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Fidel
Baca |
| Principal,
ExponentHR |
| Fidel
Baca is a Principal with ExponentHR, an innovative HRIS technology
platform delivered through a high-touch ASP service model.
ExponentHR reduces cost, improves operational efficiency, and
provides scalable infrastructure through a self-managed system and
provides real-time management reporting for HR, payroll, and benefit
transactions to small and mid-sized organizations.
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| Session:
Life & Health Innovations |
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Gadi Binness |
| President
and CEO, Moving Insurance, LLC |
| Gadi
Binness brings twenty years of management, sales, and business
development experience in the relocation and Internet industries.
His relocation career started with Shleppers Moving and Storage, one
of New York's most prominent and successful moving companies, where
he held key sales and operation positions. After establishing his
own moving and storage company in 1990 and generating multi-million
dollars in sales, he joined Meyers Moving as a partner and Vice
President. Mr. Binness was instrumental in establishing Meyer’s
relationship with Mayflower Transit and increasing the agency’s
revenues over a period of two years. After selling his portion of
the business, Mr. Binness successfully pursued the Internet and
e-commerce marketplace by implementing and driving technically
innovative solutions into actual sales revenues. Mr. Binness held
the position of VP Business Development with Moving.com (later
Monstermoving.com), the industry’s leading relocation website. In
this capacity he was responsible for creating online partnerships
with the Web’s leading real estate portals, generating millions of
dollars in revenues for Monstermoving.com.
Mr. Binness holds Property and Casualty Insurance Producer
licenses in over 44 states. |
| Session:
Entrepreneur's Forum |
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Jim Blinn |
| Principle,
Advisen |
| Jim
brings a diverse background based on over twenty years in the
property casualty insurance industry and the application of
technology. Jim is active in the design, development and sale of
Advisen’s electronic tools and electronic gateway systems. He also
leads Advisen’s business process consulting as well as allied
services.
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| Session:
Web Based Automation & Applications |
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Patrick Brandt |
| CEO,
Skywire Software |
| Patrick
Brandt is the president and chief executive officer of Skywire
Software. Brandt founded Skywire Software in 2000. Under his
leadership, the company has experienced tremendous growth both
organically and through nine acquisitions. Today, the company
delivers market leading software and services to more than 1,600
customers worldwide, including insurance, health care, financial
services and utility companies.
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| Session:
eInsurance Investor's Forum |
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Jay J. Chase |
| Chief
Underwriting Officer and Senior Vice President, MarketScout |
| Jay
Chase has over 25 years experience in the property & casualty
insurance underwriting industry. He served as Chief Underwriting
officer of Industrial Indemnity Company, a San Francisco based
workers’ compensation specialty company; Executive Vice President
of TIG/Transamerica Insurance Group; Executive Vice President of
Kemper Employers Group; Vice President of Argonaut Insurance
Company; and President of Tamarack Consulting Partners, a capital
management and insurance service consulting company.
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| Session:
Moderator |
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John Chu |
| Senior
Vice President, eBusiness & Technology |
| Mr.
Chu is responsible for strategy and operations of property &
casualty technology, including electronic interface with independent
agents and brokers. He joined the Hartford in 1999 as vice president
of strategic business development and moved to chief financial
officer for The Hartford’s Personal Lines division, prior to
assuming his present position in 2004. He has worked at Tillinghast-Towers
Perrin and PepsiCo Foods International, and holds a Master of
Business Administration, Finance and International Business from the
Stern School of Business at New York University.
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| Session:
A+XV and Web Enabled |
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Jeff Coppock |
| Director
of National Sales, NetQuote |
| Jeff
Coppock is the Director of National Sales for the Eastern United
States. He has 17 years of sales, management, and underwriting
experience at Capital One Insurance Services and The Travelers
Insurance Company. Originally from Atlanta, GA Jeff grew up in East
Tennessee and earned a BS from Carson-Newman College and a MBA from
Tennessee Technological University.
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| Session:
Entrepreneur's Forum |
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Kelly Drouillard |
| COO,
Brooke Capital Advisors, Inc. |
Kelly
leads the insurance lending originations for insurance companies,
MGAs, wholesalers, and program administrator lending operations for
Brooke.
A graduate of Kansas State University, Kelly is a CPCU and CPA with
a career focused on the property and casualty insurance industry.
Her experience encompasses both finance and operations.
Kelly's career began in 1987 with KPMG. She joined GE ERC (Employers
Reinsurance) in 1990. Kelly then enjoyed 11 years at Dodson Group
with various roles, including Senior Vice President of Operations
and Vice President of Finance. After 18 months of consulting, she
returned to GE Insurance Solutions.
Kelly joined Brooke Corporation in January of 2005. |
| Session:
Money |
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Hussein Enan |
| CEO/Founder,
Insweb |
| Hussein
Enan has been Chairman of the Board of InsWeb Corporation since
founding the company in February 1995, and has held the title of
Chief Executive Officer since August 15, 2004. Mr. Enan also served
as Chief Executive Officer of InsWeb from inception to June 2002,
and as President of the company from May 1999 to June 2000. From
March 1992 to November 1994, Mr. Enan was a General Partner at E.W.
Blanch, a reinsurance intermediary which, in March 1992, merged with
his own wholly owned company, Enan & Company. In February 1979,
Mr. Enan founded Enan & Company, which became one of the largest
reinsurance intermediaries in the western United States. From
November 1970 to March 1979, Mr. Enan held a number of executive
positions at BEP International, a Canadian reinsurance intermediary,
before becoming a Senior Partner at the Company. Mr. Enan spent the
early part of his career at C.T. Bowring & Company, London. Mr.
Enan graduated from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, his
native country. |
| Session:
Online Insurance - Trailblazing Pioneers |
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Charles Fillizola |
| President,
MFXchange Holdings, Inc. |
| Charles
Fillizola serves as the President of MFXchange Holdings Inc.,
bringing more than fifteen years of industry related experience to
the company. Over the last year, Charles has been primarily focused
on the business development of MFX along with taking the technology
assets of the Fairfax companies to market. Prior to MFX, Charles
spent a number of years advising upper management and executives at
leading international insurance companies on how to effectively
employ new technology while reducing overall IT expense. Fillizola's
strategies have yielded savings in excess of 40% and continue to do
so. MFX's vision is to offer innovative technology solutions that
have been proven to make the difference. |
| Session:
Web Based Automation & Applications |
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Rod Fox |
| Former
CEO, Praetorian Financial Group |
|
Rod is the former Chief Executive Officer of Praetorian Financial
Group. Praetorian was a wholly owned subsidiary of Hannover Re
(formerly Clarendon Insurance Group) before it was sold to the QBE
Group in June of 2007. Rod and his team orchestrated a dramatic
re-structuring and turnaround of the former Clarendon Insurance
Group prior to the sale.
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| Session:
A+XV and Web Enabled |
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Ed Gillman |
| President,
AgentSecure |
| Ed
Gillman began working as a kid in the mailroom of what has become
today, one of the 100 largest US insurance agency/brokers. He
didn’t realize it at the time but he was becoming a third
generation insurance guy, as the SEITLIN agency belonged to his
grandfather, who started it in 1945.
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| Session:
eAggregators |
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Kurt de Grosz |
| SVP,
New Business Development, Vertafore, Inc. |
| Mr.
de Grosz joined Vertafore, Inc. in September 2006 as part of the
acquisition of BenefitPoint and now serves as senior vice president,
New Business Development for Vertafore. Previously, Mr. de Grosz was
president and co-founder of BenefitPoint, where he helped build
BenefitPoint into the leading benefits agency management solution
for the large broker and agent market. From September 1994 until
early 1999, Mr. de Grosz served as vice president at ABD Insurance
& Financial Services, where he provided risk management sales
and consulting to Silicon Valley companies on a variety of insurance
lines including Directors and Officers Liability, Professional
Multimedia Liability, Intellectual Property and Workers'
Compensation. He also co-designed and implemented Cybersure®, ABD's
award-winning interactive client website. Previously, Mr. de Grosz
underwrote commercial insurance with Transamerica Corporation. Mr.
de Grosz earned his B.A. in English with a specialization in
business administration from the University of California, Los
Angeles and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. |
| Session:
Life and Health Innovations |
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Jake Hampton |
| President,
Virtual MGA Ltd. Co. |
| Jake’s
latest venture, Virtual MGA, is the culmination of 20 years of
experience in both insurance operations and insurance related
technology. Jake’s experience working in production capacities for
carriers and brokers as well as his startup experience in both the
US and London markets gives him a unique insight into the needs of
the insurance marketplace. Virtual MGA was created to provide a
fully-automated placement and issuance platform for its MGA
customers, enabling them to transact program business on-line with
their retail partners.
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| Session:
Entrepreneur's Forum |
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Bill Hartnett |
| Director
of U.S. Insurance Solutions Group, Microsoft |
| Bill
Hartnett is Microsoft’s General Manager of Financial Service
Strategy and Solutions, responsible for developing the company’s
worldwide strategic direction and its implementation across
financial services industries.
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| Session:
Microsoft and eInsurance |
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Larry Illion |
| Senior
Vice President, CNA Small Business |
| Larry
joined CNA in Chicago during 2004, to develop and lead a strategy to
turn CNA Small Business into a market leader in the Small Commercial
space.
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| Session:
A+XV and Web Enabled |
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Richard Kerr |
| CEO/Founder,
MarketScout |
| Richard
K. Kerr is Chairman and CEO of Insurance Data Systems (IDS) and
MarketScout Corporation. Insurance Data Systems is the holding
company for various underwriting and product distribution companies.
MarketScout is an eInsurance exchange that develops product
distribution portals and other e-commerce business models.
MarketScout.com has grown to become the world’s number one site
for accessing “Best of Class” insurance companies and specialty
underwriters.
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| Session:
eInsurance: From Boom to Bust and Back to Boom Again? |
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John J. Kraska |
| Managing
Director, Hales and Associates |
| John
is a partner of Hales & Company and led a management buyout of
the firm from Arch Capital Group, Ltd. in 2004. Throughout his
career, he has led over 100 corporate finance transactions,
including mergers & acquisitions and equity investments with a
focus on insurance brokerage, insurance company and financial
services clients. Some recent transactions led by John include
advising Summit Global Partners in its 2005 sale to USI Holdings,
TravelGuard in its 2006 sale to AIG and Marsh & McClennan in its
sale of certain non-core assets in 2005 and 2006. Prior to joining
Hales, John was Managing Director of Firemark Investments, a $200
million investment firm focused on insurance and healthcare. He is a
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School. |
| Session:
eInsurance Investor's Forum |
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John Maxwell |
| Managing
Director Voluntary Products, Marsh |
| John
Maxwell is Managing Director of Marsh, with management
responsibility for the Voluntary Benefits Business. Prior to
assuming overall client responsibility, he was involved in various
facets of the business, which have included sales management, market
development, product design, business and marketing planning, and
client support.
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| Session:
Life & Health Innovation |
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Tim McTavish |
| Founder
& CEO, InsureMe |
| Tim
McTavish has been InsureMe’s fearless leader since the company’s
inception in 1993. In that time, he’s taken the company from three
employees in a Castle Rock condo, to 70 employees in an office with
a mountain view.
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| Session:
Entrepreneur's Forum |
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Aaron T. Miller |
| Vice
President, Great Hills Partners |
| Aaron
is focused on investment opportunities across a range of sectors
with a particular interest in business and financial services. He
currently serves on the boards of Jobing, Inc. and SMART Business
Advisory and Consulting, Inc.
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| Session:
eInsurance Investor's Forum |
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Dan Munson |
| Founder,
RiskMeter Online |
| Dan
Munson is a founder and VP of Sales and Marketing at CDS Business
Mapping, LLC. The company was founded by Dan and his father Ken in
1994. CDS provides online mapping tools for insurance underwriting.
Besides being responsible for sales and marketing, Dan is
responsible for overall product strategy and design. Dan has
consulted to dozens of insurance companies in the areas of mapping
(geographic information systems), underwriting and risk analysis.
Prior to starting CDS, Dan worked for a few high-technology
companies in accounting and strategy roles. Dan holds a B.S. in
Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
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| Session:
Geocoding and Mapping Technology |
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Dean O'Hare |
| Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, SeaPass |
| Dean
O'Hare is a seasoned voice of the international business and
insurance community. O'Hare retired as chairman and chief executive
officer of The Chubb Corporation at the end of 2002, after having
served 40 years with Chubb.
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| Session:
A+XV and Web Enabled |
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Ian Packer |
| Partner,
Bexar Capital |
Ian
has over 19 years of experience, both as an investor and operating
executive in the financial services industry.
Ian co-founded private investment funds, Bexar Capital in 2003, and
Tobat Capital in 1999. Both Bexar and Tobat focus exclusively on the
financial services industry with a heavy emphasis on insurance. Ian
has played key roles in the financing, strategy and ongoing
development of the Tobat Portfolio companies. He continues to have
board involvement and acts in an advisory capacity to the portfolio
companies that remain in the Tobat portfolio.
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| Session:
eInsurance Investor's Forum |
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Jay Poorman |
| Managing
Director, StoneRidge Advisors, LLC |
Jay
has 12 years of insurance investment banking experience focused
primarily on mergers and acquisitions for insurance and insurance
services companies. Jay was a Managing Director for Cochran Caronia
Waller immediately prior to joining StoneRidge Advisors. Jay also
previously was a Vice President in Salomon Smith Barney’s
Insurance Investment Banking group. Jay began his career as an
Analyst in the Insurance Investment Banking group at Smith Barney
Inc. and joined Cochran, Caronia & Co. shortly after its
formation.
Jay received his Bachelor of Business Administration with honors
from the University of Michigan.
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| Session:
Money |
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Robert G. Purdy |
| President,
AIG Specialty Workers' Compensation |
| Rob
joined AIG in January of 1997 as the National Director of Marketing
/ Sales for the Small Business Program of the Specialty Workers'
Compensation Division.
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| Session:A+XV
and Web Enabled |
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Rick Quagliaroli |
| CEO
Strongwood Insurance Holdings Corp. |
| President
and CEO of Strongwood Insurance Holdings Corp. Organized in 2002,
Strongwood is a Property and Casualty insurance holding company.
Operations are based out of Monterey and Grass Valley, CA. Formerly,
Mr. Quagliaroli was President of the Hartford Commercial Lines
Company and CEO of MIIX Insurance, a medical malpractice insurance
carrier. Mr. Quagliaroli is active in both industry and non-profit
organizations. He is a graduate of the University of Hartford.
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| Session:
eAggregators |
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Paula Reynolds |
| CEO,
Safeco |
| Before
joining Safeco in January 2006, Reynolds was chairman, president and
chief executive officer of AGL Resources, an Atlanta-based energy
services holding company that includes six natural gas utility
companies, wholesale services and energy investments. During her
five-year tenure as CEO, AGL Resources expanded from a regional gas
utility to a multi-state, integrated energy company. Under her
leadership, the company doubled its share price and market
capitalization, and increased its dividend by 37 percent.
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| Session:
eInsurance Innovation - "Dare to be Different" |
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Dave Roush |
| CEO,
Insurance.com |
| Dave
provided the strategic vision for the development of
ComparisonMarket. The company seeks to empower consumers to make
informed financial choices, enhancing the financial security of
their customers, business partners, shareholders and employees.
Previously, as the leader of Progressive’s Strategic Alliances
group, Mr. Roush’s team established long term, mutually beneficial
relationships with other insurance companies, national brokers,
large employers, affinity groups, financial institutions, Internet
affiliates, etc.
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| Session:
eInsurance Investor's Forum |
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Roger A. Rudell |
| Director
of Product Management, CSC |
| Roger
Rudell is the Director of Product Management for P&C Solutions
for CSC’s Financial Group. Rudell’s current job responsibilities
include the definition of the strategy and direction of CSC’s
P&C carrier market product suites, CSC’s P&C Business
Process Outsourcing and CSC’s self insured marketplace. Rudell has
driven the successful creation and adoption of multiple ecommerce
applications for the insurance industry. Rudell frequently
consultants and speaks on the trends and strategies around the use
of technology within the P&C industry. Rudell has twenty-five
years of experience within the P&C industry. |
| Session:
A+XV and Web Enabled |
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Henry O. Schramm II |
| Senior
Vice President, Workers Compensation ACE USA |
| Henry
O. Schramm II was named Senior Vice President, Workers Compensation,
which is part of the ACE Casualty Risk Division, in October 2006.
Based in Philadelphia, he is responsible for leading the
underwriting strategies for ACE USA’s middle market workers
compensation business, including ACE CompleteSM, a web-based
underwriting facility that enables contracted brokers to conduct
underwriting transactions—from entry to issuance—via the
Internet.
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| Session:
A+XV and Web Enabled |
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Frank Sentner |
| Director
of Strategic Technology, The Council of Insurance Agents &
Brokers |
| Frank
Sentner founded Soulware, Ltd. in September 1996 to provide
consulting services to the insurance industry, specializing in the
implementation of technology solutions designed to improve business
process integration between insurance carriers and independent
agencies. Senter has helped organizations with a number of important
projects spanning Web-based system integration, technology vision
reviews, risk portal redesign, and Internet strategy. Companies that
Sentner has helped include Main Street America Group; ChannelPoint/InsurQuote
P&C insurance operations; The Hartford; XL America; USI
Insurance Services; Insurance Technology Services of America; and
USF&G.
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| Session:
Web Based Automation & Applications |
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Tom Shriver |
| Director
of National Sales, NetQuote |
| Tom
Shriver is the Director of National Sales for the Western United
States. He has 18 years of sales and management experience in the
insurance industry. He grew up in the military and graduated high
school in Watertown, South Dakota. He earned a BA in Business
Administration from the University of Minnesota-Moorhead. |
| Session:
TBD |
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Randy Skinner |
| COO,
Skywire Software |
Randy
Skinner is the chief operating officer of Skywire Software. With
more than 20 years of deep domain expertise in property and casualty
insurance and technology, Skinner is a driving force in the
development of innovative software applications and customer-focused
services that helps insurers worldwide solve key business
challenges.
Skinner was appointed to his current position following Skywire
Software's merger with Docucorp in February 2007. He joined Docucorp
in 1991 as a senior engineer bringing experience in software
development, underwriting, and marketing. In 1994, Skinner led
formation of the company's professional services group, where he
served as vice president and senior vice president for 10 years. |
| Session:
Session: A+XV and Web Enabled |
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Robert J Slingerland |
| CEO
and President, Answer Financial |
| Robert
J Slingerland is CEO and President at Answer Financial, Inc. with
more than 15 years of business and financial experience. Prior to
joining Answer Financial, Slingerland served as Chief Financial
Officer of The Mobile Storage Group, a multi-national provider of
on-site storage. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for Clear
Channel's Interactive Division, Senior Vice President of Business
Development for BizBuyer.com, and Manager, Strategic Planning and
Corporate Development for the Walt Disney Company. While at BizBuyer,
Slingerland structured a number of strategic relationships,
including deals with Staples and Intel. While at Disney, Slingerland
was instrumental in Disney's $1.0+ billion acquisition of Infoseek
and in Disney's public offering of Go.com. Slingerland received his
Bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Utah and
obtained his MBA from The Wharton School where he was a Palmer
Scholar. |
| Session:
Online Insurance - Trailblazing Pioneers |
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Alan Snyder |
| Former
CEO of Executive Life |
| Alan
C. Snyder is currently the Managing General Partner of Shinnecock
Partners and its limited partnerships and CEO and President of Snap
Insurance LLC. At other times, he has served as Founder, CEO,
President, and Chairman of the Board of Answer Financial Inc. and
the Insurance Answer Center; CEO of Aurora National Life Insurance,
President and COO of First Executive Corporation; and as Executive
Vice President and member of the Board of Directors at Dean Witter
Financial Services Group. Mr. Snyder is a graduate of Georgetown
University and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker
Scholar. |
| Session:
Life & Health Innovations |
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Blake Stock |
| Partner/CEO,
Combined Group |
| Blake
Y. Stock is Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of the
Combined Group its affiliates and subsidiaries (“Combined”) and
is responsible for strategic and operational affairs of the
organizations. Stock joined Combined in May 1992 as Corporate
Controller, then Chief Financial Officer. In January 2002, Stock was
appointed as Chief Executive Officer and in January 2006 named as
Managing Partner.
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| Session:
eAggregators |
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Krista Tankersley |
| Executive
Vice President, MarketScout |
| Krista
Tankersley is Executive Vice President and a founding shareholder of
MarketScout.com and CIC Select.com, both subsidiaries of Insurance
Data Systems, Inc. MarketScout develops business strategies, which
include product distribution, automation and management of the
underwriting process.
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Biography |
| Session:
Moderator |
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Leah Woolford |
| CEO/Founder,
BDSI |
| Leah
Woolford is an Internet visionary whose background started in 1993
developing first-to-market Internet strategies and business models
for Fortune 500 companies in the Telecommunications, Travel,
Hospitality, Real Estate and Public Sectors. In 1993, Woolford
pioneered the successful online marketing strategies used by many
marketing and advertising organizations today. She is founder and
CEO of USDM.net.
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| Session:
Interactive Marketing |
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