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 Stephen Applebaum is a senior analyst at Aite Group, covering property casualty insurance. He focuses on the business, regulatory, and technology issues transforming the industry globally, as well as the challenges and opportunities they present to the property casualty ecosystem.
 Ellen M. Carney is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, serving insurance eBusiness & Channel Strategy professionals. Her research focuses on the eBusiness strategies, technologies, adoption trends, and best practices of property casualty, life, group and health insurers globally. She works with insurance clients to understand how consumers and businesses use digital services to research and purchase insurance products.
 Christina Colby is a vice president who leads Capgemini’s Business Information Management (BIM) practice for Insurance globally. She has more than decade of consulting experience with Capgemini focused in information management and business intelligence in the Insurance and Financial Services industry.
 Joanne Currier is vice president information technology of Vermont Mutual Insurance Company. She is responsible for the information technology services and support for Vermont Mutual’s company operations. She has been active in several professional societies and associations including; the Property Casualty Information Technology Committee serving as vice chair in 2009, and chair in 2010, Technology Committee for Mutual Fire Insurance Association, Vermont CIO User Group, and past president of the Wheatley Insurance Systems Customer Board.
 Paul DeMasi is an assistant vice president for MetLife’s Information Technology Group. He is responsible for the application development support for MetLife Auto & Home’s Claims organization, the Commissions department and the Financial Close unit within Management Information Systems (MIS). During his tenure within MIS, DeMasi’s work has ranged from automating MetLife Auto & Home’s Financial, Claims and Actuarial Reporting applications to overseeing information technology conversions for two major acquisitions.
 Malcolm Frank is Cognizant’s executive vice president. He focuses on Cognizant’s brand, driving business through the company’s business units and oversees Cognizant’s corporate strategy, including its Future of Work initiative. He has authored articles in several leading industry publications.
 Paul Friedmann has 25 years of experience in the Property & Casualty (non-life) market. His financial experience includes working with the SEC, Statutory and Internal business analytics and reporting and Treasury functions. Business projects have included enterprise implementation of PeopleSoft Financials and financial data warehouse. He has worked on oversight for Guidewire claims, billing, enterprise data warehouse, integrations and data modeling, business analytics and producer and customer relationship management.
 Françoise Gilbert has extensive, in-depth experience with data privacy and security issues, Internet, eBusiness, and information technology law. Her clients include numerous Fortune 500 and other global corporations, as well as selected emerging technology start-ups.
 Jonathan L. Griggs is chief information officer for Harleysville Insurance. He oversees the implementation and development of the personal lines and commercial lines systems, corporate management information systems and the quality assurance and testing process. Before joining Harleysville, Griggs worked for BearingPoint, where he served as a senior manager. Prior to that, he was vice president and chief technology officer of AQS, Inc. He also has held IT leadership positions with CastleBay Consulting, IBM, Allied Insurance (Nationwide), and the Fiserv Corporation.
 Kelly L. Hall is vice president, information technology, for Kentucky Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Companies. She has 27 years of experience in information technology, including technology implementations; organizational and staff development; enterprise-wide contract negotiations; and technology strategic planning and execution.
 Matthew Josefowicz is a partner and the managing director of Novarica. Over the past decade, he has worked directly with dozens of U.S. and international insurer CIOs to advise them on IT strategy and solution selection, and has written more than 100 reports on insurance technology issues.
 Vasu Kadambi is the senior vice president and CIO at California Casualty Management Company. He joined California Casualty in 1988 and has been strategically involved in managing technology that impact every aspect of the company’s business, including customer service, sales, marketing, claims, underwriting, billing and finance.
 Lisa A. Krouse, Esq., SPHR, is senior vice-president of Human Resources and Support Services at FCCI Insurance Group in Sarasota, Florida. FCCI is a commercial property casualty insurance company rated A- (Excellent) by A.M. Best Company.
 Donald Light, is the director, Americas Property/Casualty Practice for Celent's San Francisco office. His research and consulting focuses on: technology strategy, policy administration, underwriting, claims, reinsurance, risk and fraud mitigation, business strategy (marketing, positioning, market assessment), and due diligence for acquisitions and mergers.
 Margaret Resce Milkint is managing partner of The Jacobson Group. She handles executive management and actuarial searches on a national and international basis in the areas of life and health, property and casualty, reinsurance, and consulting (benefits, life and health, property and casualty) for the organization's retained search practice. She also plays a significant role in the continued development of the entire organization as a member of Jacobson’s Executive Management Team.
 Tom Mochal, PMP®, TSPM, ITBMC, is president of TenStep, Inc. He is an expert instructor and consultant on project management, project management offices, development lifecycle, portfolio management, application support, people management and other related areas.
 Peter Moreau, senior vice president and chief information officer, Amica Mutual Insurance Company, currently manages all information technology operations for the property/casualty insurer. He has over 25 years of IT experience with Amica, moving from systems programming roles to management at all levels of the corporate information systems department.
 Tom Morris has become one of the most active public philosophers in the world due to his unusual ability to bring the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges of the present. His book, True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence, launched him into a new adventure as a public philosopher and advisor to the corporate world.
 Dave Mount is the director of Engineering at Guidewire Software, provider of flexible core systems for delivering property and casualty insurance. As a software engineer and team lead, he participated in Guidewire's transition to an Agile development approach, which has been employed successfully for many years since.
 Murali Natarajan is vice president, Information Technology, and is responsible for defining the vision and direction of RLI’s technology strategies to support company business plans and initiatives. Natarajan joined RLI in 1997 as a technical architect and has held various positions within the information technology department.
 Walter Overby serves Alfa as vice president, corporate internet and ebusiness. In this role, he leads the I/S Systems Support, Computer Operations, I/S Training, I/S Purchasing and Inventory, Field Technology Projects and Disaster Recovery areas. Overby has over 27 years experience in the insurance industry, including underwriting, training and information systems.
 Michael Rogers is a technology pioneer, novelist and journalist whose consultancy, PRACTICAL FUTURIST, helps businesses and organizations worldwide think about the future. In recent years he has worked with companies ranging from FedEx, Boeing and Time-Life to Prudential, Dow Corning, GE and Genentech.
 Al Schellhorn is senior vice president, chief underwriting and development officer, for Alfa Insurance. He joined Alfa in 1999 as vice president of Mergers and Acquisitions and was promoted to his current position in 2006. Before joining Alfa, Schellhorn was vice president of Mergers and Acquisitions at Caremark Rx.
 Norm Schmeichel is assistant vice president of IT for Illinois Casualty Company. He has over 17 years experience in enterprise solution development and has worked at several Fortune 500 companies implementing customer enterprise solutions. He has also worked as a consultant in the same capacity. Schmeichel has led the creation of Illinois Casualty Company’s Policy Management, Agency Management, Claims Management, Billing and Document imaging systems.
 Greg Schwem is a standup comedian, nationally syndicated humor columnist, author and motivational speaker. Dubbed "king of the hill in the world of corporate comedy" by the Chicago Tribune, major corporations and business associations consistently turn to Greg for laughs.
 Gerald Shields is Healthcare IT practice director for the Robert E. Nolan Company, a management consulting firm specializing in banking, insurance, and healthcare. He has over 30 years’ experience managing enterprise scale information technology functions, with a focus on enabling the business through effective automation.
 James E. Vettel is vice president of IT for Austin Mutual Insurance Company. Prior to joining Austin Mutual in 2009, he was the director of Patient Flow Product Delivery Services at Hill-Rom, a world-wide supplier of hospital therapeutic surfaces and patient-focused IT solutions. Vettell also worked at several large IT-focused consulting firms including Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen, and IBM Global Services.
 Raymond Wasilewski was named vice president, information technology for FBL Financial Group in August 2011. In his previous position as vice president technology – EquiTrust, he was responsible for life, property casualty and EquiTrust applications delivery functions and led the Enterprise Architecture team.
 Carl J. Witkowski is chief operating officer and executive vice president of GUARD Insurance Group. With GUARD, he’s held several executive management positions and currently serves on its Board of Directors. He has a multitude of management, executive, and leadership experiences, including business and strategic planning, executive coaching, and organizational development services to a host of public and private-sector organizations.
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