Jack,
Thank you for a challenging question. I’ve provided a list, below, of
the type of industry leaders I believe you are looking for, along with
a bit of annotation as to their involvement in XML development in the
insurance industry. Let me stress two things:
1. I don’t consider this question answered until you are satisfied
with the results...let me know, by posting a clarification, if you
need any additional information, or if I’ve missed the mark somehow on
what you are looking for.
2. I have provided some contact information, but as this was not an
explicit part of your request, I have not attempted to be
comprehensive. But let me know if this is something you want and if
so, what type of information you prefer, and I’ll do my best to track
it down for you.
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INSURANCE INDUSTRY LEADERS:
Mr. Francis Chung is the Assistant Vice President and Director of B2B
Commerce of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company. He has
co-chaired the joint effort between the National Association of
Variable Annuities (NAVA) and ACORD to create the Product Profile XML
standard for the Life and Annuities Industry. [contact:
fchung@lnc.com ]
Charles Dietz has the job title of “XML Evangelist” at MetLife since
1999, and has dedicated himself to “raising awareness of XML and the
need for XML standards.”
David Price is the Director, Information Technology at The Hartford,
and Past Co-Chair of ACORD's Property & Casualty (P&C) XML Transaction
Review Board.
Bruce Fiori is Vice President of Commercial Lines Operations at
Travelers Insurance Company, where he has responsibility for XML real
time quoting systems.
Tim Aikens is the Vice President for Information Technology at CNA Re,
one of the companies considered an e-commerce technology pioneer, and
early adopter of XML.
Brenda Ayler-White is the E-Relations Director at Royal & SunAlliance
Insurance, and a recognized champion of adopting industry-wide
standards for e-commerce. She has served as the chair of the Property
& Casualty steering committee for ACORD.
Bill Barneschi is Vice President, Information Technology at The
Hartford, and an advocate of XML standards enhanced with the use of
Service Provider eXtensions (SPX).
John Campbell is the Chief Information Officer with the American
Modern Insurance Group (AMIG), a subsidiary of The Midland Company.
He has championed use of XML and Virtual Insurance Community (VIC)
architecture.
Phillip Bungey is a Chief Technology Officer at Lloyds of London in
charge of lloyds.com, and a proponent of XML.
Sharon Sibigtroth is Managing Director of Strategic Data Management at
AXA Financial with a focus on using CRM analytics in an XML
environment to understand the customer’s motivations and retention
issues.
Mr. Deb Mukherjee is the Chief Technology Officer of Cognizant
Technology Solutions, and until recently was the CTO and vice
president at Farmers Insurance where he specialized in data
integration and XML adaption.
Guy Mills is the Systems Vice President at Manulife Financial, and has
served as the president of the XML Life Insurance Group of ACORD.
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INSURANCE SERVICE INDUSTRY LEADERS
(Consultants, Technology Support, Associations, Publications)
Jeff Kraber has the title of “Technology Advocate” at the National
Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (NAILBA). He
participated in the integration of NAILBA standards into the XMLife
standard.
Dave Brasington is the President of Spidertek, a consulting firm. He
has been actively involved in the development of the ACORD OLifE,
J-Life and XML Standards (the link to Spidertek’s website was not
working for me when I tried it, but Mr. Brasington’s phone is
519-886-9428).
Jamie da Silva, President of Silverlake Software, has been involved
with the ACORD standards process for over five years, and served as
co-chair of the XML for P&C Base Architecture Working Group.
Donna Gilbert is the Director, Company Interface, of Applied Systems,
Inc. She has played a dynamic role in the ACORD Subcommittee process,
with membership on the XML subcommittee, and works professionally on
the development and implementation of real-time interface using ACORD
XML.
Joe Misner is a software developer at IVANS, and formerly of Crum and
Forster Insurance Companies. He heads the architectural effort on
IVANS's implementation of ACORD XML Standards.
Jeffery M. Yates is the Executive Director of the Agents Council for
Technology (ACT), looking to enhance the technical skills and
competitive edge of independent insurance agencies. ACT has been a
strong proponent of the ACORD XML industry standards.
Lisa Masarek is the President of the Worldwide Insurance e-Commerce –
WISe USA, and has been heavily involved in the development of XML
standards in the insurance industry.
Jim Rogers is a Product Manager at TowerStreet, and has been a member
of the ACORD Transaction Review Board that oversees the emerging XML
data standards, as well as an active participant in several XML
working groups.
Ken Clark, also a Product Manager at TowerStreet, focuses on tools to
facilitate the implementation of ACORD XML standards by insurance
companies and enable once-and-done processing.
Wayne Lattuca is Vice President of Systems Engineering at Insurance
Services Office (ISO) where he has been a vigorous advocate of
adopting XML standards in the industry.
Michael P. Voelker is a journalist who has published extensively on
the successes and pitfalls of XML adoption in the insurance industry.
An example of his work can be found here:
http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2001/05/tfm0105supp2.shtml
He can be reached at: mvoelker@goequinox.com
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ACORD
At ACORD itself, there is list of the senior staff (with biographies)
of the organization here:
http://www.acord.org/about/staff.aspx
The list includes:
Gregory A. Maciag
President & CEO
email: CEO@acord.org
Susan J. Ousey
Senior Vice President
email: sousey@acord.org
Ronald Dudley
Vice President, Standards
email: rdudley@acord.org
Some other staff at ACORD who have been notably visible in the XML
standards process include:
Phil Brown
Standards Manager
ACORD
“Phil is a Standards Manager responsible for development and
maintenance of standards for reinsurance and large commercial
insurance. Phil has been involved in the London market reinsurance and
large commercial insurance sector for 25 years, initially on the
business side, but then moving into underwriting software development.
For the last 12 years he has worked on international EDI standards
development. Prior to joining ACORD, Phil acted as the Joint Venture
(JV) secretariat, responsible for development and maintenance of the
JV EDIFACT and XML standards.”
Benita Gayton
Program Manager, Commercial and Specialty Lines
ACORD
“Benita is responsible for the development and maintenance of ACORD
XML standards by promoting consistent implementation for small
commercial lines through middle market and large accounts and into
reinsurance. She serves as the primary contact for companies in these
lines of businesses. Gayton came to ACORD in 2000 with 10 years of
insurance industry experience, including Commercial and Personal Lines
Insurance and Agency Automation.”
Nigel Wooden
Global Liaison
ACORD
“Building relationships that foster global standards, Nigel leads many
of ACORD's harmonization, interoperability and mapping projects. As an
independent consultant, he provided modeling, message design and
implementation skills to many insurance standards organizations. Nigel
represents the insurance industry at various international bodies
including UN/EDIFACT, ebXML and eEG7.”
Tom Neff
Principal Consultant
ACORD
“Tom is a Principal Consultant involved with ACORD’s reinsurance and
large commercial standards operations. Tom has over 19 years
experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry, including EDI
and XML standards development with the Joint Venture since 1994 as a
member of the WISe USA operation and a Vice President with the Brokers
and Reinsurance Markets Association (BRMA) Systems Services (S2)
Group. Prior to this, Tom was responsible for EDI operations at Munich
American Re and held several positions in Auditing and IT at
Prudential Insurance and Reinsurance.”
Mark Orlandi
ACORD Program Manager
P&C XML
“Mark is responsible for ACORD's XML for P&C initiatives and oversees
the day-to-day operations of the design, implementation and
maintenance of the ACORD XML for P&C program. He is the primary
contact for ACORD membership interested in XML for P&C. Prior to
joining ACORD in 1998, Orlandi was employed by Westfield Insurance
Companies.”
[descriptions of ACORD staff taken from the ACORD website]
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Again, if you have a need for any additional information, please let
me know, and I am at your service.
[search strategy]: I searched Google and some industry literature
databases for combinations of ACORD, insurance industry, XML. |
Clarification of Answer by
pafalafa-ga
on
25 Jan 2003 11:41 PST
Hello again. Like I said, contact information can be elusuve. I've
slogged through the insurance execs list and got direct contact info
for half of them...for the rest, I've provided general corporate
contact information. Hope this suffices but as always, let me know if
you need more than this.
Francis Chung
Assistanct VP
Lincoln National
[corporate contact info]
1-877-275-5462
Centre Square, West Tower
1500 Market Street, 39th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102-2112
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Charles Deitz
Director of Data Administration
[corporate contact info]
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
1 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10010
Tel: 1-800-MetLife
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David Price
Director, Information Technology
[corporate contact info]
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Hartford Plaza, 690 Asylum Avenue
Hartford, CT 06115
860-547-5000
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Bruce Fiori
VP Commercial Lines Operations
[general contact info]
Travelers Insurance
ONE TOWER SQUARE
HARTFORD CT 06183
212-793-7338 (they use a 212 (NYC) number, even though they're in
Hartford!)
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Tim Aikens
VP, Information Technology
CNA Reinsurance Group
200 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 312-876-5207
Fax: 312-876-5221
Email: timothy.aikens@cna.com
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Brenda Ayler-White
Director, E-Relations
Royal & SunAlliance
9300 Arrowpoint Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28273
Phone: 704-522-2911
Fax: 704-522-2695
Email: Brenda_Ayler-White@rsausa.com
Web site: www.royalsunalliance-usa.com
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Bill Barneschi
[corporate contact info]
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Hartford Plaza, 690 Asylum Avenue
Hartford, CT 06115
860-547-5000
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John Campbell
Senior VP
American Modern Insurance Group Inc.
7000 Midland Blvd.
Amelia, Ohio
45102
PO Box 5323
Cincinnati, Ohio
45201
Tel: (513) 943-7200
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Phillip Bungey
Chief Technology Officer
[corporate contact info]
Lloyd's of London
One Lime Street
London, England EC3M7HA
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Sharon Sibigtroth
Managing Director, Strategic Data Management
AXA Financial, Inc.
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
212-554-1234
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Deb Mukherjee
Chief Technology Officer, Cognizant
500 Glenpointe Centre West
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Deb.mukherjee@cognizant.com
323-810-6787
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Guy Mills
Systems Vice President, Manulife
200 Bloor Street East
Toronto, ON
Canada M4W 1E5
416-926-6439
guy_mills@manulife.com
323-810-6787
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