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Alice Phillips Topping Built a Brand for Risks That Resist the Usual Box
She began close to the risk, then learned how to explain it. At Ryan Specialty, Alice Phillips Topping has turned insurance fluency, curiosity and an agile in-house team into a durable communications system for a growing public company.
Dustin Walsey Learned Insurance From the Back Seat
Before Buckle became a fronting platform for MGAs, its idea was tested one ride at a time. Dustin Walsey’s route from Atlanta newspaper kid to insurance CEO is a study in listening closely, explaining simply and learning where the old categories fail.
Steve Weinstein Is Building a Florida Insurer With Bermuda in Its Roots
After three decades studying catastrophe risk from boardrooms in New York and Bermuda, Steve Weinstein chose Florida for his founder’s bet. Mangrove’s strategy is equal parts underwriting discipline, global reinsurance and a stubborn belief that difficult markets can still reward patient builders.
Erin Dady and the Business of Showing Up
From Saint Paul City Hall to global reinsurance, Erin Dady has built a career around a deceptively practical idea: institutions earn trust by making their purpose visible in the places they serve.
Karn Saroya
Karn Saroya is the co-founder and CEO of Re, a decentralized reinsurance protocol built on Avalanche that connects alternative capital to the nearly $1 trillion global reinsurance market. A Canadian-born, MIT-trained Fulbright scholar, he previously co-founded the YC-backed insurtech Cover and worked as a financial-services consultant at Oliver Wyman before deciding the insurance stack itself needed to be torn down and rebuilt on-chain.
Natasha Alexeeva
Natasha Alexeeva is the Founder and CEO of Friendly, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company that automates insurance underwriting, claims processing, and reinsurance treaty analysis using deep learning. Originally from Moscow, she holds a CS degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University and an MBA from Stanford. Before Friendly, she pioneered EMR-integrated asynchronous telemedicine as founder of GoGoHealth and led new service incubation at Amazon Web Services. Her platform processes 7,000 pages per hour at 95% accuracy, delivering the 85% efficiency gains she's made her personal mission.