Alan Demers, President of InsurTech Consulting, provides strategic development, subject matter expertise and advisory services. Former executive with over 30 years of insurance claim experience, Demers collaborates in the forefront of InsurTech, partnering with insurance leaders, InsurTech start-ups, service providers and investors to modernize insurance. As Vice President, Claims Innovation at Nationwide, Demers conceptualized a vision and roadmap to build Claims of the Future, focused on automating and digitizing claims experiences, progressing from inception through prototype testing. He served as a founding member of the Corporate Innovation Council and played a key leadership role in establishing goals, best practices and building an innovative culture at Nationwide.
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Stephen Applebaum, Managing Partner, Insurance Solutions Group, is a subject matter expert and thought leader providing consulting, advisory, research and strategic M&A services to participants across the entire North American property/casualty insurance ecosystem. He will be chairing the Auto Insurance USA industry conference on April 16-17, 2020 in Chicago presented by Insurance Nexus/Reuters Events which focuses on the impact of emerging technologies and changing consumer behavior on the broad connected automotive, insurance, claims, information, services and repair ecosystem.
Applebaum is also a Senior Advisor to Waller Helms Advisors (WHA) an investment banking boutique firm focused on the crossroads of the insurance, healthcare and investment services sectors and a frequent chairman, guest speaker and panelist at insurance industry conferences and contributor to major insurance industry publications and has a passion for coaching, mentoring, business process innovation and constructive transformation, applying disruptive technology, and managing organizational change in the North American property/casualty insurance industry and trading partner communities. He can be reached at Stephen.Applebaum@gmail.com