Blog Authors
Blog Authors
Albert Lin is Public Relations Manager at Guidewire, responsible for showcasing Guidewire’s leadership in P&C insurance industry innovation by telling positive customer stories through press releases, industry thought leadership through the Smart Approach Blog, and promoting relevant and impactful content on social media.
Brian leads Guidewire’s global marketing efforts, including demand generation, branding, and communications. Brian joined Guidewire in 2006, and during his tenure the company has been recognized as an industry-leading brand serving customers in more than 30 countries. He previously was Vice President of Marketing for PeopleSoft’s supply chain division and held marketing leadership and product marketing roles at Ketera, Ariba, and Tradex. Brian serves on the board of directors of Betterview, an insurtech that provides a geospatial predictive analytics platform for P&C insurance.
“After 14 years at Guidewire, I have a deep appreciation for the role P&C insurance plays in our society. This motivates me to do my part to ensure we keep improving every day to better serve our customers.”
—Brian Desmond
—Brian Desmond
Chris Folkman is Vice President of Product Management at Guidewire Software, where he manages a portfolio of data & analytics solutions that help insurers make fast, accurate, and automated decisions. He has extensive experience on both the broker and carrier sides of insurance, where he has led many aspects of property and casualty operations including underwriting, pricing, predictive analytics, catastrophe modeling, and regulatory affairs.
As Guidewire’s Chief Customer Officer, Christina helps customers to realize optimal value through their journey with Guidewire. Previously, Christina led cloud sales strategy globally at Guidewire, leveraging her commercial and operational cloud experience. She brings deep consulting knowledge to Guidewire programs as well as SaaS proficiency from her 15 years at Capgemini. Christina also spent four years on the executive leadership team of Virtustream, the mission-critical cloud company of Dell Technologies.
“We partner with our customers on every step of their journey, empowering them to achieve their business objectives for today and over the long term.”
—Christina Colby
—Christina Colby
Diego has held numerous executive positions overseeing technology and product development in the San Francisco Bay Area, India, and Europe. In his role at Guidewire, he drives design and strategy to implement engineering goals that address the needs of P&C insurers, such as the requirement to rapidly bring new and differentiating insurance products to market. Prior to Guidewire, Diego served as Vice President of Software Development and Vice President of Product and Engineering at SAP Labs. He began his enterprise software career at Baan in the Netherlands.
“In every customer interaction, we are committed. On day one, Guidewire set out to serve the P&C industry, and years later, the development mindset is always to extend platform capabilities to make more possible.”
—Diego Devalle
—Diego Devalle
James Couzens is a Principal Product Manager responsible for developing integration products that enable Solution partners to more easily integrate their solutions with Guidewire InsuranceSuite. James has a particular focus on solutions that support Guidewire's strategy for supporting insurance markets outside of North America.
As one of Guidewire’s Consulting Directors, Josh Hooks is responsible for driving implementation projects and replacing/transforming outdated legacy systems. He also spearheads Guidewire’s upgrade, performance and data migration practices, as well as the Guidewire Services Center in Ireland.
Mike Rosenbaum joined Guidewire as Chief Executive Officer in 2019. Since Mike’s arrival, Guidewire has cemented its position as the leading cloud platform serving the P&C insurance industry, growing cloud adoption by over 500%, tripling cloud revenue, and expanding the Guidewire partner ecosystem to become the largest in P&C insurance.
Mike’s focus on delivering value for customers, coupled with his “ship, shipmate, self” approach to prioritization, continue to shape the industry-leading platform, applications, and content trusted by insurers globally. Prior to Guidewire, Mike led product management and go-to-market strategy for core CRM products at Salesforce and served in the US Navy as a submarine officer.
“When faced with any trade-off or decision, we make that decision based on what’s best for our customers. Thinking that way at every level of the company creates the customer-first culture that serves Guidewire and our stakeholders most effectively.”
—Mike Rosenbaum
—Mike Rosenbaum
Nicole Mongillo is senior product marketing manager for Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter, responsible for creating content, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for these areas, as well as Guidewire’s commercial lines offerings. She also supports sales enablement, marketing, public relations, and analyst relations activities for these subject areas.
Oliver Winkenbach is a leader in Guidewire's Go-To-Market strategy team. His focus is the launch of new Guidewire Solutions on the Guidewire Cloud Platform (including Usage-based insurance, Embedded and Alternative Distribution, Commercial Lines, Excess & Surplus programs, and more), leveraging and expanding the Guidewire partner ecosystem. He also advises current and prospective Guidewire customers on how to best leverage these Guidewire Solutions in their business and technology context.
As Principal, Product/Solution Marketing, for Guidewire’s Data and Analytics portfolio, Satyen helps drive Guidewire’s global data business with content creation, positioning, messaging, and sales enablement. He is also responsible for capturing customer and market insight to drive product innovation and support marketing with demand generation campaigns, public relations, and analyst relations.
Tim Kennedy is Business Owner of Commercial Lines and Internet of Things at Guidewire Software, responsible for global product marketing strategy for Guidewire InsuranceSuite™, the industry-leading suite of Property and Casualty software for claims, billing, policy administration, and underwriting