Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

John Johansen is Senior Vice President of Majesco Inc., and is responsible for leading data strategy & business intelligence.

Roger joined Allstate in 2014 with over 30 years of experience leading a variety of financial functions in global financial service companies. He is accountable for global ATSV financial strategy and planning, accounting and reporting, and financial risk management. He works closely with the corporate and business unit finance organizations to optimize the return on technology investments.Before joining Allstate, Roger was SVP and Head of the Office of the CIO of TD Bank Group. He has also served as CFO of numerous business units at Citigroup, including Operations and Technology, Consumer Finance North America, and Marketing and New Product Development.He holds a Master�s degree in Strategic Management from the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor�s degree in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

David Mitzel is a consultant at X by 2, where he has assisted clients on a variety of initiatives over the past ten years. X by2 is a software architecture consultancy for the insurance industry, focusing on transformative initiative leadership and execution.

Colleen Risk is a Senior Analyst in Celent’s Insurance practice. She is based in North America and focuses on life insurance business architecture, new business acquisition and underwriting, and large transformation program change management.Colleen has diverse consulting experience including building and managing a business process outsourcing operation for a top reinsurer, commercializing a black box underwriting algorithm, performing end-to-end technology assessments, evaluating software for vendor selection, integrating and designing straight-through new business acquisition processing, and modernizing legacy policy administration systems.

Jay Rajendra is Chief Analytics Officer for Arch Capital Group.� He is responsible for leading and developing Arch’s analytics capabilities to improve profitability and growth.� Previously, Jay was Head of Business Solutions for XL Catlin’s Strategic Analytics team.� He led nearly all of their major transformation projects, which significantly increased profits for a number of business units.� His role focused on analytics-driven innovation, strategy and change management.� Jay also worked on developing new, disruptive insurance ventures funded by XL.Before XL, Jay was a Senior Consultant at Towers Watson for many years in both North America and Europe – advising large international (re)insurers and start-ups on pricing, strategy and M&A.� He has an MBA from MIT, and a Bachelors and Masters degree in mathematics from Oxford University.� By background, Jay is a qualified actuary.� In his spare time, Jay provides strategy consulting for entrepreneurs and non-profits in the U.S. and the developing world.

Kuang Chen is the founder and CEO of Captricity and the recent recipient of MIT Technology Review's Innovator of the Year award. The idea for Captricity came from Kuang’s PhD dissertation at UC Berkeley, where his research focused on data-centric approaches to increase the efficiency of low-resource organizations, so they can better serve their disadvantaged clients.While doing research in Tanzania and Uganda, he experienced firsthand the importance and difficulty of transforming data from paper forms to computable formats. Captricity now provides its solution and services to organizations like the U.S. Government (FDA) and New York Life – along with hundreds of non-profits – to solve the paper-to-digital divide.Kuang holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, a BS in Computer Science and a BA in the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington.

Taha Azizi (MBA, MSc. B.Eng) has been an analytics professional in insurance, banking and engineering industries for 10 years. For the past four years, he has worked closely with executives and top managers as a business intelligence analyst at Western Financial Group, the largest Canadian-owned insurance brokerage.In addition, Azizi has developed tens of executive dashboards and become very familiar with the practical challenges facing both designers and users.

Mr. Castellani was previously head of the New York Life Retirement Plan Services business in Westwood, MA, a leader in providing full-service defined benefit (DB), defined contribution (DC), integrated DB/DC, and Taft-Hartley services with a focus on service excellence.He joined New York Life in 2011 from EWM, LLC, a wealth management firm based in Zurich, Switzerland and New Canaan, CT, where he was a managing director and chief marketing officer. Before that he served a combined 25 years with Prudential Retirement and CIGNA Corporation. He was also personally involved in two technology firm start-ups - Mi8 Corporation and QV21 Technologies.