America’s Claims Executive (ACE) 2020 | ALM Real Estate Media Group | 13 July 2020 | VIRTUAL EVENT

The ACE Leadership Forum & Expo is the premier event where forward-thinking claims leaders learn and network in a highly intimate and interactive setting. Attendees benefit from our unique mix of peer-to-peer forums, deep-dive solutions workshops, interactive sessions, as well as networking with the industry’s leading service providers and subject matter experts, providing them with actionable takeaways and relationships to remain at the forefront of the industry.

2020 Speakers

SPEAKERS:

Catherine Alman MacDonagh, JD
CEO and Founder, Legal Lean Sigma Institute LLC

Andrea Bessling
Assistant Vice President - Claims Field Property, The Hanover Insurance Group

David Borum
Risk Manager - Special Investigations Unit, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Lt

Geoffrey Branch
Senior Investigator, Swiss Re Special Investigations Unit, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Ernie Bray
CEO, ACD

Cory Candelario
Executive Vice President - Claims, The McGraw Group of Affiliated Companies

Louie Castoria
Founder, Castoria Dispute Resolution

Jim Cook
Mile Auto, Inc., President & Co-Founder

Cathy Ellwood
Founder, Ellwood Enterprises

Grace Hanson
Chief Claims Officer, Hiscox

Patricia Harman
Editor in Chief, Claims Magazine, ALM

Jodie Hopkins
Commercial Lines Underwriting Operations Leader, Westfield Insurance

Scott Johnson
Claims Director, Mile Auto, Inc.

Naomi Kinderman
Assistant Vice President - Counsel, W.R. Berkley Corporation

Donald Light
Director, Celent

Aaron Mutnick
Litigation Attorney, Shelter Insurance Companies

Lance Ondrej
EVP - Chief Claims Officer, Germania Insurance

Tim Roberts
Vice President-Workers Comp Claims, Everest Insurance

Allan Robinson
Executive Vice President of Field Operations and Sales management and Chief Claim Officer, Horace Mann

Curtis Scott
Vice President, Global Risk, Lyft, Inc.

Caryn Siebert
Vice President - Carrier Practice, Gallagher Bassett

Gary Stephen
Senior Advisor, Pure Insurance

Ian Stewart
Partner, Wilson Elser

Aimee Stidham
SIU Manager, Shelter Insurance Company

Christopher Tidball
Vice President - Sales and Claims Transformation Strategy, EXL

Kristina Tomasetti
Strategic Innovation Director, USAA

Crystal Uebelher
Claims Attorney, Clarity Education

David Vanalek
Claims Chief Operating Officer, Markel®

Karie Wood
Operations Consultant, Resource Pro

ADVISORY BOARD:

Catherine Bennett
Director of Public Relations, Sedgwick

Jamie Cooper
Executive Director, USAA

Cathy Ellwood
Founder, Ellwood Enterprise, LLC

Jodie Hopkins
Commercial Lines Underwriting Operations Leader, Westfield Insurance

Eric Pinkham
Project Manager, Claims Transformation, Liberty Mutual

Tim Roberts
Vice President, Workers Comp Claims, Everest Re

Gary Stephen
Executive Vice President, Claims and Risk Management, Pure Insurance

Callie Thomas
Chief Administrative Officer, Blackboard Insurance

KEYNOTES:

David DeLong
Author and President, David DeLong & Associates

David Pieffer
Vice President, Head of the Property & Casualty Insurance Practice, J.D. Power

Deb Zawisza
Vice President, Research and Consulting, Novarica

2020 Sponsors and Partners

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• CCMS & Associates
• ClaimTECH
• Your House Counsel

GOLD SPONSOR:
• ACD

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• American Computer Estimating (ACE)
• Chetu
• Cincom
• Claim Toolkit
• Click Claims
• Forensic Investigations Group
• FSSI
• JW Software
• Milliman
• National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB)
• NXT Level Technologies LLC
• Sequoia Financial Services
• SPLICE Software
• Verisk
• VPay

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