution for our customers to better manage risk. And because there's always the unexpected – in areas where the risk cannot be shared, managed or controlled we will transfer the risk to eliminate your exposure. SMART risk delivers greater resilience, leading to less loss, more profit and greater confidence for employees, investors, customers and YOU.
Shawn Ellis
Managing Director
NFP Ventures
Shawn is Managing Director at NFP Ventures and leads oversight of the fund. He serves as director on the boards of Axio, Vivante, and Wellth. He is a board observer for Nubundle and 401kplans.com. His investment perspective leverages diverse operational, strategic and investment experience. Previously, as President and founding team member of Zest Health, he lead company growth from concept to over half a million paid subscribers and several health partnerships within three years. Prior to Zest, Shawn focused on healthcare technology investments at 7wire Ventures. He was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and began his career at Lazard Middle Market's M&A practice. Shawn holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the The Economic Club of Chicago and a board member.
Jason Ennis
Enterprise Architecture Manager
MMG Insurance
Jason Ennis is the Enterprise Architecture Manager at MMG Insurance, a regional Property and Casualty Insurer located in Presque Isle, ME. Jason joined the Company in 2009 and was previously employed by Unum Group as a Systems Consultant and Technical Architect specializing in underwriting and actuarial systems, then with CCH Incorporated, Wolters Kluwer as Enterprise Services Manager specializing in corporate tax systems and with ATX Forms Inc. as the Enterprise Knowledge Group Manager.
Adam Erlebacher
CEO & Co-Founder
Fabric Co-Founder & CEO Adam Erlebacher was formerly COO at Simple where he led Simple's growth from pre-launch to hundreds of thousands of customers (acquired by BBVA). Prior to Simple, he co-founded PlaceVine, an online advertising marketplace (acquired 2011), and led business development at AI startup Colloquis (acquired by Microsoft). Earlier, Adam specialized in technology, media, & telecom transactions at JPMorgan. He received his B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School.
Dawna Capps Evans
President & CUO
Dawna Capps Evans is President & CUO of WÜLF, LLC a management and insurance consulting firm specializing in InsurTech, Start-Ups and CRB's (Cannabis Related Businesses.) She has more than 25 years of experience in the Property/Casualty Industry in senior leadership roles focused on Specialty Underwriting, MGA/Affinity Programs and Risk Management. Prior to launching WULF, LLC Dawna spent 16 years at Travelers Insurance in various leadership roles; most recently as the P&C Leader in Sao Paulo, Brazil for Travelers newly created commercial insurance company in South America. Dawna holds the distinguished CIC (Certified Insurance Counselor) and CRM (Certified Risk Manager) designations and is currently serving as the Executive Director for the NCRMA (National Cannabis Risk Management Association.)
Caroline Faulkner
SVP, Head of Enabling Solutions
Prudential Financial
Caroline Faulkner leads Prudential's Enabling Solutions organization, responsible for driving enterprise transformation to simplify the customer service experience and transform the future of how Prudential works. Enabling Solutions optimizes like-type functions to serve all of Prudential's U.S. business via multiple centers of excellence. Previously, Caroline served as chief operating officer for Pramerica, Prudential's Center for Next Generation Growth. She also led the start-up of Prudential's El Paso Business & Technology Solutions Center. Caroline holds multiple degrees including a master's in leadership and innovation from the Institute of Technology, Letterkenny, and an accounting/finance diploma from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Ruben Fechner
SVP, Business Applications & Support, Information Technology
Erie Insurance
Ruben Fechner, serves as senior vice president, Business Applications and Support, Information Technology at ERIE. He was previously the Vice President of Commercial, Sales and Distribution Technology at The Hartford. Fechner began his IT career at USAA, where he held a variety of leadership and technology roles which included Senior Vice President of Programs and Projects, where he led strategic planning and directed the efforts of hundreds of technology and process improvement initiatives. Fechner is a veteran of the United States Air Force and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
Eric Feder
Managing General Partner
Lennar Ventures
Eric Feder serves as the Managing General Partner of Lennar Ventures where he oversees Lennar's innovation and venture capital investing. Prior to his current role, Eric was Vice Chairman at Rialto Capital from 2008 until 2018. Eric has been instrumental in helping identify, structure, and execute investments for Lennar that have re-defined the landscape of real estate technology – including States Title, Hippo Insurance, Blend, Opendoor, and Divvy Homes. He serves as a board director at States Title, as well as Hippo Insurance. Eric is Past Chairman of the Miami Dolphins Cancer Challenge and is a current member of the Board of Governors of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami.
Michael Ferber
Dovetail, a Victor company
Michael Ferber is Chief Executive Officer of Dovetail Insurance responsible for the company's overall strategy, service and product delivery. Mike has over 25 years of technology, process-effectiveness and change management experience. Prior to joining Dovetail, Mike was the Chief Information Officer for ICAT, also a Victor company. As CIO for ICAT, his role was a business position with responsibilities in the areas of technology, digital and user experience strategies, as well as operational processes. Prior to joining ICAT, Mike served as Senior Vice President of Change Management for Lehman Brothers Mortgage division in Denver. Prior to Lehman Brothers, he spent five years with GMAC leading operations and technology within their mortgage banking division. Early in his career, he spent seven years with Ernst & Young as well as technology start-up companies. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Indiana University.
Emilio Figueroa
EVP - Insurance/Advisory Board
A property/casualty industry veteran of nearly three decades, Emilio Figueroa led the creation of multiple insurance programs for risk management venture firms, and previously led innovation and creation across multiple insurance verticals ranging from MGA, captives, alternative risk transfer vehicles, and multiple reinsurance firms.
Michael Fitzgerald
Senior Analyst
Mike brings extensive industry experience to the analyst role. Prior to joining Celent, he was vice president of enterprise underwriting solutions at Zurich North America, where he led the evaluation of technology alternatives to support a new underwriting product development process. He held a number of positions at Royal & Sun Alliance, including a field operations regional executive role. In the 1990s, Mike led an initiative which delivered one of the first global online technical underwriting and claims learning platforms in the industry. Mike's research focuses on innovation, emerging technologies (blockchain, artificial intelligence), distribution management, business process and operations, social media, and billing.
Guy Fraker
Chief Innovation Officer
Insurance Thought Leadership
Guy's has dedicated the last 15 of his 35 year career to world class innovation practices as well as those technologies making the greatest impact on risk and risk management. Guy serves both State & Federal public policy makers, foreign governments, startups and established firms on the testing and deployment of exponential technologies. Guy's experiences include working with premier global innovators such as IDEO, Global Business Network, X-Prize Foundation, Google-X, and Singularity University. As an innovation architect, Guy's insurance and reinsurance clients have generated new capital in excess of $4.5B by successfully inventing and launching new products, efficiency solutions, non-insurance revenue streams, and cutting insurance product development times from months to weeks. Guy was also engaged as a subject matter expert by AM Best in the development of the Innovation Rating Criteria announced earlier in 2019.
Jill Frankle
AVP, Strategic Ventures
The Hartford
Jill joined The Hartford in 2017 and she is focused on identifying interesting companies that could further the strategy and innovation agenda of the firm. She is responsible for maintaining and enhancing relationships with VCs, incubators/accelerators, PE firms, startup companies and entrepreneurs so that The Hartford can be on the forefront of new and exciting opportunities. The majority of Jill's career has been in venture capital and private equity. Prior to The Hartford, Jill was with Knightsbridge Advisers, a venture capital fund of funds, where she invested in many of the top performing venture capital and growth equity partnerships. Prior to Knightsbridge, she was a Principal with TD Capital Ventures and was an active investor in early stage technology companies. Earlier in her career, Jill gained operational experience at an Internet startup, as well as research and consulting expertise at IDC, a leading global provider of market intelligence on IT and consumer markets. Jill holds a BBA in Finance from The University of Michigan.
Scott Franz
Automated Driving Market Research Analyst
In his brief career, Scott Franz has worked as a home automation sub-contractor; a software engineer for Egnyte, a content collaboration SaaS company; a driver for Lyft; and now a market researcher for Intel's Autonomous Driving Group. An avid rock climber, social dancer, and scuba diver, his insatiable curiosity and problem solving motivates him to learn all about the disruptive technologies that will reshape the social, economic, cultural, and political landscapes of the world.
Marc Fredman
SVP, Strategy, Product Management & Marketing
CCC information Services
An award-winning business strategist and frequent industry keynote, Marc Fredman oversees strategy and innovation for CCC Information Services, a technology and AI leader powering the multi-billion-dollar insurance and automotive industries. As Senior Vice President of Strategy, Product Management & Marketing, Marc is focused on building the most complete network connecting insurers, collision repairers, OEMs, parts suppliers, and others in the vehicle ownership lifecycle. Before joining CCC in 2014, Marc was a core member of The Boston Consulting Group's technology and corporate development practices, advising CEOs and boards of Fortune 500 companies on growth and portfolio strategy. He was a three-time winner of BCG's Polaris Award for outstanding client impact. Prior to BCG, Marc held strategy and innovation roles at JPMorgan Chase and a predecessor institution, where he successfully founded the leading Health Savings Account administrator in the U.S. A visionary thought leader, Marc has been awarded multiple patents in the fields of financial technology and transaction processing and holds a Bachelor's degree in Honors Philosophy from Georgetown University. Marc also holds a Master's degree in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Richard French
Kryon Systems
Richard is a veteran business executive with over 20 years of experience in driving worldwide growth and new business opportunities. A former COO of Automation Anywhere, he comes to Kryon with vast knowledge of the RPA landscape, as well as a passion for providing intuitive solutions for business users. Over the course of his career, he has served in a variety of leadership roles in tech companies, including as Head of New Businesses for Services at Nokia and VP of Enterprise Platforms at Oracle.
Amy Friedrich
President-U.S. Insurance Solutions
Amy Friedrich leads Principal's U.S. insurance businesses, serving 100,000 employers and 3.5 million people. Through a broad range of protection solutions, Principal helps employers attract and retain key talent, protect against loss of income and assets, and secure their financial future. Friedrich leads 3,500 employees responsible for group employee benefits, life insurance, disability insurance, and nonqualified deferred compensation, along with the distribution arm, which included Principal's advisor network. Previously, she was senior vice president of the specialty benefits division, which saw above-industry growth under her leadership. Before joining Principal in 2000, she worked in change management for Accenture. She holds an undergraduate degree from Buena Vista University and a master's degree from Purdue University.
Stephen Fromkin
Chief Operations Officer & Co-Founder
Stephen Fromkin is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer at Talespin, an enterprise software solutions company that leverages immersive technology to transform the way global workforces learn, work, and collaborate. At Talespin, Stephen leads strategy and operations across new business, marketing, and content production. He also leads the company's expansion deeper into the insurance vertical. Stephen has more than 20 years of experience in innovative technology, and has produced thousands of hours of media prior to turning his focus on immersive content (VR, AR and MR) for training, promotional, and entertainment purposes to service the needs of Fortune 100 organizations.
John Furlong
VP & Chief Information Officer, Group Insurance
Guardian Life
John Furlong is Vice President and the Chief Information Officer for Group Insurance at Guardian. In this capacity he is responsible for all technology delivery and services supporting the Group insurance businesses. Prior to joining Guardian in 2012, Mr. Furlong ran product development for the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Retirement Group, where he managed the 401K, defined benefit, institutional trust, equity compensation and deferred compensation benefit business lines. Mr. Furlong has over 30 years of expertise in the financial services industry, including experience as Chief Technology Officer for UBS Global Asset Management, Head of Development for UBS/PaineWebber and Managing Principle for the IBM Consulting Group's Financial Services practice. Mr. Furlong has bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Michael Furlong
Indio Technologies
Mike Furlong is the CEO of Indio Technologies, a platform that simplifies the insurance application process for brokers and their clients. Indio is trusted by thousands of broker agents across North America, has a relationship with more than 30 of the top 100 U.S. brokerages, and has raised a total of $30M in funding from Menlo Ventures, 8VC, NFP Ventures, 500 Startups, Merus Capital, and Compound. Prior to Indio Technologies, Mike started Sliced Investing, the first online hedge fund investment platform built for individual investors backed by Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator. Mike's passion is at the intersection of software and financial services, with a focus on enhancing legacy workflows.
Karen Furtado
Strategy Meets Action
Karen Furtado, Partner, is a well-known authority on insurance technology and how it fuels transformation within insurance companies. Her focus is helping insurers prepare for the future of the industry through the decisions they make today. Karen's deep understanding of how to effect change guides insurers in the development and implementation of their transformation roadmaps. Her comprehensive knowledge stretches across foundational technologies such as policy admin, billing and claims, the implications of InsurTech, and enhancing adaptability and flexibility in a changing market. Her commitment to promoting innovation, encouraging the exploration and adoption of transformational technologies, and developing proactive ways to plan for the future draws those seeking an edge. In a highly competitive world, Karen brings exceptional knowledge and experience to the challenges of connecting solutions to business and IT requirements for both insurers and vendor clients.
For more than 30 years, Karen has held leadership positions across the insurance industry. She was previously the Vice President of CGI's Insurance Practice, where she had responsibility for the development of their strategic direction and oversight of CGI's insurance software services, hosted services, and core insurance BPO practice.
Rob Galbraith
The End Of Insurance As We Know It
Rob Galbraith has been called "a global insurtech thought leader", "a wonderful motivation", "an inspiration", "a mentor to many in the insurance industry", "the most interesting man in insurance", "the prophet" and "the WD40 of insurance" for his versatile skills and ability to solve all manners of problems. Rob is the Director of Innovation at AF Group and the author of the Amazon bestseller The End Of Insurance As We Know It. Rob is a popular keynote speaker who has spoken at events around the globe on the topics of innovation, insurtech and the future of insurance. Rob has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry in a variety of leadership positions with AF Group, USAA, Citigroup, and the Federal Reserve Board. He is a recognized thought leader on P&C insurance who is a frequent media contributor and well-known industry influencer. Rob holds a Master's of Science in Insurance Management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Michigan State University.
Dev Ganguly
Jackson National
Dev Ganguly is the chief information officer at Jackson National Life Insurance Company (Jackson®), the U.S. subsidiary of London-based Prudential plc. He oversees all aspects of application development, infrastructure engineering, IT service management, enterprise architecture and digital transformation. He is also responsible for Jackson's technology strategy and, as a member of the executive leadership team, assists in developing Jackson's long-term business strategy. Mr. Ganguly has held a variety of roles in the IT group, including director and assistant vice president. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering, electronics and power from the National Institute of Technology in India.
Denise Garth
SVP - Strategic Marketing, Industry Relations & Innovation
Denise Garth is Senior Vice President Strategic Marketing responsible for leading marketing, industry relations and innovation in support of Majesco's client centric strategy, working closely with Majesco customers, partners and the industry. She is a recognized Top 50 InsurTech Influencer and industry leader with both P&C and L&A insurance experience as a CIO and business executive with deep international ties in Asia and Europe through her ACORD leadership role. Denise is an acknowledged strategic thinker, innovation leader, international speaker, and author of thought leadership and articles regarding the key issues and opportunities facing the industry today to prepare for the future. Prior to joining Majesco, Denise held business and technology senior executive roles with leading insurance companies, including Mutual of Omaha, CUNA Mutual and Century Cos. of America. At ACORD, she was vice president, standards and membership driving ACORD's international expansion and market presence. While at Innovation Group, she was EVP, strategic marketing and global head of market strategy where she re-established the company's position through market-driven strategy and solutions. Most recently she was Partner and Chief Digital Officer with Strategy Meets Action, leading the Innovation Practice evaluating emerging technologies, outside industry trends, and innovation and their implications and opportunities for the industry.
Patrick Gee
SVP - PI Claim
Patrick Gee is Senior Vice President, Claim at Travelers, Inc., the second largest writer of U.S. Commercial Property Casualty insurance and the third largest writer of U.S. Personal Insurance through independent agents. Gee's division is responsible for delivering claim service to Personal and Commercial Auto & Property customers, including Catastrophe response. Recent innovations in digital/mobile strategies, AI, advanced analytics and geospacial & imagery capabilities are significantly accelerating customer experience and operational effectiveness – for instance, his group employs one of the largest drone fleets in the U.S. In prior roles, Gee managed policyholder services and sales operations, including business transition during the Aetna, Royal and St. Paul acquisitions. He has also led startup businesses and program management execution, after starting his career in Information Technology.
Jay Gelb
Managing Director
Jay Gelb, CFA, is currently Managing Director and senior equity analyst at Barclays covering the property-casualty and life insurance industries as well as Berkshire Hathaway. Prior to joining Barclays in 2008, Jay was the senior equity analyst at Lehman Brothers covering the P&C insurance industry. Before joining Lehman, Jay spent five years in equity research at Prudential Equity Group, LLC. He began his professional career as an underwriter for Chubb specializing in the financial institutions industry. Jay earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a M.B.A., also in Finance, from Bentley University.
Chris Giuliani
Spring Venture Group
Chris is the CEO of Spring Venture Group and a member of the company's board of directors. Chris joined Spring Venture Group in 2011 as Executive Vice President with a promotion to CEO in 2012. His emphasis on calculated growth and leadership development helped build the organization from 27 employees in 2012 to over 600 in 2018. Chris empowers decision making and embracing an entrepreneurial spirit through constant improvement and innovation. This vision is at the core of Spring Venture Group's tremendous success and has set the standard for the company's culture.
Giovanni Giuliani
Group Chief Strategy, Innovation and Business Development Officer
Giovanni Giuliani joined Zurich Insurance Group in 2016 as Group Chief Strategy, Innovation and Business Development Officer, reporting directly to the Group CEO. 2012 – 2015 Giovanni worked for Generali Assicurazioni where he started in Strategy and was than appointed Managing Director of Generali Investment Management and an Executive Vice Chairman of Generali Real Estate. Before Generali he was Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company for 15 years, serving large Insurance and Banking Groups across the European markets, USA and Australia. He holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, and a MD with laude in Chemical Engineering from Pisa University.
Ron Glozman
Chisel AI
Ron is passionate about revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence to help people work smart and enrich their lives. A technology enthusiast at heart, Ron founded Chisel with a vision to leverage AI to help industries like insurance who deal in high volumes of unstructured data and manual processes digitally transform. Ron is a charismatic speaker with a unique vision focused on business success and technological innovation. Under Ron's leadership Chisel won Gold at the 2019 Zurich Innovation World Championship and the ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge in 2018. In his free time, Ron enjoys spending time with family and friends.
Kay Godfredsen
Fmr. First Deputy Commissioner
Iowa Insurance Division
Kay is former First Deputy Commissioner at the Iowa Insurance Division. She is proud to have spent a great portion of her career providing legal advice to a variety levels of insurance and financial services professionals at a Fortune 100 company as they innovated and served consumers and insurance producers across the country. Using her public and private sector experience in legal and public policy, she formed Kay Fairchild Godfredsen Law Office to help businesses grow, manage their risks, and thrive. Kay serves as outside general counsel to businesses in various stages here in Iowa and across the U.S., providing practical legal and regulatory advice, holistic risk analysis, contract negotiation, and overall strategic outside counsel tailored for business' long-term goals. She volunteers on several boards and is Adjunct Professor of Insurance Law at Drake University Law School. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of South Dakota and her Juris Doctorate from Drake University Law School.
Shannon Goggin
CEO & Co-Founder
Noyo Technologies
Shannon Goggin is the CEO and co-founder of Noyo, a software company building infrastructure for modern health insurance distribution. Noyo's platform makes it easy for insurance companies, brokers, and distribution platforms to safely and efficiently share information. Before starting Noyo, she built product at Zenefits, where she saw the powerful role insurance plays in increasing access to healthcare.
Anna Gomez
Partner and Co-Chair, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Practice Group
Wiley Rein LLP
Anna Gomez, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the US Department of Commerce, specializes in regulatory, policy and transactional matters related to domestic and international telecommunications and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as a partner at Wiley Rein LLP. Based in Washington, DC, Gomez is co-chair of Wiley Rein's UAS Practice Group, where she counsels on and analyzes US and international regulation governing UAS. A graduate of The George Washington University Law School, Gomez earned a BA cum laude from Pennsylvania State University.
Michael Grabowski
Sales Engineer
Trusted advisor with a demonstrated history of partnering with insurance carriers to develop transformative software strategies and long-term visions using in-depth industry knowledge, cutting-edge technology and an understanding of industry trends.
Demetrius Gray
CEO & Co-Founder
Demetrius Gray is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of WeatherCheck. He is a 31 year old third-generation entrepreneur and Kentucky native. He started WeatherCheck after experience in the finance, roofing, and disaster restoration industries helped him realize that key processes were ripe for disruption and automation. Demetrius is a futurist, and frequently speaks publicly on topics including challenging conventional wisdom, the touchless claim, and redefining the first notice of loss. He is deeply involved in insurtech and startup communities nationally he espouses radical transparency and trying to be a good dude.
Maurice Greenberg
Chairman & CEO
Starr Insurance Companies
MAURICE R. GREENBERG is Chairman of Starr Companies, a global insurance and investment organization founded by Cornelius Vander Starr in 1919 in Shanghai, China. Mr. Greenberg retired as Chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), a former Starr subsidiary, which became the first fully licensed foreign insurance company in China. Under his nearly 40 years of leadership, AIG grew from an initial market value of $300 million to $180 billion, becoming the largest insurance company in the world.
Mr. Greenberg is also the chairman of The Starr Foundation, a philanthropic organization initially funded by Cornelius Vander Starr's estate. Under his leadership, the Starr Foundation has grown to become one of the largest private foundations in the United States. The Foundation has made more than $3.5 billion in grants worldwide to many academic, medical, cultural and public policy organizations around the world.
Among his numerous awards and appointments, Mr. Greenberg serves as Vice Chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, Honorary Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a member of the Board of the US-China Business Council. In 1990, he was appointed by Zhu Rongji as Shanghai's first Chairman of the International Business Leaders' Advisory Council (IBLAC). Greenberg has been named an honorary citizen of Shanghai and was appointed as a Senior Economic Advisor to the Beijing Municipal Government.
In 2018, Greenberg was awarded the China Reform Friendship Medal for helping to open up China's economy to the world.
Under Mr. Greenberg's leadership, Starr has invested more than $1 billion in China since 2005. Starr led the IPO for the People's Insurance Company of China (PICC), and acquired Dazhong Insurance, the first privatization of a state-owned insurance company.
Joe Griffin
Sr. Director, Customer Success
Octo Telematics
Joe Griffin is the Senior Director of Customer Success at Octo Telematics. He oversees customer management for all clients across the Americas, including clients that are members of the DriveAbility® program, Octo's proprietary end-to-end telematics rating solution. Joe has implemented telematics solutions for over twenty companies and has deep expertise in telematics-based scoring. As an actuary, Joe also has experience in predictive modeling, territory analysis and vehicle symbol development for personal lines insurers.
Tony Grosso
VP Product Marketing & Industry Strategy
EIS Group
Tony Grosso is VP Product Marketing & Industry Strategy, EIS Group and has over 20 years' experience leading innovation, business development and product management for insurance carriers, financial services and software companies. Having been at EIS Group for five years, Tony has served in a multifaceted role from product management to enterprise sales, leading the company's transformation into Group and Worksite insurance markets. Previously, he worked in the innovation group at Hartford Insurance. Speaking on Monday's "Insurtech Meets Coretech" panel.
Sean Grygiel
Sean's practice focuses on counseling companies on all aspects of technology and intellectual property (IP) commercialization, including product development and IP procurement, protection, valuation, licensing and enforcement, through exit. Sean has more than 17 years of experience representing emerging and high-growth companies in the life sciences, medtech, fintech, foodtech, software, SaaS, and information technology sectors. As a co-founder and former chief operating officer of a wireless technology startup focused on mobile content delivery, Sean shares his clients' entrepreneurial and business-focused mindset. Not only has he helped many businesses bring early stage technologies and products to market, but he also serves as outside general counsel to various companies.
Daniel Guasco
Matt Gunter
SelectQuote Auto & Home
McKeel Hagerty
Hagerty Group
McKeel Hagerty began playing with cars as a boy and hasn't stopped since, turning his parent's small local insurance agency into the world's largest provider of specialty insurance and automotive media for people who love cool cars. McKeel is a former chairman of YPO (2016-2017), the premier global leadership organization for more than 27,000 chief executives in over 130 countries. He is distilling his experiences with YPO and his lifelong study of leadership into his first book, "Boundless," which will be published by ForbesBooks in 2020. McKeel is also a Co-Founder and General Partner for Grand Ventures, which invests in innovative emerging technologies for Midwest industries.
Liri Halperin Segal
CEO & Founder
Liri is a serial entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of LeO – A leading conversational AI platform designed specifically for the insurance industry. LeO supports insurance agents and enterprises by utilizing a 24/7 chatbot, powered by AI to handle 80% of their customer service and sales needs, while efficiently cutting costs and increasing ROI.
Before LeO, Liri co-founded two successful start-ups and she's the co-founder of Parliament51, a social impact venture that aims to obtain equal opportunities for women in the workplace. Last winter, Liri was invited to speak about this topic at the UN.
Rebecca Harasymczuk
Product Management Leader, Claims Shared Economy Strategy, Design and Delivery
Rebecca Harasymczuk joined Allstate in 2010 as a National Catastrophe Property Adjuster and has since held numerous roles in technology and innovation for the claims organization. As a Claims Product Owner, Rebecca led large initiatives driving the augmentation and automation of claims processes. Currently Rebecca leads Product Strategy, Design and Delivery for Allstate's Shared Economy engagements, understanding and meeting the needs of this emerging marketplace. Rebecca has a Master's of Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.
Rand Harbert
EVP, Chief Agency, Sales & Marketing Officer
State Farm
Rand Harbert is executive vice president and chief agency, sales & marketing officer at State Farm. He has leadership responsibility for all sales and marketing functions, which includes 19,000 independent contractor agents.
Rand joined State Farm as an agent in 1992 and was appointed as an agency field executive in 1999. After serving in various leadership roles, he was named senior vice president in California in 2007, joined the Chairman's Council in 2011 and was appointed to his current role in 2013. A graduate of the University of Central Missouri, Rand earned an MBA from Webster University in 1988 and graduated from the General Management program at the Harvard Business School in 2001. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for The American College.
Rod Harden
Chief Claims Officer
Velocity Risk Underwriters
Rod Harden joined Velocity in January 2016 as the Chief Claims Officer, setting up the claims organization from inception. Prior to Velocity, Rod was Head of Catastrophe Claims with Farmers Insurance, where he began his career in 1993 holding various positions in all facets of claims handling, management and senior leadership. In addition, Rod spent 21 years in the U.S. Army as an Armor Officer. Rod holds a B.A. degree in History/Political Science from Arkansas Tech University.
Scott Heimes
Chief Marketing Officer
Scott Heimes is the Chief Marketing Officer at Zipwhip, a Seattle-based SaaS company, empowers companies to communicate with their customers in the most effective and preferred way possible – text messaging. Scott is responsible for driving Zipwhip's marketing program, guiding business development efforts and developing corporate growth strategies. Scott most recently served as CMO of SendGrid, a global digital communication platform, and has also held C-level positions at Digital River and WebMD. An avid outdoorsman, Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
John Hele
President & COO
Resolution Group Life Holdings Ltd.
John is the President and Chief Operating Officer of The Resolution Group. From 2012 to 2018, John was the Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President for MetLife Inc. He has held various senior positions in the insurance industry, including as Chief Financial Officer at ING Groep NV, The Netherlands, and Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer & Executive VP for Arch Capital Group Ltd, Bermuda. He spent a number of years at Merrill Lynch & Co. in Investment Banking, Financial Institutions Group. He is a Member of The American Academy of Actuaries, and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. John received a Bachelor of Math degree from The University of Waterloo.
Joshua Hershman
Deputy Commissioner
Connecticut Department of Insurance
Josh currently served as Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department. The Department is a close collaborator with Connecticut's vibrant InsurTech incubator community to support the Department's overall mission of consumer protection and inclusion in the insurance marketplace and industry.
Prior to joining the Connecticut Insurance Department, Josh worked as an attorney in private practice where he focused on business planning and business litigation. In 2018, he was Deputy Treasurer and campaign attorney for Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont's successful gubernatorial campaign.
Josh received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law and his B.A. from Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. Josh is a Fire Commissioner in his home town Guilford, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife and two young daughters.
Brian Hetherington
ABD Insurance & Financial Services
Brian is the Chairman of ABD, a specialty insurance and financial services firm serving global clients from their Northern California headquarters. Brian helped launch ABD in 2012 as CEO, and held executive roles at Wells Fargo Insurance and abd insurance previously. Brian is an avid technology fan, having run global sales teams at NightFire Software, N.E.T., and MCI Telecommunications. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Kellogg Graduate School of Business. He is a music nut, playing in several bands that allow keyboards and accordions.
Karim Hirji
SVP & Managing Director
Intact Ventures
As Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Intact Ventures, Karim Hirji is responsible for investing and partnering with companies that are redefining the property & casualty landscape with innovative business models and new technology. Previously, Karim held management positions in both personal and commercial lines underwriting, as well as finance at Intact Financial. Most recently, he was Regional Vice-President for Intact Insurance. Karim has an Executive MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance (Honours) from the University of British Columbia and is a Chartered Insurance Professional.
Dennis Ho
Co-Founder and CEO
Saturday Insurance
Dennis Ho is co-founder and chief executive of Saturday Insurance, a digital insurance advisor that helps people shop for income annuities, long-term-care insurance and other insurance products.
Prior to co-founding Saturday, Dennis spent 20 years in the insurance industry in a variety of roles at MetLife, Deutsche Bank, and BlackRock. Most recently, Dennis was CEO of Longitude RE, a startup reinsurer created by Willis Towers Watson and MassMutual. Dennis is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a CFA Charterholder. Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, Dennis now resides in New Jersey with his wife and three young kids.
Gary Hoberman
CEO & Founder
Gary Hoberman has 25 years' experience bringing transformative solutions to market for leading financial organizations. He is the inventor of eight patents, including Unqork, the first Do-it-Yourself Enterprise software platform, founded in 2017. Gary has grown Unqork to support 20 of the top global financial institutions, including leading financial services and insurance companies, and has secured funding from prominent investors including Goldman Sachs. Prior to Unqork, he was the Global CIO for MetLife, overseeing technology across 47 countries, managing a $1.2 billion budget and more than 10,000 resources and one of the youngest-ever Managing Directors at Citigroup.
James Hobson
Attune Insurance
James Hobson leads the Attune team on its mission to leverage technology to simplify and streamline the processes small businesses follow to get insurance. Prior to joining Attune, James was Chief Operating Officer of online lending company OnDeck. He helped steward OnDeck through an IPO in 2014 and launch OnDeck's landmark partnership with JP Morgan Chase in 2015. James' professional experiences also include time at iQuor and McKinsey. He also co-founded BuyYourFriendADrink.com, which was later acquired by LivingSocial.
Susan Holliday
Principal Insurance Specialist
Susan is part of the financial institutions group at IFC. She invests in insurance, both mature companies and earlier stage technology related to insurance, in developing countries. She has 30 years' experience in insurance in a variety of different roles and is the co-head of the Women and Insurance programme. Susan is a board member of IFC client, Coverfox, and an advisor to Eos Venture Fund. Prior to joining IFC, Susan worked at Swiss Re, where she was a Managing Director and Head of Strategy for the reinsurance business worldwide and a member of the executive team. In this capacity she worked on all aspects of life and health and property casualty re/insurance; headed a global team; and led the strategy work for emerging markets and for Fintech. Before Swiss Re, Susan worked in equity research and equity sales covering the insurance industry at UBS, JP Morgan and Paribas. Susan is a British national. She graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with a degree in modern history. In 2014, Susan completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. She is also an angel investor and advisor to several start-ups.
Mark Holweger
CEO & President
Legal & General America
Mark Holweger, President and CEO of Legal & General Insurance America, is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business, ensuring service excellence, continued distribution expansion and achievement of Legal & General's digital transformation strategy. Mark joined Legal & General in 2011 and moved to the US business in 2018. He is a director on the boards of Banner Life Insurance Company and William Penn Life Insurance Company of New York. Mark is an Economics Graduate and Chartered Insurer with nearly three decades of experience in the insurance industry and has a strong background with intermediary distribution platforms. Mark previously served as Managing Director, Partnerships for Legal & General Insurance in the UK. That distribution included Life Intermediaries, General Insurance Brokers, Banks, Building Societies and Affinities. He also served as Director of Broker and Intermediary for Legal & General's General Insurance business. Prior to joining L&G, Mark was co-founder of Coverwise.com, a P&C online international broker which now has more than one million customers. He has also held senior director roles at RSA Insurance Group in the UK, South America, Asia/Middle East, and Eastern Europe, at AXA Insurance UK and at Aviva. Mark and his wife Rachel, and dog Poppy, live in Potomac, MD.
Caribou Honig
Chairman & Co-Founder
Insuretech Connect
Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman & Co-Founder of the InsureTech Connect conference, the largest event of its type, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and innovation executives. He is also co-founder of the HR Transform conference, focused on the impact of technology on the workplace. He previously co-founded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children and two occasionally annoying dogs.
Rhian Horgan
CEO & Founder
Rhian Horgan is the Founder and CEO of Kindur, a new-kind of financial company on a mission to reimagine financial wellness for modern retirees. Kindur's platform offers tailored advice, ETFs and a fixed annuity to deliver a monthly paycheck to retirees. As a sole founder and minority in a male-dominated fintech space, Rhian raised 10 million dollars in Series A funding, including leading fintech and insurtech investors such as Anthemis Group, Point72 Ventures, Clocktower and Inspired Capital. Prior to founding Kindur, Rhian was a Managing Director at JP Morgan Asset Management where she worked for nearly twenty years. In this role, she built and lead the equity derivative and alternative investments business both in the US and internationally.
Christie Horvath
CEO & Founder
Christie Horvath is a dog-obsessed insurance nerd originally from Colorado. After spending over 6 years working with insurance companies at BlackRock, Christie went to Harvard to get her MBA. While in business school she learned the importance of having pet insurance after her dog at the time, Denver, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After months of costly diagnostic testing and vet visits, Christie realized that pet parents needed more help than the existing options offered. She founded Wagmo with the mission of making it easier and more affordable to be a great pet parent. Christie has a BA in Economics from Northwestern University, a masters in business from Harvard, and a new rescue pup named Aspen.
Toan Huynh
Venture Partner
Information Venture Partners
Toan Huynh is a Venture Partner for Information Venture Partners (informationvp.com), a Toronto-based venture fund with offices in New York focusing on early stage enterprise SaaS for financial services, B2B fintechs and insurtechs. Information VP collaborates with early stage companies to scale with strategic and human capital to achieve growth across North America. Prior to joining the fund, Toan was a co-founder of the global cloud advisory firm Cloud Sherpas, which was acquired by Accenture, where she led the Financial Services and Insurance digital practices. Toan is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for a global financial institution and a mentor for several insurtech incubators.
Yoshiaki Ieda
COO & Co-Founder
Cinnamon AI
Serial entrepreneur. 15 years of experience in Global Business and Entrepreneurship in Internet & FMCG industries including start-up experience. Previously, led global expansions of one of the billion-dollar Procter & Gamble brands in Singapore. Providing consulting services on New Business Creation and Product/Service Design by connecting true business needs and technical solutions.
Eduardo Iglesias
CEO & Co-Founder
Eduardo Iglesias is the Co-founder and CEO of eColón, the first 100% digital insurance Company in Argentina providing a totally new and online customer experience through the use of a Virtual Assistant. In addition, he is the managing partner of the Latin America Insurance Fund a corporate venture capital fund specialized in Insurtech startups. Mr. Iglesias is one of the pioneers of Insurtech in Latin America and he is Chair of the Harvard Entrepreneur Association for Argentina and member of its International Committee. In 2013 he founded Colon Compañía de Seguros in Argentina, that gained rapid growth and currently has 500.000 insureds. A Bachelor in Business Administration and obtained a Graduate Degree in Business at Harvard University.
Rotem Iram
CEO & Founder
Rotem Iram is the Co-Founder and CEO of cyber insurance company At-Bay, building commercial insurance for the digital age. With nearly two decades of security experience, Rotem previously served as a Managing Director in the Cyber Security practice of K2 Intelligence. Rotem began his career as a Captain in Israel's elite Intelligence Unit 8200, and also served as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Rotem holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Arun Iyer
CEO & Co-Founder
Alpha Direct
Arun's entrepreneurial journey started at the age of 14 when he founded Virtual Internet Africa in his parent's garage, and continued when he established Astutant Group in the State of Florida that served over 3,000 clients across the state in taxation, accounting and estate planning. In addition to being the founder and Chief Executive of Alpha Direct Insurance, Arun also serves on the Board of Directors of Flo-Tek Industries, one of the largest plastic pipe and tank manufacturers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and exclusive regional licensee of Lubrizol®. Arun has a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of Botswana, a Master of Science (Accounting) degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Global Management Accountant.
Kurt Jackson
VP, North America
With over 20 years' leadership experience in technology, Kurt Jackson is responsible for ensuring FRISS' success as a market leader in North America. In his previous roles at IBM, Group 1, Pitney Bowes and GhostDraft, Kurt successfully established and scaled business units, bringing innovative technology to market. Now at FRISS, Kurt continues to help insurers leverage the newest technologies to mitigate risk and prevent fraud. When he's not helping make insurance more honest, Kurt loves spending time with his college sweetheart-turned-wife and their two children.
Tony Jacob
Worldwide Financial Services Business and Market Development - Insurance
Tony leads Amazon Web Services' (AWS) worldwide business and market development efforts for the insurance segment of the Financial Services industry. In this role, Tony is responsible for leading the development and execution of AWS' strategic initiatives in the life and non-life insurance industries, in reinsurance, and in AWS' work with large brokers. Tony has close to 20 years' experience with software and solutions in the financial services industry. Prior to working at AWS, Tony was the managing director of Microsoft's worldwide insurance industry team, and also led the team's efforts working with insurance core systems providers. During his time leading the insurance team, he helped guide the transition from on-premise software to cloud-based software, resulting in greater than 240 percent year-over-year cloud growth in insurance vs. 61 percent cloud growth across the company in fiscal year 2017. Before working in the software industry, Tony served as a senior business development executive supporting NASA and Lockheed Martin, including a join government-industry program to develop a next-generation space shuttle. Tony also served as an on-air commentator for NASA television during coverage of three space shuttle science missions. Tony holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Alaska, and an MBA from City University in Seattle, Wash.
Olivier Jaillon
Chief Enablement Officer
La Parisienne Assurances
Olivier Jaillon is the Chief Enablement Officer of La Parisienne Assurances, a full digital player, designing P&C white-label traditional and non-traditional insurance solutions across 15 countries in Europe. Olivier is a true high-tech serial entrepreneur: in 1998 he created his own brokerage company, Protegys Group, and the following year launched Assurdiscount.com, the first online insurance site in France. In 2000, he bought La Parisienne Assurances, and in 2003, he created another company to distribute and manage Protegys Group's contracts and claims, Protegys Courtage. In 2011, he raised 40 million to develop Zags, a software company specializing in full digital back office tools for P&C insurers and set up its headquarters in the USA. Thanks to his various entrepreneurial experiences, Olivier completely rethought the strategy of his Protegys group in 1995, withdrawing from the brokerage business, and refocusing La Parisienne Assurances on innovative insurance products design. In less than 3 years he transformed La Parisienne into a true European Insurtech, agile and fully digital, with a turnover that has since multiplied by 3 to reach €311 million in 2018. Olivier is a graduate of EM Lyon school, and also has a Master's degree from Bocconi School in International Economics and Management. In 2018 he completed the Leadership and Organizational Change Program at INSEAD.
Raution Jaiswal
CEO & Co-Founder
Raution is the Co-founder and CEO of InsuredMine, an Insurtech startup focused on redefining user experience for Agents & Insured by power boosting any Agency Management System, by adding the last mile connectivity to increase customer retention, cross sales and up sales. Prior to co-finding InsuredMine, Raution successfully started two other startups providing consulting services and software development. Raution spent 15 years in the corporate sector as a Finance and Technology consultant strategizing and implementing large scale enterprise solutions with later years in Corporate M&A. Raution's obsession is customer/user experience; that is well evident with the highly adopted design and development of InsuredMine tools. He draws his inspiration from the likes of Steve Jobs and believes that each action should be max 3 clicks away in App or Agency Portal. He has a very compelling story to share about how he brought the InsuredMine team together and built the ultimate platform for customer experience. Raution lives in Plano, Texas with his family and enjoys coaching his 6-year-old son for chess championships.
Mee-Jung Jang
Managing Director
Mee-Jung Jang is the Managing Director of the MetLife Digital Accelerator, powered by Techstars. As managing director, she is responsible for selecting insurtech startups and helping them succeed, including through pilot opportunities with MetLife. Prior to Techstars, Mee-Jung was the co-founder and managing director of Jefferson Investors, a seed stage fund investing across a variety of industries. She is also a fellow of the Kauffman Fellows Program, a highly selective fellowship and community for venture capitalists. As the founder and CEO of her own failed startup, she is acutely aware of the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Mee-Jung has also worked as a quantitative hedge fund analyst at Geode Capital Management with $300B AUM and as a corporate intellectual property attorney at Cleary Gottlieb. She is the author of the book Harvard vs. Seoul National University that went viral in South Korea in 2005. Mee-Jung has a B.A. in computer science and economics from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale.
Jeremy Jawish
CEO & Co-Founder
Shift Technology
Shift Technology CEO and Co-founder Jeremy Jawish became acutely aware that fraud detection was one area of the insurance industry that was ripe for disruption while working with a leading global insurance company. There, the seed was planted related to how artificial intelligence and advanced data science could be used to better detect fraud in the insurance claims process, leading to even greater claims automation and ultimately customer satisfaction. Jawish, along with co founders Eric Sibony and David Durrleman transformed the idea into reality and now insurers around the world trust Shift's AI-native solutions to help them solve some of their biggest challenges.
Walter Jin
Walter Jin is the Chairman & CEO of Pager, a leading digital health technology and solutions company that connects consumers to the experts that need to make smarter healthcare decisions. Mr. Jin has 25 years of investment and operational experience in healthcare across 30+ companies representing over $5 billion in value creation. Mr. Jin is the co-founder of Three Fields Capital and Pacific Healthcare Management, which act as the investment arm and operating company that manages a portfolio of growth equity and venture capital healthcare investments. Previously, Jin was the co- head of the healthcare group at The Carlyle Group, a healthcare portfolio manager at SAC Capital and an investment banker at Salomon Brothers. Jin is a graduate of Harvard University with a magna cum laude degree in Economics. Mr. Jin currently serves as an executive in residence, advisor and board member to Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Armstrong Institute and also serves as an Innovation Fellows Technical Advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Luke Johnson
CEO & Founder
Neat Capital
Luke B. Johnson is founder and CEO of Neat Capital, a fintech developing an end-to-end home selling, buying, and financing platform designed to make all transactions as frictionless as cash. Luke has extensive experience in real estate, finance, and corporate development. Luke's subject matter expertise in lending was developed delivering advisory services and operating reviews of the largest lenders, servicers, and issuers in the nation.
Adrian Jones
Deputy CEO of P&C Partners
SCOR Global P&C
Adrian Jones leads SCOR's P&C Ventures & Strategic Partnerships activity, which he initiated in 2017. SCOR is the fifth-largest reinsurer and operates in 160 countries. SCOR P&C Ventures forms long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs to develop winning technology-driven insurers, distributors, and risk management solutions. Adrian previously led strategy at SCOR Global P&C and RenaissanceRe. He started his career at Bain & Co. Adrian is a Director of States Title, Inc. and B3i Services AG. He has an MBA from Columbia and a Bachelor's degree from Wharton, with concentrations in finance and real estate.
Tadas Jucikas
CEO & Founder
Genus AI
Dr. Tadas Jucikas is a Founder and CEO of Genus AI, a worlds first Enterprise AI platform for emotional intelligence at scale. Genus AI works with companies in financial services, insurance, D2C and subscription space bringing out-of-the-box cognitive capabilities for leveraging customer data and creating superior customer experience. Tadas has completed his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He has pioneered applications of Artificial Intelligence in customer behavior modelling and emotionally intelligent engagement across different sectors.
Vinod Kachroo
Chief Information Officer
Vinod Kachroo has 30 years' experience driving transformation at leading insurance companies like AIG, Prudential and MetLife. He's the visionary responsible for leading innovation at SE2, to develop a technology platform that's future-proofed. He's committed to generating growth and ensuring that all SE2 associates not only fulfill their potential but increase it exponentially. A sought-after speaker, author and futurist, Vinod is not only able to create a vision for innovation, he's able to take a complex idea all the way through planning and execution. Never satisfied with being a spectator, Vinod is an avid marathon runner. He pushes himself to see how fast and far he can go – rules he applies when he's revolutionizing technology at insurance companies.
Rohit Kapoor
Vice Chairman & CEO
Mr. Kapoor co-founded EXL in April 1999 and has served as the Vice-Chairman and CEO since 2012. Prior to his tenure as CEO, he has held various roles in EXL including CFO, President, and COO. A forward-thinking leader with expertise in identifying industry and market trends, Mr. Kapoor has a proven ability to see what's next. By dramatically scaling EXL's investment in areas such as advanced automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence, Mr. Kapoor has transformed EXL into a strategic digital transformation partner. His prescient strategic decisions have positioned EXL for explosive growth employing over 29,000 professionals serving clients across five continents. Mr. Kapoor is the Chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies ("NASSCOM") BPM Council. He serves on the Board of the America India Foundation (AIF), a non-profit organization and served on the Board of CA Technologies.
Sameer Karode
Vice President for Product Management
Sameer Karode is Vice President for Product Management at Majesco and leads the P&C Suite of products. Additionally, Sameer is the principal architect of the industry leading Majesco Billing solution. Over the past 21+ years at Majesco, Sameer has served in various roles including Project Management, Enterprise Solution Architect for large scale implementations and Enterprise Product Management. Prior to Insurance, Sameer helped develop and implement revenue accounting products for Airline Industry.
Dror Katzav
CEO & Co-Founder
Dror Katzav is the CEO and Co-Founder of Atidot, an insurance technology company working with life insurance providers to optimize their book of business. An experienced data scientist who has consulted for many Israeli startups, Dror holds an M.Sc in Management Sciences and Information Technology from Tel Aviv University. Prior to founding Atidot, Dror spent 11 years as an R&D project manager in a technological unit of the Intelligence Corps for the Israeli Army, and his love of data led to his decision to create Atidot.
Richard Kerr
Richard Kerr is Chairman and CEO of MarketScout, a Dallas, Texas-based MGA and electronic insurance exchange that presents pre-qualified Certified Market Specialists to its 40,000-member agency network across the US. Mr. Kerr is Founder of the Entrepreneurial Insurance Alliance (EIA), the Council for Insuring Private Clients (CIPC), and MarketScout InsurTech Ventures (MIT). He previously served as CEO of Lambert Fenchurch US Holdings, Chairman of Sedgwick Energy and was President of Sedgwick of Texas.
Richard is an Executive Council member of the Risk Management & Insurance Executive Council Advisory Board of the Florida State University College of Business and serves as a board member for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He is founder of the Kerr Educational Trust and HEROES, a support organization for soldiers returning from active duty.
Niels Keuker
Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer
iptiQ Americas
As CMO for iptiQ Americas, a new business unit within Swiss Re focusing on developing innovative insurance solutions for the Middle Market, Niels is responsible for overseeing all marketing, business development, account management and UX functions. Prior to moving to the US in 2016, Niels worked for Swiss Re in London as the Head of Business Development & Sales EMEA. Before joining Swiss Re, Niels worked in several executive roles for companies like Aviva, Delta Lloyd and ABN AMRO Insurance. In Netherlands, Niels' was CEO & founder of iZio insurance, a fully digital insurance company within Delta Lloyd Group.
Sean Kevelighan
CEO & Presi
Insurance Information Institute
Sean Kevelighan joined the Insurance Information Institute as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2016. Previously, he was Group Head of Public Affairs for Zurich Insurance Group where he oversaw Government and Industry Affairs as well as Corporate Responsibility. He joined Zurich in May 2013 as Head of Government and Industry Affairs for North America, with responsibility for driving the public policy agenda in the region. Prior to that, he worked at Citigroup, Inc., as Head of Strategic Communications for its Global Consumer Banking business, and for Zurich, as Head of Group Media Relations in North America. He has served in various public sector posts in Washington, D.C. As a political appointee in the administration of President George W. Bush, he served first in the Department of Treasury as a spokesperson for economic issues, and eventually became Senior Advisor for the Office of Tax Policy. He was also the Press Secretary for the White House Office of Management and Budget. Additionally, he worked on Capitol Hill, serving on the staff of members of Congress; most notably as Legislative Director for Representative Bob Schaffer of Colorado. Sean's private sector experience in Washington, D.C. included positions at public affairs firms such as Edelman and Hill & Knowlton. He advised numerous multinational and FORTUNE 100 corporate clients on policy issue management programs, corporate reputation campaigns and crisis communications. Sean is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. He and his wife Annik have three children. He is an avid enthusiast of exercise and outdoors, participating regularly in triathlons and other sporting events.
Ryan Kim
Ryan Kim is CEO of Phyn, the company bringing intelligent water solutions to market that help people protect their homes, conserve water and save money. Prior to Phyn, Ryan served as the vice president of engineering at Belkin, responsible for hardware, firmware, software, quality, and program management. During his tenure at Belkin, Ryan led the vision, architecture and development of the Wemo platform, one of the most recognized and widely adopted brands in the Smart Home category. He is also the author of dozens of patents in and around the IoT space.
Matthew Kirk
Chief Sales & Distribution Officer, Small Commercial
The Hartford
Matthew R. Kirk is the Chief Sales & Distribution Officer for Small Commercial. He leads the small commercial sales and distribution organization and is responsible for its sales performance and distribution strategy. He was appointed to this role in 2015. Kirk joined The Hartford in 2006, serving as the senior vice president and director of Government Affairs and leading the company's engagement with federal and state regulators. In 2012, he became senior vice president of Sales and Distribution for Commercial Markets.
Peggy Klingel
Claims Innovation
Ms. Klingel is a transformational sales and business development leader with a record of building market value. Peggy has over twenty years of successful leadership experience in sales, finance and operations. Whether challenged to launch a startup venture, facilitate an aggressive turnaround or accelerate expansion within a high-growth business unit, Peggy has delivered strong financial results. Peggy is currently with Allstate where she is leading startup engagement strategy and is supporting the Claims Innovation team developing strategic partnerships. Prior to Allstate Peggy led sales and business development initiatives for technology and services startups and turnaround companies in a variety of industries. Peggy is a C.P.A., holds an M.B.A. from Northern Illinois University as well as a Bachelor's of Accountancy from Marquette University. Peggy also holds Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) insurance designations.
Ed Leon Klinger
Ed is the CEO of Flock, a real-time underwriting platform that uses geospatial data such as location, hyperlocal weather, traffic conditions and population density to price and sell smart, episodic insurance products. Flock's 'pay-as-you-fly' insurance policies (underwritten by Allianz) now cover over 30% of the UK drone market. Ed's background is in academia; he obtained two Masters degrees from Oxford and Cambridge University at the Engineering and Business Schools, where he published research on the nature of real-time risks in an autonomous world.
Jacqueline Lesage Krause
Mananging Director
Munich Re Ventures
Jacqueline is the Managing Director of Munich Re Ventures, investing and partnering with innovative companies to develop growth opportunities for Munich Re, including its subsidiaries HSB and ERGO. Jacqueline serves on the board of directors of Trov and Augury, and is a board observer of Slice, Helium, and Forge Global. Jacqueline has 20+ years of experience creating the future in companies large and small, as a start-up founder, venture capital investor, corporate innovation leader, and management consultant. Previously, she was VP of Innovation & Corporate Venture Capital at The Hartford, where her team received Global Corporate Venturing's award for Best Practices in Financial Services for their unique approach to combining investing and incubation. She is an inventor on a number of patents related to new technologies and business models in insurance. Jacqueline holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.
Jack Kudale
CEO & Founder
Cowbell Cyber
Jack Kudale, a 25-year enterprise software veteran, founded Cowbell Cyber in 2019 with an aim to make enterprises more insurable in cyber liability. Previously, at CA Technologies for 16 years as an executive in charge of distribution for distributed software globally, he also led 3 venture-backed silicon valley cybersecurity and data analytics startups in various executive roles as CEO of Lacework, COO of Cavirin, and CRO of SnapLogic. He also served as board advisor to Redlock which was recently sold to Palo Alto networks for $173m. Jack is an avid student of emotional intelligence and serves as a governing board member of Brighter Children, a non-profit organization.
Tanja Kufner
MHP - a Porsche Company
Tanja Kufner is a Partner at dynamics, the innovation hub and startup matchmaker powered by the Porsche subsidiary MHP. With more than 20 years of experience in the startup and venture capital space, and having invested in over 100 companies to date, she was named one of the 50 most influential women in the startup and venture capital sector by EU-Startups in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Before founding dynamics, she was Managing Director of Startupbootcamp Berlin with a focus on Smart Transportation & Energy, where she guided companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Airbus, Cisco, here, Vinci, Kühne + Nagel, SBB, EnBW and DB on their innovation journey. Tanja Kufner holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Francisco.
Reichen Kuhl
Reichen Kuhl is a Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, a nine-year Air Force veteran, a flight instructor, an attorney member of the State Bar of California, a published author, and now the co-founder and CEO of LeaseLock, a company that is revolutionizing residential leasing across the U.S. LeaseLock uses insurance and technology to eliminate the single largest source of friction related to a residential lease transaction–security deposits, helping the multifamily industry convert more leases, drive more revenue, and eliminate rent payment loss, property damage liability, costs for physical damage, and other lease-end expenses.
Andy Kurtzig
Andy Kurtzig is the founder and CEO of JustAnswer, a website that leverages AI to connect people with verified experts who can answer their questions. According to the Voice Report, JustAnswer's chatbot is one of the highest-volume and most monetized chatbots in the world. Prior to JustAnswer, Kurtzig founded and later sold eBenefits, a cloud-based Human Resources application. Before that, Kurtzig developed and sold ANSER, a software program for the newspaper industry. Kurtzig has been recognized as "One of the Bay Area's Most Admired CEOs" by the San Francisco Business Times and one of Goldman Sachs "Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs."
Michael LaRocco
CEO & President
State Auto Insurance Companies
Mike LaRocco has extensive experience in the property and casualty insurance industry and shares State Auto's deep and longstanding commitment to the independent agency system. During his more than 35 years in the industry, he's led large national carriers and formed a technology startup. His insurance career began with management and executive roles at Progressive and GEICO. He joined Safeco Insurance Companies in 2001 to lead their personal lines business and was later named president and COO. In 2008, he was named president and CEO of Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. LaRocco most recently served as president and CEO of AssureStart, a Seattle-based technology startup selling general liability and property insurance to small businesses online. He joined State Auto in April 2015. Mike received an undergraduate degree in marketing from The Ohio State University and an MBA from The University of Tampa. He and his wife, Ann-Birgitte, have two daughters and live in Columbus.
Vincenzo La Ruffa
Aquiline Capital Partners
Vincenzo is a Partner and Head of Financial Technology at Aquiline Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in New York and London focused on investing in financial services. Vincenzo serves on the firm's commitment committee and the investment committee of Aquiline Technology Growth. Prior to joining Aquiline in 2014, he was Managing Director of Susquehanna Growth Equity, a private equity group he co-founded that focuses on financial technology and software. He earned degrees in classics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeffrey Lee
VP, Senior Pricing Actuary, Actuarial & Data Science
Swiss Re
Passion for telling a story with data to help us make better decisions. Experienced in providing insights to cross-functional teams that drives collaboration and inclusion.
Claudius Leibfritz
Member of the Board of Management & CEO Allianz Automotive
Allianz Partners
Claudius Leibfritz is the CEO of Allianz Automotive and thereby responsible for the global automotive business of Allianz. In addition, he is a member of the Management Board of Allianz Partners. Prior to this, Claudius was managing several regional groups of Allianz. Before joining Allianz, he spent more than ten years at Boston Consulting Group conducting and heading various international projects. Claudius holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Berne in Switzerland and a Master's degree from Tuebingen University in Germany.
Nick Leimer
Principal Insurance Industry Lead
Nick Leimer is the Principal Insurance Industry Lead for Azure. Through a programmatic engagement, Mr. Leimer identifies, recruits, and grows Insurance partner offerings on the Azure cloud and in the Microsoft Marketplace across the insurance industry and for select scenarios. Nick brings 20+ years of experience bridging the business and IT gap in application development, operations, and infrastructure. Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Leimer was the Senior Director for Actuarial Compute at Manulife leading the migration of LAN based HPC Farms to the Azure environment for all of Asia; including all desktop Moody's / GGY Axis users and data feeds. Prior to Manulife, his career progressed through developing applications for Actuarial Valuation and Projection including components of ArcVal and Prophet, the Defined Benefit area with the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (BPGC), and leading life insurers, AIG and Manulife.
Andy Lerner
Manging Partner
IA Capital Group
Andy is the Managing Partner of IA Capital Group, a New York-based insurtech-focused venture capital firm. With seven current funds plus its fully-exited first fund, IA Capital is the longest-tenured and most experienced VC firm with a primary focus on insurtech. Director of Homeowners of America Insurance, SMArtX, Ceannate, Credibility Capital, SmartAsset, Wellthie, Crown Global Insurance, Credit Sesame, Boost Insurance, and Gainfully. BSE Princeton, MBA Wharton.
Scott Liles
Innovation Leader
Scott Liles is a senior leader with Nationwide's innovation team. He is currently launching a new, innovation-driven business focusing on industry disruption in Nationwide's traditional markets. This business is on-track for a Q4 2019 launch and will be unveiled at Insurtech. Previously, Scott was the President of Nationwide Pet Insurance, the number one provider of pet health insurance in the United States. Over 6+ years, he launched multiple new products and businesses in the pet insurance market, and pioneered pet insurance as an employee benefit. Under his leadership, the Pet business grew over 150%, increased profitability and re-established the business as the undisputed market leader in pet health insurance. Scott has held several strategy roles at Nationwide and senior strategy positions with McKinsey & Company and Accenture. Scott earned an MBA from the London Business School, a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Cape Town and an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M.
Jon Lincoln
Founder & Chief Product Strategist
Jon Lincoln began his InsurTech career in 2010 when he joined etfile, one of the insurance industry's leading providers of document management, as VP of Business Development. By 2015 a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship led him to the launch of Veruna, the only complete agency management system built on the Salesforce platform. Jon was named a "Top 10 InsurTech Leader of 2017" by ACORD and is focused on helping independent insurance agencies leverage new technology for growth. Veruna has since gained prominence in the insurance industry with recognition as the 2016 ACORD "Innovation of the Year"
Jennifer Linton
CEO & Founder
Fenris Digital
Jen is the Founder and CEO of Fenris Inc, a next gen platform of data and analytic services that re-purposes unique and proprietary data sets to improve insurance application, quoting, and underwriting processes. Her previous startup ventures include DriveFactor (now CCC Drive) and Elephant Auto Insurance, as Director of Marketing. Previously VP of New Markets for Allianz Worldwide Partners, Jen's experience with insurance large and small has given her an understanding of the status quo and current obstacles, and fed her need to question why and how it can be improved upon.
Johannes-Tobias Lorenz
Senior Partner
McKinsey & Company
Johannes leads McKinsey's work in digital insurance in Europe, working with global leading institutions to meet the challenges of the changing industry. His work comprises large-scale digitally enabled business model transformations, including digitizing the customer journey, developing and amplifying the customer-service experience, and building digital capabilities along the insurance value chain – for incumbents and insurtechs alike. Johannes also drives McKinsey's Digital QuotientTM solution in Europe, an assessment that allows organizations to clearly identify their digital strengths and weaknesses across different lines of business, and benchmark their scores against a global cohort.
Jim Lucas
Senior Vice President & Chief Actuary
AAA Life
Jim is Senior Vice President & Chief Actuary at AAA Life Insurance Company where he spent the last 20 years. He also has responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Predictive Analytics. His team is also responsible for evaluating, adopting and implementing new ways to transform the business with a particular emphasis on reimagining the risk selection process. He graduated from the University of Michigan and has one child.
Tom Lyons
COO, Direct Response Channel
Plymouth Rock Assurance
Tom Lyons is the Chief Operations Officer of the Direct Response Channel for the Plymouth Rock Management Company of New Jersey. He is responsible for all aspects of Plymouth Rock Assurance's auto direct‐to‐consumer marketing and sales efforts, marketing analytics activities, and inbound and outbound Sales Center operations. Before assuming his current position, Tom served as Plymouth Rock's Vice President of Direct Sales where he led the enterprise‐wide Sales Center and oversaw relationships with the company's alternate distribution partners.
Sean Madgett
Director, Business Development
New York Life Ventures
Sean leads NYL Ventures' Business Development Team. In this capacity, Sean and his team are responsible for sourcing strategically relevant startups for introduction, proof of concept testing, and partnership development with NYL's various operating units. Prior to joining NYL Ventures, Sean spent seven years with Eagle Strategies LLC, New York Life's wholly owned Registered Investment Advisor, where he held a variety of roles including Head of Operations & Service. Sean earned a BA in Economics from Emory University and is currently an MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School.
Alex Maffeo
CEO & Founder
Boost Insurance
Alex Maffeo is the CEO & Founder of Boost Insurance. Prior to founding Boost, Alex was a Principal at IA Capital Group – a leading fintech and insurtech-focused venture capital firm in New York City. Alex led insurtech investment efforts at IA and completed multiple portfolio company investments in the fintech and insurtech space including Marqeta, Snapsheet, Sure, Wellthie, SmartAsset, and Hamilton Insurance Group. Alex holds a BA from Columbia University.
Ed Majkowski
Americas Insurance Advisory Leader
Ed is a partner in EY's Financial Services Organization with more than 26 years of experience focused on diversified financial services organizations, with particular emphasis on global and national insurance enterprises. Ed is EY's Insurance Sector Leader for the Americas and is responsible for EY's advisory businesses, markets and clients in this region. He has been responsible to oversee and perform a wide range of services to global and national financial services organizations, business advisory, strategy, regulatory matters, internal control, finance improvement, risk mitigation and transactions. He has also served as the lead client service partner for some of our firm's largest insurance and financial services clients. Ed is a Board Member and Past President of the Society of Insurance Financial Management. He is a CPA, a member of the AICPA, and graduated from St. Peter's University.
Niki Manby
Chief Innovation Officer
Mutual of Omaha
Niki Manby is Chief Innovation Officer at Mutual of Omaha, and has over 15 years of global financial services experience. She was previously Chief Operating Officer of Citi Ventures, the corporate venturing and innovation group at Citi. She joined Citi from Visa Inc. where she held a range of leadership roles in emerging product, corporate strategy, and innovation based in San Francisco and Singapore. Manby has degrees from UCLA and Yale, where she serves on the Entrepreneurship Board.
Raja Manickavasagam
Product Owner - Business Process Automation
Hartford Steam Boiler
Raja Manickavasagam is part of HSB's CAD Digital Implementation Practice. Raja is a long-time partner to CAD and HSB Operations, most recently supporting the divisions as the IT Business Relationship Manager. He also has extensive experience in Business Process Automation and in fostering solid working relationships with the various HSB Business units.
Kirstin Marr
Valen Analytics
Kirstin Marr is President of Valen Analytics, directing all aspects of the company's daily operations. Prior to becoming president, Marr served as Valen's Chief Marketing Officer. For six years, she led market strategy, brand awareness, innovative thought leadership, and direct marketing. Her efforts established Valen as a pioneer in predictive analytics for insurers focused on improving performance and meeting customer demands for transparency, responsiveness and fairness in risk management and business operations. Marr earned her Masters of Arts, International Communication from the University of Denver, and her BA from California State University
Allison Martin
UDoTest is a software delivery platform designed to definitively identify risk while activating a personalized consumer screening experience at-home. UDoTest serves global insurers, laboratories and employers. In 2018 Allison served as one of two fellows at the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Innovation Lab in Washington DC where she was involved in transformational healthcare projects with payers. Several awards and recognition from companies like Genentech, Frost and Sullivan, Quest Diagnostics and Discovery Health / Vitality brought UDoTest to the U.S in 2017. In 2013, UDoTest introduced the first at-home test for women avoiding their Pap smears in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to UDoTest, Allison was the CEO of a successful technology company. In her career, Allison has also lead global telecommunications companies in Shanghai and Silicon Valley. Allison has been interviewed by news channels, by clinical cable TV networks, popular morning shows, radio personalities and has appeared in or been quoted in articles relating to disease prevention, HPV, access and UDoTest's dynamic platform.
Carsten Maschmeyer
Founding Partner
Maschmeyer Group Ventures
Carsten Maschmeyer is a German entrepreneur, investor, speaker, bestselling-author, and panel-member of the German TV-show equivalent of "Shark Tank". All of his investment activities are combined under the strategic umbrella of the Maschmeyer Group. With his venture capital fund ALSTIN, he invests in growth stage companies in AI, Blockchain, Cyber-security, InsureTech and IOT. His early stage fund seed&speed provides seed investments to startups with business models driven by software, technology, and often a B2C focus. With Paladin Asset Management he identifies undervalued publicly listed organisations. Carsten also invests in the US, Mexico and Israel through MGV | Maschmeyer Group Ventures. He is a father of two sons and married to the German actress Veronica Ferres.
Jeff Mason
Founder & Co-CEO
Groundspeed Analytics
Jeff Mason is the Founder and co-CEO of Groundspeed Analytics. Formed in early 2016, this innovative insurtech utilizes machine learning to transform unstructured commercial insurance documents like loss runs and exposure schedules into actionable intelligence. By making the process more accurate and efficient, insurance carriers and brokers now have a game-changing tool to advance their information advantage. Prior to Groundspeed, Jeff served as SVP and executive committee member of Chelsea Rhone, an insurance holding company where he led analytics, captive management and all innovation efforts. It was during this time Jeff first caught the entrepreneur bug and founded QAreader.com, an insurtech SaaS company and Evolucent, a risk management consultancy. Jeff learned to code while working at Nickelodeon Animation Studios, helping cartoons like SpongeBob SquarePants and CatDog take shape. (He swears that the cartoon characters created in Pasadena are nothing compared to the characters he's met in insurance.) Jeff holds an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Jonathan Matus
CEO & Founder
Jonathan Matus is founder and CEO of Zendrive, a mission-driven company, working to make roads safer with data and analytics. Powered by the world's largest data set of more than 180 billion mobile driving miles, Zendrive uses AI and machine learning to improve fleet safety and help insurers accelerate their digital transformation. Zendrive's patented algorithms and precise insights help fleets reduce collision risk by 49%, adding millions to their bottom line. World-class insurers rely on Zendrive to price risk in real-time, dramatically improving their combined ratios with cutting-edge offerings. Zendrive has 10's of millions of users and partners spread across every continent, including: GM OnStar, Verizon, Ford, Audi, BMW, Domino's, Grupo Sura, Progressive Insurance, AXA XL, and more. Prior to Zendrive, Jonathan spent six years at Facebook and Google, focused on various mobile and speech recognition projects. At Google, Jonathan was one of the early members of the Android team, helping to drive its growth to the best-selling mobile platform. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University with an Honors thesis on Artificial Intelligence. Jonathan lives in San Francisco.
Cheryl Matochik
SVP, Strategic Resources & Initiatives
The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB)
Cheryl Matochik is Senior Vice President of Strategic Resources & Initiatives at The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) in Washington D.C. Cheryl has been recognized throughout her 15-year career at CIAB for leveraging her in-depth knowledge of the global insurance marketplace and the U.S. policy/regulatory landscape to catalyze "out of the box" approaches to engaging and enhancing retail brokers understanding of insurtech, cyber risk and the changing world of employee benefits consulting and healthcare.
Rick McCathron
Chief Insurance Officer
Hippo Insurance
Rick brings over 25 years of P&C experience to his role as Hippo's Chief Insurance Officer. Rick is a Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter and a Certified Insurance Counselor and has held senior executive positions at well-respected insurance companies including First Connect Insurance as its President & CEO, Superior Access Insurance as its President & CEO and Mercury Insurance Group (NYSE-MCY) as its Regional Vice President. At Mercury, Rick had full P&L responsibility overseeing underwriting, claims, product, pricing and distribution for half of Mercury's operations geographically. At First Connect, Rick shifted the paradigm and brought to market a entirely new way of thinking about car insurance. Rick has a passion to modernize the insurance industry from underwriting, distribution, product design, to customer service and consumer expectations. Rick found the perfect fit at Hippo Insurance who is leading the way in modernizing homeowner's insurance.
Scott McConnell
Insurance Divisional President
NTT Data Services
Scott McConnell is president of NTT DATA Services' insurance business, part of NTT DATA, a top 10 global business and IT services provider. With more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, McConnell partners with clients to drive innovation and dramatic improvement in services to digitally transform their businesses. Through various roles and working with a wide variety of insurance clients, McConnell has expertise in business operations and technology to help drive business growth. Prior to joining NTT DATA Services, McConnell led the operations consulting practice for Cognizant and was responsible for creating process improvement through the application of lean technology interventions, such as robotics and machine learning. He has held various leadership roles with Genpact, Ernst & Young, EDS and IBM. McConnell earned his Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in industrial engineering from the University of Miami, as well as a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Christopher McDaniel
RiskStreamTM Collaborative
Christopher is President of The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative, an industry-led consortium collaborating to unlock the business potential of blockchain and other insurtech technologies across the insurance industry. He has more than 30 years' experience in the financial services industry, with varied projects and management roles including organizational transformation, process improvement, roadmap development, PMO and all facets of operations and technology. He also has extensive experience in the P&C, reinsurance, and life and annuity sectors. Christopher has a Bachelor of Sciences degree and Master of Business Administration from Keller Business School.
Jennifer McGinnis
InForce Portfolio Manager
Swiss Re
Jennie is Senior Vice President with Swiss Re in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As an In Force Portfolio Manager she has responsibilities for enhancing the value of the Americas Life & Health in force portfolio through the creation and delivery of solutions that meet clients' needs. Prior roles included responsibilities across the L&H reinsurance value chain, from costing through valuation. Jennie is the leader of the Society of Actuary's (SOA) In Force Management Subgroup. She is a past SOA Board Member, having had responsibilities for leadership development, professional development and strategy. Additional SOA volunteer roles have included work on sections, professional development, research, and participation in two Strategic Planning Task Forces. She also serves as a member of Portico Benefit Services' Board of Trustees. Jennie was named one of Intelligent Insurer's 35 Rising Stars of 2017 and was a recipient of a 2017 SOA Presidential Award. She earned her master's degree from the University of Iowa and her bachelor's degree from Ferris State University.
Maura McGuigan
Director, Criteria - Credit Rating Criteria Research & Analytics
AM Best
Maura McGuigan is a Director on the Credit Rating Criteria team at AM Best. In her role, Maura is responsible for the application, maintenance and review of Best's Credit Rating Methodology (BRM) and the related criteria procedures within rating analytics, as well as for the development of new criteria. Prior to joining AM Best in 2016, Maura spent over 25 years at various credit rating agencies. Maura was a Vice President/Senior Credit Officer in the Public Finance Housing Department at Moody's Investors Service for 13 years and she also worked at FitchRatings as a Senior Director for over 10 years managing the Public Finance Housing Group. In these roles Maura was responsible for rating activity and research on mortgage backed securities, as well as the development of housing related rating criteria. She also served as rating committee chair for various sectors within the public finance industry. Maura has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Delaware majoring in International Relations.
Mark McLaughlin
Global Insurance Director, Industry Academy Member
Mark McLaughlin is IBM's Global Insurance Director, leading IBM's Global Insurance strategy, solutions, and partnerships. Mark's teams analyze trends in the insurance business and in technology, predict strategies for insurers, and build IBM insurance solutions to meet insurer needs. Mark shares IBM's point-of-view on insurance with business leaders, regulators, and conference audiences worldwide. He is a 25-year veteran of the insurance industry.
Patrick McManamon
Cannasure Insurance Services
Patrick McManamon is a pioneer in the cannabis & hemp insurance industry. The founder and CEO of Cannasure Insurance Services, LLC (Cannasure), is a highly recognized insurance thought leader in all sectors of the cannabis & hemp industry. Patrick's expertise keeps him busy and sought after to speak at insurance and cannabis & hemp events, advisor to state regulators and frequently interviewed for his position or thoughts on industry trends by media outlets & publications. Prior to Cannasure, Patrick was the President of McManamon Insurance, third-generation insurance group located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he guided the growth of the company in the emerging markets. Patrick is a graduate of the University of Dayton with a degree in Political Science.
Chris McShea
McKinsey & Company
Chris McShea is a Partner in the Insurance Practice of McKinsey & Company. For more than 20 years, he has focused on helping clients innovate with advanced analytics. Working at the intersection of strategy and analytics, Chris has supported the development of pragmatic solutions that blend emerging capabilities with the realities of the client's competitive environment. Chris' assignments have spanned the entire value chain as well as industry ecosystems. Earlier in his career, Chris was a senior partner at E&Y and a partner at Deloitte & Touche, focused on analytics. Chris is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University.
Steven Mendel
CEO & Co-Founder
Bought By Many
Steven founded Bought By Many (www.boughtbymany.com) in 2012 to create better insurance for everyone and launched unique pet insurance offerings in 2017. Technology is at their core, from data analytics that informs policy design and pricing, to developing admin systems. Recognised as one of the UK's top Fintech companies, they have been included in The Sunday Times TechTrack for each of the last 3 years. Their customer rating is 4.8/5.0 and NPS Is consistently above 80. Steven is an actuary, previously ran Close Brothers Wealth Management, helped form Barclays Wealth and headed McKinsey's UK Savings and Investment Group.
Benoit Merel
La Parisienne Assurances
Benoit Merel, 37, began his career at the AXA Group in 2005, and joined AXA's Data Innovation Lab in 1996, as Head of Engineering to support the group's Big Data projects. In 2017 Benoit joined La Parisienne Assurances, as CIO and he launched its IT platform in 2018 allowing distributors to directly access La Parisienne's insurance solutions in the form of APIs and set up a private blockchain to automate contract and claims management for parametric products. In January 2019, he was appointed COO of La Parisienne Assurance and took over Contract & Claims Management and Transformation, in addition to his previous role. Benoit Merel holds a Master degree of Engineering from INSA de Toulouse, obtained in 2004.
Charles Merritt
CEO & Co-Founder
I've always lived to get dirty. Whether I'm mountain biking, backpacking, or just sitting by the James River, I love spending time outdoors. Professionally, I've worked in travel tech (KAYAK, Jetsetter.com), FinTech, and consulted for insurance carriers. I've also advised several startups, including serving as partner in an incubator backed by The Martin Agency. Locally, I co-founded RVA Rapid Transit, a non-profit that advocates for regional rapid transit in Metro Richmond. The best part of what we do at Buddy is definitely spending time with our partners and customers. Our goal is to help them fearlessly lead active, outdoor lives.
Rich Meszaros
Managing Director, Global Lead for Industry X.0 Digital Transactions
Rich leads Accenture's Digital Transactions practice, which helps clients design, enable and optimize transactional processes for highly connected systems and fully digital value chains. Over the last four years he has focused on the application of blockchain and distributed ledgers to design tomorrow's commerce experience across industries. Rich has over 20 years' experience managing consumer products for global marketplaces. He holds a bachelor's degree from Marquette University, an MBA from the Carlson School of Management, and is a graduate of the Consumer Bankers Association Graduate School of Retail Bank Management.
Roy Mill
VP Product
As the VP Product of At-Bay, Roy Mill determines how At-Bay's technology products solve the needs of its customers and the business. This includes At-Bay's Broker Platform, where brokers can get instant quotes and risk insights, our external API, the scanning and rating technologies, and our homegrown Policy Administration System, Athena, built to support At-Bay's holistic cyber insurance approach. Prior to At-Bay, Roy led the AncestryDNA's data platform as well as several family history products at Ancestry.com. He holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the Hebrew University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
Stuart Miller
Executive Chairman
Lennar Corporation
Stuart Miller serves as Executive Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Lennar Corporation. He was CEO from 1997 until 2018. He serves on numerous boards and committees including FivePoint Holdings and States Title Board of Directors. He is a Past Chairman of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies Policy Advisory Board. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami and the UHealth Board of Directors. He is the Co-Chairman of the Miami Dolphins Foundation. Stuart also joined the Board of Directors of Builder Homesite, Inc. He joined Lennar after graduating from the University of Miami Law School in 1982.
Pascal Millaire
Pascal Millaire is the CEO of CyberCube, an InsureTech firm dedicated to providing data-driven cyber underwriting and aggregation management analytics to the global insurance industry. The CyberCube platform was established in 2015 by Symantec to apply the cyber security company's unique sources of data to cyber insurance analytics and now operates as a standalone venture-backed company. Previously, Pascal was President of a hotel software company and spent 7 years at McKinsey where he served companies in the insurance industry. Pascal holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Karan Mishra
Karan Mishra is Co-founder of Spraoi (pronounced SPREE) to bring disruptive capabilities to Insurance consumers, agents and carriers through an engaging experience powered by machine learning. Prior to co-founding Spraoi, Karan served as the Systems Integration Leader for EY's Life and Annuities Advisory Services and held several roles in Deloitte's Insurance Consulting practice. Karan brings 13 years of experience in insurance technology consulting. His perspectives are borne from hands-on leadership of transformational global programs. He has developed implementable IT strategies for leading insurance. Speaking on Monday's "Insurtech Meets Coretech" panel.
Erik Mitisek
Erik Mitisek is an innovative change maker and the President of Imagine Analytics, the first open data platform for commercial insurance. With over 20 years experience leading companies from inception to market differentiating products, Erik knows connected data has the power to create massive value for insurance. An experienced Founder and CEO, Erik has led the development of the business, strategy, fundraising, and product for high-growth companies in the music, real estate, financial services, and online travel industries. After several years incubating in one of the top 10 brokerages, he brings his penchant for innovative product to insurance with Imagine.
Keith Moore
CEO & Chairman
CoverHound & CyberPolicy
Keith Moore is CEO of San Francisco-based CoverHound, a recognized insurance technology leader in both Personal and Commercial P&C Insurance. In 2016, Keith founded CyberPolicy, which leverages CoverHound's leading digital distribution platform as a 'trusted advisor for curated choice' to bring industry-first Cybersecurity + Cyber Insurance options to the US online. Keith has over 20 years of successful digital product and marketing innovation experience, most notably as GM and SVP at LendingTree [NASDAQ: TREE] and IAC [NASDAQ: IAC]. In just the past four years, Keith has raised over $105 million in new capital for CoverHound and CyberPolicy.
Carlos Mostek
Senior Solutions Architect
Carlos Mostek is a Principal Solution Architect for Auth0. Carlos has more than 19 years experience working in software development and security. He loves challenging problems and enjoys "dealing with" the complexities of identity management. Previous to his time at Auth0, he held engineering and leadership roles at Cray, Thomson Reuters, and BAE Systems.
Bin Mu
Chief Analytics Officer
Brighthouse Financial
Bin Mu is the Chief Analytics Officer at Brighthouse Financial (Established by Metlife). He has been in the data and analytics field for more than 25 years, and have held numerous executive positions across different industries, including MetLife, Cigna, Deloitte, and Limited Brands. Bin Mu is also a competitive marathoner and triathlete.
Tim Murray
Head of Claims Shared Services
Farmers Insurance
Tim Murray is the Head of Claims Shared Services for Farmers Insurance® and has been in the position since 2018. Murray has served in a number of Claims related roles over the years and has more than 18 years of experience in the insurance industry. As the Head of Claims Shared Services for Farmers, Murray is responsible for leading the business units that provide services to the Claims organization and its customers, including the Claims Contact Centers, Claims Support Services, the National Document Center, Special Investigations Unit, Strategic Initiatives, Subrogation and the Claims training component of the University of Farmers®.
Carey Anne Nadeau
CEO & Founder
Carey Anne Nadeau is a MIT-trained entrepreneur, focused on modernizing the measurement of risk. Formerly a Researcher at the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute, Carey Anne went on to found ODN (ODNsure.com), which uses location-based driving data and open data to predict where car crashes are likely and help auto insurance carriers and city Vision Zero Initiatives prevent crashes and save lives. She is the podcast host of the Golfcour.se a modern forum for business conversations in insurance, distributed by Insurance Nerds.
Loren Nickel
Director, Business Risk & Insurance
Loren Nickel is a director at Google and heads the business risk and insurance team which is responsible for all Alphabet companies. Loren's team provides risk advisory, captive management, insurance placement, and analytical support to Alphabet. He joined Google/Alphabet in April 2015. Loren has twenty-three years of experience in the risk and insurance industry, including fifteen years as an actuary and four years as an underwriting manager with Aon and Allianz. He has been called on to explain in-depth actuarial, risk management, and underwriting concepts to a variety of audiences around the globe including CEO's, CFO's, Executive/Managing Directors and Risk Managers. He is a six year past-President of the Casualty Actuaries of the Bay Area and is on the advisory board for the UC Santa Barbara actuarial program, George Mason University Chief Risk Officer Advisory Council and the Insurance Thought Leadership corporation. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and Charterholder of the CFA Institute. Loren is a 2011 Business Insurance – Innovation of the Year Award Recipient and in 2017 he was named the Risk Manager of the Year by RIMS.
Alex Niehenke
Scale Venture Partners
Alex has over a decade of experience in advising and investing in early and growth stage software startups. At ScaleVP, Alex focuses on opportunities in business software (marketing, sales, HR, finance) and vertical software (financial services, commerce, etc). He is a Board Director at KeepTruckin and a Board Observer at Root Insurance, DroneDeploy, and Forter.Prior to joining ScaleVP in 2013, Alex was at Crosslink Capital where he worked on investments in Bleacher Report (acquired by Turner) and Flurry (acquired by Yahoo). Prior to Crosslink, Alex was at investment bank Montgomery & Co. providing advisory services to Internet and software clients. Some of his clients included Club Penguin, MySpace, and LegalZoom.Alex holds a BS in Business Administration and a BA in Legal Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco and can be found in a body of water most weekends, whether pool, ocean, lake, or bay.
Pradnya Nimkar
Data Scientist & Actuary
CLARA analytics
Pradnya Nimkar, Data Scientist & Actuary, CLARA analytics
• MS, Statistics, California State University
• MSc, Statistics, University of Mumbai
• Eight years of experience in Property and Casualty insurance analytics
• Member, Actuarial Science Advisory Board at the University of the Pacific
Trevor Nohe
Inside Ventures
Trevor is the President of Inside Ventures, a technology-enabled marketing company that helps large brands acquire new customers through online marketing and inside sales. We generate clicks, calls, and leads with a focus on the consumer insurance industries. Prior to Inside Ventures, Trevor worked at Deloitte Consulting and Five Elms Capital. Trevor received an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Finance and Marketing from the University of Kansas.
Jordan Nof
Managing Partner and the Head of Investments
Tusk Venture Partners
Jordan Nof is a Managing Partner and the Head of Investments at Tusk Venture Partners, where he oversees all aspects of the firm's venture capital investment practice and is a member of the Investment Committee. Jordan manages Tusk Venture Partners LP and has led many of the Fund's capital investments including Lemonade, Bird, Alma, and Sunday. He currently serves on the board of directors of Alma and Sunday. Prior to Tusk Venture Partners, Jordan spent six years as a Director at Blackstone, where he focused on the development of the firm's corporate venture capital portfolio.
Siobhan O'Brien
Head of Cyber Centre of Excellence for International and Global Specialties
Guy Carpenter
Based in London, Ms. O'Brien leads the Cyber Centre of Excellence for International and Global Specialties, working with the client teams to support all strategy, product development, education and emerging risk issues for cyber internationally.
Ms. O'Brien has a deep background in the financial services and cyber sectors which she draws upon to support the development of innovative strategies and products as cyber risks continue to emerge and new solutions are required to address these.
In October of 2018, Ms. O'Brien joined Guy Carpenter from Marsh where she held numerous senior positions, including: National Placement and Advisory Head for Financial Institutions for Marsh FINPRO New York; Head of the Marsh London Financial Services team; Client Service Director for Marsh FINPRO London and most recently Marsh UK Cyber Placement Leader and Product Development Team Leader. Her time in New York coincided with the Global Financial Crisis and she worked with a number of the largest banks in the US through acquisition, divestiture, bankruptcy and regulatory seizure.
Bob Olson
CIO for Reinsurance Solutions
Bob Olson is the CIO for Reinsurance Solutions at Aon. He is responsible for technology strategy, architecture, product roadmaps and delivery with a focus on how to drive innovation, transformation, and growth. This includes areas such as digital trading, e-commerce, data, and operational productivity. Bob has been the architect of a global application rationalization strategy that has reduced technology run rate spend by 70% and pivoted investments to strategic areas that have helped support 30+ consecutive quarters of net new growth in treaty reinsurance and made it easier for colleagues to bring the best of Aon to its clients.
David O'Malley
Octo Telematics
David O'Malley – David T. O'Malley is a Global Enterprise Technology Executive with a career spanning twenty-nine years of experience across large and small, domestic and global, public and private, pre-IPO and start up environments. A hallmark of his career is creating value through organizational transformations, scaling growth opportunities, managing global business relationships, developing strategic partnerships, creating high performance teams, balancing top line revenue, long term EBITDA and shareholder value. One of the key elements to his leadership is thoughtful use of strategic human capital, motivating very senior teams to deliver on expectations regardless of market climate.
Tatyana Orozco
CAO - Chief Administrative Offices
Grupo SURA
Economist from Universidad de Los Andes with a diploma in Marketing from Universidad del Norte and a M.Sc Development Management from the London School of Economics. Currently, I am the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of Grupo SURA, and, as such, I am also de CRO of the holding company. I have served in the National Government of Colombia as Secretary of National Planning, Secretary for Social Prosperity and Deputy Secretary of Tourism. I was also the Executive Director of the Fundación Probarranquilla (Investment Promotion Agency of Barranquilla) and the Port Association of Barranquilla, as well as an economic researcher at Fundesarrollo, a think tank for the Caribbean Region of Colombia. I have been a member of various Boards of Directors both in the public and private sector in the areas of finance, oil and gas, energy, and social non-governmental organizations.
Ed Ossie
Ed Ossie serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Majesco since January 2015. In this role he is responsible for driving the company's growth strategy, key operational initiatives and corporate development. Ed has over 25 years of international experience serving high-growth technology companies, spending the last 20 years in chief operating and chief executive roles. Prior to joining Majesco, Ed was Vice President and Director at Corum Group, a Global M&A Advisory firm focused on the Technology segment. In this role he advised a number of high-growth technology teams on how they might win, shape and scale their operations to create impact and options for their future. During this same time period he also served on the Majesco Executive Advisory Board. Before Corum Group, Ed served in a variety of roles at Innovation Group PLC from 2001-2010 such as Group President, Chief Operating Officer Technology and Executive Director. Prior to 2001, along with his investment partner the Halifax Capital Group he led the sale of MTW Corporation to Innovation Group as MTW CEO. Earlier in his career he spent several years at Texas Instruments and was Division Manager and Vice President for the Software Group, which grew from start-up to 1300 people in 5 years. Ed graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Missouri State University and attended select Executive Programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business, such as the Executive Program for Growing Companies and the 2011 Directors Consortium.
Nicholas Ott
VP, Marine
Liberty Mutual
Nick Ott is the Vice President of Marine for Liberty Mutual where he has led the advancement of digitizing the underwriting environment for marine insurance. Liberty Mutual is a global leader for marine insurance and prides itself on customized products and innovation related to the ever-evolving needs of its customers. Nick has been at the forefront of driving these innovative products and solutions and is passionately dedicated to identifying emerging technologies that will advance the efficiency and accuracy of underwriting marine exposures. Nick graduated with a BS in Global Logistics and International Business from the California Maritime Academy.
Zac Overbay
Chief Opperating Officer
Woodruff Sawyer
Zac Overbay is the Chief Operating Officer at Woodruff Sawyer, one of the largest independently owned insurance brokerage and risk consulting firms in the U.S. He spends much of his time thinking about technology and innovation to shape the customer and employee experience for Woodruff Sawyer. He believes advancements in data & analytics, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology will drive the future of brokerage operations and risk decision-making. Zac holds a Bachelor's degree in economics, MBA concentrated in information systems, and the CPCU, RPLU, RIMS Fellow, and ARM designations.
Eugenio Pace
Pace co-founded Auth0 in early 2013 with CTO and "brother-in-arms" Matias Woloski while living 7,000 miles apart from each other. Since then, Pace has played an instrumental role in growing Auth0 into a leading identity management company that is loved by developers and trusted by global enterprises. With more than 5,500 customers spanning 70 countries, and securing 2.5 billion logins per month, Auth0 is a trusted global brand that is relied upon for making identity simple and protecting the data of its customers and their users. Pace has spent his entire professional career easing the developer journey by creating industry-standard tools, content, and services for cloud-based computing, mobility, and identity. Prior to Auth0, he spent more than a decade at Microsoft, leading product management and engineering teams that provided architecture guidance and services that increased developer joy.
Siva Pallai
VP and Client Partner
Michael Park
Chief Product & Marketing Officer
Michael Park joined EagleView as the Chief Product and Marketing Officer in January 2019. In this position, he oversees all Product and Marketing teams to accelerate growth and innovation, leading the company towards computer vision and SaaS solutions. Prior to his role at EagleView, Michael served as the General Manager and Global Head of Emerging Compute Solutions at HP Inc., and was formerly the Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools Division at Microsoft Corporation.
Sean Park
Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer
Anthemis Group
Sean is Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Anthemis. He combines a powerful mix of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate experience and is widely recognized as a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services, informed by his many years as a senior executive in capital markets and investment banking. He is the author of The Park Paradigm, and serves as a non-executive director on the board of a number of high-growth companies, Sean has a proven track record in successfully investing in and advising innovative and disruptive startups. His current board memberships include Blueleaf, Happy Money, Tide, Trov, Tremor, Kindur, Maxwell, StratiFi and he is a board observer at Betterment. Sean was a founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair, The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and an early investor in Zoopla, before founding Anthemis Group. He was also a part of the Global Markets Management Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of businesses including their groundbreaking Digital Markets initiative. Sean was instrumental in driving the introduction and adoption of electronic book building in the European fixed-income markets in the early 2000s and authored the seminal "AmazonBay" video exploring the future of finance in 2005. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Mel Parks
Group Chief Transformation Officer
QBE Insurance
Mel has significant experience gained across a breadth of industries including retail, film, banking and insurance. She has worked in Europe, the USA and Asia and spent time in PNG on a peace monitoring mission. Mel's expertise is delivering large scale, complex transformation with a focus on customer centricity. Mel is currently the Chief Transformation Officer at QBE Insurance and is responsible for an extensive portfolio including enterprise transformation, data and global shared services. She sponsors the global automation community and new ways of working initiatives. Mel is passionate about sustainable change, collaboration and the future of work.
Sunny Parikh
Vice President
Partnership Fund for New York City
Sunny is a Vice President at the Partnership Fund for New York City, a $170 million venture capital fund founded by Henry Kravis. As an evergreen fund, all of the Fund's profits are reinvested in other New York organizations that catalyze the growth of new industries and open opportunities for all New Yorkers. As part of his role at the Partnership Fund, Sunny leads the FinTech Innovation Lab, where growth-stage technology companies collaborate with senior executives from 43 leading insurance companies and financial institutions. Previously, Sunny was Director of Strategy & Finance at RedVision, a real estate technology company sold to First American. Prior to RedVision, Sunny was part of the investment team at Updata Partners focusing on growth-equity technology companies. Sunny began his career as an Investment Banker at ThinkEquity Partners. He is a graduate of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Pranav Pasricha
Intellect SEEC
Pranav is a pioneer in deploying AI, big data and the IoT in the insurance industry. As a reformed industry executive, his mission is to bring insurance out of the 1800s and into the 21st century. To achieve this, Intellect SEEC, is developing technology to personalize insurance coverage and pricing down to an individual, as easy to buy as name in – policy out, and slash cost by more than 80%. Pranav is a widely recognized thought leader, publishing a number of related articles and speaker at industry events.
Dan Peate
CEO & Founder
Dan Peate is the Founder and General Partner of Peate Ventures, and has also founded two Insurtech companies – Avinew and Hixme. He is the CEO of Avinew, which is focused on reinventing auto insurance for semi-autonomous vehicles. He served as the CEO of Hixme and previously worked at Aon and Arthur J. Gallagher. He sits on the boards of Avinew, CardiacDirect and BOOM! Studios. Dan sits on nonprofit and charitable boards including the University of Notre Dame Campaign Cabinet and helped start The Peate Institute for Entrepreneurship at Pepperdine University. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
Mike Peri
Senior Vice President
NFP Ventures
Michael Peri is a Senior Vice President at NFP Ventures, where he focuses on deal souring, market research, and due diligence efforts. Michael has extensive knowledge and understanding in venture strategy, product development, and analytics. He is a board observer for Axio, Vivante Health, and Wellth. Prior to joining NFP, Michael was the Vice President of Product & Analytics at Zest Health (now Yaro) where he led product strategy and development. At Zest, his efforts focused on creating and operationalizing Zest's new product strategy through partnerships with FinTech and InsurTech leaders. Michael joined Zest from Erie Family Health Center where was the Manager of New Venture Strategy & Operations, his efforts focused on managed care, acquisitions, and innovative consumer technologies. Michael came to Erie from CouponDoc where he was a founding team member and participant in Healthbox, a startup accelerator created by Sandbox Industries. Michael started his career as a researcher at The University of Iowa where he focused on behavioral neuroscience and economics. Michael holds a Master of Science in Analytics from The University of Chicago, a Master of Science from DePaul University, and a Bachelor of Science from The University of Iowa.
Steve Petrevski
SVP, Head of Enterprise Analytics
Steven Petrevski serves as Senior Vice President – Head of Enterprise Analytics. He is responsible for developing and executing Aon's strategy to deliver the next generation of Data and Analytics driven value for its clients. He joined Aon in July 2017. Prior to joining Aon, Steve was the General Manager of Security and Fraud Solutions at First Data. As GM, he was responsible for product development, sales and support for over one thousand financial institutions and one million merchants spanning local businesses to the world's largest retailers and banks. Before joining First Data, he was with JPMorgan Chase and focused on driving technology strategy and business development across the cyber security, fraud, and analytics sectors by leveraging emerging technology connectivity with Silicon Valley. Previously, Steve worked in multiple roles at UBS including systems development and architecture in the Investment Bank and in the Technology Strategy and Alliance function and as a technology consultant at IBM and BearingPoint. Steve currently serves as an advisor to multiple firms including: Nanowear, a textile-based nanosensor technology with applications in the cardiac, neurological and diabetic monitoring markets; Feedzai, a data science company that detects fraud in omnichannel commerce using artificial intelligence; and ForgePoint Capital, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage companies in cybersecurity. Additionally, he supports a number of charities, including The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Jaimie Pickles
General Manager of Insurance
Jaimie Pickles is the general manager of Jornaya's fast-growing insurance business. Prior to Jornaya, Jaimie pioneered and led multiple online and mobile advertising companies, including InsWeb Corporation – the first online insurance marketplace, We Speak Insurance – the first insurance call generation company, and Canal Partner LLC – advisor and investor in early-stage marketing and advertising technology companies. Jaimie holds the CPCU and ARM insurance designations and has a BS from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Bill Pieroni
CEO & President
William Pieroni is President and CEO of ACORD. Prior to his appointment in 2016, Mr. Pieroni served as the Global COO of Marsh and was responsible for the firm's global operations. Additionally, he was the CTO across the Risk and Insurance Segment. Prior to joining Marsh, Mr. Pieroni was SVP in the Office of the Chairman at State Farm. Prior to that, he served as Aon's Global CIO with responsibility for operations across retail, wholesale and reinsurance brokerage. His extensive insurance and financial services background also includes GM of IBM's insurance business, a partner at Accenture and consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Pieroni earned his Bachelor of Science in accounting with University Honors & Distinction from the University of Illinois. He also received his M.B.A. with Highest Distinction, and was named a Baker Scholar from Harvard University School of Business Administration.
Andrew Pitz
Investment Manager
Transamerica Ventures
Andrew Pitz is an Investment Manager at Transamerica Ventures, the global VC arm of the Aegon Group and its US subsidiary Transamerica. At Transamerica Ventures, he is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, establishing partnerships between startups and his parent companies, managing the Transamerica Ventures portfolio, and supporting and aiding the strategic objectives of his companies. Andrew has led investments in: PolicyGenius, Digital Currency Group, Everplans, SmartAsset, Hixme, Genus.ai, Limelight Health and Compstak. (74 words)
Lisa Pollina
Board Member and Senior Advisor
Oliver Wyman
Lisa Pollina is an Investment Banking executive and Board member who has negotiated over $50 Billion in corporate development deals throughout her career. She serves on the Senior Advisory Board for Oliver Wyman (NYSE: MMC), advises the Board of Directors of Northwestern Mutual as a member of the Policy Owners Examining Committee (POEC), and provides private equity advisory on investments in multiple aspects of the financial services sector worldwide. She is the past Vice Chairman for RBC Capital Markets, a $5 Billion division of the Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY), and the Global Financial Institutions (FIG) Executive for Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE: BAC). Prior to Bank of America, Pollina was an appointed executive in a JP Morgan private equity investment portfolio company, completing a successful IPO. Named one of the 'Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance' by American Banker magazine, she is a current appointee to the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States' Working Group on Global Markets. During the tenure of President George W. Bush (43), Ms. Pollina represented the United States at various NATO-related meetings in Europe and Washington. More recently, she has been a regular attendee at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. A published author and speaker, Ms. Pollina is a MBA graduate from the Yale School of Management and has taught strategy at Yale and corporate finance at the University of Chicago.
Kevin Pray
Vice President, Business Innovation
The Hanover Insurance Group
Kevin Pray is an accomplished leader with 15+ years of experience in the P&C industry in a variety of roles at both Hanover Insurance Group and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. In 2017, Kevin was appointed to build a corporate innovation team at The Hanover, with a focus on identifying applications of emerging technology across the P&C value chain. The team frequently partners with insurtechs to develop solutions aimed at unlocking new growth channels, creating improved agency and customer experiences and driving overall efficiency within the organization.
Dan Preston
Dan Preston is the CEO of Metromile, a leading insurtech using data science and machine learning to disrupt the $250 billion U.S. auto insurance industry. It's building a loyal community of drivers who come for substantive savings and stay for an unmatched experience. Through the company's Enterprise Business group, Metromile licenses its innovative Customer Experience, Fraud Detection, and AI platform to insurers around the globe. In August, 2018 the company secured a $90 million Series E investment led by Tokio Marine and Intact. Prior to joining Metromile, Dan was the co-founder and CTO of AisleBuyer, a mobile retail innovator that was acquired by Intuit in April 2012.
Lorena Puica
CEO & Founder
Born in Romania to father quantum physicist and mother entrepreneur, Lorena has achieved 5 degrees in mathematics, economics and finance, published a book on Microfinance as a tool for empowering individuals towards Sustainable Growth, created a decade-long career in strategy and investment management with global institutions working with portfolios of over £200billion while also being a extreme athlete with 2 world record events. Following 7 years of personal health challenges Lorena founded iamYiam.com as a Preventive Precision Health platform poised to leverage research, ML technology and creativity to empower 1bn people to take charge of their health everyday and lifelong by 2025.
Srinivas Pulijala
Global Digital & Platform Manager
Munich Re
Srinivas Pulijala is a Senior IT Architect with Munich Re group supporting primary insurance system needs for their Innovation and Specialty Insurance Business Units. He has over 15 years of delivery experience within the Financial industry through a combination of consulting and strategy support roles. Currently, his responsibilities include supporting Munich Re's global digital insurance platform, solution architecture and strategy development. He has been actively involved with multiple InsureTech & innovation initiatives within Munich Re over the past 4 years.
Mark Purowitz
Principal - Insurance M&A Lead and InsurTech Co-Lead
Mark Purowitz is a Senior Partner in the Financial Services practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He has over 30 years of broad financial services industry and consulting experience in the United States and internationally. He globally co-leads Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions as well as Deloitte's efforts in the InsurTech ecosystem on a global basis. He focuses his time now on helping Insurance clients think about organic and inorganic growth, consider the impacts of growth on operating model design and customer experience, develop new business and venture models, and M&A strategy, planning and execution.
Bobby Quinn
Raven Spatial
Bobby is the founder and CEO of Raven Spatial. He is a US Air Force veteran with a background in unmanned aviation and Geographic Information Systems. Bobby piloted UAVs
for the US Navy's Special Surveillance Program between 2012 and 2014. Bobby volunteers in NASA's electronic vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) working group, where he's helping integrate unmanned systems in the national airspace system. Bobby received his A.S. in Avionics and A.S. in Meteorology from the Community College of the Air Force; B.S. in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle; and is working on an M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology from USC.
Seth Rachlin
Chief Innovation Officer, Insurance Business
Dr. Rachlin is currently the Chief Innovation Office for the Property & Casualty Business Unit for Capgemini. In this role, he is responsible for managing all aspects of the firm's relationships with P&C clients including direct oversight of three significant core system replacement initiatives. He is also active in practice development surrounding Capgemini solutions, which support underwriting and product management transformation and predictive analytics. Dr. Rachlin has twenty-five years' experience building and advising companies in the insurance, technology and business services sectors. He has also advised numerous software, service, and hardware providers in the business application; data management; security, network and data center infrastructure; and information integration spaces.
Devaki Raj
CEO & Co-Founder
Rahim Rajpar
Head of Marketing & Direct to Consumer Business
John Hancock
Rahim Rajpar is a customer-centric, digital leader with a passion for building businesses from the ground up that meet the changing needs of the customer. Rahim's keen understanding of the end-to-end customer journey, direct marketing expertise, and commitment to rethink, and redesign, the life insurance buying experience has translated into modern digital ecosystem growing at over 300% a year. Prior to his current role, Rahim was responsible for developing, analyzing and recommending profitable growth strategies and opportunities for John Hancock with a strong focus on market expansion. Overall, Rahim has extensive experience in wealth management, retirement plans, and insurance.
Manjit Rana
Managing Director
Manjit Rana, is MD of Corporate Innovation (InsurTech) at Rainmaking Innovation & StartupBootCamp. He is highly regarded as an industry thought leader and one of the pioneers of the InsurTech movement. As a leading pioneer in this field, Manjit has led the charge for informing and educating traditional, well-established players to remain relevant by helping to shape new propositions that are more compelling and relevant in a constantly connected, fiercely competitive, radically changing market. With over 30 years' experience of working in the insurance space alongside co-founding 10 start-up businesses and driving internal innovation for large global corporates, Manjit's advice is firmly grounded and his role as Advisor to some of the most exciting InsurTech disruptors and industry accelerator programmes ensures he's permanently well-informed. Credible, thoughtful with a lively intellect and relaxed style, Manjit excels at bringing together diverse groups and encouraging them to think creatively to translate abstract concepts into profitable and scalable business propositions.
Anitha Rao
CEO & Founder
Dr. Anitha Rao (MD, MA) is a geriatric neurologist and Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Neurocern, a neuroinformatic platform that improves the longevity and quality of life for patients with dementia and other neurological conditions worldwide.
Dr. Rao is double board-certified in Neurology and Psychiatry and is one among 600 dementia experts in the nation with subspecialty training in dementia. She previously practiced as an inpatient hospital neurologist, and now consults for life insurance and re-insurance companies on enterprise risk, actuarial reserving and corporate strategy for the aging market.
She completed her Fellowship in Dementia and Behavioral Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, her Neurology Residency at University Hospital Case Western Reserve. She also received her MA in Medical Anthropology from Case Western Reserve University, her MD from University of Toledo, and her BE from Lehigh University.
Dr. Rao's research has been highlighted by the Society of Actuaries, American Health Insurance plans, and the Alzheimer's Association. She serves on the board of Chicago's Forbes Business Council, Women in Bio, and she has served as an advisor for the American Academy of Neurology and the American Geriatrics Society.
Girish Rao
VP - IT Services (Underwriting & Claims)
Zurich - North America
Girish Rao is the VP of IT Services at Zurich Insurance. He is responsible for Underwriting and Claims applications, supporting the Commercial Insurance, Direct Markets and Claims business units within North America. Through his 27 year career in the IT industry, Girish has led complex, large-scale, multi-million dollar programs spanning application management & execution, solution architecture & execution and process automation. Prior to Zurich, Girish worked in a number of sectors, including Retail, Technology, Manufacturing and Education.
Jonathan Rawling
Jonathan Rawling is the CFO of yallacompare. Prior to joining the online comparison site, Jonathan spent 20 years working in the insurance industry in the UK, Switzerland, Australia, the Middle East and Turkey. He was Audit Director at Zurich, and, most recently, was CFO for Zurich in the Middle East and Turkey. Jonathan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Certified Insurance Professional, and holds an MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor's Degree in Law.
Andrew Rear
Chief Executive
Munich Re Digital Partners
Andrew Rear is the Chief Executive of Munich Re Digital Partners. He joined Munich Re in 2010, leading the Asia, Africa and UK life businesses until May 2016 when he took up his current role. Digital Partners is a global business working with, and investing in, start-ups, digital verticals and the sharing economy, with the ambition of building a more engaged proposition for insurance customers. Prior to joining Munich Re, Andrew was a partner and head of the EMEA insurance practice at Oliver Wyman.
Devin Redmond
CEO & Co-Founder
Theta Lake
In a 20+ year career, Devin Redmond has focused building technologies that solve digital communication risk and compliance challenges for regulated industries. This includes products and companies built to address email, social media, and video communication compliance. Devin has conducted hundreds of speaking engagements at events as well as multiple national and international news appearances
Ross Reichardt
Product Manager
Ross Reichardt is a Product Manager at Arity, which is a technology company founded by The Allstate Corporation that provides data science and insight solutions for customers across the globe. Most recently, Ross was a Senior Product Designer on the Allstate User Experience & Design Team leading design efforts across multiple lines of business. Additionally, Ross spent time at the Xerox Corporation as well as the Milwaukee Division of HIDTA (High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) disrupting and dismantling narcotics trafficking into the Midwest. Ross holds a Bachelor's degree from Marquette University.
Michael Reitblat
CEO & Co-Founder
Michael served in the Israeli cybersecurity unit where he developed expertise in fraud detection and prevention. He went on to build Fraud Sciences, the first company to specialise in combating online payment fraud, which he further developed following its acquisition by PayPal. Determined to make fraud-free e-commerce a reality, Michael founded Forter in 2013.
Phil Reynolds
Phillip Reynolds is the CEO and co-founder of BriteCore. Phil holds a B.S. from Missouri State University, a certificate in "Leading Change in Complex Organizations" from MIT, and received the "Governor's Entrepreneur of the Year" award from Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. Phil speaks frequently on organizational design and technological innovation for P&C carriers. Under his leadership, BriteCore has placed on the Inc. 5000 list multiple times and was awarded the Best In Class Impact Award from AITE. BriteCore has also placed on Insight Success' 10 Best Performing Software Solutions and CIO Review's 20 Most Promising Insurance Technology Providers.
Jim Richards
Chief Strategy Officer
Jim Richards is the Chief Strategy Officer of Annexus, a company that develops and distributes innovative insurance-based retirement products. Annexus partners with Nationwide and other leading insurance carriers, as well as various Wall Street firms, to deliver solutions that help Americans protect and grow their retirement income. Jim is Managing Partner of Annexus Ventures which provides support to fintech companies that demonstrate potential to disrupt financial services through personalized "best interest" planning solutions and digital "real time" business execution.
Barbara Richardson
Insurance Commissioner
State of Nevada
Nevada Insurance Commissioner, Barbara D. Richardson has been an insurance regulator for 15 years. Three years as the Insurance Commissioner in Nevada and prior to that she was the New Hampshire Insurance Department's Director of Operations and Fraud for 12 years. While at the New Hampshire Insurance Department, Richardson oversaw several units of the Department, including the Premium and Retaliatory Tax unit, the Criminal Fraud Investigation unit, the Business unit, and the Producer Licensing unit. Richardson is a graduate of Vassar College and has a law degree from the University of New Hampshire School of Law and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Loyola University in Chicago.Richardson has been an active member on the national level of the NAIC's Producer Licensing (EX) Task Force, the Producer Licensing (EX) Working Group, the Innovation and Technology (EX) Task Force, and the Antifraud (D) Task Force. Richardson is currently chair of the System for Electronic Rates and Forms Filing (SERFF) Advisory Board.In addition to these duties, Richardson was an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, teaching insurance law.
Karen Richardson
Board of Directors
Over her 30-year career in the technology industry, Karen Richardson has helped start-ups blossom into public companies, and public companies navigate strategic challenges on a global scale. As a female executive whose experience reaches to the earliest days of the dot-com era, Karen's insights not only lead companies to operational excellence, but also provide valuable perspective on achieving diversity and building a culture to support it.
Sean Ringsted
Chief Digital Officer
Sean Ringsted is Chief Digital Officer at Chubb, the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company and the largest commercial insurer in the U.S.
Mr. Ringsted leads Chubb's digital efforts aimed at transforming the company into a digitally integrated organization. The initiatives involve all areas that produce and support Chubb's business into a digital environment, including underwriting, sales and service functions that touch policyholders, prospective customers, distribution and internal operations and technology.
In addition to his role as Chief Digital Officer, Mr. Ringsted has served as the company's Chief Risk Officer since 2008, prior to ACE's acquisition of Chubb in 2016.
Andrew Robinson
Groundspeed Analytics
Andrew Robinson is co-CEO of Groundspeed Analytics, a data sciences and artificial intelligence that powers decision making and fuels operational improvement for the insurance industry. Groundspeed's Data Pipeline as a ServiceTM enables commercial carriers and brokers to harvest mission critical unstructured data to dramatically improve risk evaluation, selection, pricing and placement. Andrew is also a Senior Advisor for Fintech at Oak HC/FT, a venture growth equity investor. Previously, Andrew was president of Specialty Insurance ($1BN division), EVP Corporate Development and Chief Risk Officer for The Hanover Insurance Group, a $5 billion market cap international carrier, and was global chief operating officer and EVP for Crawford & Company overseeing Crawford's four businesses with revenues of $1.1 billion and 8,000 employees. Earlier in his career, Andrew was Managing Director of Global Insurance at PwC (Diamond) Consulting. Andrew serves on the boards of Clara Analytics and PLNAR, two AI SaaS technology companies and is a Board Member of Lee Equity portfolio company, McLarens, a global property & casualty claims services company. Andrew previously served on the board of Chaucer Plc (top 10 Lloyds of London Managing Agency) and Breckenridge Insurance Services (now owned by Berkley).
John Roche
CEO & President
The Hanover Insurance Company
Jack is a highly experienced leader with more than 30 years of property and casualty experience. Under his leadership, The Hanover is building on its unique position as a leading property and casualty company with broad, innovative and high-quality capabilities delivered through a select network of the best independent agents. In addition to his role at The Hanover, Jack serves on the boards of The Institutes and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association. He began his career with Atlantic Mutual and Fireman's Fund, and served in senior roles at the St. Paul Travelers Companies before joining The Hanover in 2006.
Michael Roe
Director, Risk Business Technology
Aon Affinity
Michael Roe is the Director of IT Strategy and Product Owner for Back-Office Systems at Aon Affinity. Michael joined AON in 2012 and is responsible for leading large transformational initiatives and strategic IT planning. He works directly with the executive team to set IT strategy for Aon Affinity. Before joining Aon, Michael spent 12 years with HSBC where he managed customer management systems and led multiple global CRM initiatives. Michael's work focused leading teams responsible for delivering customer insights and value across the enterprise. At PwC, he was responsible for working directly with clients on delivering customer value through technology leading multiple CRM platform implementations. Michael earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Louisville and also holds a Master's degree from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.
Laurent Rousseau
SCOR Global P&C Deputy CEO
A French citizen, is a graduate of HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales). He started his career in 2001 as an equity analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston in London, covering European insurers and reinsurers. In 2005, he joined J.P. Morgan in the insurance Investment Banking team, executing M&A, capital raising and restructuring transactions for European insurers and reinsurers. He joined SCOR in 2010 as Advisor to the CEO, and became Head of SCOR Global P&C's Strategy and Business Development in 2012. In July 2015, Laurent became Chief Underwriting Officer of SCOR Global P&C's treaty business in Europe, Middle East & Africa. In April 2018, he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global P&C, member of the Group's Executive Committee and since September 2018, CEO for Specialty Insurance (SCOR Business Solutions, the Channel Managing Agency and MGAs).
Michael Roth
Michael Roth is the President of RetireUp based in Chicago, Illinois. RetireUp is a patent awarded financial software company with the unique ability to evaluate insurance product benefits alongside a client's current or future investment holdings. Michael learned the value of quickly aggregating complex data into simple and actionable analysis tools while becoming one of the top derivatives traders in America. Michael believes that the convergence of insurance, investing & technology has arrived to help better serve, prepare and protect people from the inherent risks that are unique to the income distribution phase of financial planning.
Mike Rudoy
CEO & Co-Founder
Mike Rudoy is the co-founder and CEO of Jetty, a new financial services company on a mission to make renting a home effortless and more affordable for everyone. Mike started his career as a management consultant at the strategy firm Diamond Management & Technology Consultants (now part of PwC). In 2009, Mike co-founded Big Live, a venture-backed live video platform that sought to bring a social experience to the consumption of online video. Mike graduated from Princeton University with a B.S. in International Politics.
Ryan Rugg
Global Head of Industry Verticals / Global Head of Insurance
Ryan is the Global Head of Industry Verticals at R3. She is responsible for ensuring R3 is at the forefront of blockchain technology within multiple industries across the globe. Her team is responsible for helping industry leaders understand and navigate the forces in emerging tech that are reshaping their businesses. Prior to R3, Ryan worked for Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, where she gained extensive experience in financial services spanning insurance, hedge funds, banking and asset management. Ryan is a graduate of George Washington University and has a double major in computer science and finance.
Sten Saar
CEO & Co-Founder
Nominated as Europe's Young Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2007, Sten rose to prominence at 17, founding a business selling innovative notepads for students. The company traded in four different countries, with a net revenue of $1m. In 2011, Sten joined property rental company onefinestay, building the service delivery function as Head of Operations. He then moved to Deliveroo, supporting their rapid growth. Since founding Zego in 2016, Sten has expanded the team to 100 employees and launched the business in five countries. He continues to execute Zego's mission to insure the new mobility industry and take their solutions global.
Scott Sanchez
Chief Innovation Officer
Scott Sanchez is an Innovation Leader, with extensive experience in product management and design, with a history of making simple, yet impactful products and experiences that delight users. Scott is the Chief Innovation Officer for Nationwide, leading transformational innovation and incubation, enterprise innovation, and venture capital for the company.
Scott brings a user-centered approach to innovation (also known as "design thinking") to create products and experiences that people can't imagine, and then can't imagine going back.
Prior to Nationwide, Scott was Vice President, Innovation and User Experience, at First Data, a global leader in commerce-enabling technology solutions serving more than six million business locations and 4,000 financial institutions in 118 countries around the world. He joined First Data in early 2011 to enable innovation throughout First Data across products, clients, and employees. He founded and ran the
Innovation Lab, a cross functional team of product managers, user experience designers, user experience researchers, technologists, and client innovation leaders, whose goal is to disrupt the future of commerce in collaboration with clients and partners.
Scott is also passionate about building innovators in all walks of life. He is on the faculty of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (the d.school), a hub for innovators at Stanford, where students learn "design thinking" to tackle the world's messiest problems together. He is also on the faculty at Emory University, teaching innovation to students, executives, and faculty, as design thinking and an
empathy-driven mindset become key parts of the University. In addition to teaching, as a founder of Innovators Atlanta, he spends time with companies, schools, organizations, and individuals around the Southeast and beyond nurturing and unleashing innovators of all ages.
Before joining First Data, Scott spent two years at Visa running Commercial Marketing and driving innovation strategy. Before Visa, he spent 8 years at Intuit (makers of Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax) in product management and the innovation lab.
Scott grew up in Atlanta, GA and has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University.
Dave Sandberg
Senior Consultant
Charles River Associates
Dave's background includes almost 30 years at Allianz Life of North America with responsibilities for Financial Reporting, Solvency, Modeling, Experience Analysis, Government Relations and Reinsurance. He is the past chair of the International Actuarial Association's Insurance Regulation Committee, the past president of the America Academy of Actuaries and a member of the Academy's Big Data Working Group. He is currently a Senior Consultant with Charles Rivers and Associates and a Board member of the Society of Actuaries.
He graduated from Brigham Young University and has three children and 2.8 grand children.
Pedro Bernardo Santos
Pedro Bernardo Santos, joined G-Evolution in June 2017 in the role of General Manager. Before joining G-Evolution, he led Strategy and Operations for Insurance at Ernst & Young. Prior to that, he was the Director of Strategy & Change Management in the International Division of Direct Line Group. Pedro is a native of Madrid, and holds a Masters Degrees in Economics and Business Administration. He has a strong international and multicultural background in Financial Services, spanning the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Turkey, India, Africa and the U.S.
Sasha Sanyal
Insurance Global Business Lead
Sasha is Genpact's global business head for its Insurance vertical, leading a team dedicated to its continued growth and portfolio of services for top insurance companies globally. She also leads Genpact's global diversity, inclusion and corporate social responsibility programs. Prior to this role, she led the company's Transitions function for client engagements and its Lean DigitalSM Transformation program, which leverages the company's core strengths in Lean and Six Sigma combined with design thinking and digital technologies. Sasha also served as Genpact's Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing the company's five-year financial blueprint and strategy for industry verticals, geographies, solutions and offerings.
Ivan Saubidet
MBA at IMD, Switzerland. MSC Engineering at Buenos Aires Institute of Technology.
He pivoted a dot com venture and founded TNX in 2001, a telecoms expense analytics company, expanding it to the most important markets in Latam, and securing $2.5M of venture capital.
He is director of Buenos Aires chapter of Founders Institute, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator. He is the co-founder and CEO of Nubihome, aiming to transform the insurance industry through smart home technology and analytics.
Alex Scherbakovsky
General Partner
AXA Venture Partners
Alex is a General Partner at AXA Venture Partners (AVP), a $600M global technology venture capital firm backed by AXA. Prior to AVP, Alex invested in growth-stage technology companies at New Enterprise Associates, Silver Lake, 3i and FTV Capital. Prior to becoming an investor, Alex held operating roles at Microsoft and Trilogy, and was a management consultant at Monitor Group. Alex graduated with Distinction from Stanford with an MS in Engineering and AB in Economics, and received an MBA from Harvard, where he was named a Baker Scholar.
Adam Schwebach
Senior Vice President and Branch Manager
Willis Re, Tampa Office
Adam Schwebach is a Senior Vice President and Branch Manager of Willis Re's Tampa office. He is responsible for servicing clients and production efforts in the southeast and has extensive experience working with Florida property insurance companies. Adam is also a member of Willis Re's Florida leadership team and InsurTech team.
He began his career with Benfield Blanch in 2004 as a servicing broker on the medical and legal professional liability team. In 2006, Adam joined Collins and relocated to Florida in early 2007 to focus on the Florida property insurance market. Collins was acquired by Guy Carpenter in 2009 and Adam joined Willis Re in late 2017. He holds a bachelors of science in economics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the Associate of Reinsurance (ARe) designation.
Georg Schwegler
Transamerica Ventures
Georg Schwegler manages AEGON's corporate venture activities as CEO of Transamerica Ventures Fund, a role he began in January 2014. His experience in the corporate venture industry stems from T-Venture, where he joined in October 2000 and served as CEO from 2005 until 2013. He also served as adviser for the German government in 2013 and 2014 in the Council for Young Digital Economy. Georg holds a PhD from the University of Cologne/Germany in Business Administration.
Rob Seaman
SVP, Product Management, Industry Cloud
Rob leads the Healthcare and Financial Services Product and Design teams at Salesforce. Prior to Salesforce, Rob spent the last 8 years in the startup community as a Head of Product or CEO working on applications of AI and Machine Learning for Personalization (WibiData), Content Generation (Likelihood), and the Data Science Model Lifecycle (Domino Data Lab). Prior to his time in startups, Rob led product and design teams at IRI, SAP and Siebel Systems working on products that solve problems for companies in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Retail.
Biswa Sengupta
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Biswa is the Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at AXA XL's Centre of Excellence for AI. He oversees the AI strategy for AXA XL, along with delivering in-house solutions utilizing Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision algorithms. Additionally, he supervises scientists both at the Imperial College London and the University College London. Prior to this, he established the AI Theory Lab for Huawei R&D UK and served as the Chief Scientist for an Imperial College based computer vision start-up. Biswa obtained his Ph.D. in dynamical systems/optimization from the University of Cambridge; attaining further post-doctoral training on Bayesian statistics at UCL.
Andrea Severino
CEO & Founder
Healthy Virtuoso
CEO & Founder of Healthy Virtuoso, Andrea is a passionate marketer with a strong experience in insurance and digital health. Specialized in startup development, Andrea has been proactively working for the past 10 years to the successful launch of Betclic, Antevenio, Doc24, and OneTouch 24 (for Johnson & Johnson). After more than 11 years between London and Milan, Andrea is now working to reshape the health and life insurance business, through an innovative model that empowers people to live healthier, while helping insurance to lower down the risk, build more trust and better know its customers.
Manish Shah
President & Chief Product Officer
Manish Shah is President and Chief Product Officer and leads the global software product division at Majesco. In this role, he is responsible for management and development of innovative software products for the global insurance business and works on strategic directions for the company as a member of leadership team. Prior to the merger of Cover-All and Majesco, Manish was President and CEO of Cover-All and served on its Board of Directors. Before being named CEO in July 2013, Manish was Cover-All's Chief Technology Officer and also responsible for sales and operations, including strategic planning, customer relationships and product management. Prior to joining Cover-All, Manish held several technology management positions independently and with Tata Consultancy Services for over a decade, serving a wide variety of industries including P/C Insurance. He was responsible for business development, product management, project management and solution consulting to various enterprises including many Fortune 500 companies. Manish earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from MS University of Baroda, India.
Glenn Shapiro
President of Allstate Personal Lines
Allstate Insurance Company
Glenn Shapiro is President of Allstate Personal Lines, overseeing product, claims, operations, risk, finance and distribution. He is focused on expanding Allstate's trusted advisor strategy, accelerating the use of telematics and building an Integrated Digital Enterprise. From 2016 to 2017, Shapiro served as Chief Claims Officer for the Allstate Insurance Company. Prior to joining Allstate in 2016, Shapiro was Executive Vice President and Chief Claims Officer at Liberty Mutual Commercial Insurance. Shapiro has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has held a number of senior leadership positions in strategy and operations and has been at the forefront of leveraging predictive modeling and digital capabilities in insurance. Shapiro serves on the board of SitStayRead, a Chicago nonprofit dedicated to promoting a culture of reading in low-income communities. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., and holds CPCU, CLU and ChFC designations.
Manu Sharma
CEO & Co-Founder
Manu Sharma is CEO and co-founder at Labelbox. For over 6 years, Manu has designed and built products used by thousands of organizations at highly transformative companies such as Planet Labs and DroneDeploy. His interests range from artificial intelligence to clean energy, aviation and space exploration.
Nathana Sharma
General Counsel
Nathana Sharma is General Counsel at Labelbox. Previously, she worked at Singularity University, Enlitic, Gunderson Dettmer, the Israeli Supreme Court and the Center for Creative Technologies. Nathana is a Fulbright Scholar and a JD/MBA graduate of the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management.
Yogesh Shetty
Yogesh is Avibra's CEO and Co-Founder. His goal has been to reinvent life insurance as a 'well-being' product with a focus on giving something tangible to people to improve their lives right now. Avibra is the first startup to introduce a novel way to use a data-driven model to offer guaranteed micro life insurance with no medical underwriting, all earned simply through people's good habits. Yogesh was the former Managing Director & Head of Architecture & Innovation at New York Life. Before that, he worked for Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase and a number of startups. He is also a successful author of a book used in universities as a part of master's level curriculum.
Clara Shih
CEO & Founder
Hearsay Systems
Clara Shih is CEO and founder of Hearsay Systems, a leading enterprise SaaS insurtech based in San Francisco. Hearsay's agent and advisor actions platform enables every rep to behave like the top producer. Over 170,000 advisors and agents across insurance, banks, and wealth management firms in 22 countries rely on Hearsay to modernize the human client experience. A pioneer in the industry, Clara has been named one of Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs," Fast Company's "Most Influential People in Technology," and a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum. Clara is a member of the Starbucks board of directors and previously held various roles at Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. She graduated top of her class in computer science at Stanford University, where she also received an M.S. in computer science. She also holds an M.S. in internet studies from Oxford University, where she studied as a U.S. Marshall Scholar.
Eran Shir
CEO & Co-Founder
Eran Shir is the co-founder and CEO of Nexar, a connected vehicle network that delivers critical safety alerts to prevent collisions in real-time. Nexar has more than 400 million miles of anonymized network data that help cities, transit authorities, and mobility companies make our roads safer and smoother. Eran is a physicist by training, and has spent much of his career building complex networks. Prior to Nexar, Eran served as the Entrepreneur in Residence for Israeli VC Aleph. He also co-founded an advertising startup that was acquired by Yahoo, where he went on to serve as the Creative Innovation Officer.
Larry Shurtz
EVP, North American Verticals
Larry brings more than 25 years of experience in the technology and enterprise software industry and is responsible for Salesforce's Financial Services and Healthcare / LifeSciences business in North America. Larry has had several roles at Salesforce over the past eight years, starting as an Area Vice President for Global Accounts. Larry then became responsible for Strategic Accounts and most recently was Salesforce's Senior Vice President for the Financial Services Vertical in the United States. Before Salesforce, Larry was an Area Vice President at Oracle where he led national teams in both the Consumer Packaged Goods and Aerospace industries. Prior to Oracle, Larry was the Western Area VP for Hyperion Software. Larry earned his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Arizona and resides in Anaheim, California, with his wife Andrea and two boys.
Pallav Singh
Co-Founder & CEO
Pallav is the co-founder and CEO of Kruzr. He started with the vision of building technology solutions to solve driving safety and help re-imagine the motor insurance industry become preventive and customer-centric. Kruzr is currently active in Europe and India, with plans to launch in the US soon.
Pallav is a Mechanical engineer by education from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Neal Silbert
General Manager of Insurance
Neal Silbert is a DataRobot's General Manager of Insurance. He has been a leader in the industry for more than 25 years. His expertise lies in helping insurance companies embrace AI and leverage it to improve profitability, grow, become more efficient and become more customer focused.
Jonathan Silverman
Director, Worldwide Insurance Solutions
Jonathan Silverman is a Director in Microsoft's Worldwide Financial Services Industry Group focused on Insurance industry solutions related to Risk, Data Analytics and the Internet of Things. He has 25+ years' experience in the Financial Services Industry with a strong background in Insurance, ERP, Data Strategy, Solution Selling and Strategic Consulting. Prior to Microsoft, he serviced the Financial Services Industry with roles in Sales, Management and Consulting with Cap Gemini, Ernst and Young, and Wipro as well as a few Financial Services based start-ups. In his current role, Jonathan works closely with Risk Solution providers to establish a public cloud strategy related to improving the overall Risk Management process, meeting regulatory requirements and helping customers improve efficiencies by demonstrating the value of having unlimited compute capacity for running Risk Models using Cloud services. He also works closely with customers to evaluate and enhance data strategies and solutions using Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics to enhance the Risk Solutions.
Max Simkoff
CEO & Founder
States Title
Max started States Title in 2016 after personally experiencing the friction and labor caused by title insurance in the homebuying process. Since then he has worked to provide an innovative solution to homeowners, brokers, and mortgage bankers. Max is an entrepreneur with experience founding and operating technology companies. Prior to States Title, Max was Founder and CEO of Evolv, Inc., an enterprise predictive analytics software company, which he led through their acquisition by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2014 where he served for two years on the senior executive team post-acquisition as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
Jacob Sloan
Industry Leader, Insurance – North America
Jacob brings extensive experience to Appian as a change leader driving strategy and business transformation in the Insurance industry. He has held senior Operations roles with Farmers Insurance, including front-line Insurance/licensed field operations and served as CIO of Aon National Flood Services. Jake holds an MBA from Baker University and is an alumni of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP190).
Kate Smith
Managing Editor
AM Best
Kate Smith is managing editor at AM Best, where she covers global insurance trends and writes about the most influential leaders in the industry. While her work spans market segments and geographies, Kate has a growing focus on insurtech and its transformative impact. She has 20 years of experience covering finance and sports and has written for some of the nation's most well-known publications, including USA Today. Kate is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism
Matthew Elan Smith
Matthew Elan Smith is 25 years old and has a formal background is in actuarial and statistics. He grew up in Johannesburg and was one of the top students at Crawford College, matriculating with 7 distinctions. He studied a BSC in Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science at Wits and went on to work in insurance before planting the seeds of Pineapple together with co-founders Ndabenhle and Marnus in late 2016. A futurist at heart, Matthew spends a lot of his time understanding new trends to paint a picture of where the world may be in 10-20-50 years' time. Combining these traits makes Matthew a unique problem solver, greatly aiding his entrepreneurial journey.
Ramsey Smith
Ramsey D. Smith is an entrepreneur and founder of the digital insurance agency ALEX.fyi, a platform for retirement income solutions. Prior to starting ALEX.fyi, Ramsey spent 21 years at Goldman Sachs, where he served as a Managing Director. There, as a serial intrapreneur, he pioneered and led multiple Equity Derivative businesses. In the Life Insurance space, he developed a franchise that provided corporate level risk management and investment strategies for the nation's top carriers. He is a graduate of Princeton University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Martin Snow
Vice-President & Chief Delivery Officer
Martin Snow, Vice-President & Chief Delivery Officer, Atidot
• Member, American Academy of Actuaries Data Science &Analytics Committee
• Contributing Editor for The Actuary magazine
• Member Actuarial Standards Board Task Forces to Revise ASOPs 11 & 22
• MS Financial Mathematics – NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• BS Mathematics – Brooklyn College of City University of NY
• Appointed Actuary at TIAA
• Lead Life Insurance Pricing and Reinsurance Solutions Actuary at Prudential
• Dividend Actuary at MetLife
Federico Spagnoli
Latam Regional President
Prudential Financial
Federico Spagnoli is Regional President of Argentina, Mexico, Chile and responsible for strategic business development in Europe and Latin America for Prudential International Insurance (PII), a business unit of Prudential Financial, Inc. In this role, Mr. Spagnoli has direct responsibility for Prudential Seguros Argentina, Prudential Seguros Mexico and supervises the relationship of PII with ILC and AFP Habitat. Prior to joining Prudential, Mr. Spagnoli spent twelve years in various senior positions within AIG's international subsidiaries including as Regional Vice President Consumer Insurance Region EMEA, Regional Vice President Consumer Insurance Latin America, Vice President Personal Lines Japan and Assistant Vice President Personal Lines of South Korea. Before joining AIG, Mr. Spagnoli worked in a variety of roles of greater
responsibilities in the implementation of Circulo Asegurador, Zurich Financial Services and Santander Bank. Mr. Spagnoli served on the boards of AIG Europe, AIG Life UK and Travel Guard Europe for two years. Mr. Spagnoli graduated from the University of El Salvador (Argentina) with a master's degree in Law and received a M.B.A. from Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and has the CPCU designation. In September 2018, he obtained his Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from the University of Oxford Saiid Business School. Mr. Spagnoli is married and has a daughter, is an avid marathon runner and triathlete and lives in New Jersey.
Rusty Sproat
CEO & Founder
Figo Pet Insurance
Rusty was inspired by Buster—his loyal 14-year old Boston Terrier who lives with Lyme disease. That combined with his passion for technology as well as an entrepreneurial spirit and deep understanding of the insurance industry, Rusty launched Figo, the first technology-based pet insurance company. After completing three years of development Figo Pet Insurance was officially launched in April 2015. Focusing on mobile experience, millennial's, and creating the Pet Cloud, Figo is truly a technology pioneer within the fast-growing $70+ billion pet industry.
Jack Statza
Senior Associate
Allstate Strategic Ventures
Jack is a Senior Associate with Allstate Strategic Ventures and primarily focuses on early stage investments in AI/ML, life/digital health, underwriting, claims and agency technologies. Prior to Allstate, he was an Investment Banking Associate at Livingstone and Lazard, as well as a Consultant at the Northern Trust Company. Jack received his BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, MBA from the University of Chicago-Booth and is a CFA Charterholder.
Adrian Stewart
Adrian's focus is on M&A, private equity, and venture capital transactions for his client base of financial institutions, venture capital funds, strategic investors and founders. Having lived and worked in Europe, Asia and the US, Adrian brings a nuanced, culturally attuned perspective to any transaction anywhere in the world. Prior to joining Dentons, Adrian was an executive director and assistant general counsel at JPMorgan, working on corporate M&A, private equity and strategic venture capital investments, as well as investor services, custody, payments, blockchain and securitized products.
Nate Storch
CEO & Co-Founder
Amenity Analytics
Nathaniel is an experienced financial industry executive with nearly two decades working as an investor, entrepreneur and business builder. Before co-founding Amenity Analytics, he served as Managing Partner of Pilgrim Hill Capital, where he provided equity-related capital and strategic advice to small and mid-cap companies. Previously, Nathaniel served as Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at Swieca Holdings/Talpion Fund Management, Partner and Head of Equities at One East Partners, and Head of Merger Arbitrage Research and Event-Driven Healthcare at Highbridge Capital Management. Mr. Storch began his career with Morgan Stanley as an analyst in the Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring Group and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. Nathaniel graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Government. Nate started Amenity Analytics along with Professor Ronen Feldman in 2015. and has automated the process of sifting through complex documents and narrative content to draw meaningful insights from text at a massive scale. Gartner named Amenity a "cool vendor" in AI for Banking and Financial Services. Amenity is headquartered in NYC with R&D offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Kara Swisher
Co-Founder & Editor-at-Large
Kara Swisher is the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode, producer and host of the Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts, and co-executive producer of the Code Conference series. She also has a special series on MSNBC called Revolution on the impact of technology on work, society, and more, and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Swisher co-founded Recode and, before that, co-produced and co-hosted the Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference series (now called the Code conference) with Walt Mossberg starting in 2003. It was, and still is, the country's premier conference on tech and media, with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, the Google leadership, Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey, and many other leading players. She and Mossberg were also the co-executive editors of a tech and media website, AllThingsD.com, founded in 2007.
Swisher worked in the Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column "BoomTown," which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and online at WSJ.com. Previously, Swisher covered breaking news about the web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper.
Earlier in her career, Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
Swisher is also the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.
Mark Taber
Chief Insurance Officer
Generali Global Assistance
Mark Taber is Chief Insurance Officer for Generali Global Assistance (formerly CSA Travel Protection) where his primary responsibilities include pricing, product, underwriting and insurance forecasts. Prior to joining CSA-Generali in 2017, Mark held positions as Reserving Director and Director of Claims Analytics for California State Automobile Association (AAA) responsible for both Auto and Homeowners lines of business. Taber has 12 years of experience in the insurance industry. Mark holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society.
Said Taiym
Chief Digital Officer
Lockton Companies
Said is executive vice president and chief digital officer for Lockton, the world's largest privately held, independent insurance broker and consultant. Said's focus is on digital innovation and new technologies to help Lockton Associates transform how they deliver best-in-class strategic solutions for clients. He is an expert in leading change and creating technology innovations that improve the customer experience. Prior to joining Lockton in June 2018, he was senior vice president and chief information officer for AF Group, a leading workers' compensation insurance organization. Said has more than 10 years of experience in the insurance industry, delivering huge impact for industry leaders including XL Group and Zurich North America. He also spent six years with Accenture leading large personal and commercial carrier transformations. Said is active in insurance industry groups as well as in local communities. He of Illinois at Chicago. He also served as chairman of the board of the Capital
Area IT Council in Lansing, Michigan, Council on Compensation Insurance.
Moshe Tamir
Founder & Managing Director
MT Innovation Ventures
Moshe is the CEO and Founder of MT Innovation Ventures. An advisory and business innovation builder in insurance for the 21st century. MTIV help structures and builds innovative new digital businesses by working with network technology partners and Insurers around the world. MTIV provide priority access to Israel innovation and fintech ecosystem. Until Recently Moshe was Global Head of Digital Transformation at Generali, one of the world's largest insurance companies Prior to this, Moshe was Deputy CEO and CMO of Migdal Insurance, Israel's largest insurance company. Moshe started his career at Intel Israel.
Michael Taormina
Head of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships
Michael Taormina, CFA is Head of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships for Group1001, the parent company of Gainbridge. He was previously the co-founder of CommonBond, a fintech platform for refinancing student loans. Earlier, Mike was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where he focused on the investment strategy for the Private Bank's discretionary business and later on derivative strategies for ultra-high-net-worth clients. Mike graduated with a degree in Finance from Georgetown University and with an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management & Marketing from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mike is a CFA Charterholder.
Arleen Taveras
President & CEO
Spot On Insurance
Will Thorne
Head of EMEA, Specialty and Lloyd's Ventures
SCOR Global P&C
Will Thorne leads EMEA and worldwide specialty Ventures for SCOR Global P&C and is responsible for the innovation initiatives of SCOR's Lloyd's vehicle, the Channel Syndicate. He has led multiple P&C Ventures investments and is involved in a variety of Fintech sector initiatives, including sitting on the HM Treasury/Tech City Fintech Delivery Panel and is Chair of the UK Insurtech Board. Will joined Channel / SCOR in 2012 and has an underwriting background.
Brooks Tingle
President & CEO
John Hancock Insurance
Brooks Tingle provides strategic leadership of John Hancock's insurance businesses – focusing on John Hancock Life Insurance, a leading provider of life insurance solutions, and Long Term Care Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary responsible for administration of Federal Government Long Term care and benefits plans. Previously, Brooks led the Marketing and Strategy teams for John Hancock Insurance and drove the modernization of the company's marketing function through an ambitious digital strategy, the build out of an advanced analytics team and a sharpened focus on customer experience. He led the charge in identifying, developing and implementing the John Hancock Vitality solution.
Tarek Timol
Hallmark Insurance Company
Tarek N. Timol has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Company since October 2015. Mr. Timol has over 15 years of experience in managing the complex IT and application development requirements of financial and insurance operations. Prior to joining Hallmark, Mr. Timol most recently served in the role of Senior Vice President, Information Technology Transformation at Guy Carpenter. From 2011 to 2014, he served Torus Insurance as Senior Vice President – Head of Operations, Americas. Mr. Timol has held additional executive leadership roles with Ironshore Insurance Services, AIG, and Marsh. He holds a Masters of Science in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Jeff To
Jeff is CEO of Safekeep, a collaboration platform that helps financial advisors and producers grow their books of business by enabling customers to pursue their dreams. Prior to Safekeep, Jeff was Global Head of Insurance at Salesforce and Founder of Fintech Garage where he partnered with financial institutions to re-think digital experiences. Jeff was twice named by ACORD as a "Top 10 InsurTech Leader" in 2018 and 2017. He is currently a board member at Hagerty Insurance and a strategic advisor to Limelight Health.
Luke Thompson
Maschmeyer Group Ventures
Luke is an investor on the MGV deal team focusing on investments in SaaS, marketplaces, and the future of work. He enjoys thinking through novel growth strategies with founders. Most recently, Luke worked on the Growth and Product Marketing teams at Dropbox. Luke is originally from Connecticut and graduated with a BA in English from Stanford University. In his free time, Luke enjoys watching movies and twitch.tv streams, reading novels, and running.
Attila Toth
Mr. Toth is the CEO & Founder of zesty.ai, a property risk analytics platform powered by Artificial Intelligence. Zesty.ai uses the latest advancements in computer vision and deep learning on 115+Bn data points to extract key property features and insured characteristics to accurately model the potential impact of both attritional and catastrophic losses for Property and Casualty insurance.
Tom Travis
Director of the Louisiana Property and Casualty Insurance Commission
Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI)
Tom Travis is the director of the Louisiana Property and Casualty Insurance Commission, a body charged with the study of issues that affect the availability and affordability in the Louisiana. His other responsibilities with the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) include drafting legislation, acting as the LDI's liaison to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), participating in several NAIC working groups, and serving on several state commissions and task forces. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the LSU Law Center. He also holds LL.M. degrees from the University of the Pacific and Southern Methodist University and an MBA from Southeastern Louisiana University. Prior to joining the LDI in 2008, he litigated workers' compensation claims and also served on active duty in the U.S. Army.
Paul Tyler
CMO, Strategy Marketing & Technology
Paul Tyler serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Nassau Re. In that role, he leads the strategy, development, and delivery of company marketing campaigns across digital and traditional channels. Paul has lead the digital rebranding efforts of acquired insurance companies and affiliated asset management companies. He has a launched a direct to consumer channel for Nassau Re that includes term life, final expense, and fixed annuities. In addition, he launched Nassau Re/Imagine, an Insurtech-focused incubator based in Hartford.
Kristen Tyrrell
Kristen is a product leader in consumer FinTech and insurance integration. Kristen is the Founder & COO at Catch, a technology startup combining savings, investment, and insurance for those without access to employer benefits. Early in her career, she worked with Commonwealth to design and scale innovative savings products that now serve more than 80 million consumers. Kristen also helped launch one of the first student loan repayment SaaS benefits platforms. Kristen has lived on four continents and has a Masters in International Business from Hult and Bachelors in Mathematics and Economics from Pepperdine University.
Kat Utecht
Managing Partner
Core Innovation Capital
Kat Utecht is a managing partner of Core Innovation Capital, a venture capital fund investing in companies that democratize prosperity. Portfolio companies include Ripple, Synapse, HealthSherpa, and Decent. Prior to investing with Core and at Comcast Ventures, Kat was CEO of Green Rock Entertainment, a commerce company acquired by private equity in 2009. Kat began her career in financial services, both as a middle-market investment banker for Raymond James and a graduate of General Electric Capital's Financial Management Program. Kat has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from Babson College.
Kelly Utley
Senior Director, Product Go To Market
Kelly Utley is a Product Leader who has developed and launched multiple products at Salesforce including the Financial Services Cloud and more recently Salesforce Blockchain. In her current role, she works with Customers across the world to help them innovate using the Financial Services Cloud. In her spare time, she is a fitness enthusiast who loves nature and travel.
Felipe Valencia
Felipe is a Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Veronorte, a Latin American investment management firm. Veronorte specializes in operating corporate venture capital programs for relevant regional corporations. Veronorte aims to align the incentives of their portfolio companies and their corporate partners and facilitates the adoption of new technologies and business model, and the development of the Latin American market. One of Veronorte's corporate partners is Grupo SURA: a leading financial conglomerate in Latin America with companies in insurance, asset management, banking and healthcare. In Veronorte, Felipe has led investments in fintech and insurtech companies such as Trov, MoneyLion, Slice Labs, Alkanza, LendingHome, Clover Health, Zendrive and Pager
Irene van den Brink
Digital Insurance Group
At DIG, as CCO, Irene can use her experience and global network to forge new strategic partnerships and capitalize on the growing demand for insurance technology. Before DIG, she was responsible for Business Development at InShared, a leading Dutch digital insurer. In this role, she developed the international business and co-founded OutShared, an additional insurtech business model. Prior to that, she worked 10+ in business development and innovation for banking and insurance companies in Europe and the Americas. Irene holds a master's degree in International Business and has been named top 10 female influencers in Insurtech in the EU by the Insider.
Shwetank Verma
Leo Capital
Shwetank is the co-founder of Leo Capital, an early stage VC firm investing in India and South East Asia. He leads their insurtech and digital health investments – portfolio companies include BeatO (Diabetes Management) , RIA (digital health insurance) amongst others. His other experiences include being an entrepreneur (founder – Mobile Health Solutions) and leading open innovation at MetLife Asia.
Carlos Miguel Vidal
Hello Zum
During his 25 year-long career, both as a broker (retail & reinsurance) and as an insurance company executive, he has taken the role of Personal Lines & Affinity Manager, Commercial Planning & Strategic Projects Manager, Reinsurance Manager and Claims Manager P&C at Pacífico Seguros. Carlos Miguel also has ample experience as Personal Lines & Affinity Manager (Marsh Peru) and as CEO (Willis Peru).
Robin von Hein
CEO & Founder
simplesurance GmbH
Robin von Hein is founder and CEO of the simplesurance group, which is based in Berlin since 2012 and has an office in Tokyo. Only six years later, Robin and his company are among the most successful companies in Germany. In 2018 & 2019, simplesurance was awarded as best eCommerce Insurance at the BankingCheck and eKomi Awards, honoring outstanding customer care process. 2016 simplesurance won the prize as the best insurtech startup in Silicon Valley. The German economy magazine Capital counts Robin to the Top 40 under 40 and Handelsblatt, German Financial Daily Newspaper, says Robin belongs to the Top 100 of the most innovative people in Germany. More than 150 employees from 30 different nations work together to revolutionize the distribution of insurances.
Jason Walker
Founder & Managing Partner
Smart Harbor
Jason Walker helps independent insurance agents and their carriers realize growth using digital marketing technologies and performance insights. As founder and managing partner of Smart Harbor, Jason helps insurance agents not only compete but win in the digital world, using the right combination of websites, smart forms, SEO, social media, and data and analytics. Smart Harbor serves 1,000+ independent insurance agencies that represent over 900 carriers. A recipient of the 2018 Smart 50 Award for Innovation, Impact and Sustainability, Jason is a published author, speaker, and AUGIE Ambassador, advancing digital technology adoption among independent insurance agents.
Assaf Wand
CEO and Co-Founder
Assaf Wand is the co-founder and CEO of insurtech startup Hippo. Based in Mountain View, CA, the company is modernizing home insurance through the lens of homeowners – building policies with more comprehensive coverage for today's consumers at up to 25% less than competitors. Prior to Hippo, Wand was founder and CEO of Sabi, which designed and produced elegant everyday products (Sabi was acquired in 2015), a consultant with McKinsey & Company and an investor with Intel Capital. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in finance and LLB in Law from the IDC Herzliya in Israel.
Jane Wang
CEO & Co-Founder
Jane Wang is CEO of Optimity, a Life & Health InsurTech provider offering a digital holistic well-being platform for insurers and employers using AI, gamification & habit-coaching behavior economics. Their platform personalizes the Optimity mobile app for users through dynamic health & wealth risk assessments while educating and supporting members with healthy activities, financial best practices, and lifestyle choices to hit their goals. Prior to Optimity, Jane created innovative new "FICO scores" for banks & healthcare organizations, and spent a decade in global clinical trials in maximizing adherence and performing dynamic risk scoring using software for patients in North America, Asia and the EU.
Mark Warnquist
CEO & Founder
InShare Services
Mark Warnquist is Co-Founder & CEO of InShare, which provides Insurance and Claims solutions for the Sharing Economy. Prior to InShare, Mark was responsible for Uber's Global Claims function with operations in US/Canada, LatAm, EMEA and APAC. He has worked closely with leading insurers and Insurtech firms globally to deliver a superior end-to-end claims experience within the Sharing Economy. A former trial lawyer with two large national law firms, Mark also served as Chief Claims Officer with Aviva Canada and held a number of senior Claims roles with Travelers, including Group General Counsel (Staff Counsel) and VP of General Liability Claims.
Brian Warren
Director, Risk Management
Brian Warren is the Director of the Business Risk Management team at Microsoft where he manages a broad range of risk financing for the company. Over his 20+ year Microsoft career he's led or participated in many projects and initiatives including enterprise risk management, alternative risk financing, captive planning & management, loss contingency reporting, claims management, internal risk consulting, and credit & collections. Prior to Microsoft, Brian was a financial analyst with Allstate Insurance Company and served in the US Army as a field artillery officer. He earned his economics degree from Princeton University.
Marc Wheeler
Managing Partner
Strategic Operations
Marc is the founder and Managing Partner at Strategic Options helping high-growth companies in driving business value by deliberately and strategically growing their direct to consumer acquisition and monetization efforts. Building on a robust background in insurance, consumer-packaged goods and e-commerce, Marc founded the company to focus on working with incumbents and startups in the insurtech space. In guiding Strategic Options, he draws on having led the marketing efforts at NetQuote, SelectQuote, OneAmerica- Individual and as the former president of CAA. In addition, Marc advises a range of businesses across industries, works with investors in providing D2C distribution insights, and serves as a mentor to accelerator programs including Plug&Play, GIA and Techstars.
Richie Whitt
Markel Corporation
Richard "Richie" Whitt is Co-CEO of Markel Corporation (NYSE: MKL), a diverse financial holding company including insurance, reinsurance, and investment operations around the world and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Richie is responsible for worldwide insurance and reinsurance operations, insurance-linked securities fund managers, and the company's shared service teams. Markel has been very active over the past 20 years from a mergers and acquisitions standpoint, and Richie has been a central figure within the organization on all of its major transactions. Richie is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he earned a degree in accounting and information systems.
Christian Wiens
CEO & Co-Founder
Getsafe GmbH
Christian wants to challenge one of the largest industries in the world building one of the world's up and rising digital insurance companies—as the Founder and CEO of Getsafe. Engineer by education, he is a young yet already experienced digital entrepreneur with a strong tech background.
Beth Wood
Principal Financial Group
Beth is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Principal Financial Group. She leads the Global Center for Brand and Insights. Prior to joining Principal, Beth led Marketing Strategy and Operations for Guardian's Individual Lines business. At Guardian, her team focused on Marketing digital transformation, client acquisition and engagement engendering consumer preference for Guardian to and through its network of general agencies and their agents. With 25 years of Brand Management and Marketing experience, Beth has worked at industry leading organizations such as PepsiCo's Frito-Lay and healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson. She made her first foray into financial services where she championed major marketing initiatives at MassMutual.
Robert Weidinger
Chief Digital Officer
Lebensversicherung von 1871 a.G. München
Robert Weidinger studied mathematics and computer science in Munich, Germany. Since the 1990s he has been involved in the digitalisation of life insurance, initially on behalf of IT consulting companies. In 2003, he became Head of IT at LV 1871 in Munich, and in 2017 he was appointed Chief Digital Officer. In this role he is responsible not only for IT but also for digitization, organizational development, process and project management.
Robert Wentling
VP, P&C Modernization
Robert Wentling is VP, P&C Modernization at USAA and brings an extensive track record of building strategies and executing sustainable business transformations leading enterprise-wide teams to achieve both top line and bottom line growth. At USAA, Rob is accountable for leading the Modernization effort for USAA's $19B P&C Insurance Division. Focus includes Policy Administration, Claims, Billing, Data, and Agency technology, processes, and data. Speaking on Monday's "Insurtech Meets Coretech" panel.
Pier Westra
VP Claims & Operations
Allied Trust Insurance Company
Pier has over 33 years of experience managing claims and operations for regional as well as national books of business. After college, he began his career working for Allstate Insurance as a multi-line adjuster in Florida. Since that time, Pier has held increasingly complex management roles with companies that include Claims Manager with the Florida JUA's (precursor to Citizens), Regional Property Director with the Hartford, Vice President for third party administrator American Claims Management. Pier is currently VP of Claims and Operations for Allied Trust Insurance, a multiline carrier based in Tampa, FL.
Owen Williams
CIO - Insurance
Everest Reinsurance Company
Owen Williams is the Insurance CIO at Everest Reinsurance Group; he is responsible for the technology strategy and implementation of solutions in support of the insurance company operations. He has worked in the insurance industry for over 27 years in a variety of roles at Chubb, Tokio Marine, and Hamilton USA (Attune/Blackboard). Owen is results-oriented and possesses an outstanding business and information technology background; with a proven track record of delivering quality results by building strong partnerships between business groups and IT teams. Recognized as a driven and passionate industry thought leader, Owen is regularly invited to speak at technology conferences, industry podcasts and has written numerous technical publications.
Mindi Wilsey
Head of Service Delivery Enablement
Mutual of Omaha
Mindi Wilsey is Vice President, Head of Service Delivery Enablement at Mutual of Omaha. In this role, she provides oversight and direction on transformational initiatives that impact Mutual of Omaha's service environment. Wilsey joined Mutual of Omaha as a Claims Analyst in 1997. She earned numerous promotions within Customer service areas. Prior to assuming her current position, she served as Director, Policyowner Operations, within the Enable Customer Self-Service Department, a position she has served in since 2016. Wilsey earned a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration from Bellevue University. Mindi resides in Papillion, Nebraska with her husband Chris, and two children, Kyleigh (15) and Blake (12).
Ty Wooldridge
CEO & President
Aetna Senior Supplemental Insurance
Ty leads the Aetna Medicare Supplement and Ancillary product businesses from Nashville, Tennessee. Under his leadership, annual revenues have grown from less than $300 million to $1.9 billion, placing Aetna among the top three carriers in the industry. Ty is a recovering actuary with over 30 years of insurance experience including senior leadership roles in Life, Long-Term Care, Structured Settlements, Annuities, Medicare Supplement and Insurance Mergers & Acquisitions for companies including First Colony Life, General Electric, Genworth Financial and Aetna. Ty's greatest accomplishments are by far his two daughters, Beth and Kim. He is an avid golfer, frequent industry speaker, and very active in government relations work. He holds a BS degree in Mathematics from Liberty Baptist College and the actuarial designations MAAA (1989) and FSA (1992).
Howard Yeh
CEO & Co-Founder
Howard Yeh is the CEO of HealthCare.com, which he cofounded in 2014 and which has grown into a profitable, 70-person online health insurance company providing comparison and proprietary coverage solutions for consumers, and performance marketing for insurance companies. Howard is an experienced serial entrepreneur in building digital products and data-driven customer acquisition in the insurance vertical. Before HealthCare.com, Howard co-founded ContactUs.com in 2012, a marketing software acquired in 2015. He was previously co-founder and COO of BrokersWeb, which was acquired in 2011. Previously, he was a VC investor at VantagePoint Capital Partners and an investment banker at Merrill Lynch.
Andrew Yeoman
Andy is the CEO of Concirrus, and the driving force behind the world's first fully digital AI tools for commercial insurance underwriting. Concirrus has harnessed the power of advanced data analytics, AI and Machine Learning working across the market with Marsh, Willis Re, TransRe, Chaucer and more to improve loss ratios and profits. Andy has extensive experience in the insurance market and is a recognized
authority on the impact of digital technologies in Marine Insurance – the most traditional insurance market.
Andy has a background in fast growth and innovative companies including Trimble Navigation, ClickSoftware (recently acquired by Salesforce.com) and holds non-executive directorships and chairman roles as well as consulting regularly with the VC and PE industry.
Jamie Yoder
As President of Snapsheet, Jamie works closely with global clients to develop solutions that provide the best claims experience through Snapsheet's advanced software and technology. He leads go-to-market activities for claims management software, virtual appraisals and payments technology. Prior to Snapsheet, Jamie led PwC's Insurance Advisory Practice and the Future of Insurance global research program. Prior to PwC, Jamie led the insurance practice at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. Jamie has a bachelor's degree in computer science with minors in math and business from Indiana University Bloomington. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Children's Theatre.
Emily Zhang
Navitas Capital
Emily is a principal at Navitas Capital, where she helps in sourcing, underwriting, conducting due diligence, and communicating with LPs, strategics and investors. Recent Fund II investments include Katerra, Bowery, Matterport, Openspace, Aquicore, Peerstreet, and Truss. Prior to Navitas, Emily worked at Broadhaven Capital Partners, a boutique investment bank focused on M&A in the Financial Services Industry. Emily is a graduate of the Dual Degree Program between Sciences Po Paris and Columbia University.
Rick Zullo
Co-Founder & General Partner
Equal Ventures
Rick is Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures, an early-stage venture fund backing the founders and businesses disrupting legacy markets. Prior to co-founding Equal Ventures, Rick was an investor at Lightbank, a $200m early-stage venture fund, where he was involved in several companies in the insurance space, including Riskmatch, ClearCover, Paladin Cyber and Snapsheet amongst others. Prior to Lightbank, Rick worked with investment firms Foundation Capital, Bowery Capital and Lightview Capital and began his career as a strategy consultant at Deloitte. Rick received an MBA with Honors from Columbia Business School and graduated from the University of Richmond.
Amy Zupon
Amy Zupon has spent her entire career partnering with companies to develop software and data solutions to improve their business performance. This purpose drives her day-to-day leadership philosophy, and at Vertafore, this mindset allows her to put the customer experience above all else. Whether it's giving Vertafore clients better access to their data or driving efficiencies by automating current practices, Amy and Vertafore strive to deliver results that drive real improvements for the community they serve.
Yaron Ben-Zvi
CEO & Co-Founder
Haven Life Insurance Agency
A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Wharton School of Business, Yaron Ben-Zvi loves building things that make a difference. That's how he became co-founder and CEO of Haven Life, MassMutual's in-house startup that sets the pace for life insurance innovation. Yaron worked with several startups before launching Haven Life in industries as varied as asset management and media, yet life insurance's complexity and opportunity kept calling to him. When Yaron and his wife were expecting their first child, Yaron decided to purchase a life insurance policy but didn't know much about his options or what kind of life insurance to buy. When he decided to buy term life insurance, he was surprised he couldn't purchase it online.
After completing the strenuous process of purchasing term life insurance, Yaron felt there had to be a simpler, more convenient and online way to purchase it. In 2015, he co-founded Haven Life to bring this simple idea to life.