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Sandee Perfetto is senior personal lines coverage director for Verisk’s Underwriting Solutions. Perfetto leads a team of personal lines and farm insurance professionals in using customer feedback, market knowledge, and business intelligence to drive the creation of new coverage products, and to maintain and enhance Underwriting Solutions existing programs. Over the years, Perfetto has helped develop a number of new personal lines products, and currently leads the personal lines development of insurance solutions for the sharing economy, millennials, autonomous vehicles, cyber and cannabis. Perfetto began her career at Verisk in the personal lines division. She graduated with a bachelor of science degree in insurance and finance from the University of Hartford and earned a master of science degree in education from Queens College. Sandee can be reached at Sandee.Perfetto@verisk.com.
Matt is the Chief Operating Officer for Duck Creek Technologies. He brings more than 25 years of the insurance industry and technology experience to this global leadership role that is responsible for successful customer outcomes.
As COO, Matt is responsible for all of Duck Creek’s field operations, which encompasses the global customer experience through a full spectrum of customer account management activities. This experience ranges from customer expectation management, solution architecture & project proposals, implementation projects, SaaS provisioning, go-lives, and production servicing & support.
In previous executive roles, Matt was responsible for all day-to-day company operations, all new business development, and M&A activity that included Accenture’s acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies in 2011 and the joint-venture between Apax Partners and Accenture that resulted in the emergence of Duck Creek Technologies as an independent company in 2016.
Matt has deep roots in technology and is passionate about bringing innovative capabilities to the insurance market. In the formative years of the company’s technology solutions, Matt was chief technology officer for the Accenture P&C software group with responsibility for overall technology, architecture, and software blueprints for all P&C software products and a principal contributor to the original Claim Components software, now Duck Creek Claims.
John McDonough is Head of US Wealth Management Intermediaries Distribution at Invesco. He was previously the head of OppenheimerFunds’ Distribution and Marketing Teams, including Digital Distribution and Innovation.
Ville Somppi, vice president of professional services solutions at M-Files, has 20 years of experience defining, developing and deploying technology solutions for knowledge intensive industries. He has worked with companies across the globe ranging from large corporations to small startups and family-owned businesses. At M-Files, he oversees solutions for professional services industries such as accounting.
Brian Fritzsche is assistant vice president and regulatory counsel at the Consumer Bankers Association.
Russell Silberston is a senior research analyst covering major economy central bank monetary policy. He also covers additional analysis of both structural and cyclical fiscal policy dynamics and impact, macroprudential regulation and financial stability of the international monetary and financial system.
Anneliese Lederer is director of fair lending at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
Robert Smithson is the founder and CEO of Just Insure, a pay-per-mile insurance technology company that uses telematics to set prices, rewarding safe drivers and reducing bias. A successful entrepreneur, Robert also founded PythonAnywhere, a leading Python platform-as-a-service, and Genius Sports Group, which was sold for $280 million in 2018.
Prior to his entrepreneurship, Robert held several fund management positions including investment director at GAM, a pure-play asset management group headquartered in Zurich. He was also a partner at both THS Partners and Arete Research in the United Kingdom.
Robert graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in philosophy and currently resides in Los Angeles, California where Just Insure is headquartered.
Janice Kirkel is a senior reporter at Financial Planning.
Pauline Sobelman is Senior Vice President, Benefits Consulting at GCG Financial, an Alera Group Company, a leading provider of exceptional employee benefits, risk management and wealth management solutions. To reach the author please email pauline.sobelman@gcgfinancial.com or for more information visit www.gcgfinancial.com.
