team

Team


Athula Alwis
Chief Executive Officer

Athula has 30 years of insurance and reinsurance broking experience at premium global companies, such as Chubb, Willis Re, QBE, and Munich Re. He helped guide Freedom Specialty, a startup capitalized by Scottsdale Insurance, into a success with over $400M in revenue within five years.

Rene Velasco
Strategic Technology Advisor

Rene offers 20 years of IT experience in the insurance industry and acted as the technology leader at Freedom Specialty during its initial growth to $400M.

Jim Moriarty
Chief Operating Officer

Jim acquired 37 years of IT experience at Emblem Health managing diverse departments.

Brian D. DeGraw
RPLU, SVP & Head of Production

27 years or specialty lines underwriting, sales and broking experience with companies including Philadelphia Insurance, Global Indemnity, USLI and Brown & Brown wholesale. Brian has a proven track record of developing and growing profitable professional and executive liability books of business and leading sales and underwriting teams.

Dillon Thompson
VP – Management Liability

Dillon brings 10 years of insurance experience from Brown & Brown wholesale professional liability brokerage and Financial Institutions underwriting at Travelers insurance.

Arjun Alwis
Underwriter
Alyssa Duart
Accountant
Michael Leser
Underwriter
Ashley Christiansen
Assistant Underwriter
Michael Scarpato
Assistant Underwriter
Oswaldo Rivera
Assistant Underwriter

Key People Identified:

We have identified talented individuals with PhD and MS degrees with real world experience ready to join our team.

Head of AI Research:

A research scientist at a multi-national technology leader with over 10 years of experience in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Possess a PhD in Computer Science from a world class University in the US. Has more than 20 publications in top level Journals, conferences and workshops related to multiple areas of AI/ML.

Chief Actuary:

20 years of insurance experience as a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) . Has a proven track record of constructing profitable businesses and managing them using cutting edge technology.

Head of Executive Liability:

19 years of financial and insurance experience with 16 years of experience working at premier global insurance companies.  Proven track record of growing out very profitable books of business.