Dan Preston is the co-founder and CEO of Stand Insurance, a San Francisco-based insurtech company using physics-driven AI and digital property twins to insure climate-impacted homes in wildfire and hurricane zones. A Stanford-trained computer scientist, Preston previously led Metromile as CEO from 2014 to 2022, guiding it through a SPAC IPO on NASDAQ and eventual acquisition by Lemonade. At Stand, he has raised $65 million across two rounds and grown the company to over $1 billion in insured value within its first year, with expansion into Florida's catastrophe market. His vision: insurance as an active driver of community resilience, not just a financial safety net.
Katy Allen is EVP of Professional Services Strategy & Operations at Salesforce, where she has spent over a decade steadily ascending through the company's professional services organization. A Harvard-educated East Asian Studies graduate who added a Stanford MBA, she crossed from economic research to Deloitte consulting to fintech at Metromile before landing at Salesforce - where she has since helped manage a $2.5 billion revenue professional services business, overseeing P&L, strategy development, and M&A. She is a rare operator who combines analytical rigor with enterprise-scale execution.