Bobbie Shrivastav

COO & Co-Founder
Benekiva
Bobbie Shrivastav is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, technology innovator, and digital transformation expert. She is passionate about helping organizations modernize legacy processes through digital disruption, re-engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Her expertise in information technology and experience leading successful enterprise-level initiatives spans nearly two decades. Presently, she is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Benekiva, a software company where she leads the product development, customer care, and delivery of transformational technology solutions to help modernize the insurance industry. Bobbie’s unwavering commitment to innovation, her customer-centric approach and thoughtful development of industry-evolving solutions have earned her the reputation as an industry leader. Prior to Benekiva, Shrivastav held senior leadership roles at Pepsico, AIG, and AON where she led several large-scale multi-million-dollar, enterprise-level transformation initiatives from system integration and conversions of over 20 to 30 systems to replacing legacy systems, including mainframe to modern ERP solutions. With the Center for Creative Leadership, she led innovation efforts to transform a paper-based and legacy solutions to customer-focused, digitally enabled experience. She has founded several companies and is an advisor to many startups, globally. Bobbie thrives on solving real problems through immaculate product development and delivering solutions for complex situations in an agile manner. She is determined to “kick some glass” within the insurtech industry, and deliver cutting-edge, disruptive solutions with the highest level of character, analytic oversight, and creative instinct. She is instrumental in Benekiva’s evolution to become the only technology solution on the market that delivers straight-through, next-generation claims and policy servicing transformations, with asset retention enablement. Shrivastav earned her MBA from Wake Forest University, a Master’s degree in Project Management from Western Carolina University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Information, Systems and Marketing from Appalachian State University. She has numerous project management certifications from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Scrum Alliance. Bobbie’s most recent industry recognition includes being named as a “Senior Leader “on Women in Fintech Power List of 2022 as well as being awarded “Digital and Technology Officer of the Year”. She has been interviewed by many industry publications, most recently in Modern Insurance and Fintech Finance. She is featured speaker at key industry events where she shares her expertise on topics such as digital transformation, modernizing of the core, tackling legacy, customer experience, claims transformation, entrepreneurial, Insurtech, and change management.