Cyrus Karai is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoverForce, a New York-based insurtech building unified API infrastructure that connects insurance carriers, agencies, and wholesalers so commercial insurance can be quoted, paid, bound, and issued in real time. Originally from Australia and a Wharton MBA, he moved from finance roles at BlackRock, Credit Suisse, and PwC into founding CoverForce out of the University of Pennsylvania's Innovation Labs in 2020. Under his leadership the company reached over 9,600 producers nationwide, integrated with major carriers including Travelers, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and AmTrust, and raised a $13M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025.
Mike Greene is the CEO and co-founder of Hi Marley, a Boston-based insurtech company building an intelligent SMS communication platform for property and casualty insurance carriers. A repeat founder who previously built and sold Futurity Group to Aon, Greene has spent his career trying to make insurance communication less frustrating and more human, working with 13 of the top 30 P&C carriers.
Dan Schuleman is the co-founder and CEO of Qumis, a Chicago-based AI platform that reads and interprets complex insurance policies the way a seasoned coverage attorney would. A former insurance coverage litigator and in-house counsel at Kin Insurance, he started Qumis in 2023 after years of marking up dense policy PDFs by hand. The company has raised roughly $6.75M and counts five of the 15 largest U.S. insurance brokers among its users.
Alex Schmelkin is the founder and CEO of Sixfold, a New York company building generative AI for insurance underwriting. After two decades founding and running digital design and software firms - Alexander Interactive, Cake & Arrow, and a founding role at no-code pioneer Unqork - he launched Sixfold in 2023 to give underwriters a virtual team of AI researchers that reads submissions, scores risk, and shows its sources. Sixfold has processed more than a million submissions across 40-plus lines of business, raised a $30M Series B in 2026, and counts Zurich North America, Guardian, and Generali among its clients.
Michael Topol is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of MGT Insurance, a San Francisco-based company he runs with his brother Graham and describes as the world's first vertically AI-native neo-insurer for commercial property and casualty risk. After helping scale the insurtech Collective Health from 30 to more than 500 employees and a stint in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, he set out to rebuild a commercial insurance carrier from the ground up on a modern AI stack. Two years in, MGT has reached profitability, signed roughly 30,000 customers, posted about $3 million of recurring revenue per employee, and closed an oversubscribed $21.6M Series B led by Mubadala Capital in October 2025.
Jeff Clarke is the Chief Executive Officer of Insurity, a leading property and casualty insurance software and data analytics company serving 22 of the top 25 P&C carriers in the U.S. A technology industry veteran with 40+ years of experience, Clarke has led some of the most storied corporate transformations in tech history - from rescuing Kodak's film division by rallying Hollywood directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino, to selling Travelport to Blackstone for $4.3 billion. Since joining Insurity in January 2025, he has overseen a $50 million AI and R&D investment push to reshape the insurance technology landscape.