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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.

Jim Bramblet is Accenture’s insurance lead in North America and is based in Chicago, Illinois. His expertise include digital transformation, operating model strategy and strategic cost reduction. Jim holds a BBA from University of Miami.

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