Ruth Foxe Blader

Partner

Anthemis Group

Ruth Foxe Blader is a Partner at Anthemis and thought leader in fintech and insurtech. At Anthemis, Ruth leads strategic investment efforts across Europe and North America. Ruth specializes in technology-enabled business models, insurance technology, risk transfer, early stage investing, product strategy and digital transformation. Prior to joining Anthemis, Ruth worked for Allianz SE, where she spearheaded leading digital innovation efforts. She was a founding member of the AllianzX team, where she led investments in startups including Lemonade, MoneyFarm, Argus Cyber Security and SimpleSurance. A New Jersey native, Ruth has spent the last decade between New York, London and Paris. In 2018 and 2019, Ruth was recognized for her outstanding contribution to the global financial technology ecosystem and listed among the Women in Fintech Powerlist by Innovate Finance. She currently serves on the boards of Axle, Demex, Flock, Hokodo, InsurData, Kaiko, Proportunity, Stable and Xapix.

Assaf Wand

CEO & Co-Founder

Hippo

Assaf Wand is the co-founder and CEO of insurtech startup Hippo. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Hippo has reimagined home insurance through the lens of homeowners – building policies with more comprehensive coverage for today's consumers at up to 25% less than competitors. The high-growth company is valued at more than $1 billion and has expanded its footprint to offer products to more than half of the US homeowner population in less than 2 years. 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.

Jeffrey Dailey

CEO

Farmers

Jeff Dailey is CEO of Farmers Group, Inc. (Farmers). Dailey joined Farmers in 2007 as President of Personal Lines when Farmers acquired Bristol West. He had been the Bristol West CEO since 2006. In January 2011, he was promoted to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Farmers Group, Inc. Dailey was named to his current role of CEO of Farmers Group, Inc. effective January 1, 2012.

Dailey’s career in the insurance industry spans more than three decades. After a short stint as a claims adjuster with Mutual Service Insurance, he joined Progressive Insurance Company and quickly moved up the ranks. He went on to form Reliant Insurance Company, an auto insurance start-up owned by Reliance Group Holdings, which was sold to Bristol West Holdings Inc. in 2001. From 2001 until 2004, Mr. Dailey was COO of Bristol West and, in 2004, he was named President of Bristol West. He was instrumental in taking the company public with its listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:BRW) and the sale of $345 million of common stock. Dailey was named Bristol West’s Chief Executive Officer in 2006.

Education: Dailey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Juan Andrade

CEO

Everest Re

Juan C. Andrade is President and Chief Executive Officer of Everest Re Group, Ltd., a leading global provider of reinsurance and insurance solutions.

Mr. Andrade has close to 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, successfully leading large and complex domestic and international businesses. He has served in executive leadership roles in underwriting, product development and innovation, claims, sales and distribution, strategy development, and general management.

Mr. Andrade joined Everest from Chubb where he was responsible for their general insurance business in more than 50 countries outside of North America.

Before commencing his insurance career, Mr. Andrade worked in national security and international affairs within the U.S. Federal Government’s Executive Branch and The Executive Office of the President.

Mr. Andrade serves on the Board of Directors of USAA, a leading provider of insurance, investing, and banking solutions to members of the U.S. military, veterans, and their families. He was recently recognized by Latino Leaders Magazine for his service and contributions to USAA. Mr. Andrade serves on the Board of Overseers of the St. John’s University School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science. Mr. Andrade is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Institutes, an organization committed to meeting the evolving professional development needs of the risk management and insurance community. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), the primary national trade association for the insurance industry.

Mr. Andrade received a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism with a minor in Political Science from the University of Florida and was honored as a Distinguished Alumni in 2018. Mr. Andrade was also inducted into the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Hall of Fame in 2021. This honor recognizes alumni who have excelled in their careers and has only been awarded to 165 individuals since inception in 1970. He serves on the University of Florida Foundation National Board.

He also holds a Master of Arts degree in International Economics and Latin American Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Guy Goldstein

CEO & Co-Founder

Next Insurance

Guy Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Next Insurance. He is an experienced entrepreneur and executive, bringing nearly two decades of management, strategy and product development experience to his role as CEO. Since founding Check in 2007, (acquired by Intuit for $360M), Guy has raised over $430 million in venture capital funding. He has a history of driving rapid growth for his companies, growing Check from zero to ten million members and Next Insurance to a $100M annual run rate. He has a proven track record in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions and as research and development leader. During his seven-year tenure at Mercury Interactive (later acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Guy helped establish the company-wide inorganic growth roadmap and strategic planning process, resulting in three acquisitions and nearly one billion in revenue. As Senior Director of Mercury Interactive’s R&D division, Guy managed an international team of engineers and QA that built products generating $350 million in sales. At Hewlett-Packard, Guy led inorganic growth expansion acquisitions to develop HP’s Business Intelligence strategy. Guy graduated cum laude from Tel-Aviv University with a bachelor’s degree in Business and Computer Science.

Philip Edmundson

CEO & Founder

Corvus Insurance

Philip Edmundson is the founder and CEO of Corvus Insurance, a specialty commercial InsurTech company that is reimagining commercial insurance through smarter policies that make companies safer and brokers more successful. A 40+ year insurance veteran, Phil started his career with Willis and later co-founded broker William Gallagher Associates (acquired by Arthur J Gallagher in 2015) and was an active leader in both the Worldwide Broker Network and Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers. Phil is the Managing Partner of Edmus Ventures where he invests in InsurTech companies including Verifly, Hi Marley, reThought, Agentero, and CoverWallet, and served on the board of CoverWallet until its acquisition in 2020 by Aon.

Niji Sabharwal

CEO & Co-Founder

AgentSync

Niji Sabharwal is Chief Executive Officer and cofounder of AgentSync. Niji believes that technology can enable scaled innovation across the massive, fragmented insurance industry. And he and the team at AgentSync are focused on building a product that reduces friction, increases efficiency, and maintains compliance, ultimately allowing industry leaders to modernize their businesses and insurtech startups to enter and scale faster.

Before co-founding AgentSync with his wife, who is also the company’s CTO, Niji worked in sales strategy and operations roles at Zenefits, where he also led the producer licensing and broker compliance response team as the company worked to overcome regulatory compliance issues. Prior to that, he led sales strategy and operations at LinkedIn.

Kim Reynolds

Governor of Iowa

Iowa

Mark Allan

CEO

Ki Insurance

Mark is Chief Executive Officer of Ki, the first fully digital algorithmically driven follow-only Lloyd’s syndicate. Ki has been formed in partnership with Brit, backed by Fairfax and Blackstone with a $500m capital commitment.

Prior to Ki Mark joined Brit in April 2010 and led the Group’s strategic review and corporate restructuring as the Director of Strategic Planning and Business Improvement. Prior to his appointment to Chief Financial Officer he held the role of Chief Risk Officer and Director of Strategy.

Prior to Brit, Mark led high-profile strategic projects for a range of large clients at McKinsey & Company. Mark has also held Non-Executive Director positions at Compare the Market, where he was Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, and at Simply Business.

Mark is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and holds an MA (hons) degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

John Abel

Technical Director, Office of the CTO

Google

John Abel is a developer turned innovator. His focus is driving customer success blending new technologies such as Blockchain, AI, Internet of Things with existing, deployed, systems to help make ideas become not just reality, but commercially relevant.

John works within a diverse team drawn from multiple backgrounds and skill sets to ensure synergies of various perspectives working together comes to the fore. John also supports a number of STEM projects that are aimed at enhancing participation overall but particularly from a wider range of backgrounds. John is also very proud of being an ambassador for British Dyslexia Association

John began his technology career nearly 30 years ago, working on early AI and even distributed ledger technologies that were deployed to great impact in private and public sector environments. His expertise across many roles within Oracle and now Google in security and data technologies have led to him being a renowned industry speaker, author and commentator on technical and business innovation issues.

Mark V. Anquillare

President & Chief Operating Officer

Verisk

Mark V. Anquillare is Verisk’s president and chief operating officer, overseeing the company’s businesses, customer experience, and enterprise risk management.

Mark’s deep experience in the insurance industry, combined with his analytical and data-focused perspective, keeps Verisk at the forefront of the changes shaping the industry. His passion for innovation and smart investments in technology continues to move the company forward.

With an emphasis on team-building, Mark has also been instrumental in driving operational excellence across Verisk, focusing on best-in-class customer experience, lean six sigma, global talent optimization, and use of AI and machine learning to drive internal efficiencies.

Mark’s career at Verisk is marked by key financial roles of increasing responsibility, culminating in his appointment as chief operating officer in 2016 and most recently as group president in 2021, more closely aligning the company’s enterprise risk assessment and management with Verisk’s core business operations.

His previous Verisk positions include chief financial officer from 2007 to 2016, controller from 2000 to 2007, and director of financial systems from 1992 to 2000. Before joining Verisk, Mark worked at Prudential Financial, where he focused on life insurance and property and casualty operations. Mark has been named a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (FLMI) after completing a comprehensive, intensive professional program on insurance and financial services.

Mark holds an MBA from the Rutgers Business School and a BBA from the University of Notre Dame. He’s active in his community and serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board.

Charlotte Halkett

Chief Underwriting Officer

ManyPets

Charlotte is Chief Underwriting Officer at ManyPets.

We love pets - which is why we’re on a mission to make the world a better place for pets and their parents. We offer pet insurance policies with generous pet health benefits that are designed with their needs in mind. We’ve helped more than half a million pets stay happy and healthy since launching in 2017 - and many more customers throughout the world are joining us every day. We’ve won numerous awards, have offices in the USA, UK, and Sweden - and we now employ over 400 people globally.

Charlotte joined ManyPets’ (then Bought By Many)'s Senior Leadership Team in 2019 and been a key part of their impressive growth to insurtech Unicorn.

Charlotte has been building insurtechs for the last 12 years and is a passionate advocate for the evolution of the insurance industry. Her previous insurtech successes in Auto Telematics and Homeowners’ followed a decade as an Actuarial Consultant. Charlotte is always keen to hear from potential partners in the pet, tech and insurance ecosystems.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottehalkett/

Elixabete Larrea

Partner

McKinsey & Company

Elixabete focuses on helping leading property-and-casualty (P&C) insurance carriers to design next-generation operating models for a digital world. She brings order and discipline to the many digital initiatives that companies are pursuing, concentrating on the end-to-end customer journey as well as the supporting processes and breaking down organizational silos. Elixabete leverages her deep expertise in P&C claims and digital services—including lean processes, advanced analytics, robotics, and automation—to help companies implement these redesigned operating models and realize value from their efforts. She also focuses on building capabilities, especially for leadership teams, to sustain the operational transformation.

In addition to her client work, Elixabete is passionate about increasing opportunities for women in corporate leadership and often speaks and writes about diversity and inclusion topics.

Adrian Jones

Partner

HSCM Ventures

Adrian Jones is a partner at HSCM Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., an alternative asset manager in re/insurance and transport. HSCM Ventures seeks investment opportunities to support InsurTech entrepreneurs from the founding of their companies through exit. Before joining HSCM in 2021, he was Deputy CEO of P&C Partners at SCOR, the global reinsurer, where he set-up and led SCOR P&C Ventures. From 2010 to 2016, he was head of strategy at RenaissanceRe. He started his career in 2001 at Bain & Co and has lived in New York, Paris, Bermuda, Brussels, and Stockholm.

Steven Zuanella

Group Chief Digital Officer

Generali