2025 Speakers

Karan Mishra is a seasoned insurance technologist and operational strategist, currently serving as CEO of Stitch Studio, a company pioneering explainable, scalable AI for the insurance industry. With a career spanning leadership roles in Big Four consulting and a successful startup, Karan is known for architecting technology driven operations that bridge legacy complexity with next generation technologies.

Prior to Stitch, Karan was a Partner at EY, where he advised top-tier insurers on AI strategy and enterprise transformation. He also co-founded Spraoi with StitchStudio founder Santoash Rajaram, delivering high-impact Machine Learning applications across the insurance value chain. Their reunion marks a continued alignment of technical depth, executional trust, and market insight.

Karan’s leadership is defined by a pragmatic, outcome-driven mindset. His approach is grounded in deep domain knowledge and a passion for building AI solutions that work within the constraints of regulated industries.

At StitchStudio, Karan is focused on helping insurers move confidently from AI pilots to production. Under his guidance, StitchStudio delivers a single-tenant AI studio platform that enables insurers, brokers, MGAs, and TPAs to build and deploy custom AI Agents without needing to rip and replace systems or compromise control. Stitch’s platform combines domain-specific ontologies, deterministic logic, and prebuilt API integrations, all wrapped in agentic workflows that meet both technical and regulatory standards.

Driven by a belief that scalable AI must be both explainable and operationally useful, Karan champions solutions that reduce swivel-chair tasks, elevate human expertise, and enable lean teams to deliver enterprise-grade service.

Karan holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University and resides in the Greater Chicago Area. He brings to every role a deep well of technical knowledge, operational precision, and strategic clarity, making him a catalyst for real change in a fast-evolving industry.