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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Insurance space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Max Simkoff
Founder & CEO of Doma
Max started States Title in 2016 after personally experiencing the friction and labor caused by title insurance in the homebuying process. Since then he has worked to provide an innovative solution to homeowners, brokers, and mortgage bankers. Max is an entrepreneur with experience founding and operating technology companies. Prior to States Title, Max was Founder and CEO of Evolv, Inc., an enterprise predictive analytics software company, which he led through their acquisition by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2014 where he served for two years on the senior executive team post-acquisition as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
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About Doma: Doma is an insurtech platform that uses machine intelligence to remove friction from residential real estate transactions.
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Patrick Bet-David
Founder & CEO of PHP Agency
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About PHP Agency: PHP Agency is a national, financial services company that offers clients personally suitable life insurance and annuity products.
Assaf Wand
CEO & Co-Founder of Hippo Insurance
Assaf Wand is the CEO & Co-Founder at Hippo Insurance.
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About Hippo Insurance: Hippo Insurance is an InsurTech company that uses technology to help homeowners maintain their properties.
Joshua Motta
Co-Founder & CEO of Coalition
Joshua Motta is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition.
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About Coalition: Coalition operates as a cyber insurance and security company that helps businesses manage and mitigate cyber risks.
Richard Parrillo
Founder & CEO of United Automobile Insurance Company
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About United Automobile Insurance Company: Provide a high quality and low cost insurance product to the non-standard automobile insurance market.
Daniel Demetri
Founder & CEO of Trellis Technologies
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About Trellis Technologies: P&C insurance data services
Kevin Taweel
Founder & CEO of Asurion
Since co-founding Asurion in 1994, the company has grown from 40 to 10,000 employees becoming the world’s largest provider of technology protection services, partnering with the world’s top companies and brands and serving over 200 million customers. Previously, Kevin was chairman and president of investment firm Mill River Corporation and worked in mergers and acquisitions for Salomon Brothers. Kevin and his Asurion cofounder received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001. Kevin is a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches entrepreneurship courses in the MBA program, from which he graduated in 1992. He is also a member of the school’s advisory council and has served on its management board. Kevin received a bachelor`s degree in mechanical engineering from McGill University. He serves on the board of directors for ResponseLink, a provider of medical alert systems and the board of trustees for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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About Asurion, Stanford Graduate School of Business: Asurion helps people get the most out of their technology by providing expert help and product insurance and warranties.
Kevin Chan
Co-Founder of Headway
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About Headway, Maderight: Headway is a mental healthcare system provider that helps patients connect with therapists and submit insurance claims online.
Sami Mnaymneh
Founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
Sami Mnaymneh is a Founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital and has served as a Managing Partner of the firm since 1993. He has directed the firm’s development since its founding and approves all capital commitments made by H.I.G. Sami currently serves on the Board of Columbia College and on the Dean’s Council of the Harvard Law School. Prior to founding H.I.G., Sami was a Managing Director with The Blackstone Group in New York. Prior to that, he was a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions department at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he devoted a significant amount of his time to leveraged buyouts, serving as senior advisor to a number of prominent private equity firms. Over the course of his career, Mr. Mnaymneh has led over 75 transactions in a wide range of industries. Sami earned a B.A. degree, Summa Cum Laude, from Columbia University where he graduated first in his class, and subsequently received a J.D. degree and an M.B.A. degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, respectively.
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About Blackstone Group, H.I.G. BioHealth Partners, H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Tony Tamer
Founder & Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
Tony Tamer is a Founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital. He has directed H.I.G.’s development since its founding in 1993 and approves all capital commitments made by the firm. Tony has led a number of successful investments at H.I.G. in both the management buyouts and growth capital arenas. He has extensive experience working with, and coaching, early stage and middle-market companies. Tony is a board member of several H.I.G. portfolio companies. He currently also serves on the Dean’s Council of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Prior to H.I.G., Tony was partner at Bain & Company where he developed business unit and operating strategies, implemented productivity improvement initiatives, and led acquisition and divestiture activities for a number of Fortune 500 clients. Tony has extensive operating experience. He has held marketing, engineering and manufacturing positions at Hewlett-Packard and Sprint Corporation. Tony holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His undergraduate degree is from Rutgers University.
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About H.I.G. BioHealth Partners, H.I.G. Capital, HP: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Daniel Petkevich
CEO and Founder of Virgil Insurance
Daniel Petkevich is the CEO and Founder of Virgil Insurance.
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About Fair Square Medicare, Virgil Insurance: Virgil Insurance is an insurance firm that offers various kinds of plans and experiences for seniors to shop for health insurance online.
Dhaval Chadha
Co-Founder & CEO of Justos
CEO at @Justos • Formerly CEO @Vivo (acquired) • Head of Latam @ClassPass • @Harvard University
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About Justos, NFX, Pipa, Stealth Startup: Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Antonio Molins
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Justos
Antonio Molins is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Justos.
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About Justos: Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
John Fontein
Co-Founder of Sesame
John Fontein is Co-Founder and President at Sesame. Previously, he was the VP of Business Development at GoEuro where he oversaw all revenue functions including sales, marketing and partnerships. John began his career at Goldman Sachs where he worked in both the Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions of the firm. John is a multi-platinum song-writer, producer, and sound designer. He is the recipient of numerous awards including an MTV Video Music Award, a Berklee Jazz Festival Award and a FringeNYC Award. John attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Music and a certificate in Computer Science.
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About Sesame: Sesame is a healthcare superstore, with over 10,000 medical practices offering affordable prices for care in-person or online.
David Goldhill
Co-Founder & CEO of Sesame
David Goldhill is the founder and CEO of Sesame.
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About Game Show Network, Sesame: Sesame is a healthcare superstore, with over 10,000 medical practices offering affordable prices for care in-person or online.
Jamie Hale
Co-Founder & CEO of Ladder
Jamie is Ladder’s CEO and chief evangelist. He believes life insurance is a fundamentally great product for families and communities and so built Ladder to be the smart, modern way to insure your life. Prior to cofounding Ladder, Jamie was Partner at Aldenwood Capital and at Oak Hill Investment Management, a premier family office with over $12 billion in assets. Jamie 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.
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About Ladder: Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%.
Jeff Merkel
Co-Founder of Ladder
Jeff Merkel is a co-founder at Ladder, VC-backed startup that provides a smart, simple way to insure your life. He joined from Issuu, where he was CRO, responsible for managing sales and business development. Previously, he was director of global Android partnerships at Google. Jeff joined Google as part of the AdMob acquisition, where he was vice president and general manager of Asia Pacific. Earlier in his career, Jeff was director of media solutions for Motorola where he was responsible for sell in, commercialization, and marketing of media solutions and services. He also held the positions of marketing manager at Apple Computer, a business development manager for a wireless payment startup in Singapore and a management consultant for Price Waterhouse in the U.S. and Europe. Jeff holds bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Ladder: Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%.
Greg Shenkman
Founder of EIS Group
Greg Shenkman is the founder of EIS Group.
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About EIS Group, Exigen Capital: EIS Group is focused on providing IT solutions that enable companies to convert their technology into strategic assets.
Tylon Wang
Co-Founder and CEO of Angle Health
Tylon Wang is the Co-Founder and CEO at Angle Health.
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About Angle Health: Angle Health delivers the modern health insurance experience expected by today’s employees.
Anirban Gangopadhyay
Co-Founder of Angle Health
Anirban Gangopadhyay is the Co-Founder at Angle Health.
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About Angle Health: Angle Health delivers the modern health insurance experience expected by today’s employees.
Adam Lyons
Founder & Board of The Zebra
Adam Lyons is Founder & Executive Chairman at The Zebra, which he started in 2012 and has grown into the most visited insurance search engine in the U.S. Adam has been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List in 2017, EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist 2016, Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list in 2015, and received the 2014 Empact 100 Award at the United Nations.
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About The Zebra: The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace.
Wayne Slavin
Co-Founder & CEO of Sure
Wayne Slavin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sure, a VC backed insurtech startup. Prior to Sure he was the VP of Product Management at Tapingo, TechCrunch’s Most Innovative Company of 2013. His other past projects and companies include NetStumbler, a consumer app with more than 1,500,000,000+ billion downloads, the Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader, Buddy Media (now part of salesforce), and BackupRight the enterprise SaaS company he sold in 2012. He has a Masters Degree from Columbia University.
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About Sure: Sure is an insurance technology company that powers API-based digital insurance programs for brands and carriers.
Courtney Guertin
Founder & CTO of Ease
Courtney Guertin graduated from the University of Minnesota – Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Japanese. Worked as the lead developer at a couple of startups in the Twin Cities before starting his own company. Provides technology due diligence services for a private equity firm. Very passionate about new technologies and starting businesses.
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About Ease, Eightbit.me: Ease is a benefits administration software designed for small businesses, insurance brokers, and insurance carriers.
David A. Reid
Founder and CEO of Ease
David Reid has 30 years of experience working in the employee benefits and group insurance industry. After working as a wholesale distributor of group-based benefit products for two major insurance companies, Mr. Reid became a consultant and agent for Unison Benefits Management, a leading provider in the Minneapolis/St. Paul marketplace that was eventually acquired by Gallagher Benefit Services Inc. In 1999, Mr. Reid was among the first to venture into the world of online technology designed for employee benefits enrollment and communication. Prior to founding EaseCentral, he founded Apprize Technology Solutions, an industry leader in benefits enrollment technology.
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About Ease: Ease is a benefits administration software designed for small businesses, insurance brokers, and insurance carriers.
Jaganath Swamy
Co-Founder, CEO of Kiddo
Jaganath “CJ” Swamy CJ Swamy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Good Parents Inc. He leads strategy and operations for Kiddo and has successfully raised over $8.0 Million in funding from marquee investors in the US and Asia. Prior to that, CJ has 18+ years’ experience as a serial entrepreneur, early stage investor and consultant. He co-founded two companies across Asia previously – one in vitamins manufacturing and the other in logistics/ supply chain. He was previously the lead for US – Asia investments with HarbourVest Partners (one of the leading alternative assets manager in the world with over $74 Billion in AUM). Before that, he led US-Asia investments for Northgate Capital, a California based early stage investor with over $6 Billion in AUM. Previously he also spent 3 years as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co. primarily working with insurance companies and banks in Asia on product and market strategy. CJ has an MBA (Honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and before that graduated with a B.Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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About HarbourVest Partners, Kiddo: Kiddo is a personalized smart at-home health monitoring platform for children.
Shmulik Fishman
Founder, CEO of Argyle
Shmulik Fishman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Argyle, the leading employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned records in real-time. With a solution that enables coverage of the majority of the US labor market, companies across industries leverage Argyle for frictionless, automated verification of income and employment (VOIE) and direct deposit change. Shmulik started Argyle in 2018, with the backing of Bain Capital and Checkr, after experiencing the complexity of work verification in his previous venture STRATIM, which he founded in 2014. At STRATIM, Shmulik acted as the Chief Operating Officer, raising $42M in venture funding and sold in 2018 to NYSE listed KAR Global (NYSE: KAR). Prior to STRATIM, Shmulik worked on the S1 team at Adap.tv during its IPO that was subsequently acquired by AOL. Shmulik has an undergraduate degree from Hampshire College where he became a philosopher by training and a storyteller by practice. While earning a business degree at Columbia University, a chance meeting catapulted Shmulik into the world of machine learning, setting him on a path of disrupting today’s employment and income verification space. When not writing, sitting on panels, keynote speaking, and conjoining fragmented networks, you can find Shmulik falling down the rabbit-hole of Wikipedia, in awe of our collective wisdom and communal capacity.
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About Argyle: Argyle provides a consumer-controlled, software gateway to employment records.
Flaviu Simihaian
Co-Founder & CEO of Troy Medicare
Flaviu Simihaian is the co-founder and CEO of Troy Medicare, the first pharmacy-powered, AI-driven Medicare Advantage plan. Flaviu also co-founded and is the chairman of Amplicare (previously iMedicare), a web-based SaaS platform that 7,000 pharmacies use to manage and grow their business.
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About TechAngels, Troy Medicare: Troy Medicare is arming independent pharmacies with a health plan and platform tailored to their most vulnerable patients.
Mitchell Ginzburg
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of TRANZACT
One of the founders of TRANZACT, Mitchell brings more than 25 years of business, marketing, operations and legal experience to his role as manager of TRANZACT’s Insurance and Mortgage business units. His focus is on the operations and growth of those divisions. From 2001 to 2003 Mitchell was Senior Vice President of Mosaic Performance Solutions North America, a wholly owned direct marketing division of Mosaic Group Inc., and formerly served in such a capacity at Paradigm Direct from 1998 to 2000. Before that, Mitchell was the Chief Operating Officer of a South Florida textile business, responsible for its strategic planning and international expansion. He graduated from George Washington University Law School with Honors and practiced corporate law for a prominent Los Angeles law firm.
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About TRANZACT: MG LLC, a provider of sales and marketing services to insurance companies that does business as Tranzact
Clint Jones
Co-Founder & CEO of GoHealth
Clint Jones co-founded Norvax, Inc. in 2001, which later became GoHealth, the nation’s leading online health insurance shopping exchange. Jones is recognized as a pioneer in the health insurance industry for revolutionizing the way people buy and sell coverage. Jones received a Midwest Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2013. Jones currently serves on the board of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce. Before founding Norvax, Jones was the Intranet Market Manager for Holt Value, a former division of Credit Suisse. Jones earned two Bachelor’s degrees in Marketing and Management Information Systems from Miami University.
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About GoHealth, NVX Holdings, Inc.: GoHealth is an online portal for finding health insurance coverage, allowing users to compare health insurance quotes and purchase online.
Brandon Cruz
Co-Founder,CTO & President of GoHealth
Brandon Cruz is the Co-Founder and President of GoHealth, the nation’s most comprehensive online portal for health insurance. In 2001, Cruz co-founded Norvax, Inc. which later became GoHealth. Prior to his current role, he worked as a Systems Developer at Lante Corp. in Chicago. Cruz is recognized throughout the technology industry as an influential thought leader, and speaks regularly on topics related to technology, health insurance and business operations. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and serves on the board of Techweek and Imerman Angels. In 2013, Cruz was a Midwest winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Cruz holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Miami University in Ohio.
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About GoHealth, NVX Holdings, Inc.: GoHealth is an online portal for finding health insurance coverage, allowing users to compare health insurance quotes and purchase online.
Jenn Knight
Co-Founder & CTO of AgentSync
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About AgentSync: AgentSync is a Producer Management Platform used for broker onboarding, licensing, and compliance requirements.
Ambrose Wang
Co-Founder of MediaAlpha
A serial entrepreneur that has been deeply involved in the online marketing and advertising industry for over 15 years. Ambrose is an active co-founder of MediaAlpha, Inc, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
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About MediaAlpha, QuoteLab.com: MediaAlpha is an advertising technology company that develops programmatic advertising platforms.
Matt Antoszyk
Co-Founder & CEO of Herald
As product manager, Matt takes At-Bay’s technology products from concept to execution. An average day may include interviewing users, sketching new product ideas with the design team, troubleshooting issues with the engineers, or poring over data to figure out new ways to share insights with brokers and clients. Working with a team with endless ideas has its challenges, but Matt brings patience, an open ear and the ability to weigh many different options—and, when the time comes, the drive to get things done. Matt has a degree in computer science from Yale and experience as a senior business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he solved business problems for senior executives. He puts that experience to use at At-Bay by building business solutions for technical problems.
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About Herald: Herald offers digital infrastructure that connects software developers to commercial insurance carriers through a single API.
Callum King
President & Co-Founder (Founding CEO) of Brightside
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About Brightside: Brightside is an employer-based financial health solution that combines personal assistants and an innovative partner platform.
Jacky Chiu
CTO & Co-Founder of Brightside
Jacky Chiu is the CTO and Co-Founder at Brightside.
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About Brightside: Brightside is an employer-based financial health solution that combines personal assistants and an innovative partner platform.
Mike Shim
Founder & CEO of True North Cos.
True North Cos. is a private investment and advisory firm building valuable, enduring businesses in technology, financial services and consumer products. Founded in 2012 by Mike Shim, a corporate/M&A lawyer-turned tech executive, entrepreneur and venture investor based in Silicon Valley, True North Cos. works with world-beating leaders at startups and Fortune 500 companies alike to build more purposeful companies. Purposeful companies share a common mission of improving the world through business, while delivering superior long-term returns to their employees, investors and the communities they serve.
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About DigiSure, Nextury Ventures, True North Cos.: Building companies with purpose.
Darren Nix
Founder, President of Steadily
Darren is a cofounder at Steadily.com. Previously he cofounded Interviewed (YC S15) and Leaky (YC S11) and Silver Financial (not-YC S06).
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About Steadily: Steadily is offers fast, affordable landlord insurance to rental property owners.
Datha Santomieri
Co-Founder, Vice President of Steadily
Datha Santomieri is the co-founder and vice president of Steadily.
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About Steadily: Steadily is offers fast, affordable landlord insurance to rental property owners.
Maria Miller
COO and Co-Founder of Spot Insurance
Maria Goy is Co-founder and COO of Life by Spot, a company dedicated to redefining life insurance by building a consumer-centric experience and bringing customers a product that suits their means and lifestyle. Prior to founding Spot, Maria served as Vice President, Technology Strategic Partnerships at New York Life, driving sourcing and relationship strategy for one of the largest life insurance companies in the US. Having started her career at Anderson Consulting (Accenture) and living across Europe, Asia and the US Maria comes with a wealth and breadth of industry and global market experience.
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About Spot Insurance: Injury insurance designed to protect against unexpected medical expenses
Matt Randall
Co-Founder & CEO of Spot Insurance
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About Spot Insurance: Injury insurance designed to protect against unexpected medical expenses
Jonathan D. Rosen
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Entaire Global Companies
Mr. Rosen is an entrepreneur, wealth planning professional, and CEO of Entaire Global Companies, Inc., a privately-held, diversified financial services holding company. Mr. Rosen is the lead developer and co-inventor for 3 patents in the area of Leveraged Planning® and most recently joined the Board of Algaeon Inc., an Indianapolis-based biotech company that has developed a breakthrough patented industrial scale microalgae cultivation technology. In 2009, he formed and funded the JDRosen Family Foundation, a 501(c)3 dedicated to improving the financial habits of children and adults by changing mindsets about the importance of saving, investing, and wealth creation. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Council on Economic Education. Mr. Rosen began his career as a healthcare management professional and has extensive experience in physician practice management at the corporate level. He was the founder and CEO of EVI Medical Management Systems, a firm that provided consulting services to physician’s practices. In this capacity, he managed multiple practice organizations, delivering a myriad of physician practice management services. Mr. Rosen holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania and attended Emory Law School. His areas of academic concentration and research have included insurance, risk management and healthcare management.
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About Entaire Global Companies: Entaire Global Companies, Inc. is a diversified financial services holding company
Noah Lang
Co-Founder & CEO of Stride Health
Noah Lang launched Stride Health to make health insurance human. Stride translates coverage into a language everybody can understand because we believe healthcare decisions don’t have to be difficult. Stride is the first health insurance recommendation engine tuned and tailored to the life of an individual, providing Seamless, intuitive and transparent answers to consumers’ toughest coverage questions. Noah Lang was previously the founding VP of Business Development at Reputation.com where he spent 5 years building consumer products and distribution channels. Noah currently sits on the DMAs Data Governance Advisory Board and was selected as a “Privacy by Design Ambassador” in 2011. Noah is a graduate of Stanford University as a President’s Scholar with a degree in Product Design. Noah is an avid triathlete, skier and endurance sports junkie.
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About Stride Health: Stride Health is a provider of an insurance recommendation platform designed to offer health insurance services.
Saransh Garg
Co-Founder & CEO of Nova Benefits
Saransh Garg is the Co-Founder and CEO at Nova Benefits.
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About Nova Benefits: Nova Benefits operates as a B2B health insurance platform.
Guy Goldstein
CEO and Co-Founder of Next Insurance
Guy Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Next Insurance. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Pageonce, and member of the company’s Board of Directors, brings nearly two decades of management, strategy and product development experience to his role as CEO. Since founding Pageonce in 2007, Guy has raised $10 million in venture capital funding and grown its membership from zero to more than four million. He has a proven track record in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions and as research and development leader. At Hewlett-Packard, Guy led inorganic growth expansion acquisitions to develop HP’s Business Intelligence strategy. 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 $200 million in revenue. He was a key member of the executive team that developed the business plan for Mercury Interactive’s $5 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. 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. Early in his life Guy was handpicked for an elite group of candidates to train for the Israeli Air Force based on his record-level test scores and technical aptitude. He excelled and rose to the top military rank of major and fighter pilot in one of world’s most respected air force programs. Ever the prolific innovator, he holds two patents. Guy graduated cum laude from Tel-Aviv University with a bachelor’s degree in Business and Computer Science.
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About Mint Bills, Next Insurance: Next Insurance is an online-based insurance company for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Kyle Nakatsuji
Co-Founder & CEO of Clearcover
Kyle Nakatsuji is the CEO and Co-founder of Clearcover.
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About Clearcover: Affordable car insurance that’s smarter, faster & puts your needs above all else, helping you make informed decisions every step of the way.
Derek Brigham
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Clearcover
Derek Brigham is a co-founder and chief operating officer at Clearcover.
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About Clearcover: Affordable car insurance that’s smarter, faster & puts your needs above all else, helping you make informed decisions every step of the way.
Yaron Ben-Zvi
Co-Founder and CEO of Haven Life
Yaron loves building things that make a difference. That’s how he came to be the co-founder and CEO of Haven Life, MassMutual’s in-house startup that’s setting the pace for innovation in life insurance. Yaron worked with several other startups before launching Haven Life in industries as varied as asset management and media, yet the complexity and opportunity in life insurance kept calling him to the cause. Part entrepreneur, part executive, and part family man, Yaron sometimes struggles to make all these parts work together. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Wharton School of Business, he believes strongly in the value of a liberal arts education.
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About Haven Life: Haven Life offers an online solution that provides people access to affordable term life insurance products and services.
Rex Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of AIVON
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About AIVON, Famecast Media, Intelligent Video Solutions: AIVON is a decentralized blockchain platform and protocol built on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network.
Matt Miller
Founder & CEO of Embroker
Matt Miller is the founder and CEO of Embroker, the first modern solution for business insurance. Prior to founding Embroker, he was a Principal at the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, where he led investments in the insurance and software space. While at H&F, he served on the board of directors of HUB International, Applied Systems, and Renaissance Learning. Prior to joining Hellman & Friedman, Matt was a Vice President for Bain Capital in Boston and Hong Kong and a consultant for Bain & Company in New York. Matt graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and co-president of the Private Equity club.
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About Embroker: Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage.
Jay Bregman
Founder and CEO of Thimble
Jay Bregman is the Founder & CEO of Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Eugene Hertz
Founder / CTO of Thimble
Eugene Hertz is founder & CTO at Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Myong Lee
Co-Founder, COO & Board Member of Clever Care Health Plan Inc.
Myong Lee is a Co-Founder, COO, and Board Member at Clever Care Health Plan. He is also an advisor to multiple early stage companies.
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About Clever Care Health Plan Inc.: Clever Care Health Plan is a healthcare company that offers medicare advantage health plans to its members.
Scott Walchek
Founder, CEO & Chairman of Trōv
Founder, CEO & Chairman at Trōv.
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About ePlanet Capital, Jetset Magazine, Trōv: Trov is the world’s leading insurance technology platform, enabling the new ways people live, work, and move.
Aaron Shapiro
Founder and CEO of Dayforward
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About Dayforward: Dayforward is a provider of a life insurance platform designed to bring financial security to families.
Mallika Khandelwal
Co-Founder and VP of Dayforward
Mallika Khandelwal is the Co-Founder at Dayforward.
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About Dayforward: Dayforward is a provider of a life insurance platform designed to bring financial security to families.
David Fontain
Founder and CEO of Foresight Commercial Insurance
Founder and CEO at Foresight, the insurtech for mid-market workers compensation. At Foresight, we’re rewarding proactive insureds with lower premiums and rewarding brokers with higher commissions.
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About Foresight Commercial Insurance, Foresight Risk and Insurance Services: Foresight is the commercial insurtech that ties safe work practices to insurance savings.
Patrick Burns
CEO and Co-Founder of Spruce Holdings
Patrick Burns is a Co-Founder at Spruce Holdings.
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About Spruce Holdings: Spruce Holdings aims to improve title insurance assessment and issuance to reduce the time needed to close a real estate deal.
Natalie Gray
Co-Founder and Design of Cover
Natalie is the co-founder and head of product at Cover where she is responsible for setting the direction for product and design. Prior to Cover, Natalie co-founded Stylekick––an e-commerce fashion app––which was acqui-hired by Shopify in 2015. Natalie is a Y Combinator Fellow and Alumnus, and she was selected for the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017. She has spoken at a variety of events including Forbes Women Summit, Insurtech Insights, Tech Intersections, Empire Conference and TechTO. She has also been interviewed for publications like Forbes, Business Insider, Thrive Global and Buzzfeed.
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About Cover: Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
Anand Dhillon
CTO & Co-Founder of Cover
Anand Dhillon is the CTO of Stylekick.
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About Cover: Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
John Constantine
Co-Founder & Director of KindHealth
John Constantine is Co-Founder of Sozo Global, Inc. John Constantine has 18 years of Network Marketing experience as a top Distributor, owner, and board member of successful Network Marketing companies. He is also Co-Founder of five successful companies in the fields of Direct Sales, Insurance and Healthcare. John Constantine serves as a Director of Sozo Global, Inc.
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About KindHealth: The Digital Platform that simplifies Health Insurance Management.
Vivek Shah
Co – Founder & CEO of SimplyInsured
Vivek Shah is the Founder & CEO of SimplyInsured .Previously, Vivek was a healthcare analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he worked with insurance companies to make healthcare more efficient. Vivek graduated with degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Management Science from MIT.
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About ITXCHG.com, SimplyInsured: SimplyInsured allows you to estimate your real Out-of-Pocket costs when purchasing health insurance.
Bob Aspell
Co-Founder, Head of Product of SimplyInsured
Bob Aspell is the Co-Founder, Head of Product at SimplyInsured
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About SimplyInsured: SimplyInsured allows you to estimate your real Out-of-Pocket costs when purchasing health insurance.
Alex Gellman
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Vertical Bridge Holdings
Alex Gellman is the CEO & Co-Founder at Vertical Bridge.
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About Vertical Bridge Holdings: Vertical Bridge is a private owner and manager of wireless communication infrastructure.
Bernard Borghei
Executive Vice President Of Operations & Co-Founder of Vertical Bridge Holdings
Bernard Borghei is the Executive Vice President Of Operations & Co-Founder at Vertical Bridge.
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About Vertical Bridge Holdings, Vertical Bridge Holdings: Vertical Bridge is a private owner and manager of wireless communication infrastructure.
Dave Hanley
Founder & CEO of Tomorrow Ideas
Dave Hanley is CEO of Tomorrow, which helps families make long-term financial and legal decisions together for the first time, in an easy-to-use app designed to protect their futures. He is an accomplished CEO, digital entrepreneur, and social advocate. Prior to founding Tomorrow, Dave founded Banyan Branch, a leading social media marketing agency, which was acquired by Deloitte Digital. Prior to Banyan Branch, Dave was VP of Marketing at Shelfari, the social network for book readers, which he helped grow to more than 2 million members in 18 months, before it was acquired by Amazon. He also served as Director of Product Management at RealNetworks, where he oversaw the launches of Rhapsody.com and Rhapsody’s Web services program. Earlier in his career, Dave worked in economic development with NGOs and banks in Asia and Latin America that were implementing and assessing microcredit programs, including time as a Fulbright scholar. Dave was selected to the prestigious World Economic Forum Young Global Leader program, where he is an active participant and advisor. Dave is an adoring husband, loving father of four children, adventure traveler, and spirituality seeker. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in public policy from Brigham Young University.
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About Tomorrow Ideas: Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future.
Ryan Katz
Founder & Managing Partner of Route 66 Ventures
Ryan received a BBA in Finance from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees. In 1996, he was a founding partner of the FFELP Marketing Group, which helped originate over $1 Billion in Federal student loans to families from 1996 to 1999. Ryan was the founder of Goal Financial and served as the CEO of Goal from 2001-2009. Under his leadership, the company originated and securitized over $9 billion in Federal student loans. In 2010, Ryan led the conversion of Goal Financial into an ESOP, renamed Goal Structured Solutions (GS2), where he continued to serve as the Chairman of the Board until 2014. Goal Structured Solutions (GS2) has re-focused the Goal capital markets and administration business into a platform with over $20B of assets under management. GS2 provides trust administration, servicing, analytics, and underwriting for private and Federal student lending programs. In 2012, Ryan founded Route 66 Ventures, an investment platform based in Alexandria, VA. Route 66 Ventures provides venture capital, private equity and venture debt to emerging financial services and fintech companies worldwide. Ryan continues to serve as a Board member of GS2, as the Founding Partner of Route 66 Ventures, and as a Board member and advisor to portfolio companies across the Route 66 platform.
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About Route 66 Ventures: Route 66 Ventures provides venture capital and credit solutions to emerging financial technology and services companies.
Blake Bianchi
Founder & CEO of Discount
Blake Bianchi is a serial entrepreneur with a strong background in Real Estate & Mortgage. He currently lives in Boise, ID with his wife and son.
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About Discount: AI-Powered mortgage platform that helps consumers get a mortgage faster, easier and for way less.
Cindy Warner
Founder/Chair of the Board of 360ofme
Technologist meets Strategist. Cindy is one of those all too rare individuals that started her career as a technologist and evolved it into a sought after strategist, all while retaining her technology chops, still able to code to this day. She started her career as a developer, moving onward to a process analyst, business analyst then strategist. On that path, she became known as one of the best technology enterprise architects for Global 1000 companies, due to her ability to match enabling technologies to the thorniest of business problems, beginning with design, and moving all the way through development and execution. From a business perspective, Cindy began her career in the back office, developing distribution systems, then moved into the front office, working on customer facing solutions for the past 18 years. She is a subject matter expert in the area of helping organizations connect with their markets more effectively and efficiently. What do others say about Cindy you may ask? The words used to describe her would be “wicked smart, endless passion, intense, curious, and empathetic”. She is a leader others love to follow, as evidenced by those that have followed her to no less than three career stops. Through the years Cindy has been blessed to work for some of the greatest brands in the world including FEDEX, Ernst & Young, Salesforce, PwC and IBM. Each time she has come to these companies to build something. Most would say they leverage her keen vision to help develop a model for their future, enabled by technologies. That is a key strength of hers. While a corporate citizen for much of her career, she is also an entrepreneur, owning a 1938 diner for 12 years whose revenues have grown 400% during her ownership. She has also been a board advisor to many other technology startups including Apcera, InfoReady, ArdentCause, and others. In her spare time she pursues balancing the gender inequity of women in tech, as the President of a 700 member non-profit, Michigan Council of Women in Technology. Cindy believes that her extensive knowledge of technology, exceptional leadership, passion for whatever she pursues, adaptability, and keen market vision, make her a fabulous candidate to try her hand as an entrepreneur at this point in her career
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About 360ofme, Michigan Council of Women in Technology: Personal Digital Asset and Insights Platform
Praveen Chekuri
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Ascend
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About Ascend: Ascend is a modern, all-in-one payments solution purpose-built for insurance
Andrew Wynn
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Ascend
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About Ascend: Ascend is a modern, all-in-one payments solution purpose-built for insurance
Kosaku Yada
Founder of The Yada Company
Kosaku Yada (Ko) is a Managing Director of The Yada Company. He was formerly a Managing Director at Altpoint ventures. Prior to joining Altpoint, Ko co-founded Sonar Group, a multi-strategy fund based in Tokyo. Prior to Sonar Group, Ko also founded K2D, a Japan market entry consulting company in Tokyo, Japan which was sold to RVH, a Japanese public company listed on the TSE II. He now oversees their international business development initiatives. Ko’s first job out of college was as a professional basketball coach (and then player) in Japan. He currently sits on the Board of Directors at RVH (Japan, TSEII).
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About The Yada Company: Private investment and holding company
Chini Krishnan
Founder & CEO of GetInsured
With more than 20 years of experience in the high technology industry, Chini Krishnan is Co-Founder and CEO of GetInsured. Prior to GetInsured, Chini most recently founded and served as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Valicert Inc., a leader in public-key infrastructure (PKI) validation. At Valicert, Chini served in multiple roles including running the technology and services arms and also helping to complete several acquisitions. Valicert went public in 2000 and ultimately merged with Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD) in 2003. Prior to founding Valicert, Chini was Product Marketing Manager at Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT), where he was seminally involved in releasing the world’s first secure browser. Chini holds an MS in Computer Science from Duke University and a BS also in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners, GetInsured, Vimo Inc: Deliver the best health insurance ecommerce experience for consumers, employers, brokers and insurers.
Charlie Horn
Co-Founder & CEO of Genius Avenue
Charles Horn, also known as Charlie is the Founder of 5Lights, LLC and ProPrivate Equity, LLC. Mr. Horn is a Co-Founder of DirectWeb Administrative Services LLC and also serves as its Chairman. He was the founder of Medical Security Card Company, LLC (also known as ScriptSave) in 1994 and served as its President. Mr. Horn also founded HealthTrans. He served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence of the McGuire Entrepreneurship program at the Eller Business College of the University of Arizona since 2004 and in 2003 he was named an Entrepreneurial Fellow. Mr. Horn was employed by Resource Network, Bala Cynwyd, Pa From 1988 to 1994, employed by Provident American, Norristown, PA from 1985 to 1988, employed By Allnation Life Insurance Co, Wilmington, De From 1979 to 1985 and Self Employed Insurance Agent, Wilmington, De, from 1975 to 1979. He founded Horn Program in Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware in 2012. He serves as the Chairman of 5Lights, LLC and ProPrivate Equity, LLC. He serves as Chairman of Pet Genius, LLC. He served as Chairman of Medical Security Card Company, LLC from May 1994 to August 2013 and served as its Director. He has been Director of My-Villages, Inc. since June 2016. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Leading Edge Ventures. Mr. Horn serves on the University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy National Advisory Board. The University of Arizona McGuire Entrepreneurship Program and Tucson Regional Economic Organization both recognized him as one of the leading entrepreneurs in Arizona. Mr. Horn has been awarded the Thomas R. Brown Excellence in Entrepreneurship award and The University of Arizona McGuire/Anheuser Busch Entrepreneur-in-Residence award. He graduated from University of Delaware, with a BA Degree in 1975.
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About 5Lights, Dr Martha Hall Designs, Genius Avenue: Genius Avenue is a software company that provides tools and products that matched clients’ unique needs.
Rod Dunmyre
Co-Founder of Genius Avenue
Rod Dunmyre is Co-Founder at Genius Avenue.
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About Genius Avenue: Genius Avenue is a software company that provides tools and products that matched clients’ unique needs.
Joseph Kitonga
Founder of Vitable Health
Joseph Kitonga is the Founder and Program Manager at Vitable Health.
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About Vitable Health: Vitable is a primary care plan that works for everyone. Our providers come directly to you, either virtually or through in-home visits.
Alex Maffeo
Founder and CEO of Boost
Alex Maffeo is the CEO & Founder of Boost Insurance.
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About Boost: Boost enables innovators to build, offer, and deliver insurance products to their customers.
Gaurav Suri
Co-Founder of Health Equity Labs
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About Health Equity Labs, Health IQ: Develops FICO type score for health
Munjal Shah
Co-Founder & CEO of Health Equity Labs
Munjal Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO at Health Equity Labs. Munajl was Co-founder and CEO of Riya Inc (makers of Like.com). Together with Burak Gokturk and Azhar Khan, he co-founded the company in August of 2004. Munjal is a serial entrepreneur who focuses on building companies from zero to millions in revenue. Prior to Riya he was co-founder and CEO of Andale Inc, a provider of software to eBay merchants. While he was CEO, Andale grew from 0 to double digit millions in revenue. Prior to Andale, Baan, IBM, and a startup called Blaxxun Interactive. Munjal started his career in artificial intelligence, writing software for Agouron Pharmaceuticals that predicted the efficacy of anti-HIV drugs. BusinessWeek declared Munjal one of the Top 10 up and coming CEOs in 2001. Munjal has been quoted of hundreds of magazines including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business 2.0, and many others. Munjal has won a Demo God award for the launch of Riya (like.com) in 2006. Munjal sits on the advisor board to a number of very early stage startups including: Yousendit, Auyptima (sold to Oracle), Pubmatic, and MesmoTV. Munjal is very active in the Entrepreneurial community. In 1996 he co-founded Round Zero, a very popular networking forum during the first Internet boom. He is a charter member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneur) in Bangalore and writes a blog sharing his experiences as an entrepreneur here http://munjal.typepad.com. He received his Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and his Bachelors in Computer Science from the Universitay of California, San Diego.
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About Covet, Health Equity Labs, Health IQ: Develops FICO type score for health
Amit Garg
Co-Founder of Health Equity Labs
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About Health Equity Labs, Tau Ventures: Develops FICO type score for health
Erik Beguin
Founder & CEO of Austin Capital Bank
Erik Beguin is the Founder & CEO of Austin Capital Bank.
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About Austin Capital Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Federal Reserve Board: Austin Capital Bank is a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that offers investor real estate financing.
Erik Beguin
Founder & CEO of Austin Capital Bank
Erik Beguin is the Founder & CEO of Austin Capital Bank.
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About Austin Capital Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Federal Reserve Board: Austin Capital Bank is a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that offers investor real estate financing.
Ato Kasymov
CEO, Co-Founder of Zentist
Entrepreneur
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About Zentist: Zentist is a dental insurance billing platform that delivers improved practice financial performance and patient affordability.
Manuchehr Kurbonali
Growth Lead, Co-Founder of Zentist
Founder at Zentist, Nurafzo Medical Centers
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About Yahoo, Zentist: Zentist is a dental insurance billing platform that delivers improved practice financial performance and patient affordability.
Paulina Song
Co-Founder | Business Development Lead of Zentist
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About Practyx, Zentist: Zentist is a dental insurance billing platform that delivers improved practice financial performance and patient affordability.
Itai Ben-Zaken
Co-Founder and CEO of Honeycomb Insurance
Itai was previously a General Manager at QuinStreet (NASDAQ: QNST – Silicon Valley based internet company) for 4 years, heading a business unit responsible for a substantial part of the company’s revenue. Before joining QuinStreet, Itai was a strategy consultant at BCG, an engineering team lead at Intel, and an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces. Itai holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Honeycomb Insurance: Honeycomb Insurance is a Commercial Real Estate Insurance Reinvented.
Snejina Zacharia
CEO & Founder of Insurify
Snejina has over 16 years of experience in entrepreneurship, building businesses across consumer internet and enterprise software. Most recently Snejina was at Gartner where she established and grew three lines of business in EMEA and USA, each with millions of dollars of annual revenue. Before that Snejina led Sales and Marketing at different technology start ups from mobile web messenger, to CRM system in the financial industry. Snejina holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Insurify: Insurify is a comprehensive insurance quotes comparison platform in America.
Michael Dougherty
Founder of Dougherty & Company
Founder and Chairman of Dougherty Financial Group LLC, a collection of seven financial service companies in 14 states managing assets in excess of $42 billion. Dougherty Financial Group was formed in 1977. Dougherty previously served on the board of directors of Countrywide Bank, N.A. and Carol Health Corporation. He currently serves as a director of the University of Minnesota Physicians. He is also a trustee of the University of St. Thomas.
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About Dougherty & Company: Dougherty & Company is a full-service investment bank.
Adam Erlebacher
Co-Founder, CEO of Fabric Technologies
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About Fabric Technologies: Fabric offers a digital insurance-buying experience that is fast, affordable and easy.
Steven Surgnier
Co-Founder, CTO of Fabric Technologies
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About Fabric Technologies: Fabric offers a digital insurance-buying experience that is fast, affordable and easy.
Anthony Diaz
Founder and CEO of Health Hero
Anthony Diaz is Founder and CEO of Health Hero.
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About Health Hero: Health Hero enables organizations to do smart automated follow up via phone and text messages for patients and employees.
Jackson Cummings
Head of Diverse Founders Investing of Wellington Management
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About Wellington Management: Wellington Management focuses on investment management by applying its full resources to meet the needs of institutional clients they serve.
Carey Anne Nadeau
Founder & CEO of ODN
Carey Anne Nadeau, is founder and CEO of ODN and an award-winning MIT-trained city planner and urban data scientist. Previously she worked in the data analytics industry at the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Center. Her work has been called transformational by the Open Data Institute (UK) and MIT and has been published in numerous outlets, including: the New York Times, The Atlantic, and GovTech Magazine. She was an invited speaker at the White House Open Innovation Conference in 2016 and Insuretech Connect 2017 and 2018.
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About Loop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ODN: ODN operates as a risk rating roads to measure the environmental hazards of driving.
Daniel Schreiber
Co-Founder & CEO of Lemonade
Daniel is a tech leader whose passion for innovation took him from startups to the Fortune 500 (and back again). As President of Powermat Daniel oversaw its transformation into an industry standard and a default feature in the world’s foremost smartphones (Samsung Galaxy), venues (Starbucks) and cars (GM). Prior to Powermat, Daniel served as SVP Corporate Marketing at Sandisk, with global responsibility for the company’s social media, press relations, 50 web and ecommerce sites and major rebranding. During the iPod’s heyday, Daniel served as SVP andGM of Sandisk’s Audio-Video business unit, attaining #1 market share worldwide after Apple, and outselling all other brands combined. Daniel joined SanDisk via the $1.6B acquisition of msystems, where he served as VP Marketing and BD. He was co-founder and CEO of Alchemedia Inc., a content security software company, and began his career as a corporate-commercial attorney. Today Daniel is CEO & cofounder of Lemonade, the insurance carrier built on AI and Behavioral Economics.
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About Lemonade: Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good.
Benjamin Madick
Co-Founder & CEO of Matic Insurance
Ben Madick is the Co-founder and CEO of Matic Insurance, a digital P&C insurance marketplace.
Prior to Matic, Ben co-founded MQMR, a firm that performs compliance risk management and audit support to mortgage lenders and banks of all sizes.
He currently serves as an advisor to MQMR providing high-level, strategic direction. Ben spent his early career with Bank of America Correspondent Lending, where he managed relationships with large independent mortgage lenders throughout the nation.
Additionally, Ben is an angel investor and advisor to other early-stage startups, primarily in the insurance and fintech space.
Ben has been recognized as a National Mortgage Professional Magazine 40 under 40 recipient and has received the HousingWire Vanguard Award for outstanding industry contributions. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Arizona.
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About Matic Insurance: Matic is a technology driven insurance agency disrupting the homeowners insurance space by integrating with mortgage lenders.
Nelson Lee
Founder of iLife
Nelson Lee is the Founder at iLife Technologies.
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About iLife: iLife is a life insuranceautomation platform for insurance agents, brokers, and customers.
Inaki Berenguer
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CoverWallet
Inaki is currently CEO and co-founder at Coverwallet. Before he was co-founder and CEO at Klink (acquired by Thinkingphones) and Pixable (acquired by SingTel). In the past he has worked at McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, HP, STMicroelectronics, Intel, and NEC Laboratories America. He holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University, was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, and did a two-year Fulbright scholarship at Columbia University working with Prof. Xiaodong Wang. He also received an MBA from MIT. He currently lives in NYC.
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About Contactive, CoverWallet: CoverWallet is an online platform that offers insurance management services to its clients.
Rotem Iram
Founder and CEO of At-Bay
Rotem Iram is the Founder and CEO of cyber insurance company At-Bay. With nearly two decades of security and engineering experience, Rotem previously served as a Managing Director and COO in the Cyber Security practice of K2 Intelligence, a leading global risk management firm, focusing on cyber intelligence, cyber defense strategy and incident response. Rotem began his career as a Captain in Israel’s elite Intelligence Unit 8200, and also served as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Rotem holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About At-Bay: At-Bay is a cybersecurity insurance company that helps businesses meet digital risk head-on.
Kevin Nazemi
Co-Founder & CEO of Renew Health
CEO & Co-Founder at Done.
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About Renew Health: Renew Health’s mission is to fundamentally transform how medications are managed in the health care system.
Bek Abdullayev
Founder & CEO of Super Dispatch
Founder & CEO of Super Dispatch.
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About Super Dispatch, TED: The advanced auto transport platform built for everything carriers and shippers need to move cars faster, smarter, and easier.
David Duley
CEO and Founder of PlanGap
David Duley is the Founder and CEO of PlanGap.
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About PlanGap: PlanGap is a product innovation company that offers life insurance products to solve previously unaddressed financial concerns for retirees.
Justin Trail
President, Co-Founder of Commercial Insurance Solutions
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About Commercial Insurance Solutions: Commercial Insurance Solutions is a full service commercial insurance and risk management firm.
