Colleen Wells

VP, Global Digital Product Strategy

Sapiens

Innovative, collaborative, visionary strategist and digital evangelist. Extensive business acumen, technology prowess and leadership experience. Adept in partnering with senior level executives to identify, develop and discern those distinctive capabilities that help carriers succeed. Passionately committed to all facets of Insurtech & keeping a keen eye on digital disruptors and the technologies that drive the insurance industry forward.

Jihan Abass

CEO & Founder

Lami

Jihan is currently the Founder and CEO of Lami, an Insurance-as-a-Service platform and API. Lami has digitized the entire insurance value-chain from KYC, pricing, underwriting and claims processing all in one platform and API that can be used to distribute any type of insurance product at any point of sale. She set up Lami with the aim of increasing insurance penetration in the developing world. Prior to starting Lami, she worked as a sugar trader in the City of London, trading on the New York and London sugar markets. She has an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Jonathan Abelmann

Co-Founder & President

Bestow

Jonathan Abelmann is an entrepreneur passionate about harnessing data and technology to transform industries. Jonathan is the Co-founder and President of Bestow, the leading digital life insurance platform that’s using technology to make coverage accessible to millions. In his role, Jonathan leads talented data scientists, engineers and product owners who are building transformative software that powers instant life insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes, across any channel.

Gil Arazi

Founder & Managing Partner

FinTLV Ventures

Gil is the Founder and Managing Partner of FinTLV Venture Capital - a leading global late stage Insurtech VC (Hippo, Next Insurance, Unqork, Corvus, wefox and many more). FinTLV works very closely with dozens of the leading insurers and re-insurers - to provide real value to its’ portfolio companies. Therefore, Gil is a board member/observer in Hippo, Next Insurance, Corvus and more) .Gil has 20 Years’ experience as a senior executive and board member at the largest insurance companies in Israel. A seasonal entrepreneur in the insurtech startup ecosystem.

Itai Ben-Zaken

CEO & Co-Founder

Honeycomb

Itai Ben-Zaken is the Co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb, an MGA providing simple, fair, and affordable multi-family property insurance through its end-to-end digital platform. Before founding Honeycomb, Itai was the Co-founder and CEO of Comprendi, an award winning digital marketing startup. Prior to that Itai managed a $100M Digital Insurance business unit at NASDAQ:QNST, which included Insurance.com and CarInsurance.com. Itai holds a B.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Yaron Ben-Zvi

CEO

Haven Life

Yaron Ben-Zvi is the co-founder and CEO of Haven Life, as well as the Head of Platform Innovation for MassMutual. In this role, Yaron oversees the strategy and vision of direct-to-consumer initiatives and is responsible for the delivery of an end-to-end digital life insurance transactional platform. His interest in life insurance began as a customer when he set out to buy a policy for himself and found existing solutions had not realized the potential of digital capabilities. Previously, Yaron was a founder of several early-stage companies, including a digital life insurance agency as well as a robo-advisor.

Yamini Bhatt

CEO & Co-Founder

Vymo

Yamini is Co-founder & CEO of Vymo, the Sales Acceleration Platform of choice for 200K users in over 60 Financial Institutions like AIA, Aflac, Berkshire Hathaway, and Generali. Vymo is funded by Sequoia Capital and Emergence Capital. She is recognized as a thought leader in driving Sales Transformation and New Technology Implementation for large enterprises. In a career spanning over 17 years, she has delivered a tremendous impact for Fortune 100 companies and Startups alike. She was previously Engagement Manager at McKinsey, specializing in Marketing Strategy and Sales & Distribution for Financial Services, Retail, and Telecom across the globe.

Neda Blocho

Principal, Head of Studios

Avanta Ventures

Neda is a Principal and Head of Studios at Avanta Ventures, focusing on investing and helping startups across the insurtech and mobility verticals. Neda's path to entrepreneurship began the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she helped to build and run the Stanford Venture Studio program. Neda went on to StartX (the Stanford affiliated accelerator program) before joining Pear Ventures, focusing on investing in pre-seed startups across a variety of industries. Neda also volunteers with Moms Against Poverty (MAP), a non-profit whose mission is to nurture and educate underprivileged and to break the cycle of poverty.

Ilya Bodner

CEO & Founder

Bold Penguin

Ilya Bodner has changed the way people buy, sell, and think about commercial insurance. A startup enthusiast and insurtech pioneer, Ilya is the founder and CEO of Bold Penguin, a rapidly growing tech company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Ilya started his career on the front lines as an agent, and has been on a mission to upgrade the industry through one successful startup after another. Recent recognitions include “Executive of the Year” by BizTech and Best in Biz, “People’s Choice Innovation Leader of the Year” by the Insurance Innovation Awards, and Columbus Business First’s “40 Under 40” Class of 2019.

Phil Brown

Head of Insurance GTM

Glia

Phil Brown leads Glia’s Insurance industry go to market strategy where he is responsible for developing and managing partnerships with large systems integrators and insurance industry technology vendors. Phil has a wealth of experience in the software industry as a solutions and alliances specialist, formerly with companies including Oracle, PeopleSoft, VUE Software & CallidusCloud. Phil is originally from Melbourne Australia and holds an MBA from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. In his spare time, Phil is keen cricket fan, fashion photographer and aspiring musician.

James Buckley-Thorp

CEO & Founder

Bequest

James Buckley-Thorp, exited-founder of the international clothing brand [Rupert and Buckley]. James spent his early career launching what soon became a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 clothing brand. Opening stores across the UK and in over an additional 125 locations and internationally. James later sold and exited Rupert and Buckley in 2016. In late 2019 James founded Bequest, which aims to reinvent life insurance, in both its distribution and how it fits into our modern day lives. Bequest are global winners of Insurtech Connect 2020, as well as ranking 4th must watch life insurers of 2021. During the pandemic, Bequest responded with a free legal will writing platform, which made Bequest number 1 in terms of startups helping the UK through the pandemic.

Tyrre Burks

CEO & Founder

Player's Health

As the CEO and Founder of Player's Health Tyrre have spent the last decade developing resources to bring much-needed Risk Management Resources to Amateur Sports Organizations. Tyrre has focused his life’s mission to create a world of love, acceptance, and safety for all in the amateur sports industry. He has become one of the most recognized executives in sports tech. As a former professional athlete, college coach, sports administrator, parent, and now business owner within the amateur sport, this has led him to create Player’s Health. The progress of Player's health has naturally linked to also include Insurance products and solutions that use data to better underwrite and segment the risk of sports organizations.

Zehra Cataltepe

CEO & Co-Founder

TAZI

After getting her Ph.D. from Caltech in Computer Science, Zehra worked at Bell Labs, StreamCenter and then Siemens Corporate Research. She has over 30 years of machine learning experience in industry and academia, 18 patents, 100+ publications. In 2019-2020, Zehra was chosen 3X Women Entrepreneur of the Year. Zehra aims to disrupt the way AI is deployed through agile and easy to use, no-code AI solutions serving and working with and for the business users in insurance companies. This approach made TAZI a Gartner Cool Vendor and with the current timing it will bring endless opportunities to the insurance industry.

Max Chee

Head of Aquiline Technology Growth

Aquiline Capital Partners

With over 20 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, MoneyTap, Pledg and serves on the Boards of Carpe Data, Super Home, and Vericred.

Sina Chehrazi

CEO & Co-Founder

Nayya

Sina Chehrazi is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nayya, a software company that uses AI and data science to personalize the way that employees choose and use their benefits. Leveraging billions of external data points, Nayya drives individualized guidance during open enrollment and employee engagement all year long. Headquartered in New York, Nayya has raised $50M to date from top investors including Iconiq Growth, SVB Capital, Felicis Ventures, Guardian Strategic Ventures, Unum Business Ventures, and CNO Financial Group. Sina is a graduate of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and Georgetown Law. He began his career as a corporate attorney prior to building the insurance verticals at two NY-based technology companies. Sina has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence and mentor at the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in Manhattan, where Sina lives today.

Teresa Chia

Managing Director

Post Mills Capital

Teresa Chia is the Managing Director of Post Mills Capital, where she provides advisory and consulting services to growth oriented businesses in the insurance, financial services, and consumer sectors. She also serves as a Board Director at Kinsale Capital Group. Previously, she served as a Managing Director at White Mountains Capital, a subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, where she focused on the company's direct investing and merger and acquisition activity in the insurance and financial services sectors. Prior to joining White Mountains, she was a private equity investment professional at Permira Advisers and Nautic Partners, and in investment banking at Credit Suisse. Teresa received a B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

John-Isaac Clark

CEO

Arturo

John-Isaac "JC" Clark, CEO of Arturo, has a deep background in Geospatial and Location-based services employing machine learning and big data analytics in both startup and corporate environments. Prior to joining Arturo, jC served as head of commercial product at MAXAR (formerly DigitalGlobe) where he worked to unify products across imagery, derived data sets, and machine learning-powered analytics. jC was also a co-founder at T-Sciences where he spent nearly a decade building location-based analytic products in close concert with Google Earth and Google Maps, and developed a passion for all things location. In addition to his role at Arturo, jC serves as a Techstars mentor and advisor and has a strong affinity for companies looking to push the envelope of what's possible to better understand our changing planet.

Chris Cline

National Agency Distribution Leader

Westfield

Through Chris Cline’s 25+ years in the insurance industry, he has established himself as an industry resource for topics such as perpetuation, merger and acquisition, culture, agency operations, marketing and sales, data and analytics, and has had multiple speaking engagements around these topics. At Westfield, Chris leads a team that is focused on the entire agency life cycle and is responsible for implementing the distribution strategy initiative. Since joining Westfield in 1994, he has held positions in a wide array of disciplines; ranging from graphic designer and marketing, sales, training, compliance and personal lines P&L leadership. Through his diverse experiences and life-long focus on continual learning (he’s a closet science geek), Chris has helped create and deliver meaningful agent experiences through a powerful combination of relationships and technology. He’s also the inquisitive and thought-provoking host of Westfield’s award winning podcast, Closing the Gap. Chris earned his Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Akron. Away from work, Chris and his family spend as much time as possible camping, racing BMX or mountain, playing guitar, or cruising the family hot rod.

David Connolly

Partner Financial Services

EY

David Connolly is EY’s Global Insurance IT & Innovation leader, based in Silicon Valley, CA. He and his team of 6,600+ professionals have vetted over 1,200 InsurTechs, and do so on an ongoing basis, building innovative solutions that enable property/casualty and life & benefits carriers to achieve business objectives that in many cases before were not possible. EY helps carriers define their digital strategy, then supports the implementation of the solutions necessary to rapidly bring to market new insurance products, new insurance capabilities, and to enable expansive marketplaces for carriers that extend well beyond what they individually provide, to better serve their customers.

Harry Croydon

CEO & President

Micro Insurance

Harry Croydon is co-founder of Micro Insurance Company (MIC) and is CEO and President of STP Group Holdings. Micro Insurance Company's mission is to build people and businesses a global safety net so that when the unexpected happens they can bounce back swiftly. Harry leads and empowers a world-class team to bring this mission alive through creating simple insurance products built around technology based on the principles of straight through processing. Micro Insurance Company is a full stack tech enabled platform that through B2B2C relationships is creating value and delivering millions of policies around the world. Prior to MIC, Harry worked in insurance for 17 years working with Lloyds, Willis, AON and AJG delivering tech solutions and building one of the first Cyber Insurance Lloyds brokers and before that 10 years working with Microsoft and other tech giants in the early days of the internet.

Melissa Danielsen

CEO & Co-Founder

Joshin

Melissa Danielsen is a serial entrepreneur, advocate and working mom in famtech. Melissa is passionate about identifying needs within underserved populations and uncovering innovative solutions to empower people. After her brother with disabilities suddenly passed away, she co-founded a service organization for adults with disabilities that was acquired nine years later. Through her experience as a Medicaid provider, sibling and parent, Melissa found that there was an unmet need for families who have children with special needs. This inspired the creation of the first-of-its-kind specialized care platform, Joshin, which matches families with special needs to qualified and background checked caregivers. Joshin is the largest care platform made exclusively for people with specialized care needs.

Ned Daoro

Principal

Clocktower

Ned focuses on CTV’s investment sourcing, due diligence, and execution. Prior to Clocktower, Ned worked at MUFG Union Bank in a corporate development role where he executed acquisitions, divestitures and other enterprise-level strategic initiatives. Before MUFG, he worked as an Equity Research Associate at Sandler O’Neill + Partners covering mid and small-cap financial institutions. Ned holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BS in Finance from California Polytechnic State University.

Aaron Davidson

Global Head of Insurance Industry Solutions

ServiceNow

Aaron Davidson is ServiceNow's Global Head of Insurance Industry Solutions. Aaron is responsible for the strategy and execution of modernizing middle and back-office operations in the insurance sector. Aaron joins us with 17 years of experience in the insurance industry including at Guidewire Software leading the Guidewire Cloud SaaS transformation, in the insurance practice at McKinsey & Company, and Aon as a Principal for Aon Inpoint and an Account Executive in Aon Risk Solutions. Aaron holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. Aaron also holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University.

Brune de Linares

Chief of Sales

AKUR8

Brune is Chief of Sales at Akur8. She started her career at IBM in consulting before transitioning to sales and sales management positions for complex products, including Cloud solutions. She left IBM to join Google Cloud where she spent 2 years in commercial roles, pushing for digital and data transformation of large corporations in the retail world, before joining Akur8 and taking the lead on global business development.

Paul Desmarais III

Executive Chairman & Co-Founder

Sagard

Paul Desmarais III is the Chairman and CEO of Sagard Holdings, the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Portag3 Ventures, and the Chairman and co-founder of Diagram. Within the investment portfolios of Portag3 Ventures and Sagard Holdings, he is the Chairman of Wealthsimple and Peak Achievement Athletics and a director of Koho, Integrate AI, and IntegraMed. Paul is also a Senior Vice President of Power Corporation of Canada and Power Financial of Canada. As a part of his responsibilities at the holdings, he sits on the boards of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, and Imerys. Prior to his current role, Paul worked at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division, Investment Group, and Special Situations Group; Imerys in supply chain management and strategy; and Great West Lifeco in risk management. Paul is a recipient of a B.A. in economics from Harvard College and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France.

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.

Huw Edwards

CEO & Co-Founder

CyberFortress

Huw is the co-founder and CEO of CyberFortress, a startup reinventing the way online business risk is assessed and priced. Their first product is a parametric downtime insurance policy. His background includes managing portfolio risk at Bridgewater and leading a cybersecurity division at Rackspace which he ended up acquiring in a management buyout. A Brit now living in Texas he is an avid ultrarunner and passionate bitcoiner.

Denny Ehrmin

AVP, P&C Marketing Integration

Nationwide

Denny Ehrmin has served in a wide variety of leadership roles at Nationwide. As the AVP, P&C Marketing he is responsible for Nationwide’s agency thought leadership program, digital experience, and suite of marketing benefits that help agents grow their businesses. Denny’s innovative work has won industry awards including the Appy, Halo, EventTech, and ANA’s B2 Award. He was also recognized as a Top 20 Under 40 by the Newark Advocate. Denny holds an MBA from The Ohio State University and Bachelor of Science from Wright State University.

Samuel Falmagne

CEO & Co-Founder

AKUR8

Samuel is CEO and co-founder of Akur8. Samuel started his tech career at IBM, where he spent 15 years in various international sales and sales management positions. He then joined an AI fraud detection Insurtech company, Shift Technology, as Head of Sales. Samuel was instrumental in the successful internationalization of Shift, including in the US. After 2 years at Shift, Samuel decided to apply his Insurtech expertise by transitioning to entrepreneurship and co-founding Akur8, to transform the insurance pricing sector with the next generation pricing solution.

Ilana Fletcher

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Air Doctor

Ilana Fletcher has 25 years of experience in developing critical strategic relationships, with a focus on Israeli technology and currently works as the Head of Strategic Partnerships at Air Doctor, an Israeli startup that connects travelers to private doctors worldwide. Her academic background (a Master of Science in Neuro-Psychology with honors from the University of Amsterdam), underscores Ilana’s emphasis on creating personal connections in her professional roles. These have included Senior Director of Sales and Business Development at IDT in Jerusalem; Senior Director at Omek Interactive (acquired by Intel), International Investor Relationships at OurCrowd; and VP of Corporate Relationships at ClearVuze.

David Fontain

CEO & Founder

Foresight

As founder and CEO of Foresight Commercial Insurance, David empowers a world-class team to bring insurtech value to the hard-to-place middle market. Armed with the belief that insurers should improve every business they underwrite, David builds insurance products that streamline dated processes and incentivize safety through the use of technology. When he’s not leading the nationally distributed team at Foresight, David is traveling, surfing, or reading and writing about workers comp.

Melanie Fountaine

COO & Co-Founder

Joshin

Melanie Fountaine is an entrepreneur, mom and lifelong learner. She is a passionate disability advocate and has dedicated her life and career to support individuals with disabilities and mental health needs. Melanie’s experiences as a sibling to a big brother with developmental disabilities created a deep understanding of resilience, inclusion and the beauty of the human spirit. When her brother suddenly passed away, Melanie took a pause and reflected on how her life’s work could more directly impact people with special needs. She co-founded her first company from a mission to provide services for adults with disabilities; which was acquired 9 years later. As she grew her first company, the inspiration to create Joshin emerged as a problem became clear - there was no care platform designed for families with special care needs to easily find pre-screened sitters and caregivers.

Jim Fowler

EVP, Chief Technology Officer

Nationwide

Jim Fowler is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Nationwide. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, technology capabilities and business innovation programs. Prior to joining Nationwide in 2018, Jim was Chief Information Officer for General Electric, where he led the company’s global information technology strategy, services, operations and internal digital transformation program. Prior to his 18-year career at GE, he held IT roles with NCR and Accenture. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management information systems and marketing from Miami University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Xavier University. He is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Jim serves as a national board member for YearUp, on the business school advisory board at Miami University, on the Columbus State Community College board of trustees and on the Columbus Collaboratory board of managers. He is well recognized for his results-oriented leadership style and his ability to drive innovation—and was recently recognized by Forbes with the CIO Innovation Award.

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.

Alex Frommeyer

CEO & Founder

Beam Dental

Alex Frommeyer is the cofounder and CEO of Beam Dental. Beam Dental is a digital-first dental benefits provider that incorporates dental hygiene behavior into policy pricing, combining an easy-to-use online insurance platform, AI-powered underwriting, and the connected Beam Toothbrush for better overall wellness. Beam has raised over $160 million in venture capital funding and is the only digital-first company within the $75 billion dental insurance industry. Beam also offers vision insurance, powered by VSP, and group term life coverage for employers of all sizes in partnership with Nationwide Insurance. Beam is available in 41 states around the U.S. and is accepted at over 400,000 access points nationwide.

Brian Gaab

Managing Principal, Strategy & Innovation

CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer

Brian Gaab is the Managing Principal of Core Innovation at CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA insurer. The company has been serving AAA members for over 100 years offering automobile and homeowners insurance. Recognized as a thought leader and advisor to the InsurTech ecosystem, Brian’s work has influenced transformative change across the insurance industry since he joined AAA in 2014. Brian focuses on implementing new technologies inside existing products and designing new innovative risk transfer solutions. He works side by side with partners to identify and explore new areas where AAA can innovate to make insurance simple, proactive, and personal.

Denise Garth

Chief Strategy Officer

Majesco

Denise Garth is Chief Strategy Officer 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.

Veysel Sinan Geylani

Founder & President

Virtual i Technologies

Sinan Geylani is the Founder & President of Virtual i Technologies and based in Zurich. He is technology and product architect for innovative insurance solutions. Sinan has over 16 years of experience in the insurance industry in various roles, companies and regions. His expertise ranges from the development of innovative products and strategic initiatives to clients in USA, Europe, Asia, MEA. Sinan has developed architecture and pricing models for new insurance products developed to serve the needs of new emerging economies. Sinan Geylani has an MBA degree from Columbia Business School, and holds a patent for continuous monitoring and dynamic underwriting pricing.

Morgan Girouard

CEO

Kamillio.com

Raised by a family of Insurance brokers Morgan was bred for the Industry with a vision for the future.

Matthew Glickman

VP Customer Product Strategy, Data Marketplace, Financial Services

Snowflake

Matt is an industry leader in enterprise data platforms. For over 20 years, he led the development of business-critical analytics platforms at Goldman Sachs.
As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the entire data platform of Goldman’s $1T asset management business. Matt also co-led Goldman’s risk management platform where his team built Goldman’s first, company-wide data warehouse that helped it navigate the 2008 financial crisis.In 2015, Matt joined Snowflake to run Product Management and then went on to launch the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Today, Matt leads the Financial Services business globally where he is driving customer and product strategy for one of Snowflake’s most important industry verticals.

Ron Glozman

CEO & Founder

Chisel AI

Ron Glozman is CEO and founder of Chisel AI. He is Co-Author of The AI Book, the first globally crowdsourced book on the applications of AI across insurance and financial services. Published by Wiley in 2020, the book brings together some of the industry’s best thought leaders, entrepreneurs and influencers. Named an “Insurance Innovator to Watch” by Digital Insurance Magazine, Ron is a frequent speaker at Insurance and Fintech conferences and hosts the podcast “AI Wisdom – Talking Insurance Innovation.” Chisel AI won Gold at the 2019 Zurich Innovation World Championship.

Shannon Goggin

CEO & Co-Founder

Noyo Technologies

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.

Evan Greenberg

Chairman & CEO

Chubb

Chubb is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. Over the course of more than 40 years in the insurance industry, Mr. Greenberg has held various underwriting and management positions and gained significant insight in the global property, casualty and life insurance sectors. Mr. Greenberg is Vice Chair of the National Committee on United States-China Relations and a Director of the US-China Business Council. Mr. Greenberg serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) in Beijing. Under Evan's leadership Chubb has become among the most innovative insurers and their work has pushed the entire industry forward.

Ramneek Gupta

Founder & Managing Partner

PruVen Capital

Ramneek is the founder and Managing Partner of PruVen Capital. Prior to PruVen, Ramneek co-founded and led the Global Venture Investing team at Citigroup. In this role, he built and managed the investing team, led venture investments in companies strategic to Citi and drove commercialization efforts between these companies and Citi Businesses. Ramneek led Citi Ventures’ investments in 25+ companies including Square (NYSE: SQ), Docusign (Nasdaq: DOCU), Jet.com (Acq by Walmart for $3.3B), Honey (Acq by Paypal for $4B), Feedzai, DataRobot, Homelight, Ujet and Grab among others. Prior to Citi, he was a Partner at Battery Ventures, where he helped build out the India investment effort as well as develop the local commerce and fin tech investment areas in the US. Ramneek is an active angel investor and advisor to several leading companies including Zappedy (Acq by Groupon), Cardspring (Acq by Twitter), CheckR (last valued at $2.5B), Robinhood (last valued at $11.2B), Ipsy, Vicarious and Gridspace.

Jamie Hale

CEO & Co-Founder

Ladder

Jamie Hale is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ladder, the award-winning digital life insurance company helping more people get covered in an instant, easy, and affordable way. Rooted in personal experience, Jamie’s deep belief that life insurance is a fundamentally good product for families and communities that should be as easy to navigate as the rest of today's modern buying experience inspired him to build Ladder and close the $16T coverage gap. Prior to co-founding Ladder, Jamie was Partner at Aldenwood Capital and at Oak Hill Investment Management. He also worked at NextCard, pioneering instant credit and the first ‘internet enabled’ Visa card. Jamie is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School.

Sean Harper

CEO & Co-Founder

Kin Insurance

Sean Harper is the CEO and co-founder of Kin Insurance, an insurance technology company and home insurance carrier built to make insurance easy, efficient, and affordable. Previously, Sean founded FeeFighters, a payments company bought by Groupon, and TSS-Radio, an ecommerce company that became an Inc. 500 fastest-growing company. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Sean was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and an investor at Longworth Venture Partners. He holds an AB from the University of Chicago, where he studied economics and computer science, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Tyree Harris

CEO & Co-Founder

Openly

Before founding Openly in 2017, Ty spent 12 years at Liberty Mutual, a top 5 global insurer, where he was most recently EVP and Chief Product Officer. In this role, Ty led an organization responsible for product, pricing, underwriting, and innovation across all personal lines of business. Prior to Liberty Mutual, Ty did research at the Brookings Institution and taught economics and statistics at MIT and Northeastern. A Duke and MIT alum, Ty is also a fully credentialed actuary (FCAS). Ty lives in Charleston, SC with his wife and two kids. He's an enthusiastic runner, snowboarder, windsurfer, and dad!

Assaf Henkin

Co-Founder & President

Sproutt Insurance

Assaf is a recognized expert on predictive analytics and data insights with more than 15 years of experience building scalable consumer-facing digital products. As the Co Founder & President of Sproutt, Assaf leads the company’s product and business functions. Previously, Assaf was Chief Insights Officer at Amobee, a Singtel wholly owned subsidiary. Prior to that Assaf was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Kontera, a big data marketing technology provider. Kontera was acquired by Singtel in June 2014 for $150 million. Assaf received his BS. in Computer Information Systems from San Francisco State University and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and Tel Aviv University.

Ben Hubbard

CEO & Co-Founder

Parsyl

Ben Hubbard is the co-founder and CEO of Parsyl Inc., an insurance technology company that delivers data driven cargo insurance solutions for essential supply chains in food and health. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ben led the creation of the Global Health Risk Facility at Lloyd’s of London, the world’s dedicated insurance solution for distributing Covid-19 vaccines and other essential health products around the globe. Ben is a former senior Obama Administration appointee where he served as Chief of Staff at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and later as the Director of USAID’s $3bn credit financing division, the Development Credit Authority (DCA). Before joining USAID, Ben worked in a range of leadership roles at leading global development organizations, including ONE and the Clinton Foundation. Ben earned a BA in Economics from Cornell University and currently resides in Denver, Colorado.

Valentina Isakina

Independent Board Member

Valentina A. Isakina is a Strategy & Transformation leader with over 20 years of experience. Ms. Isakina is widely recognized for her strategic vision, passion for making a difference, and ability to execute. She has been an advisor to the Heads of State, Fortune 100 CEOs, PE firms/hedge funds, non-profits, and startups alike, advising on strategy, innovation, and transformation. Her previous roles included a Sr. Advisor to the Office of Tony Blair, Managing Director for the Ohio Financial Services Sector digital transformation, and VP of Strategy for Nationwide Insurance. In addition, Valentina spent over a decade in consulting, including McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, and Milliman Inc. For her ecosystem and innovation accomplishments, Ms. Isakina was selected by the US Commerce Department as a “Fintech ecosystem catalyst” to represent the United States in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit “Women First” in Hyderabad, India. Ms. Isakina holds an MBA from Cornell, MAS (Master’s in Actuarial Science) and BBA (Risk Management & Finance) with honors from Georgia State University. She is a CFA charterholder, and a member of MENSA. However, her most proud accomplishment is being a mom to three amazing children, aged 11, 7, and 4.

Michael Jans

Principal

Michael Jans Advisory

Michael Jans has been delivering organic growth strategies and tools to the insurance industry for over 25 years. He founded Insurance Profit Systems, the largest coaching program in the history of the industry. He then co-founded Agency Revolution, an early insurtech, which he sold to private equity in 2017. Michael is co-author of The Insurtech Book. He is the host of The Connected Insurance Podcast, with over 250,000 downloads. Michael currently advises fast-growth retail agencies, MGAs and insurtechs on scaling in the Modern Age of Insurance. He is the creator of The Next Level Organic Growth Program for Insurance Agents & Brokers.

Adrian Jones

Managing Director

Hudson Structured Capital Management

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.

Sindhu Joseph

CEO & Founder

CogniCor

Dr.Sindhu Joseph is the Founder and CEO of CogniCor, the leading AI Digital Assistant platform that delivers revolutionary operational efficiency and productivity for leading financial firms of the world. She holds a Ph.D. in AI, is the inventor of 6 patents, author, and speaker on topics around Enterprise AI, AI in Financial Services and diversity in AI. She is also a mentor to Nex3 AI Startup accelerator and is an advisory council member of Build Common Wealth Inc. She is based in Palo Alto, California, and drives CogniCor’s vision to provide thinking, talking face to every business. CogniCor, created out of her Ph.D., combines traditional inductive AI with advanced deductive AI and reasoning to offer a unique digital assistant platform built for business teams in the Financial services industry.

Dogan Kaleli

CEO

Stere.io

Dogan is an insurance executive and entrepreneur, with 15+ years of experience in leadership, business development and underwriting. He held various executive roles at ALLIANZ, in different countries. In 2020, he founded NION NETWORK, which is an insurance innovation ecosystem. He co-founded STERE.IO platform to launch and grow insurance programs, where MGAs and non-insurance businesses can place their programs with carriers and reinsurers. In 2020, he launched the LinkedIn Newsletter -Future of Insurance with 20k+ subscribers so far. He was named among the “HOT 100” in 2019 by Insurance Business Magazine for redefining the insurance industry; and one of the 30 "INNOVATORS TO WATCH" by Digital Insurance.

Gary Kaplan

President of Construction

AXA XL

Gary Kaplan is the Leader for AXA XL’s North America Construction unit. Gary joined the company in May 2010 to develop a new business unit solely dedicated to addressing the risk management needs of the Construction industry. Since joining, Gary has recruited a team of construction insurance, loss control and claims specialists, each with more than 20+ years of industry experience, and built the market leading North America Construction unit. He now leads a customer-centric team focused on building long-term relationships with contractors to clearly understand their changing business needs and to provide them with the innovative products and services to help them protect their profitability, maintain a competitive edge and improve safety on the jobsite. Prior to his current position with AXA XL, Gary spent more than 20 years with Zurich North America Commercial, including several years as President of Construction. During his tenure at Zurich, Gary was responsible for North America Commercial's wide-ranging portfolio of operational transformation initiatives and driving the associated cultural and change management programs. Gary’s professional career spans nearly 40 years primarily focused in underwriting management positions of Construction and Energy. Gary is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, holds a Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS) designation, and is also recognized for his dynamic presentations and articles on his Leadership, Planning and Execution Model, Relationship and Change Management, Communications, and the Fundamentals of Leading a Business Unit.

Dror Katzav

CEO & Co-Founder

Atidot

Dror Katzav is Atidot’s CEO & Co-Founder. Prior to co-founding Atidot Software Inc. Dror completed an 11-year career as a Team Leader & Project Manager with an elite IDF (Israeli Defense Force) Unit, leading state-of-the-art technology developments in Intelligence. In that unit, Dror led teams in Artificial Intelligence (AI), data solutions, and information sciences. As an experienced data scientist, Dror provided consulting services for many startups. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008 and a Master of Science degree in Management Sciences and Information Technology from Tel Aviv University in 2013. Dror is a sought-after speaker in international Insurtech conferences and events. He is married, a father of two adorable girls, and resides in Palo Alto, California.

Joel Kelly

CEO & Founder

eve

Joel Kelly is the Founder and CEO of eve, an insurtech and event tech startup specializing in Insurance as a Service. eve is automating the operations of large scale entertainment productions and using the data to write proactive cancellation insurance. He and his team also successfully built and deployed evePASS, a check-in app to support track and trace initiatives locally and abroad which grew to over 4 Million users in just a few months. Joel founded his first company at the age of 11 and has successful exits in IaaS, B2B Software and Entertainment.

Sean Kevelighan

CEO & President

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 running events as well as the occasional triathlon.

Robin Kiera

CEO

Digitalscouting

Jenn Knight

CTO & Co-Founder

AgentSync

Jenn Knight is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of AgentSync, where she leads the product and engineering teams as they develop a frictionless, modern solution to some of the biggest pain points associated with producer management – broker onboarding, contracting, and compliance management. Jenn and her co-founder and husband, Niji Sabharwal, believe that using technology to solve back-office bottlenecks will empower scaled innovation across the massive, fragmented insurance industry. As one of the industry’s leading Salesforce developers, Jenn has helped solve back-office problems for leading technology companies including LinkedIn, Stripe, and Dropbox.

Chris Krebs

Fmr. Director

Dept. of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Christopher Krebs is a founding partner of the Krebs Stamos Group, and previously served as the first director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). As Director, Mr. Krebs oversaw CISA’s efforts to manage risk to the nation’s businesses and government agencies, bringing together partners to collectively defend against cyber and physical threats. At CISA, Mr. Krebs also pioneered the Rumor Control program, which was designed to counter disinformation campaigns. Before serving as CISA Director, Mr. Krebs served in various roles at the Department of Homeland Security, responsible for a range of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and national resilience issues. Prior to his time at DHS, he directed U.S. cybersecurity policy for Microsoft, and advised industry and government clients on complex cybersecurity and business risk matters, while serving at positions with Obsidian Analysis and Dutko Consulting. He also served in the George W. Bush Administration, advising DHS leadership on domestic and international risk management and public-private partnership initiatives. Mr. Krebs holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Steve Lekas

CEO & Co-Founder

Branch Insurance

A 20-year insurance veteran, Steve began his career at Allstate, followed by Esurance, where he built the first U.S. online home insurance business. Prior to Branch Insurance, Steve was President of the Insurance Services Office's personal lines business for Verisk Analytics. Steve co-founded Branch in 2017 to make insurance less expensive and reintroduce insurance to society as a communal good. Branch launched in Ohio in 2019 and is expanding nationally.

Andy Lerner

Managing Partner

IA Capital Group

Andy is the Managing Partner of IA Capital Group, a New York-based insurtech-focused venture capital firm. Currently investing its ninth fund, IA Capital is the longest-tenured and most experienced VC firm with a primary focus on insurtech. Director of SMArtX, SmartAsset, Credit Sesame and Marble, and a former director of Marqeta and many other startups. BSE Princeton, MBA Wharton.

Jacqueline LeSage

Managing Director

Munich Re Ventures

Jacqueline LeSage is the founder and Managing Director of the strategic venture capital platform Munich Re Ventures. Under her leadership, capital under management has grown from $50m in 2015 to more than $500m across insurtech, cyber, climateTech, transportation, digital health, and IoT. Among the earliest investors since 2008 in what became the insurtech space, Jacqueline has a unique perspective on the future of risk transfer. She currently sits on the Boards of Augury, Helium, Forge, and HDVI. She previously sat on the Board of relayr, having led the Series B and facilitating its acquisition by HSB, a Munich Re subsidiary.

Chengchen Li

Founder & CEO

Penguin Benefits

Chengchen is the founder and CEO of Penguin Benefits, helping working families and employers coordinate Parental Leave. As a California mother, Chengchen experienced the fragmented HR and insurance process for parental leave. Chengchen’s dream is to connect families, employers, insurers, and HRtech providers, so all families can access benefits with ease. Chengchen is an actuary with over 8 years of experience in US life insurance, primarily in product development. Chengchen is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Certified Leave Management Specialist from the Disability Management Employers Coalition, and a graduate from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Donald Light

Director, North America Property/Casualty Practice

Celent

Donald Light is a Director in Celent’s North America Property/Casualty Insurance Practice. His coverage areas include technology and business strategy; connected car, connected home and commercial property, connected workers; insurance platforms and ecosystems; insurtech; digital; and due diligence for insurance technology M&A transactions. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences including those sponsored by IASA, InsureTech Connect, ACE, and insurance technology firms. Prior to joining Celent, Donald was an insurance subject matter expert with Sapient and for his own firm. He has also held a senior research position in Allstate’s Research and Planning Center.

Jennifer Linton

CEO & Founder

Fenris

Jennifer Linton is co-founder and CEO of Fenris Digital, her third startup, and has more than a decade of insurance industry experience. Fenris is a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company that provides easily accessible and actionable insights for carriers and brokers, with data sources covering more than 250 individuals, 130 million households and all U.S. addresses.

Jon Lipinski

President & Co-Founder

Ecopia AI

Jon Lipinski is the co-founder and President of Ecopia, a technology company founded with the mission of digitizing the world using AI. Ecopia applies advanced AI technology to mine geospatial imagery, outputting large-scale, highly-accurate digital maps & related information products. Named by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America for the past two consecutive years, Ecopia’s maps are currently embedded into hundreds of decision-making applications across over 100 countries around the world. Jon studied business at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University, and co-founded Ecopia in 2013.

Spike Lipkin

CEO & Co-Founder

Newfront Insurance

Spike Lipkin is the CEO and Co-founder of Newfront, one of the fastest growing insurance brokerages in the nation. Prior to Newfront he was one of the first employees at Opendoor.com, where he helped grow a five-person company into a business now valued at more than $10 billion. Prior to Opendoor, Spike worked as an investor at Blackstone. At both Opendoor and Blackstone, Lipkin was tasked with buying insurance, which first exposed him to the deep systemic challenges facing the insurance industry. These experiences led him to found Newfront - a business that combines insurance experts with proprietary technology to make the buying process less cumbersome and more transparent for its clients and brokers. Lipkin received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and graduate degrees from both Cambridge University and Stanford University.

Beth Maerz

SVP Platform, Customer Experience & Innovation

Travelers

Alex Maffeo

CEO & Founder

Boost

Alex Maffeo is the CEO & Founder of Boost. Alex started Boost in 2018 empower innovators in any industry to build, embed, and deliver insurance products to their customers through a fully integrated experience that is embedded in their own front-end environment. Boost’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform makes it simple for companies to build into and monetize the insurance vertical. Prior to founding Boost, Alex was a Principal at IA Capital Group - a leading fintech and insurtech-focused venture capital firm - where he spent a decade investing in successful fintech companies like Marqeta, Snapsheet, and Hamilton Insurance Group.

Brona Magee

Deputy SCO

SCOR Global Life

Dhirendra Mahyavanshi

Co-Founder

Turtlemint

Dhirendra is a seasoned professional with over 16 years of experience in the Insurance, eCommerce, and Fintech sector. His previous stints include Quikr where he served as Head of Sales. Before joining the Ecommerce sector he worked with one of the biggest insurance companies ICICI Lombard across various levels. He is an alumnus of IIM- Calcutta and has a Bachelors's degree in Engineering from DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering.

Heather Majewski

Head of Life & Health Solutions Americas

Swiss Re

Heather Majewski has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry in multiple product lines. Before joining Swiss Re, she was Head of Wellness Innovation for John Hancock Insurance, where she was instrumental in the development and launch of the John Hancock Vitality insurance solution that rewards people for making healthy choices. She was also focused on the long-term care industry and improving profitability through product design and health engagement. Prior, Heather held various strategic and actuarial roles at The Hartford in the individual annuity and employer benefits space. Heather is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries with a BS in Actuarial Science and an MS in Mathematics from the University of Connecticut.

Benji Markoff

CEO & Co-Founder

Founder Shield

Benji Markoff is the Co-Founder & CEO of Founder Shield, a boutique insurance brokerage specialized in serving high-growth, emerging industries. Since 2012, Founder Shield has been rethinking the way the insurance industry operates through technology, best-in-class customer service, and cutting-edge product development. Benji is deeply connected with the VC community. He is a partner at Interplay Venture and was previously the President of the NY Venture Community. He has a passion for solving risk management problems for emerging industries and developed the first-ever insurance program for cryptocurrency and launched an in-house MGA tailored to the needs of VC-backed companies. His mission is to create the most seamless, intuitive, and responsive experience for purchasing and administering insurance for your company.

Kirstin Marr

Head of Data Solutions

Insurity

As Head of Insurity Analytics, Kirstin leads product strategy, development, and operations for Insurity’s portfolio of data and analytics solutions. She is a recognized thought leader, specializing in data and predictive analytics in the insurance market. Her leadership has enabled insurers to improve underwriting and claims performance, while delivering a modern customer experience. Kirstin previously served as President of Valen Analytics and the company’s head of marketing, leading strategy, brand awareness, and thought leadership. Kirstin earned her MA from the University of Denver and her BA from California State University-Chico.

Jeffrey Mason

CEO & Founder

Groundspeed

Jeffrey Mason has spent the last 20 years creating and leading high-growth insurance and insurance technology companies. Since 2016, Mr. Mason has been the Chief Executive Officer of Groundspeed Analytics, a leading data sciences firm he founded that serves property and casualty insurance companies like Aon, Willis Towers Watson, Travelers, The Hartford, Swiss Re, and Liberty Mutual. Prior to Groundspeed, he has led teams in sales, marketing, product, and analytics in numerous roles at full-stack insurance and insurance technology companies. From 2002 - 2015, Mr. Mason led alternative risk financing and alternative risk transfer programs at Chelsea Rhone, where he formed and managed casualty insurance companies globally for hundreds of clients. Mr. Mason holds a BS, Economics from Michigan State University and an MBA from The University of Michigan.

Laviva Mazhar

Investor

Luge Capital

Laviva is an Investor at Luge Capital, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage fintech. At Luge, she spends a lot of time in the insurtech vertical and published the 2020 Status of the Canadian Insurtech Landscape report. Previously, she was an analyst at Ferst Capital Partners (FCP), a fintech startup foundry. She helped build portfolio companies and supported their operations, strategy, fundraising processes and special projects. Laviva was selected on the 2020 and 2017 Women in FinTech Powerlists by Innovate Finance and on Canada’s 2019 Top 50 Women in Fintech by Digital Finance Institute.

Juan Mazzini

Senior Analyst

Celent

Juan is a senior analyst at Celent and he is responsible for research and advice to C-level executives in the financial services industry in themes such as fintech, insurtech, innovation, emerging technologies and business transformation. He has been part of, and has accompanied, the launch and evolution of various innovative initiatives and business models in the financial services industry; lately being involved in the design and construction of a digital direct insurer. His experience includes advising companies based in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Juan’s career spans more than 25 years in the insurance and banking IT industries. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, contributor to many conferences, and evaluator for technology competitions. He has also mentoring experience in diverse industries. Prior to joining Celent, Juan was Corporate Vice President at Sistran, where he directly contributed to expanding its presence throughout 14 countries, including the US and key Latin American markets of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Central America, and the Caribbean. He brings a deep understanding of core and noncore systems projects and operational business models. Juan also brings to the practice a deep expertise in HR transformation. Before joining Celent, he advised and helped execute a new HR strategy for a group of 450 IT employees working throughout the Latin American region. Juan has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Catolica Argentina. His background includes several roles in cross-border, multicultural environments.

Richard McCathron

President

Hippo

Rick McCathron CPCU CIC brings more than 25 years of P&C experience to his role as President of Hippo, the home insurance provider that created a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Rick joined Hippo in 2017 to establish the company’s insurance operations and bring Hippo’s smart, simple and proactive home insurance products to a national scale. In just over three years, Hippo has become a national leader in the U.S. homeowners market, reaching more than 70 percent of the total U.S. homeowners population. Prior to Hippo, Rick 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. Rick is both a Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter and a Certified Insurance Counselor and sits on the Board of Directors of Hippo Enterprises, Spinnaker Insurance Company and First Connect Insurance. He is an advisor for several other InsureTechs.

Brendan McCord

President

Acrisure Technology

Brendan McCord leads artificial intelligence innovation and application at Acrisure and guides the team of world-class researchers, engineers, and technologists that comprise the Acrisure Technology Group (ATG). This team works across Acrisure to create unbridled growth through the development of a proprietary, end-to-end, AI-focused operating system. Application areas include enabling Acrisure’s Agency Partners to act with greater precision on behalf of their clients, increasing efficiency through automation, and introducing new risk-focused strategies in concert with Acrisure’s underwriting partners. Prior to Acrisure, Brendan was founding CEO of the high-growth technology companies that were acquired in 2020 to form ATG. As President of Tulco Labs, he helped entrepreneurs transform static sectors using AI, a strategy that generated more than one billion dollars in value. Prior to Tulco, Brendan founded the Department of Defense-wide Joint AI Center and was the primary author of the first DoD AI Strategy. Brendan serves on advisory boards for the Harvard Data Science Review, Applied Intuition, and SAP NS2. He spent 610 days underwater as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. He holds a bachelor’s degree from MIT and an MBA from Harvard.

Pascal Millaire

CEO

CyberCube

Pascal Millaire is the CEO of CyberCube, which provides data and analytic tools to the cyber insurance industry. CyberCube was established under Pascal’s leadership in 2015 within Symantec and has operated as a standalone venture-backed business since January 2018. Today, CyberCube provides software as a service tools that support data-driven decision-making for over 60% of the global cyber (re)insurance market by premium. CyberCube’s clients include globally leading insurance brokers, insurers and reinsurers who benefit from CyberCube’s distinctive data and analytics that are fine-tuned across the entire insurance value chain. Previously, Pascal was President of a hotel software company and a consultant at McKinsey & Company 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.

Matt Miller

CEO & Founder

Embroker

Matt Miller is the founder and CEO of Embroker, the insurtech making business insurance radically simple. Matt has led Embroker to become one of the leading innovators shaping the future of insurance and has raised over $140M from leading venture capitalists. Prior to founding Embroker, Matt was a Principal at the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, where he led investments in insurance and software companies and served on the board of HUB International. He is recognized as a key thought leader on insurance technology and innovation and has been interviewed on the subject by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, and others.

Doug Mohr

VP, Industry Relations & Partnerships

Vertafore

Doug is the Vice President of Industry Relations & Partnerships at Vertafore. He joined Vertafore 11 years ago and leads our team that looks towards industry trends and manages strategic partnerships, including the Orange Partner Program members and industry organizations such as The Big “I” (IIABA), Invest, ID Federation, and ACORD. Doug currently sits on the board for Invest and ID Federation as a representative of Vertafore. He brings 37+ years of software and technology experience having worked at companies that provide solutions to a variety of industries including Insurance, Healthcare, Apparel, Professional Services, High Tech, and Manufacturing.

Joshua Motta

CEO & Co-Founder

Coalition

Joshua is the CEO and Co-founder of Coalition, which provides cyber insurance and security to more than 45,000 organizations in the US and Canada. Prior to Coalition, Joshua was the CxO and Head of Special Projects at Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), a $25bn web infrastructure and security company, following roles at Goldman Sachs, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Microsoft, among others.

Maroun Mourad

President Global Underwriting

Verisk

Maroun Mourad is president of Global Underwriting, leading Verisk’s businesses across life insurance, U.S. commercial lines underwriting, and property and casualty underwriting internationally. Maroun is a data analytics and insurance executive, profitably growing businesses for 22 years in the United States, UK, Europe, and emerging markets. In Maroun’s leadership roles at Gen Re, AIG, Arch, and Zurich, he served clients across underwriting (production and technical), operations, and general management. He led teams and businesses in personal and commercial lines spanning multiple customer segments, distribution channels, and cultures. Maroun’s focus on team-building, customer-centricity, and delivering quality results drove business transformations in established, start-up, and turnaround environments. Maroun is an industry thought leader, public speaker, volunteer, and mentor. His first book, The Insurance Management Playbook: A Leader’s Guide, published in 2014, demonstrates his passion for the insurance business. Maroun holds a JD and a BA in political science, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also completed several executive education programs, including the AIG Mini-MBA at the Columbia Business School and the Zurich Executive Leadership Program at the London Business School. Maroun is a board member for the northeast division of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, a volunteer with New York Cares, and an advisory board member of the NOMI Network, a global nonprofit that supports economic development to fight human trafficking.

Catie Muccigrosso

VP Underwriting Operations

RGA

Catie Muccigrosso is Vice President of U.S. Underwriting Operations for Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. As head of operations she leads, manages, and directs the Underwriting operations of traditional facultative underwriting, facultative exclusive, and other non-traditional underwriting programs. Her responsibilities also encompass client relationship management and associated risk and retention management activities. She is a subject matter expert on accelerated/alternative underwriting and older-age underwriting, and has been with RGA’s underwriting department for more than two decades. An active participant in the underwriting industry, Catie has served as past President of the Illinois-Missouri Home Office Underwriters Association, as an Academy of Life Underwriting (ALU) Exam Writer and Coordinator, as On the Risk Editor-in-Chief, and as an ALU Board member.

Edmund Murphy III

CEO & President

Empower Retirement

Edmund F. Murphy III is President and CEO of Empower Retirement, where he provides leadership and strategic direction for the company’s operating units: Empower Retirement, Personal Capital and Great-West Investments™. Mr. Murphy was appointed as the inaugural president of Empower Retirement upon its formation in 2014, positioning the firm as the go-to provider of financial services for more than 12 million Americans. He previously served as Managing Director at Putnam Investments held executive leadership roles at Fidelity Investments. Mr. Murphy holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and is a graduate of the General Manager Program at Harvard Business School.

Kyle Nakatsuji

CEO & Founder

Clearcover

Kyle is the co-founder and CEO of Clearcover, the smarter car insurance company. Under Kyle’s leadership, Clearcover has raised more than $329 million to date and currently operates in 15 states with more on the way. Before founding Clearcover, Kyle was a founding member of American Family Ventures where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and structuring over 50 equity and debt venture capital investments in nationally-based tech startups. Prior to this role, Kyle was a corporate attorney focused on emerging company business matters at AlphaTech Counsel. Kyle has a law degree and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin.

Phillip Naples

CEO & Co-Founder

Layr

Phillip Naples, Co-Founder and CEO of Layr, is helping modern companies conquer their business insurance through insurtech. After nearly two decades in the insurance industry as a broker, he set out to modernize the industry by pairing his experience with technology. Layr uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accurately match companies with the insurance policies and coverage they need and accurately predict carrier pricing. The online application takes a few minutes to complete and shows tailored quotes instantly. Small business owners get the coverage they need, with cash-flow-friendly monthly payments by credit card, and can get back to running their business.

Eric Narscisco

CEO

LeaseTrack

Eric Narcisco brings a wealth of experience to the insurance industry. After an early start with Chubb Insurance, Eric founded Effective Coverage in 2007. The firm’s mission was to teach property owners and residents about the benefits of renters insurance by utilizing technology to create modern distribution channels. Eric went on to found LeaseTrack in 2019, a technology platform using Optical Character Recognition, AI, and machine learning that tracks millions of certificates every year. In 2021, Eric sold both Effective Coverage and LeaseTrack to Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), a publicly-traded insurance holding company. BRP recognized the benefits that Eric and his team had created for multifamily and single-family property owners and operators. As a Managing Principal at BRP, Eric continues to interface directly with senior management and C-level executives to strategize effective and innovative solutions.

Jordan Nof

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Tusk Ventures

Jordan Nof is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Tusk Venture Partners L.P. and is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He has led many of the firm’s investments including Lemonade, Bird, and Sunday. He currently serves on the board of directors of Sunday, Alma, and Wheel. 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. During that time, Jordan focused on investing in early-stage technology companies that could accelerate operations across Blackstone and the firm’s underlying portfolio companies. He led Blackstone’s first real estate technology investment and worked within the Innovations team to execute investments in financial technology and cyber-security startups. Before joining Blackstone, Jordan spent four years in the institutional investment management division at AllianceBernstein. During that time, he worked with many of the firm’s largest global institutional sub-advisory relationships.

Martha Notaras

Managing Partner

Brewer Lane

Martha Notaras is Managing Partner at Brewer Lane Ventures, investing in early stage insurtech and fintech companies. Martha serves on the boards of Cowbell Cyber, an AI-driven cyber MGA; Lynk, which uses AI to deliver its knowledge as a service platform; and Cape Analytics, which delivers highly accurate property data derived via machine learning. Prior to joining Brewer Lane, Martha was Partner at XL Innovate, investing in early stage insurtechs, including Lemonade. Previously, Martha ran corporate development for the business analytics division of the Daily Mail, where she acquired 20 companies, including insurtech pioneer RMS. Martha is a board director of Palomar Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PLMR) and ATTOM Data Solutions. Martha earned her A.B. from Princeton University and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kevin Ostrander

Chief Sales Officer

One Inc

As CSO of the One Inc sales team, Kevin has implemented highly effective, transparent sales processes and methodologies, driving the company's rapid growth and scale. He takes a hands-on approach to his role, enthusiastically connecting with insurance executives to demonstrate the value of partnering with One Inc to solve common industry pain points. Kevin has a strong background working with early-stage, high-growth SaaS organizations. He previously served as director of sales at Thunderhead (acquired by Accel-KKR), where he spent six years on insurance enterprise solutions to help carriers transform their operations through digital engagement.

Christian Pedak

CEO

LAMIE direct

Christian Pedak is CEO of LAMIE direct, one of Europe’s fastest growing InsurTECHs. As a passionate innovator, Christian is shaping the future of insurance by constantly creating unique insurance solutions. He studied law at the University of Vienna and the University of Southern California and Finance at the London School of Economics. At a very early stage of his career he got in touch with the insurance industry, working as broker in the second generation family-owned Lloyd’s broker house from 2002 onwards. Since his early days he gained reputation for being one of the top leading InsurTECH experts, by successfully implementing B2B2C insurances programs together with Telco-operators since 2002. As core USP these programs are embedded horizontally within the partners’ ecosystem. LAMIE is now operational in more than seven territories as well as in Turkey, entertaining a total customer base of more than 500.000 customers with 70 employees. In 2015 Christian founded the insurance start-up “LAMIE direct”, which has became one of Europe’s few digital full-stack InsurTECHs. LAMIE is expanding in more than 10 countries with their augmented insurance proposition. Christian is a “challenger” of the status quo in the insurance industry, an avid keynote speaker, panelist and presenter, who is speaking at various international events each year.

Raj Pofale

CEO & Founder

Claim Genius

Raj Pofale is the founder and CEO of Claim Genius. Raj possesses over 22+ years’ experience in FinTech industry as a technology leader. Prior to founding Claim Genius, he has worked with many Wall Street Financial enterprises. Entrepreneur by nature, Raj got inspired with the disruptive & innovative idea of automating Automobile Claim Assessment and founded Claim Genius in late 2017. The automotive insurance industry has lacked technological innovation for years resulting in billions of dollars in spending for damaged vehicle assessment and claims settlement. Based in Iselin, New Jersey, with development centers in Nagpur and Hyderabad, Claim Genius, Inc. is a rapidly emerging leader of AI-based claims solutions for the auto insurance industry. Its patent-pending AI technology provides the industry’s fastest and most accurate damage estimates, using the latest high-performance cloud frameworks. Their unique and powerful Computer Vision AI stack uses sophisticated object detection and image analysis algorithms to instantly identify vehicle damage, position, severity, and lists of damaged parts, including hidden damage deep inside the vehicle. This technology is critical to allowing the company to make decisions right away and get their customer back to pre-loss condition as quickly as possible. Compared to traditional methods of inspections, its technology can save customers both time and money. Today Claim Genius’s product suit is live in 3 different geographies serving multiple customers in insurance & automotive space. Claim Genius have 10+ global partnerships with MNCs like HCL & others

Lisa Pollina

Board Member

Munich Re

Lisa Pollina is an Investment Banking executive and Board member who has negotiated over $50 Billion in corporate development deals throughout her career. An Independent Board Director for Munich RE Americas and FTSE trading firm IG Group, 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 Securities (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

Greg Puleo

VP Business Transformation

QBE North America

As VP, Business Transformation, Greg Puleo leads QBE North America’s Digital Program with the goal of identifying and delivering digital solutions across the enterprise and leveraging technology and data to drive deeper insights, improve customer experience and increase revenue. Prior to his role in the Digital Program, Greg ran the Business Process Re-Engineering group, which focused on improving processes and driving efficiency. In his down time, Greg can be found on the soccer pitch, reading a book or building in his woodshop.

Seth Rachlin

EVP & Global Insurance Industry Leader

Capgemini

Dr. Rachlin is currently Executive Vice President and Global Insurance Industry Leader at Capgemini as well as Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Chicago. At Capgemini, Dr. Rachlin is responsible for setting the firm’s Insurance industry strategy, managing its relationships within the Insurance technology ecosystem, and for shaping and articulating the company’s perspective on the industry. Prior to joining Capgemini, Dr. Rachlin was President of the Information and Analytics Division of Advisen, a leading provider of data and analytics to the commercial P&C marketplace.  In 2006 he founded Moore Stephens Business and as CEO grew the company to a $7 million annual run rate, and successfully concluded its sale to Majesco in April 2010. Dr. Rachlin holds an undergraduate degree in History from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, and has published broadly in the academic, technical, and popular press.

Sean Ringstead

CDO & CRO

Chubb

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. Mr. Ringsted has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. 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.

Paul Rivard

SVP, Chief Risk & Experience Officer

EMC National Life Company

Paul Rivard is currently SVP, Chief Risk & Experience Officer at EMC National Life, where he is currently leading growth and innovation strategy. Prior to his current role, Paul led Munich Re's Underwriting Client Solutions Team. Paul constantly works to execute innovative, high-value solutions in many key areas, including; underwriting and distribution optimization, new data sources and modelling for better market segmentation, customer engagement and personalization and health and wellness programs. He is a spirited collaborator, driver of excellence, and is passionate for innovative solutions.

Andrew Robinson

CEO

Skyward Specialty Insurance

Mr. Robinson is the CEO of Skyward Specialty Insurance Group’s, a specialty P&C insurer with nearly $1BN in premium and over $2BN in assets. His career includes ten years with The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc., where he was President of Specialty Insurance, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Risk Officer. Prior to his time at Hanover, he was the Managing Partner of Global Insurance at (Diamond) PWC Consulting. Most recently he was an Executive in Residence and Senior Advisor at Oak HC/FT where he was Chairman and Co-CEO of Groundspeed Analytics and Chairman of Clara Analytics, both Oak HC/FT portfolio companies. Mr. Robinson currently serves on the boards of McLarens, a Lee Equity Partners portfolio serving the insurance industry and PLNAR, an Insurtech company. Andrew has also served on the Board of Directors of Chaucer (top 10 Lloyds Managing Agency) and Breckenridge (now part of WR Berkley).

Roma Romaniv

Investor

Summit Partners

Roma focuses primarily on the technology sector. She speaks English, Ukrainian and Russian. Prior to Summit, Roma worked at Citigroup, most recently as a senior analyst on the technology investment banking team and previously as an equity capital markets analyst. Roma holds a BS in finance and a BA in human rights, summa cum laude, from the University of Connecticut.

Andrew Rose

President - OnStar Insurance

General Motors

Andrew Rose brings 20 years of startup and insurance experience to his role as President of OnStar Insurance at General Motors. Prior to GM, Andrew was CEO of Compare.com, a subsidiary of Admiral Group, White Mountains, and Mapfre. Prior to this, Andrew led the launch of Elephant Insurance, ran the auto business for Countrywide Insurance and led a large product portfolio for Progressive Insurance. His other career stops include AT Kearney, Capital One, Shell, and DuPont. He holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, a Master Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Gareth Ross

Head of Enterprise Technology & Experience

MassMutual

Will Ross

CEO & Co-Founder

Federato

Will Ross is CEO and co-founder of Federato, the leading provider of AI-driven "Risk Ops" software in P&C insurance. An acknowledged leader in the fields of operations research and climate/atmospheric modeling, Will has driven >$100M in product revenues for IBM’s Watson Group, educated >1000 executives in Udacity’s ‘AI for Business Leaders’ program, and served as a graduate fellow in Stanford University’s Data Science Institute + TomKat Center for Sustainability.

Neta Rozy

CTO & Co-Founder

Parametrix

Neta Rozy is a co-founder and the CTO at Parametrix, a technology startup that specializes in insurance for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS downtime, such as cloud outages, network crashes, and platform failures. The company’s products are tailored towards tech-reliant businesses, and are they are the first to incorporate the parametric model into tech insurance. Neta has a background in developing enterprise software and robust monitoring systems, driven by a passion for creating innovative solutions that are powered by new technologies in order to solve tough problems.

Sten Saar

CEO

Zego

Sten Saar is CEO of commercial motor insurance provider, Zego. An entrepreneur since an early age, Sten founded a number of companies before co-founding Zego, and worked at other notable UK-based start-ups such as One Fine Stay and Deliveroo at an early stage. At Zego, Sten currently presides over a team of around 300 employees and counting, who use an innovative combination of best-in-class technology and sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. So far, Zego has raised $150m at a $1.1bn valuation, making the company the first UK-founded insurtech unicorn.

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.

Tammy Schwartz

Founder & President

Black Swan Anayytics

As a former insurance insider and mathematician, Tammy Schwartz knows how to read wildfire data. Her combined knowledge, experience and drive to help insurers and property owners is at the heart of Black Swan Analytics (BSA). After leading California FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) Plan as VP, Tammy set out to create a complete and actionable wildfire risk assessment model. Through BSA, she guides property owners so they can effectively minimize wildfire exposure and mitigate risk. BSA’s patented 4score™ solution is a best-in-class property underwriting approach that will save hundreds of homes and millions of dollars in wildfire damage.

Sheri Scott

Principal & Consulting Actuary

Milliman

Sheri is a principal and consulting actuary leading a Milliman Property & Casualty practice focusing on introducing InsurTech solutions into insurance rating and sales processes, and advanced rating techniques for emerging markets. Sheri’s practice applies technology and advanced analytics to develop innovative insurance products for traditional and start-up insurers and the associated state regulatory rate filing support.

Darcy Shapiro

COO - Americas

Cover Genius

Darcy Shapiro is the Chief Operating Officer for the Americas for Cover Genius, where she is leading Operations including Insurance, Legal, Finance and Compliance for Cover Genius across the United States, Canada and Latin America. Darcy joined Cover Genius in 2018 from The Hartford, where she was the Product Director for Cyber, Tech, Media and Miscellaneous Professional Liability products and developed The Hartford’s first admitted Cyber policy. In addition to product development and portfolio management experience, Darcy spent time at AIG and the specialty division of Liberty Mutual in different roles including claims counsel and litigation management. Darcy is an active, sponsored member of Chief, an executive leadership network focused on driving more women into senior leadership positions and supporting them once there. Darcy is a licensed attorney and began her career practicing insurance defense in New York.

Omer Shirazi

COO & Founder

EasySend

Omer Shirazi is the COO and Co-Founder of EasySend, a SaaS company based in Tel Aviv, New York, and Germany. After working at Halman Aldubi Investments and seeing first hand the extent of the problem that paperwork and manual processes create in financial services, Shirazi co-founded EasySend. Shirazi manages the EU, US, and Israel sales and SDR teams at EasySend. Shirazi is an entrepreneur with experience in technological solutions, business strategies, and sales development.

Bobbie Shrivastav

Co-Founder & COO

Benekiva

Currently, Shrivastav serves as the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Benekiva, a software company intended to bridge the gap between life insurance companies and their intended beneficiaries, through claims automation, beneficiary and policyholder management, and asset retention. Her team has won several awards and recognition, most recently being part of 2020 MassChallenge FinTech program in Boston. Shrivastav earned her MBA from Wake Forest University, Masters in Project Management from Western Carolina University and Bachelors in Information Systems and Marketing from Appalachian State University. She has numerous project management certifications from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Scrum Alliance. She is passionate about helping organizations weather the paper storm through digital and process transformation. She gets invited to speak and share thought leadership about process re-engineering, innovation, digital disruption, and entrepreneurship.

Kate Stillwell

CEO & Founder

Jumpstart Insurance

Kate Stillwell is the Founder and CEO of Jumpstart, one of the first InsurTechs to bring parametric to the consumer level. Starting with earthquake risk in California, Jumpstart is expanding both geographically and to other hazards. Having started her career as a licensed Structural Engineer, Kate previously co-founded the US Resiliency Council and the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. She lives with her family in Berkeley, California.

Ted Stucky

Chief Growth Officer

Arrowhead General Insurance Agency

Ted Stuckey drives organic growth by helping build new programs fueled by innovative technology. His experience and relationships in the insurtech space, along with his aptitude for evaluating opportunities and adapting them to existing infrastructures, helps continue to simplify commercial insurance buying, servicing and claims. Stuckey joined Arrowhead from QBE Insurance Group, most recently as managing director of QBE Ventures. His background also includes industry experience at Travelers and FirstComp (now Markel) in underwriting, analytics and transformation roles.

John Swigart

CEO & Co-Founder

Pie Insurance

As co-founder and CEO of Pie Insurance, John has been responsible for overseeing all aspects of Pie since its establishment in May 2017. He brings over 20 years of experience in tech-enabled insurance and financial services businesses. Prior to Pie, John served on the Esurance executive team for 13 years, where he led all of the financial functions from 2000-03 and then became the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer. Under John’s marketing leadership, Esurance premium volume grew from $50 million in 2003 to $1.3 billion in 2013. Esurance was sold to Allstate in 2011 for $1 billion.

Nino Tarantino

CEO

IMS – Insurance & Mobility Solutions, Americas

Nino Tarantino is the CEO of IMS, Americas, where he is responsible for the overall direction, strategy, and growth of the business. Even before joinging IMS, Tarantino was recognized as an insurance telematics industry leader, having started Octo Telematics North America in 2011. During his time with Octo, Tarantino was responsible for growing the business from startup to a market leader, with yearly growth passing $50M in sales and exceeding 1.5 million connected users throughout the U.S. and Canada only four years after its official launch. Prior to Octo, Tarantino held senior positions with Acotel Group where he lead the company’s successful entry into the U.S. market, launched one of the first premium SMS and MMS (including the 2004 Olympics coverage) in North America, and built the mobile premium content service under the brand name Flycell. He also served as vice president of business development for Anoto/Ericsson and developed the U.S. market for the company’s revolutionary digital communication technology. At Iridium, the first global satellite phone company, Tarantino established the Iridium business operations in the European territory before implementing a global market development program to ensure partners were ready to operate, market and sell the Iridium services. Tarantino was named Influencer of the year at the 2018 Telematics Detroit Awards and won best telematics product in 2017. He earned his Master’s in Telecommunications Engineering in Rome and began his career with Telecom Italia.

Julian Teicke

CEO & Co-Founder

wefox

Julian Teicke is the CEO and co-founder of wefox, a full-stack digital insurance company driven by a simple purpose - to make people safe and prevent risk. This is achieved by reinventing insurance at scale using technology. Julian launched wefox in 2015 as a digital platform connecting brokers to their customers and insurers. In 2018, Julian launched wefox Insurance which is Europe’s first fully-digital insurance carrier and Germany’s fastest growing insurance company. Since launch the company has doubled its revenues every year to reach USD$100M in 2020 and achieve profitability. wefox Group is Europe’s leading digital insurance company. The business has 600 employees serving more than 600,000 customers. In 2021, wefox raised a series C of $650m - a world record for an insurtech and giving the company a market valuation of $3b. Prior to wefox Group, Julian co-founded ‘DeinDeal’, the largest e-commerce platform in Switzerland, which established a dominant market position and was successfully sold to an international media company. He sits on four other boards and advisory committees for companies. He became a board advisor for Doctorly in November of 2017. In November of 2014, he became a founding member and advisor for EMPAUA. In 2017 he became a mentor for a company called Kenjo, and the same year he became a mentor for a business called HeartSpace.

Peter Teresi

CEO & Co-Founder

Certificial

Peter Teresi is Co-Founder and CEO of Certificial, a blockchain-based digital insurance verification platform with a mission to eliminate pain points for insureds, reduce agency costs, and address compliance needs in real-time. Prior to founding Certificial, Teresi served as the CEO of ACORD Solutions Group (ASG). In this role, he shaped the overall strategy of ASG and oversaw the design of new solutions to operationalize ACORD Standards and enable a digital marketplace. During his tenure with ACORD that began in 2002, he held several other positions including Senior Vice President of Solutions, Chief Technology Officer, and Vice President of Standards & Technology.

Alex Timm

CEO & Founder

Root

With a vision of completely transforming the insurance industry, Alex founded Root Insurance on the principle that rates should be based on driving behaviors, not demographics. As Founder and CEO of Root, Alex leads the company in revolutionizing the industry, using mobile technology and data science to offer personalized auto insurance rates to good drivers. Throughout his career, Alex has built expertise in pricing and reserving, finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Alex is based in Columbus, Ohio and is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Attila Toth

CEO & Founder

Zesty.ai

Attila is a founder and CEO of Zesty.ai, a company that used 200 billion data points, including aerial imagery, and artificial intelligence to develop innovative risk products that protect homes, businesses and support thriving communities against catastrophes. Zesty raised $18 million and partners with leading insurance companies to use Zesty,ai models to protect $2 trillion in real asset from increasing natural disasters.

Alisa Valderrama

CEO & Co-Founder

FutureProof

Ms. Valderrama is an attorney who has devoted her entire career to translating environmental risks into financial risks. Prior to co-founding FutureProof, she worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she was Director of Water Infrastructure Finance. At the NRDC, Alisa led a variety of projects relating to financing distributed “green” infrastructure to manage stormwater and reduce flood risk. Ms. Valderrama holds an LL.M. in international business law from the London School of Economics, a J.D. from University of Southern California, and a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jean-Charles Velge

Co-Founder

Qover

Jean-Charles Velge co-founded Qover in 2016 with Quentin Colmant. He spent his entire career in the private equity industry, half in Europe and half in Hong Kong. He started as a consultant at Bain & Company, then joined the largest Benelux fund NPM Capital before joining Redhorse in Hong Kong. Jean-Charles is 37 years old, graduated in Economic Sciences, holds a master’s in Finance and an MBA.

Jean Vernor

Head of Incubator & Cross Platform, New Strategic Markets

Munich Re America

Jean Vernor leads the US Incubator and is a member of the Munich Re America Services Leadership Team. Her team builds new businesses to address emerging risks and expand beyond risk transfer into mitigation and response. Her team collaborates with large corporates and startups and is driven to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Jean has held executive P&L roles at global Fortune 100 companies. She also led significant business transformations, fueling growth via innovation and digital transformation in the automotive, financial services and insurance sectors. Jean holds a BS in Marketing, Oakland University, is a Scaled Agile Leading SAFe 4 Agilist, completed GE’s Top Talent Executive Development Program and MetLife’s Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.

Shweta Vyas

EVP & Chief Strategy Officer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Shweta Vyas is executive vice president and chief strategy officer for the portfolio of brands under LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic direction and corporate development initiatives of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group businesses. Previously, Shweta served as vice president of Market Planning for Health Care at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. Shweta joined LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2010 as director, Strategy & Business Development before transitioning to the Health Care business in 2016. She moved to her current role within LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group in March 2020. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Shweta spent three years as a management consultant at LEK consulting and five years in various finance roles at Lucent Technologies. Shweta holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University as well as an MSc in Finance from Babson College and a BA in Economics from Emory University. She is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.

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.

Jane Wang

CEO

Optimity

Jane Wang is the CEO of Optimity, a leading health rewards company that incentivizes consumers to live healthier and longer. Her software and engagement methodologies are adopted by insurance carriers, employers, NGOs and brand partners. Prior to Optimity, Jane worked at IQVIA and CROs of pharma companies (e.g. Biogen, Takeda) to maximize adherence and dynamic risk score patients in North America, Asia and Europe. She is passionate about proactive health, improving morbidity/mortality, and innovative uses of gamification/behavioral science. She holds an MBA from Ivey Business School, Health Data Specialization from Stanford University, and a HBSc. from McGill University.

Brad Weisberg

CEO & Co-Founder

Snapsheet

Brad founded Snapsheet in 2011 and has led the company through multiple hyper growth stages. He is passionate about developing creative solutions for today’s complex problems, using powerful technical platforms to deliver great user experiences. He is a champion for the Chicago tech community and regularly serves as a mentor to leaders at emerging tech companies. His work with Snapsheet has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company. Brad has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and advertising from Indiana University Bloomington. He is a guest lecturer at Northwestern University.

Dan White

Managing Partner

Ninety

Dan is a Managing Partner at Ninety, where he helps to build partnerships with global (re)insurers, leads insurance innovation research, and advises Chief Innovation Officers on the most effective operating models for innovation in insurance. Dan has been involved at the heart of digital transformation and innovation in the insurance industry for 15-20 years, working with Allianz, Travelers, Generali, Aetna, Bupa, Zurich, AXA, Swiss Re, and more. His experience includes overseeing significant IoT pilots in personal and commercial lines, innovation op model re-engineering for global insurance groups, and a number of big data and automation challenges in all lines of business.

Christian Wiens

CEO & Founder

Getsafe

Having broken his landlord’s vase, Christian Wiens realized how complicated insurance was and began Getsafe with a like-minded entrepreneur he met on Facebook. As CEO of Getsafe, Christian is on a mission to disrupt insurance the same way that Amazon took on retail - making the experience as easy as online shopping. Christian holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and is an already experienced digital entrepreneur with a strong background in tech, entrepreneurship and product development.

Greg Williams

CEO, Co-Founder & President

Acrisure

As Co-Founder, CEO & President of Acrisure, Greg has successfully led Acrisure to become one of the largest global insurance brokers. Under Greg’s leadership, Acrisure has had a compounded annual growth rate of 86% since its inception in 2005 and has eclipsed $2 billion in revenue in 2019. Acrisure is now one of the top ten largest insurance brokers in the world and the most profitable insurance broker compared to its peers. In 2016, Greg led a management buyout of Acrisure’s private equity investor in a $2.9 billion transaction. As a result, the company is now majority-owned (92%) by Acrisure’s employees and its Agency Partners with Board control as well. Prior to founding Acrisure, Greg was a Board Advisor to a variety of companies and was a Vice President for Michigan National Corporation (MNC), a $19 billion bank holding company. As a senior executive at MNC, Greg managed the Commercial Sales and Services Group, was a member of the Corporate Marketing Committee and chaired the Corporate Operations Committee.

Hanna Wu

CEO & Co-Founder

Amplify

Hanna started in life insurance in 2014 having opened her own agency that placed over $2B+ in coverage. Realizing that permanent life insurance can be used as a wealth creation vehicle, she also saw how disconnected the traditional permanent life industry was from modern Millennial consumers. She became determined to bridge the education gap and help young families everywhere build a secure financial future. In 2019, she and her cofounder, Qiyun, started Amplify, the first D2C permanent life platform offering products where customers can access cash from their life insurance policies. Since launch, they’ve seen tremendous growth and customer demand.

Marty Young

CEO & Co-Founder

Buckle

Marty Young is the co-founder and CEO of Buckle, the inclusive, digital financial services platform serving the emerging middle class and gig economy. In addition to insurtech and fintech strategies, Marty also leads Buckle in M+A execution. He is a globally recognized Wall Street professional with 20+ years of special situations experience in executing 75+ transactions worth $30+ billion, as both a trusted financial advisor and executive officer. He also serves as Managing Director of M3 Partners, the top Wall Street restructuring boutique, and on the Advisory Board of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Marty is a West Point graduate and has a master’s degree in Operations Research from Georgia Tech and a master’s in business administration from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Phil Zeidler

Co-Founder

DeadHappy

Phil has a long track record in start ups having built three business’ in the insurance sector, the last of them becoming the largest white label supplier of general Insurance in the UK. He went on to invest (and Chair) a number of business’ from music, to sports clothing to the insurance sector, and worked with a range of Private Equity Houses in their insurance related investments such as Simply Business, winner of 'Best Company to Work For' two years running. Alongside this he chaired two charities and spent 10 years as Deputy Chair of his local hospital. In 2017, Phil stepped back into the front line setting up DeadHappy to take on Life insurance, and with Venture capital support, is aiming to completely change the customer experience and purpose of the product.

Timothy Zeilman

VP, Global Product Owner – Cyber

Hartford Steam Boiler

Tim Zeilman is VP and Global Product Owner – Cyber at HSB. HSB, a member of Munich Re’s Risk Solutions, provides a range of specialty insurance coverages for business, home and farm. In his role as HSB’s Global Product Owner for Cyber Insurance, Tim leads HSB’s cyber and privacy insurance efforts and is responsible for HSB’s institutional strategy for commercial and personal lines cyber and privacy coverages. Prior to his current position, he worked in HSB’s Strategic Products Group and as an attorney in HSB’s Law Department. Tim holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Rick Zullo

General Partner

Equal Ventures

Rick is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures, a $56m early-stage VC fund focused on bridging the digital divide. Over the course of his investing career, Rick has worked with industry defining insurtechs as the first outside investor and/or board member for companies such as ThreeFlow, ClearCover, Riskmatch, Snapsheet, Paladin Cyber and HDVI. Prior to Equal, Rick worked with Lightbank, a leading early-stage VC fund based in Chicago, after beginning his career in consulting and private equity. Rick graduated with honors from Columbia Business School and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond.