Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Matthew Josefowicz is director of the insurance practice at Novarica. He can be reached at mj@novarica.com.

Ed Largent joined Westfield in 1986 and has held the position of Insurance Leader and President for Westfield Insurance since January of 2011. In this role, he leads Westfield’s $1.6 billion multi-line, regional property and casualty insurance and surety operation.Mr. Largent previously held the positions of Group Administration Leader and Chief Technology Officer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University. He is a 2008 graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Institute and a graduate of the 2010 Leadership Cleveland class.Mr. Largent serves as a member of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company (parent company of Westfield Insurance and Westfield Bancorp) Board of Directors, is a board trustee for Ideastream (a Northeast Ohio public television, radio, and multi-media organization), a trustee for the Cleveland Leadership Center board, a member of the Accenture Insurance Advisory Board, and a member of the Insurance Information Institute board.

David co-founded the Strategic Risk Analysis department in 2004, which was AIG’s first team to develop proprietary predictive models for insurance markets. Since then, he has served as the Assistant Vice President, the Head of Science for the $8B Global Property Insurance division, and is currently Vice President of Analytic Capabilities for the AIG Science Team. David leads a diverse team of data scientists, statisticians and software developers in creating innovative quantitative business solutions. Previous solutions include predicting auto crashes and litigation claims, managing earthquake and hurricane risk and estimating credit risk of receivables.David holds a bachelor's degree in Biometry and Statistics from Cornell University and a master’s degree in statistics from Columbia University.

Kristin M Woodman is responsible for establishing consistent portfolio and project management throughout the Global Specialty organization of Liberty Mutual Insurance, aligning business objectives to technology execution. Prior to Global Specialty, she worked in a variety of roles within Liberty, all focused on improving business outcomes.Before joining Liberty in 2002, Kristin was a consultant for IBM and Lucent, as well as a civilian leader for the United States Marine Corps. She has over 20 years of proven change and thought leadership in the technology field for a variety of industries.

Chris McMahon was Senior Editor for Insurance Networking News.

Sharon Dean is a Product Operations Director for Allstate Insurance Company’s excess and surplus lines carrier, North Light Specialty Insurance Company. Sharon is responsible for leading cross-functional teams within and outside the Allstate organization for the overall product management, underwriting, technology, and marketing for North Light Specialty Insurance Company. Sharon is also responsible for the overall growth and profitability of the excess and surplus lines plus management and compliance of the contracted surplus lines brokers.Since joining Allstate Insurance Company, Sharon has held various risk management and project management positions in both home office and the field, including the Ohio, North Central, and Northwest Regions. In 2004, Sharon was responsible for the overall program development of Allstate’s Your Choice Homeowner product. Most recently, Sharon was given the responsibility for leading the design, development, and implementation of Allstate’s excess and surplus lines strategy.

Merit Smith is VP & director, health care at the Robert E. Nolan Co., a management consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry.