Kris Berry

VP, Creative Services

State Farm Insurance

Kris Berry is vice president – Creative Services at State Farm Insurance Corporate Headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. The Creative Services department provides creative thinking, design, and media expertise for State Farm.

Jane Bracken

SVP for Business Unit Enablement

Great American Insurance Corp. (GAIC).

Jane Bracken, Divisional Senior Vice President, joined Great American Insurance Group in 1997. Jane has held many positions in the IT Development area.

Most recently, she has led the transformation of the current front-end underwriting and policy administration solutions. This includes rating, rules, and forms development as well as transaction capabilities.

Julie Davis

EVP, Managing Director, Technology Industry Practice

Aon Risk Services West Inc.

Julie K. Davis has been with Aon Corporation (AOC) for sixteen years. She is the recipient of Chicago Innovation Awards, Insurance Innovators Award, and finalist in Annual Stevie Awards for Innovation of Best New Product / Service, recognized by I-Street Magazine in their annual "Women in Black" Awards and recently named Who's Who for Entrepreneurial Work in Insurance and Risk Management Field. She attended University of Texas and Rice University.

Cathy Ellwood

Senior Director, Financial Leadership Rotation Program

Nationwide Insurance

Ursuline Foley

CIO

XLReinsurance

Ursuline Foley, senior vice president and CIO has 20 years professional experience at XLRe, one of the leading providers of global insurance and reinsurance coverages to industrial, commerical and professional service firms. Previously, she was the vice president and IT Manager at NAC Reinsurance, the vice president and manager of Software Applications at Guy Carpenter, and senior analyst and software developer for New York Shipping.

Foley has her MS in Computer Science from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business.

Kathy McFadden

President

Fashion Fit Formula

Kathy McFadden, President and founder of the Fashion Fit Formula was a CEO of a construction trade association for over 18 years prior to joining forces with Ms. Wood. She had the foresight to see how they could build a global Internet company based on the formula that would help every women feel great in her clothes.

Karen Pauli

Research Director, Insurance

Tower Group

Karen Pauli is a Research Director in the insurance practice at TowerGroup. She covers a wide range of topics in property and casualty insurance, specializing in distribution, underwriting, claims, predictive analytics, core systems, and business optimization.

Ann Purr, FLMI, CSP, PCS, FFSI

Former Second Vice President

Information Management
LOMA

Purr is an insurance and technology association professional with more than 30 years experience as a carrier and solution provider relationship expert.

Sharon Ritchey

EVP & Director, Global Operations & Technology, Hartford Life Inc.

The Hartford Financial Services Group

Sharon Ritchey is executive vice president and director of Hartford Life operations, technology and eBusiness, a functional organization supporting all of Hartford Life. Ritchey provides operational and technology leadership for Investments and Retirement, Individual Life, Group Benefits, and the International business segments.

Janice Tomlinson

EVP, International Field Operations Manager

CHUBB

Jan is responsible for all international field operations.

She joined Chubb in 1973 as a commercial underwriter. She managed several underwriting departments in New Haven, Westchester and NY before managing the Westchester branch from 1986-1990. During 1990, she became Worldwide Director of Human Resources and in 1995 was named Canadian Zone officer, Chairman and President of Chubb Canada before assuming her current position in December 2003.

Donna C. Wilson

SVP, Strategic Planning and Communications

Injured Workers' Insurance Fund

Donna C. Wilson joined IWIF in 1996 as a business consultant and was instrumental in creating IWIF’s strategic plan. In her current capacity, Ms. Wilson is responsible for corporate communications, public and community relations, strategic planning, as well as the Call Center, Document Management and Distribution departments.

Janet Wood

CEO

Pivotal Edge

Janet Wood, Chief Executive Officer and inventor of the revolutionary mathematical formula founded Pivotal Edge, Inc. dba as Fashion Fit Formula in July 2003. This was after she retired from a successful career as a top sales leader and corporate turn around specialist.