For 85 years, Crawford & Company has made a business of the difficult middle between loss and recovery. Its next act pairs thousands of adjusters, nurses and contractors with software built to make claims move faster - without pretending the human judgment can be automated away.

Mat Malone is the Chief Executive Officer of DataCare, a San Jose-based healthcare software company specializing in workers' compensation and medical management platforms. With over two decades at the company - rising from early engineering roles to Director of Engineering, Vice President of Engineering, and ultimately CEO - Malone has guided DataCare through large-scale platform modernization and the integration of advanced automation and AI capabilities into its flagship Ahshay! software suite. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz and brings deep technical fluency to a leadership role that sits at the intersection of complex regulatory compliance, clinical workflow optimization, and enterprise software development.