Guidewire All-Star Nominations 2026
Celebrate the People Behind Your Success: Nominate a Guidewire All-Star
Nominations for 2026 are currently closed. All-Stars and their nominators will be notified in August.
Nominate Your All-Star
The Guidewire ecosystem is the largest in P&C insurance, powering the world’s leading insurers. To celebrate this global community, the Guidewire All-Star program recognizes outstanding individual champions within our customer organizations for the real-world transformation and business results they create every day.
Who Should You Nominate?
This is not a corporate- or executive-level award—it is a badge of operational honor for the front-line champions who live in the software every day. For the Class of 2026, we are celebrating the day-to-day business end-users—including claims adjusters, underwriters, billing analysts, customer service representatives, and actuaries—who are driving commercial success, leveraging cutting-edge AI, and shaping their company culture. To spark some ideas for your submission, here are a few examples of the types of business results and impact we are looking to celebrate:
- a claims manager or adjuster who creatively adapted workflows to eliminate manual touchpoints, slash cycle times, and free up their team
- an underwriter or actuary who masterfully leveraged out-of-the-box features and predictive analytics to write smarter business or drastically reduce quote turnaround times
- a product manager, billing analyst, or customer success specialist who harnessed Guidewire to drive phenomenal internal user adoption or dramatically elevate CSAT, NPS, or agent portal usability
The Perks
By submitting a nomination, you can help your nominee unlock an exciting lineup of rewards designed to celebrate their achievements and elevate their professional profile. Take a look at the exclusive perks and experiences waiting for this year's selected Guidewire All-Stars.
- Custom All-Star Jacket: New winners will be presented with an exclusive, high-quality All-Star jacket.
- Jacket Patches for Repeat All-Stars: It’s not a one-and-done. Past All-Stars can be nominated again for new efforts. They will receive a commemorative patch to add to their existing jacket for every year they are named an All-Star.
- VIP Connections Experience: Enjoy a discounted registration rate to Guidewire Connections, complete with a live shout-out from the main stage and special networking and career-development opportunities
- Social Media Spotlight: Get featured and celebrated with an individually dedicated post across Guidewire’s official social media channels.
- Other career-development opportunities
Submission Rules
- This program is designed exclusively to celebrate our Guidewire customers—the insurers driving real innovation with our platform. To keep the focus squarely on customer success, third-party vendors, partner consultancies, and Guidewire employees are not eligible for individual awards.
- Yes, absolutely! We highly encourage our partners to champion their clients' success. If you are a Guidewire partner, you can certainly submit a nomination—just ensure the nominee is a standout professional within a customer organization.
No. To maintain an independent and unbiased evaluation process, nominations submitted by Guidewire employees will not be accepted. If a Guidewire employee notices an All-Star in action, they are encouraged to nudge a customer or partner to submit the official nomination.
To ensure the highest quality of submissions, there is a limit of one (1) nomination per person. We ask each nominator to focus on their single most impactful standout candidate for the year.
To celebrate a diverse range of successes across our global network, we can recognize up to three (3) individuals from the same customer organization. If a large team achieved a major milestone together, please select up to three key contributors to nominate.
Yes! Excellence doesn't stop after one win. Past recipients are fully eligible for repeat recognition, provided the nomination highlights their recent achievements and continuous impact on their organization's Guidewire journey.
Brian Clate
Brian has played a key role in ensuring critical information needed for claims handling is efficiently brought in from legacy systems. His deep claims expertise has helped develop business transition plans that keep stakeholders aligned and engaged.
Product Owner
Argo
Audrey Arseneault
Audrey brings efficiency to adjusters' work by expertly managing ClaimCenter and providing ongoing support to customer call centers. She excels at helping business users understand ClaimCenter features and has been instrumental in implementing new features such as Autopilot.
Product Owner - ClaimCenter
Beneva Insurance
Justina L. Chestnutt
Justina orchestrated AXA XL’s successful PolicyCenter launch, managing access for more than 100 vendor resources. She established release governance and quality gates for continuous improvement.
Delivery Lead / Release Train Engineer - Middle Markets
AXA XL
Tracey Newman
Tracey led a successful swift development of claims processes, aligning with legislative changes, and ensuring organizational readiness. Her data-driven approach transformed payment processing, leading to improved business efficiency and client satisfaction.
VP, Prevention and Employer Engagement
Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia
Kazuya Takahashi
Kazuya led the ClaimCenter development, improving operational efficiency and stabilizing systems post-core system replacement. He conducted extensive training and system modifications, bolstering claims settlement rates amidst pivotal productivity challenges.
General Manager
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance
Donato Savino
Donato guided Vaudoise's ClaimCenter on Guidewire Cloud project, balancing value creation with constraints for pragmatic solutions. His promotion of Guidewire instilled user confidence, ensuring successful system adoption despite project challenges.
Head of Business Services - Claims
Vaudoise Assurances
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