Jay Weintraub

Co-Founder, ITC 
CEO and Co-Founder, Connectiv Holdings 

Jay Weintraub is the CEO and Co-Founder of Connectiv Holdings, creators of InsureTech Connect, the world’s largest event focused on insurance innovation and disruption. Weintraub is passionate about face to face as a means for catalyzing industries and has spent the past ten years creating industry leading events including LeadsCon and Grow.co. Today, in addition to InsureTech Connect, Connectiv Holdings has created and operates HR Transform, Manifest, and Blueprint. Jay is an investor in more than 40 companies and has been an advisor to a dozen more. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Caribou Honig

Co-Founder, ITC
Partner, 3rd Act/SemperVirens Venture Capital

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.  

Kobi Bendelak

Founder, InsurTech Israel

Kobi is the CEO of InsurTech Israel, which he established to promote and lead the Israeli Insurtech ecosystem. The company has four areas of activity: investments, consulting, media, and acceleration program. All those activities make InsurTech Israel the leading and most active company in the Israeli Insurtech space.

Kobi was the founder and CEO of Reshef Insurance Brokers, part of Migdal / Generali Insurance Group. Kobi has 22 years’ of experience in the insurance industry and holds a BA in Management and an MA in Law from Bar Ilan University and he is a Colonel (Reserve) in the IDF. 

Hugues Bertin

CEO & Founder,
Digital Insurance LATAM

Hugues Bertin is the CEO and Founder of Digital Insurance LatAm, the first strategy consulting firm in innovation and digital transformation within the Latam insurtech ecosystem. He is a Partner of HCS Capital, a VC Fund dedicated in Insurtech, Cyber and Fintech for LatAm, US and Israel. He is the #1 Top Voices Insurtech ranking by The LatAm Insurtech and in the top 100 of insurance innovator ranking published by Lightico. He is also the Managing Director of The-Digital-Insurer Academy for LatAm. Hugues is also the Director and Co-founder of InsurteChile, Association of Chilean Insurtechs, Co-organizer of Insurtech LatAm Forum event. He graduated as an actuary in France, he spent 20 years in Europe and Latin America, where he has led or advised actors in the insurance industry. Former CFO, CDO and Chief Actuary of BNPP Cardif Argentina, Ex-Advisor of SSN (Argentinean regulator) for SSN Innovation hub. He was also board member as vice-president of BNPP Investment Partner Argentina.

Stacey Brown

Head of Global Technology Innovation, Insurtech Hartford

Stacey Brown is an insurance technology executive with a strong tech background and a successful track record for transforming organizations where diverse experience, strong intuition, persistence, and hard work is needed. Stacey is known for leading and differentiating by building a data-driven, technology-led culture. Atop his responsibilities as an insurance IT executive, Stacey leads a globally recognized InsurTech community known as InsurTech Hartford. Stacey is recognized as a top InsurTech influencer and has an expansive global network.

Tanguy Catlin

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co.

Tanguy helps companies build out their digital capabilities to deliver rapid results and sustained growth. He leads the McKinsey Digital hubs across North America and Mexico. Until recently, Tanguy shepherded the firm’s property and casualty insurance work in North America.

Tanguy helps leading global financial-services firms with analytics transformations, digitally enabled business model transformations, and core-technology-modernization programs. He also serves insurance clients more broadly on issues ranging from strategy and organization design to claims and underwriting.

Tanguy was a Siebel scholar and Fulbright fellow. He is a trustee of Carano for Children, a former member of the MIT Sloan alumni board and of the Massachusetts chapter of March of Dimes.  

Bryan Davis

EVP, Head of Personal Lines,
VIU by HUB

Bryan leads HUB’s transactional lines growth strategy. An industry leader in digital innovation, he previously headed up strategy and planning for P&C insurance at USAA.

Bryan’s experience with P&L across Property Casualty & Financial Services including personal lines & commercial lines in product management & pricing, sales/business development, underwriting and operations, empowers him to deliver impactful solutions. As the brains behind VIU by HUB, Bryan has been instrumental in creating and bringing to market an omni-channel brokerage platform enabled by modern technology that delivers a personal and easy insurance experience.

Max Drucker

CEO, Carpe Data

For two decades Carpe Data CEO Max Drucker has led innovation for the insurance industry as a data visionary, always at 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 is now owned by LexisNexis, earning him recognition by Insurance & Technology Magazine as one of the Top 10 Innovators of the Decade. 

Hilario Itriago

Chairman,
The LATAM Insurtech Accelerator
President, BOXX Insurance USA

Hilario has over 22 years in the industry having worked in markets such as the UK, the Baltics, and LATAM with RSA Insurance Group. He was Regional COO and then CEO of a $1. 2 billion business with operations in 6 countries from Mexico to Argentina.

In late 2016 Hilario co-founded and was the CEO of Bullfrog Ventures, the first Insurtech ecosystem in LATAM (acquired by Rokk3r). He later joined NetBrokrs, an international Broker Network investing in Insurtechs such as WeCover.co and Clupp.com.mx, where he is a Board Member/NED. Today he leads Boxx Insurance USA as President and co-leads BrokerTech Ventures LATAM.

Andrew Johnston

Global Head of InsurTech, Gallagher Re

Dr. Andrew Johnston leads the Gallagher Re InsurTech practice.  Andrew is an experienced Researcher and business developer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Financial Risk, Intercultural Communication, Politics, Policy Analysis, Languages and Political Science.

Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Politics from School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London. Expertise in the studies of widespread political violence, genocide, politics and economics.

Tomasz Kurczyk

CIO, Prudential

Tomasz started his career in Poland as an entrepreneur, then turned into a consultant. After working across multiple industries and 16 countries, he now serves as Chief Information Technology Officer at Prudential Financial in Singapore. Tomasz actively participates in FinTech and InsurTech ecosystem development as SFA ExCo and Chair of the InsurTech subcommittee. He is also a start-up advisor, mentor and angel investor. Tomasz holds an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management (US) and HKUST (Hong Kong) and MSc in Computer Systems from Politecnico di Milano (Italy).   

Arti Rai

SVP, Head of Product Marketing & Insights, Swiss Re

Arti Rai is the Head of Product Marketing & Insights at Swiss Re Reinsurance Solutions, leading a global team of marketing professionals focused on strengthening the Solutions brand and growing its market share.  

She is an integrated marketer with over 16 years’ experience building foundational, end-to-end marketing strategies and initiatives for a diverse range of companies, from Fortune 100 brands to emerging startups. A leader and doer who simplifies the complex, builds trust through empathy, and influences stakeholders with original ideas & enthusiastic collaboration.

Sabine VanderLinden

CEO & Founder, Alchemy Crew, formerly SBC

Sabine VanderLinden has 25 years’ experience delivering growth strategies within the insurance industry. Co-creation lab expert. Co-editor and author of The INSURTECH Book. Recipient of four UK innovation awards. Launched Startupbootcamp Insurtech and grew it to Europe’s largest Insurtech accelerator. Launched Insurtech Hub in Hartford, CT. Teaches InsurTech disruption at Bayes Business School. 

Eduardo Viegas

COO, KOVR

Mr. Viegas, COO and partner, joined KOVR in August of 2020. The former CEO of Berkley Brazil, Eduardo has graduated in Economics at Washington Adventist University (Maryland – USA) and in Business Administration at FAAP (Sao Paulo – Brazil). Over 20 years of experience, mostly dedicated in underwriting (Surety, Trade Credit, Financial Lines and P&C) for large international insurance companies.