(View of AXA Equitable headquarters building in New York, where Mitch Wein formerly worked. Photo credit: Fletcher6.)

Mitch Wein, former CTO of AXA UK, AXA Equitable and AIG Domestic Brokerage group is joining Novarica’s insurance practice as a principal based in the research and advisory firm’s New York office, starting on Nov. 1.

“Mitch has a broad range of senior experience across property/casualty, life/annuity, health, and wealth management both domestically and internationally,” comments Matthew Josefowicz, managing director at Novarica. “We’re looking forward to bringing his distinctive expertise to our growing client base of more than 75 insurers.”

Wein’s expertise covers application development, infrastructure, architecture, process improvement, methodology including agile, quality assurance, business continuity and disaster recovery, outsourcing, performance and scalability. Prior to nearly two decades of C-level IT leadership roles at AXA in the EU, UK, and US, and at AIG Domestic Brokerage Group, Wein held a variety of technology positions in large financial service firms including Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank) and Prudential Insurance.

Novarica also announced today the recent addition of Paul Ptashnick as marketing director. Ptashnick’s experience in the insurance technology realm includes senior marketing roles at CoreLogic and RiskMeter. He is based in Novarica’s Boston Office.