ELECTRONIC CHAT
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Electronic Chat with Ellen Moser, Senior Client Executive, Origami Risk LLC
Laura Mazzuca Toops | January 18, 2021
Last month Origami rolled out new online tools enabling employers to track employee COVID-19 vaccinations and monitor outbreaks...
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Electronic Chat with Eugenio Gonzalez, Plug and Play
Laura Mazzuca Toops | January 11, 2021
Gonzalez is an early-stage venture capital investor at Plug and Play Ventures, focused on insurtech, fintech, AI, and more...
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Electronic Chat with Nino Tarantino, CEO- Americas, Insurance and Mobility Solutions (IMS)
Laura Mazzuca Toops | December 15, 2020
Nino Tarantino is CEO – Americas of IMS. a global provider of connected car solutions, services, and analytics to insurers, mobility operators, OEMs...
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Electronic Chat with Robin Roberson, Managing Director, North America, Claim Central Consolidated
Staff Writer | December 07, 2020
Services include virtual inspections as a service (VlaaS), managed repair, and other building blocks that improve technology and service accessibility...
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Electronic Chat with Jason Liu, CEO, Zywave
Laura Mazzuca Toops | November 30, 2020
With two major acquisitions in the last month alone (Advisen and ITC), the cloud-based sales tool provider is on a solid growth trajectory...
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Electronic Chat with Andrew Mauritzen, CFO and Head of Insurance Industry, Exactuals
Laura Mazzuca Toops | November 16, 2020
Exactuals is a SaaS payments, data analytics, and reporting platform for the payment of commissions, claims, and vendors...
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Electronic Chat with Evgeny Aleksandrov, Co-founder and CEO, Pilotbird
Laura Mazzuca Toops | November 09, 2020
Evgeny Aleksandrov is co-founder and CEO of Kiwi Insurance Pilotbird, an analytics solutions provider for insurers...
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Electronic Chat with Chris Cheatham, CEO, RiskGenius
Laura Mazzuca Toops | October 28, 2020
The "Luke Skywalker of Insurance Policies" talks about the company's merger with Bold Penguin, COVID's impact on commercial insurance, and more...
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Electronic Chat with Amit Ranjan, Executive VP and CAO, Xceedance
Laura Mazzuca Toops | October 19, 2020
Amit Ranjan is executive VP and CAO of Xceedance, a global provider of strategic operations support (SOS), including consulting, managed services...
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Electronic Chat with Jimmy Padia, Founder and CEO, Floatbot
Laura Mazzuca Toops | October 15, 2020
The chatbot/voicebot insurtech is part of this week's GIA Insurtech Week...
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Electronic Chat with Jake Tamarkin, Co-founder and CEO, Everyday Life
Laura Mazzuca Toops | September 28, 2020
Jake Tamarkin is co-founder and CEO of Everyday Life, a Boston-based online life insurance “concierge” delivering financial solutions to mass market...
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Electronic Chat with Greg Williams, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Acrisure
Staff Writer | September 15, 2020
The fast-growing insurance broker's unique business model focuses on providing its agency partners with autonomy and an array of high-tech tools to...
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Electronic Chat with Matt Perlman, Partner, IA Capital Group
Laura Mazzuca Toops | September 08, 2020
Partner at IA Capital Group, a private investment firm specializing in insurance and financial technology, talks about the current state of insurtech...
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Electronic Chat with Adam Kiefer, CEO, Talage
Staff Writer | August 31, 2020
The insurtech specializes in working with both carriers and agents to grow and manage their business digitally...
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Electronic Chat with Steve Lekas, Branch Insurance
Laura Mazzuca Toops | August 25, 2020
New reciprocal program and plans for national expansion put this startup on the fast track for competition and growth in the personal lines market...
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Electronic Chat with Ty Harris, Founder and CEO, Openly
Laura Mazzuca Toops | August 11, 2020
Founded in October 2019 by Ty Harris and Matt Wielbut, Openly is a technology-enabled MGA for homeowners insurance that has built its products...
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Electronic Chat with Michael DeGusta, CEO, ClarionDoor
Staff Writer | August 03, 2020
Michael DeGusta is a successful entrepreneur and consistent innovator in the insurance software industry...
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Electronic Chat with Todd Greenbaum, CEO, Input 1
Staff Writer | July 20, 2020
Todd Greenbaum is President and CEO of Input 1, provider of digital billing and payment solutions expanding core/legacy systems...
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Electronic Chat with Char Hu
Laura Mazzuca Toops | July 16, 2020
Char Hu is CEO of The Helper Bees, the first and only company to use data analytics to help long-term care practitioners deliver intelligent...
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Electronic Chat with Allan L. Egbert, Jr.
Laura Mazzuca Toops | July 09, 2020
Tech entrepreneur, senior architect, consultant, and co-founder of Ask Kodiak...
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Electronic Chat with Christopher Tramontano and Zbigniew Gawienczuk
Staff Writer | June 29, 2020
Christopher Tramontano and Zbigniew Gawienczuk are the founders of ClearLync, a full-service software consulting firm...
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Electronic Chat with Michael Jones
Laura Mazzuca Toops | June 15, 2020
Michael Jones is co-founder and CEO of Combined Ratio Solutions...
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Electronic Chat with Paul VanderMarck
Laura Mazzuca Toops | June 08, 2020
Paul VanderMarck, Chief Innovation & Technology Officer, SageSure, has been involved in insurance data and analytics for more than 25 years...
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Electronic Chat with Bobbie Shrivastav
Staff Writer | June 01, 2020
Bobbie Shrivastav is co-founder and chief product officer of Benekiva, a software company whose mission is to bridge the gap between life insurance...
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Electronic Chat with John C. Siegman
Laura Mazzuca Toops | May 13, 2020
We spoke with HazardHub Founder John Siegman on how insurance’s reliance on data has changed over the years, and the role of technology in its...
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Electronic Chat with Christopher Ewing
Staff Writer | May 04, 2020
Christopher Ewing is President and CEO of One Inc. One Inc offers a single platform for processing premiums and claims payments, designed to integrate...
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Electronic Chat with Brad Epker
Staff Writer | April 28, 2020
Brad Epker is Chief Revenue Officer at Prompt.io (formerly Chatbox), a text messaging provider that allows businesses to transform text messaging from...
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Electronic Chat with Manisha Bhargava
Staff Writer | April 21, 2020
Manisha Bhargava, Global Head of Sales, Innoveo, on its new COVID-19 portal and no-code platform for insurance agents...
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Electronic Chat with Steve Comer
Laura Mazzuca Toops | April 06, 2020
Steve Comer, Director of Financial Services and Insurance at Hyland Software, discusses his company's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how Hyland...
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Electronic Chat with Robert Hartwig on COVID-19 and Insurance
Laura Mazzuca Toops | March 24, 2020
Hartwig spoke with ITA about how the insurance industry is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on the insurtech sector...
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Electronic Chat with Pankaj Parashar
Laura Mazzuca Toops | March 05, 2020
Pankaj Parashar is co-founder and CEO of Purple Ant, a subscription-based, cloud-based home monitoring platform that integrates with commercially...
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Electronic Chat with Tara Kelly
Laura Mazzuca Toops | February 24, 2020
Tara Kelly, President and CEO of SPLICE Software, was recently named among the 10 most trustable insurance tech providers by Technology Headlines...
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Electronic Chat with Chuck Wilson
Laura Mazzuca Toops | February 10, 2020
Chuck Wilson is co-founder of Avolanta, a privately held insurance computer software company based in Columbia, S.C...
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Electronic Chat with Joshua Snead
Staff Writer | January 06, 2020
Joshua Snead is co-founder of Rainwalk Technology, a SaaS cloud-native platform provider for pet insurance. The company uses machine learning to price...
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Electronic Chat with Wendy Aarons-Corman
Laura Mazzuca Toops | December 16, 2019
Wendy Aarons-Corman has more than 30 years’ experience in both IT and insurance, from her earliest days as a software developer on the underwriting...
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Electronic Chat with Ron Glozman
Laura Mazzuca Toops | November 18, 2019
Ron Glozman is the founder of Chisel, an AI solution for the global insurance industry which uses natural language processing and named entity...
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Electronic Chat with Russ Bostick
Laura Mazzuca Toops | November 11, 2019
Russ Bostick is Managing Partner at MVP Advisory Group, established in 2013 to provide consulting and advisory services specifically for the insurance...
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Electronic Chat with Rock Schindler
Laura Mazzuca Toops | November 04, 2019
Rock Schindler, Founder and CEO of SD Refinery, launched the company in 2018 in response to the insurance industry’s need for AI technology that could...
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Electronic Chat with John Siegman
Laura Mazzuca Toops | October 28, 2019
John Siegman is CCA and Founder at HazardHub, the U.S.’s most comprehensive natural and man-made risk database...
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Electronic Chat with Martin Burlingame
Laura Mazzuca Toops | October 18, 2019
Martin Burlingame is CEO at Commercial Insurance Group LLC dba Bigfoot Insurance, an MGA and program administrator supporting underwriters and...
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A Candid Conversation with Paul Mang
Bill Sinn | October 04, 2019
Paul Mang is the general manager, analytics and data services, with Guidewire Software, Inc., one of the leading software companies serving the...
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Electronic Chat with Dr. Dan Shoham
Bill Sinn | May 02, 2019
ITA interviews Dr. Dan Shoham, Chief Science Officer of Betterview...
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Electronic Chat with Todd Greenbaum
Bill Sinn | April 11, 2019
ITA interviews Todd Greenbaum, President and CEO of Input 1...
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Electronic Chat with Larissa Tosch
Bill Sinn | February 20, 2019
ITA interviews Larissa Tosh, CIO of Glatfelter Insurance Group...
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Electronic Chat with Jeroen Morrenhof
Bill Sinn | January 10, 2019
ITA interviews Jeroen Morrenhof, CEO of FRISS, one of the leading fraud and risk mitigation companies serving the P&C insurance marketplace...
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Electronic Chat -- Jason Liu
Bill Sinn | November 15, 2018
Jason Liu is the new CEO of Zywave, a privately held software company headquartered in Milwaukee, WI...
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Electronic Chat – Shashaanka Ashili
Robert Regis Hyle | January 23, 2017
Being a hardware engineer with an entrepreneurial fellowship in the surgical device space, he decided to invent a solution to reduce the incidence of...
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Electronic Chat: Bryan Fowler
Robert Regis Hyle | January 16, 2017
Bryan Fowler has worked with one of the largest insurers in the world (Progressive) and one of the smallest (Oregon Mutual). His views on how the...
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Electronic Chat: Jay Weintraub
Robert Regis Hyle | September 01, 2016
In my opinion, the outside world’s interest in insurances comes from a collision of immutable forces –technological, cultural, and monetary. Many...
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Electronic Chat: Jag Randhawa
Robert Regis Hyle | February 09, 2016
CIOs, including myself, are not very good at tooting their own horns. We like to work hard, do good work, and hope the world will recognize us for our...
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Electronic Chat: Ken Mitchel
Robert Regis Hyle | September 15, 2015
I would say that data mining technologies are under-used for most small to mid-size insurance entities, likely because it is such a large undertaking...
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Electronic Chat: Gary H. Ouellette
Robert Regis Hyle | November 24, 2014
While much growth is happening around data driven analytics I believe there are still far too few companies with mature analytical programs...
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Electronic Chat: Arne Herenstein
Robert Regis Hyle | September 09, 2014
The challenge is to keep the team learning and growing while at the same time delivering products rapidly, with high quality, and in the right price...
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Electronic Chat: Tricia Blair
Robert Regis Hyle | June 05, 2014
I think there’s always something you can do to improve the connection between IT and your business partners. We’re looking at business engagement...
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Electronic Chat: Lance Fisk
Robert Regis Hyle | April 24, 2014
The biggest challenge we face today is transitioning our technology organization from one focused on the direct provision of legacy technology...
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Electronic Chat: Wade Rugenstein
Robert Regis Hyle | February 06, 2014
I feel IT leaders are always worried about having a “seat” at the table, but I believe we should always focus on properly serving the table while...
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INSURANCE IT NEWS
- Electronic Chat with Eugenio Gonzalez, Plug and Play
- Nexilis’ Distribution Platform Selected by W.H. Greene and Associates to Drive Underwriting Transformation
- Breeze Adds Critical Illness Insurance to Digital Platform, Growing Partnership with Assurity Life
- Buckle Appoints Sharon Fernandez to Head of Insurance
- InsurTech NY Announces Global Early-Stage Insurtech Competition
- Altshuler Shaham Selects Sapiens for the Operation and Automation of its Provident and Pension Funds
- NetVU Announces Plans for 2021 Accelerate Conference
- Openly Secures $40M in Series B Funding Round to Accelerate Rapid Growth
ELECTRONIC CHAT
The Email Chat is a regular feature of the ITA Pro magazine and website. We send a series of questions to an insurance IT leader in search of thought-provoking responses on important issues facing the insurance industry.
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Electronic Chat with Ellen Moser, Senior Client Executive, Origami Risk LLC
Laura Mazzuca Toops
Last month Origami rolled out new online tools enabling employers to track employee COVID-19 vaccinations and monitor outbreaks... READ MORE
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Down Market Opportunities Beckon Benefits Insurers
You have surely heard it said that small businesses are the growth engine for America. Today, the phrase has a special ring to it for benefits... READ MORE
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Technology at the Heart of Change in Insurance
With stagnant growth and lingering low interest rates, the life insurance industry faces a challenging future... READ MORE
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Got Policies? IVANS Service Helps Feed Commercial Lines Producers
Finding insurance carriers willing to write commercial lines risks has always been a challenge for producers... READ MORE
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Technology Changes Coming Faster than Ever for Insurers
As Guidewire Software prepares for the start of Connections, its 11th annual user conference that begins on Nov. 2, Brian Desmond, chief marketing... READ MORE
Vendor Views
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Sink or Swim: A Mid-Term View of Virus Impact
COVID-19 has said to insurers, “It’s time to move... READ MORE
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Partner News
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Big Data and Insurtech: A Carrier Perspective
Insurance has always relied on large volumes of data to gauge customer behavior and more. But as big data has gotten bigger, insurtech has empowered... READ MORE
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