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.

Amy Mollin is the head of Guidewire Cloud Platform product management for the full product lifecycle — from market research and product strategy to delivery and adoption. This includes Cloud Infrastructure, Application and Data Services, and the InsuranceSuite applications.

As an Architect on Guidewire’s Professional Services Consulting team, Artem Khvat supports the success of EMEA customers and partners with their Guidewire product implementation projects.

As Vice President of Solution Alliances Strategy, Becky Mattick leads Guidewire's global PartnerConnect Solution Alliances team.

Bob Frady is Co-Founder and Vice President of Guidewire HazardHub, responsible for leading the efforts to continue building the best spatial risk products available while building new and creative products that will drive the P&C insurance industry forward.

As Global Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Guidewire, Brandi Riggins works deeply to embed the principles of equity and belonging across the global employee experience and culture to achieve maximum employee engagement and potential.

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.

As Director of the Guidewire Marketplace, Brian Vannoni is responsible for collaborating with customers and partners — and with teams across Guidewire — to identify, scope, and launch ecosystem-driven innovations. He also manages strategic partner relationships.

As Senior Manager, Content Marketing, Carrie Burns is responsible for Guidewire’s customer stories program, various content development and production of the company’s digital magazine, The Wire.

As the Senior Director of Advanced Analytics, Chris Cooksey is Guidewire’s predictive analytics actuarial expert for the Global Client Solutions group.

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 Senior Director of Product Management, Chris Vavra leads the team transforming enterprise integration for Guidewire Cloud Platform.

In his role as Sales Director, Christian Pedersen is responsible for Guidewire business in the Nordic nations and Eastern Europe. He has more than 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry working for vendors and SIs in banking and insurance.

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.

As Principal Product Marketing for Guidewire Cloud, Marketplace, and APD, Daniel Lockhart leads content strategy and messaging for these areas. He also regularly engages with our customers, sellers, partners, the press, and analysts.

Darin Reffitt leads Product Marketing for InsuranceNow and Guidewire Solutions. He is also the Co-Chair for Connections, Guidewire's annual customer conference.

Debasish Bose is an Implementation Architect responsible for Guidewire InsuranceNow projects.

As Customer Marketing Manager, Deborah Pugatch is a storyteller who writes and creates content about Guidewire, its customers, and its products. She focuses on content development related to product launches and the success customer experience with Guidewire.

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.

As the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Guidewire ClaimCenter, Harman Bola is responsible for creating messaging and go-to-market strategies. He also supports sales enablement, marketing, public relations, and analyst relations.

Helen Reid is the Head of ESG at Guidewire Software, responsible for leading Guidewire’s integrated ESG strategy, and engaging with our Board of Directors and cross functional teams and business leaders to ensure appropriate alignment and management of our ESG initiatives.

Ian Bird is Director of Guidewire Analytics and Data Services (ADS) for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In this role, he uses the Guidewire Cyence Risk Analytics modeling platform to help the insurance and credit risk markets get an economic perspective on 21st-century risks.

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.

James is a Principal Product Manager in the Product Content group, focused on U.S. commercial lines.

As Product Manager for Claims at Guidewire, Jeremy Karmolinski is responsible for delivering new features and functionality that leverage digital technologies, AI, and embedded analytics to help P&C insurers offer better customer experiences while lowering claims operating expenses.

John Siegman is Senior Director of Operations at Guidewire, responsible for leading the direction of the HazardHub solution and guiding P&C insurance clients in innovating their data integration into critical processes.

As the Developer Evangelist at Guidewire, Jonathan is focused on partnering with, and advocating for the success of, developers who use Guidewire's ecosystem to build a better tomorrow.

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.

Julie Getzlaff is Group Director of Product Marketing at Guidewire and has more than 20 years of experience in international business, information technology, and marketing.

As Chief Evangelist at Guidewire Software, Laura Drabik keeps her finger on the pulse of insurance industry disruption to coach insurers on ways to innovate their business and achieve a competitive advantage.

Lewis Guignard is Director of Data Science Solutions at Guidewire Software. In this role, he leads the research and development of emergent topics of interest to the insurance community, including supply chain risk, ethical AI, and cyber risk analytics.

Marco Burattino is part of the Guidewire Sales Team, responsible for the Italian market. Passionate about the insurance industry, Marco joined Guidewire after 15 years spent in Consulting firms serving major Italian and international companies.

Mark Daniels is Director of Global Mobility at Guidewire Software, responsible for global mobility and immigration programs for Guidewire colleagues worldwide.

Michael Anderson is the Industry Advisory Lead for Claims at Guidewire Software. He is responsible for working with clients and their partners to help define their strategic roadmap based on trends, global insights, and the everchanging technology solutions in the market.

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.

Nicole Bruns is Director of Product Marketing at Guidewire Software, responsible for strategic go-to-market messaging for all products, solutions, and services.

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.

Pat Ma is Senior Product Marketing Manager at Guidewire, leading product marketing for HazardHub and Cyence. He is responsible for product messaging, positioning, and collateral, and has more than 15 years of experience marketing B2B SaaS products.

Paul Mallett is a Director of Product Management, specializing in adapting InsuranceSuite, Guidewire's market-leading platform, to meet the market-specific needs of our global customers, with a particular focus on the London Market.

Phil Iaccarino is Director of Product/Solution Marketing at Guidewire Software, responsible for InsuranceNow marketing.

Rebecca Selby is Guidewire's Vice President of Corporate Marketing. With 20+ years of experience in B2B technology marketing, she leads teams that deliver outstanding creative, communication, web, and customer experiences.

In his role as Director of EMEA Product Marketing, René Schoenauer is responsible for go-to-market messaging for Guidewire products, solutions, and services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

As a Solution Manager for Guidewire's Analytics and Data Services group, Ryan Park Grant helps insurers capitalize on the power of data insights to improve their decisions and workflow across the insurance life cycle.

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.

As a Senior Product Marketing Manager for EMEA, Sebastià focuses on market-specific product marketing initiatives, including positioning, messaging and go-to-market strategies.

As Senior Director of Data & Analytics at Guidewire, Tammy Schwartz is responsible for building and managing hazard models for all property and casualty perils related to personal and commercial insurance.

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

Tom Lee is Director of Product Marketing at Guidewire Software, where he is responsible for SI partners, EMEA and APAC, and Guidewire for Salesforce marketing.