Senior Vice President and General Manager IoT/Telematics

Verisk Analytics

Establish a vision for Claims Innovation leveraging advanced modeling and BI, and execute to create sustainable growth for Verisk's $500M Claims Business segment• Created a compelling vision for the future of Claims - Automation of Adjusting using AI and Robotics. Progress towards this vision is now a key component of our Board of Director's updates• Laid out business strategy and oversaw the creation of product roadmaps and go-to-market plans to deliver AI and BI solutions with quantifiable value (>$5M in 2017 and growing)• Built the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) organization - a talented and diverse team of data scientists, BI analysts, and data modelers with core presence in six geographic locations - from the ground-up to over 60 staff within 2 years• Forged development partnerships with a number of Top 20 insurance clients for joint development of innovative solutions• Launched a one-of-a-kind Industry Council composed of Executive Leaders of Claims Analytics functions at the largest P&C insurance companies• Leveraged statistical, machine learning, and deep learning techniques on structured data, medical records text, loss damage images, social data, and IoT data streams, to create innovative solutions for damage and injury triaging, fraud detection, claim complexity prediction, and automated claim value estimation for multiple lines of business including Personal Auto, Property, and Workers Compensation• Served as a member of M&A teams performing due-diligence on acquisition targets in US and Europe• Managed relationships with senior executive stakeholders and communicated effectively to persuade, influence, and drive change
    
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Business leadership, innovation, and product execution responsibilities for an exciting predictive platform start-up company with core IP in the automated discovery of ensemble machine learning models at Big Data scale.• Created a new vision for the company to Automate Data Science processes, that addressed clear market gaps and resonated well with VCs and prospective clients• Adapted product strategy to focus on creating proprietary intellectual property (IP) for automated discovery of transformations, models, and ensembles, using existing open source packages (R, Scikit-learn / Python, etc.) rather than building our own undifferentiated implementations of core machine learning algorithms• Influenced the Board-of-Directors to approve and support the new business strategy• Built and launched a compelling cloud-scalable, automated, ensemble-building data science platform  in a mere 6-months by leveraging Spark clusters on AWS, and best-of-breed open-source technologies including R and Python machine learning packages• Pitched company to marquee VCs (including Khosla Ventures and Bain Capital), and helped Chairman raise $2M+ of capital through debt instruments• Forged a talented team in a high-performing, yet fun, work culture
    
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About us

  "​'I just can't quit you.'​ Is something our clients hear often."​

Companies hire us to add opium to their offerings (figuratively speaking of course).  We use AI-drive predictive analytics technology to help our clients develop products and services that the market can't resist and customers can't bear to give up.

We deliver 15%+ higher accuracy with 10x the efficiency of other solutions observed in the marketplace.

PurePredictive, Inc.

P&L responsibility for Fraud Solutions spanning Healthcare, Pharmacy, P&C, and Dental segments. Executive owner of Data and Analytical services, and primary driver of Product Strategy and Innovation in Payment Integrity.• Delivered revenue growth over 200% CAGR across 3 years while maintaining expenses nearly flat• Innovated and launched three new fraud detection products including Rx and P&C medical fraud solutions• Spearheaded an industry-first, Pooled Data Alliance initiative for cross-payor Healthcare fraud detection↳ Pitched concept, built business plan, and raised internal venture funding (Verisk VC)↳ Developed product strategy, hired team, oversaw product development, and developed sales plans↳ Recruited early-adopter clients and actively promoted concept in trade conferences and publications• Built a product management & innovation function and established a top quantitative analytics team• Transformed Healthcare fraud detection product from a clinical-rules solution to one leveraging advanced analytics, time-series methods, and network analytics, and their deployment via a HADOOP-based framework• Galvanized team culture, morale, and productivity by establishing communication and collaboration as the cornerstones of our operating philosophy• Served as a thought leader by publishing and presenting in trade journals and healthcare conferences
    
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      Verscend
  

Established an internal Analytics Product organization developing predictive model based solutions in actuarial / pricing, underwriting, marketing, claims, and insurance operations• Transformed the Analytics function by establishing core-teams with clear responsibilities and accountabilities, instilling an urgency-to-act, and removing internal barriers from Actuarial, Regulatory, and Legal functions• Disrupted actuarial science status-quo by combining machine learning and GLM-modeling techniques to build industry-first rating solutions under the ISO Risk Analyzer® umbrella including Personal Auto (four modules) and Homeowners (two modules)• Influenced Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, and Actuarial organizations to accept and promote new rating methods• Established unit as an Enterprise Analytics Consulting Center-of-Excellence and attracted seven-figure organizational investment in headcount and distributed computing infrastructure to scale deliverables• Influenced business leaders to grow analytics support into other areas like fraud detection Claims, Mortgage, and Healthcare verticals, as well as other Commercial Lines initiatives• Contributed to Verisk's brand perception by speaking and publishing at Casualty Actuary Society (CAS) events, Claims conferences, and other trade events and publications
    
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• Delivered measurable bottom-line impact in excess of $5M annually through diverse Claims and Premium Audit models deployed into workflows• Generated nearly $2M in average annual new GPW with ROIs in excess of 70% through successful Cross-sell and Up-sell programs driven using scoring models• Established FFIC as a recognized Analytics leader within the Allianz Group and advised multiple global Allianz Operating Entities on machine learning and text mining opportunities• Created a diverse portfolio of initiatives such including Fraud detection, Subrogation identification, Underwriting rules analysis, Prospect/lead scoring, Customer lifetime value (CLTV) modeling, and Producer/agency segmentation• Established Text Mining as a core competency, programmed a Text Analysis and Mining System (in SAS) and leveraged it in multiple areas including Claim adjuster notes, Voice-of-the-Customer (VOC) analysis, Loss control, and Premium audit notes• Served as Executive sponsor of Customer and Claims Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence capabilities (Business Objects and Hummingbird BI/Query)• Developed enterprise customer ID – a unique customer identifier created from multiple data sources and proprietary matching algorithms for entity resolution
    
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About us

  Since 1863, Fireman’s Fund has partnered with independent agents and brokers to protect the future for individuals, families and businesses. We’ve helped rebuild cities, pioneered new insurance solutions and managed risk for the world’s most popular films. Visit our interactive timeline (firemansfund.com/timeline) for an engaging look at our contribution to the American fabric. 

Today, we are industry leaders in high net worth, entertainment and commercial insurance. Backed by superior claims and risk services, we’re there for our customers before, during and after a loss. We are also a member of the Allianz Group — one of the world’s largest insurance providers — and have a strong financial foundation.

Fireman’s Fund began with a promise to support firefighters in their mission to make communities safer. We continue this tradition through our Heritage Program® and contribute a portion of our profits to fire service organizations across the United States. For more information, visit firemansfund.com.

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company

Apply sophisticated Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling methodologies to help business executives efficiently address strategic and tactical problems.


• Worked effectively within start-up company constraints of fast-paced action, aggressive timelines, limited resources, and constant change, to create a unit with demonstrable value to the Company• Enabled Company's primary revenue model through predictive customer behavior insights, benchmark indices, and BI reports. These components were critical in helping Obongo win partner clients such as Citibank and Barclays• Increased traffic by 400% and product downloads by over 500% through web-path optimization and SEO techniques•&nbsp;Developed a novel workaround to track Customer usage of product features using URL parameters in AppLogic calls and mining of Web-server log files to extract usage parameters• Directed the design and development of a Data Warehouse for capturing customer behaviors and usage data
    
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About us

  AOL is a global media and technology company, representing the best of all worlds: premium content and innovative technology. Our continued growth and evolution is the product of nearly a decade of careful cultivation of our internal strengths, coupled with thoughtful acquisitions and rigorous integration of the very best technologies and talents on the market. Today, AOL utilizes its four pillars of video, mobile, ad technology and platforms, and open ecosystems both within our own properties such as The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Mapquest, and MAKERS as well as when working with brands to reach new audiences and drive compelling narratives in ways never done before. AOL is a subsidiary of Verizon. Follow us on twitter @AOL_Inc.

Our Mission:
To simplify the Internet for consumers and creators by unleashing the world’s best builders of culture and code. 

To learn more about our investor relations, check out our website (http://ir.aol.com).  To read more about what's going on at AOL, take a look at our official corporate blog (http://blog.aol.com). To join us, check out our careers ( www.aol-careers.com).


      AOL
  

• Created two successful models for Automobile Fraud Detection (3rd/1st party) within 3 months of joining ARPC• Engineered models for stellar performance - observed hit-rate of 70% and projected economic impact of $ Tens-of-Millions - by cleverly combining multiple models into Ensembles• Received the Chairman's Cutting-Edge Research award for the work on fraud detection with ensembles•&nbsp;Evaluated novel data transformations, binning strategies, and multiple modeling approaches including Decision Trees, Bayesian Methods, Neural Networks, and Logistic Regression
    
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We are the Good Hands: We help people realize their hopes and dreams through products and services designed to protect them from life’s uncertainties and to prepare them for the future.

The Allstate Corporation is the largest publicly held personal lines property and casualty insurer in America. Allstate was founded in 1931 and became a publicly traded company in 1993. 

Allstate offers car insurance, home, property, condo and renters insurance, plus insurance for recreational vehicles like motorcycles, boats and more.

The Allstate family of companies offers financial products including college savings programs, retirement planning and a range of life insurance products including term life and whole life.

Senior Vice President and General Manager IoT/Telematics at Verisk Analytics

Verisk Analytics

Senior Vice President and General Manager IoT/Telematics

Verisk Analytics

Senior Vice President and Head, Analytics Center of Excellence - Claims

PurePredictive, Inc.

President & CEO

Verscend

Senior Vice President, Fraud Solutions and Analytics

Verisk Analytics

Vice President, Analytics

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company

Sr. Director, Analytics

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company

Sr. Modeling Manager

AOL

Manager, Decision Analytics

Allstate

Senior Research Associate

Iowa State University

IBM Research Fellowship

Harvard Business Publishing

Verisk Leadership Excellence Program

Iowa State University

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

Ph.D.

Iowa State University

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

M.S.

College of Engineering, Guindy

Computer Science & Engineering

B.E.