
After years underwriting risk in Bermuda, Ben Munro helped build Briza to connect insurers with the people selling their policies. His route from insurance executive to software founder and back reveals how much work happens between a quote and a customer.
Rishi Sharma runs Briza, a Toronto-based commercial insurance API platform that connects carriers, MGAs, brokers and software companies through a single interface. He joined in 2018 as CTO/head of product after a stint leading engineering on the FreshBooks redesign, and stepped up to CEO in December 2022 after co-founder Ben Munro departed. His work focuses on API reliability, quote-and-bind automation, and making legacy commercial lines behave like modern developer infrastructure.