Featured Speakers
Joel A. Appelbaum, CPCU, ARM, AIS
Chief Analytics Officer
Zurich Direct Underwriters
Joel A. Appelbaum is chief analytics officer of Zurich North America Commercial's Programs and Direct Markets business unit. Mr. Appelbaum specializes in providing predictive modeling solutions for the business unit and Underwriting transformation initiatives for Zurich.
Craig Bedell
Director, Global Insurance Services
Cognos, an IBM Company
Craig Bedell brings 31 years experience in insurance to his role as global insurance industry director at Cognos. Craig is a driving force behind the company’s global strategic offerings to the Insurance Vertical and is directing the sales, marketing, and services strategies for Business Intelligence and Performance Management solutions.
Marty Ellingsworth
President
ISO Innovative Analytics
Marty Ellingsworth is president of ISO Innovative Analytics (IIA), a unit of ISO focused on advanced predictive modeling tools for the property/casualty insurance industry. Mr. Ellingsworth joined IIA from Full Capture Solutions, Inc., where he was cofounder and executive vice president. He has more than ten years of experience in the property/casualty insurance industry, with a focus on applied analytics and claims. For five years, he served the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company.
Mark Gorman
Principal
Mark B. Gorman & Assoc., LLC
With more than 25 years of industry experience, Mark’s focus is on assisting both insurance carriers and vendors in furthering the adoption of emerging technologies in the insurance market.
Matthew Josefowicz
Director, Insurance
Novarica
Matthew Josefowicz is a well-known and oft-quoted expert on insurance technology, operations, and e-business issues. He has presented his research and thought-leadership at numerous industry conferences including ACORD/LOMA, IASA, the I&T Executive Forum, and Asia Insurance Review Technology Summit, and been quoted frequently in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times to Best’s Review, and Insurance Networking News.
Roosevelt Mosley, Jr.
Principal and Consultant
Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc.
Mr. Mosley is a Principal and Consultant with Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc. in the Bloomington, Illinois, office. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has worked in the insurance industry since 1993.
Pat Speer
Editor-in-Chief
Insurance Networking News
Pat is an award-winning business journalist who has covered a spectrum of products and technologies that pertain to the insurance sector. With a 20-year career that includes an extensive background in business-to-business communications, Pat has held leadership positions in a number of trade publishing organizations and has reported on software systems and management issues that apply to companies of all sizes in a variety of vertical markets.
Gaurav Verma
Director, Information Management Strategies, Financial Services
SAS
Gaurav drives SAS’ global Enterprise Intelligence Platform analytics’ technology development and positioning. His key focus areas include identifying future software trends, and messaging for SAS' business intelligence and information management solutions. He also serves as a spokesperson to press and analyst communities. Before joining SAS, Verma developed and implemented go-to-market strategies for the financial services industry for Cognos and global marketing for Information Builders. Prior to his work with Information Builders, he was a Principal Analyst and Program Manager at Doculabs, a technology consulting firm that lowers the business risk of technology decisions through client-specific recommendations, objective analysis and in-depth research.