TechRisk / RiskTech

Steve Elliott, Senior Vice President of IT Innovations, Sedgwick
Steve Elliott is the Senior Vice President of IT Innovations at Sedgwick. In this role, he drives IT innovations and leverages new technologies aimed at elevating the claims experience and improving outcomes. Previously, Steve led a multi-disciplinary team at Sedgwick supporting the application design, development and maintenance of technologies for disability and leave of absence. Prior to joining Sedgwick in 2005, Steve worked at Deloitte Consulting and was a partner in several consulting firms, specializing in technology financial management.

Anne Fentress, Senior Risk & Insurance Specialist, myCOI
Anne uses her insurance expertise to guide clients on best practices in managing third-party risk. Anne specializes in construction risk management, having managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of commercial and residential projects across the country as a project manager at a risk management firm. She is a self-proclaimed insurance geek who enjoys reading insurance legislation and case law.

Peter Halprin, Partner, Pasich LLP
Peter A. Halprin is a partner in Pasich LLP’s New York office. Peter represents commercial policyholders in complex insurance coverage matters with a focus on recovery strategies in relation to cyber breaches and cyber crime, COVID-19 and natural disasters, professional services, regulatory investigations, and technology disputes. He has arbitrated, litigated, and mediated claims involving a broad range of insurance policies and recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance proceeds for policyholders.

Kevin Henderson, CEO and Founder, Indenseo
Kevin Henderson is the CEO and Founder of Indenseo, a provider of insurance analytics software and services. He has extensive leadership and entrepreneurial experience in software, data, telematics and cloud computing. Prior to founding Indenseo he was the General Manager of Data Services at Trimble. He was responsible for creating products and services from Trimble telematics data to increase fleet efficiency and safety. The first data customer was Google and the Trimble team worked with Google to create the first traffic predictive algorithms.

Heidi Lehmann, Co-Founder and President, Kenzen
Heidi E. Lehmann is a mobile technology entrepreneur in the connected devices/wearable products, mobile platforms, and distributed media arena who founded Kenzen, the smart personal protective equipment (PPE) innovator focused on physiological monitoring and the prevention of heat injury and death among workers. Its system uses a sensor on a worker’s upper arm that detects heart rate, exertion, sweat rate and other indicators that signal the worker and supervisor when there is heat danger to the body.

Pamela Malone, Director of Education & Training, myCOI
Dr. Pamela Malone is a business professional, speaker, author, and educator. Her career spans two decades, and has been focused on leadership, strategy, innovation, education & training, and engagement. Dr. Malone’s passion for leveraging technology has been present in her work in both public and private sectors, including tech companies that serve multiple markets, and as a faculty member teaching technology, innovation, and other courses for undergraduate and graduate students.

Carey Anne Nadeau, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Loop
Carey Anne Nadeau is an MIT-trained city planner and has spent years studying cities at the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute before launching her first business, Ometry in 2014. The company has received acclaimed success as a smart-city consulting firm and has worked with municipal departments of transportation and planning to deliver predictive risk insights to better manage public fleets and traffic safety programs, including Vision Zero. Carey Anne went on to cofound Loop which brings together geospatial data and rates each road with a prediction of the probability of a crash. By pairing these insights with location-based driving data, Loop promotes safe driving and rates that match.

Stuart Panensky, Partner, FisherBroyles
Stuart Panensky is an experienced corporate privacy attorney and commercial litigator. Stu has extensive experience acting as incident response / data breach counsel to companies in multiple industry sectors. He is networked with numerous quality incident response vendors (IT, forensics, e-discovery, public relations, breach notification and others) and coordinates them as appropriate. Stu advocates for clients that are subject to State and Federal government privacy investigations and has personally handled every phase of commercial litigation including jury trial and appeal.

Kristen Peed, Director of Corporate Risk Management, CBIZ
Kristen Peed, CPCU, RPLU, CRM, ARM-E, CIC, AAI, is the Director of Corporate Risk Management of CBIZ, Inc. located in Cleveland, Ohio. She joined CBIZ in 2015 with over 15 years of experience in the insurance industry both on the broker and client side. She is responsible for placement of the corporate insurance programs and claims management, as well as implementation of risk mitigation strategies. Prior to CBIZ, Kristen served as the Risk Manager for Swagelok, a privately held manufacturer with international exposures managing all insurance programs and serving as an officer for their captive insurance company domiciled in Vermont.

Chantal Sathi, Founder and President , CornerstoneAI
Chantal Sathi, CornerstoneAI founding Chief Executive Officer, is an innovator and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), global development and technology. Her invention BiasFinderAI™ synergizes AI coding techniques to establish causal inference—six complex cause and effect AI algorithm codes—to detect inherent bias. She has spent several years assisting efforts by the Commonwealth Games Federation and the UN with large-scale projects, partnerships and negotiations for policy development.

Lisa Sotto, Global Chair, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Lisa Sotto, named among the National Law Journal’s “100 Most Influential Lawyers,” chairs Hunton’s top-ranked Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and is the managing partner of the firm’s New York office. She also serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. Chambers and Partners honored Lisa as the sole recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession award. She has received widespread recognition for her work in the areas of cybersecurity and privacy.