Carrier Management Examines the Future of InsurTech in
2020 and Beyond

Founder and Director of the IoT Insurance Observatory, NED and Chairman of the Innovation Advisory Board at Net Insurance, and InsurTech investor.

Internationally recognized as insurance industry strategist and world-renowned authority on InsurTech, he has worked in 20 different insurance markets around the world.

Before creating Observatory and co-founding Archimede SPAC, he spent 11 years in Bain & Company. He received his degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University, also an executive program certificate in IoT at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Erik Ross leads Nationwide's venture capital and open innovation efforts. In his role, he oversees the more than $100m that Nationwide has committed to invest in early stage companies to create strategic insights and accelerate current and future capabilities.

Erik has an eclectic background spanning Fortune 100 companies, early stage technology startups, and the public sector. He was also an executive-in-residence at the MIT Media Lab and has 50 issued patents.

Erik earned a BSBA from Bloomsburg University with a minor in Philosophy and a MBA from Penn State University. On the weekends, you'll find him on the field coaching youth soccer, and he likes to relate nearly any situation to an 80s/90s comedy.

Tim Attia is the co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, a technology company and pioneer on-demand insurance.

Slice launched in 2015 with a mission to change, improve and redesign insurance. Through Slice Mind and Insurance Cloud Services (ICS), the company is transforming traditional insurers into digitally-driven carriers by providing them with a platform that enables them to quickly ideate, experiment, test and deploy new, on-demand insurance products.

Tim began his career with a large technology and management consulting firm, and has since continued to work with major global insurance carriers on technology and distribution. He is excited to use his background in insurance and financial technology to apply intelligent design, data and technology to solving the gaps and risks facing the growing on-demand workforce.

Tim holds an Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University, and has over 20 years experience in the insurance technology industry.

Martha Notaras is Managing Partner at Brewer Lane Ventures, investing in early stage insurtech and fintech companies focusing on creating new business models, empowering incumbents, and leveraging insights from data & analytics. Brewer Lane Ventures has invested in Socotra, Ladder Life, Avibra, and Cape Analytics. Prior to joining Brewer Lane Ventures, Martha was a Partner at XL Innovate, investing in insurtech startups including Lemonade, GeoQuant, Cape Analytics, Slice Labs, and Pillar Technologies. Martha serves on the boards of Palomar Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLMR) and ATTOM Data Solutions.

Previously, Martha ran corporate development for DMG Information, the business data and analytics division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc. Of the 20 investments Martha made at DMG Information, two achieved valuations over $1 billion. Martha has served as board director for many early and growth stage companies, focusing on fintech, insurtech, proptech, edtech and digital media. Martha's prior experience includes investment banking at Merrill Lynch and commercial banking at Credit Suisse.

Martha earned her AB cum laude from Princeton University and her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar, awarded for graduating in the top five percent of the class.

For the past 3 years, Martha Notaras has been making predictions about what will happen in the InsurTech market. In light of current events, she revisits some of those projections, and imagines what the rest of 2020 will look like in the "Next Normal."

Mark Hollmer is a veteran journalist and editor with more than 26 years of experience, 18 of which have focused on business journalism. He edits Wells Media/Carrier Management's twice-monthly InsurTech email newsletter, as well as the daily Carrier Management email newsletter. Beyond property/casualty insurance, he has also extensively covered the life sciences and healthcare industries.

As Vice President of the Applied Data Products Group, Brian is responsible for product development, software engineering, data science, data analytics and data related engagements representing more than 300M transactions and over $400B in premium spanning both IVANS and Applied Systems.

Prior to this position, Brian co-founded the insuretech startup EvoSure that was often described as the Match.com of commercial insurance, which was acquired by Applied Systems in Sept 2015. Brian also spent 10 years with Marsh & McLennan as Senior Vice President of Strategy where he developed global insurance distribution platforms. Brian began his career in insurance building the first company to bind insurance online, insuranceOrder.com (a Trilogy company) which was acquired by Marsh & McLennan in 2001.

A veteran insurance industry management consultant and published industry expert, Sharmila's passion is using technology-based strategies to improve connection between carriers and agencies to help solve their challenges and capitalize on opportunities. She specializes in helping all parts of the insurance value chain leverage workflow technology and data analytics to grow business, increase productivity, and be more responsive to the customer.

Prior to Vertafore, she spent 12 years as a consultant with McKinsey and Company, where she led over 30 engagements, and covered insight across property-casualty, health and life insurance carriers, and distributors. She also spent time as a market research consultant with Harrigan-Bodick, Inc. and as manager, research and strategy, with Working Woman Network, Inc. She is a sought-after industry expert for speaking engagements and brings deep-level expertise and a special interest in how technology can transform agency relationships with retail and commercial consumers.

Sharmila earned a BA in Economics and English Literature at Wellesley College and an MBA in Marketing, Finance & Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management.

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 now owned by LexisNexis, earning him recognition by Insurance & Technology Magazine as one of the Top 10 Innovators of the Decade.

Christian Wiens wants to challenge one of the largest industries in the world by building one of the world's up and rising digital insurance companies – as the founder and CEO of Getsafe. Holding a master's degree in mechanical engineering, he is a young yet already experienced digital entrepreneur with a strong background in tech, entrepreneurship and product development. At Getsafe, Christian is responsible for the company's strategy and product, investor relations and communications. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of gourmeo.com, which he successfully sold to the Müller Media Group.