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Meet the Insurance Quantified Team

Our leadership team is comprised of visionary insurance, financial services and technology professionals who are committed to transforming the insurance landscape.

Brian Modesitt

Chief Executive Officer

Shireen Braun

Head of Client Services

John Paladino

Head of Sales

Mike Tessalone

Chief Financial Officer

Jody Tracey

Head of Human Resources

Jeff Tyler

Head of Product, Data Science & Engineering

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David is a computer scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He co-founded Two Sigma, a financial sciences company, with the belief that innovative technology and data science could help discover value in the world’s data. David also serves on the board of directors of Hamilton Insurance and Re:Build Manufacturing. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation and is Chairman of the Cornell Tech Council. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the Scratch Foundation, an organization he co-founded in 2014 to support Scratch, a programming language and online community for children. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted research at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Dave joined the Insurance Quantified advisory board in 2021. He brings extensive industry experience, including as former CEO, President and Senior Advisor to the National Interstate Insurance Company, where he helped the company remain profitable and outperform the market during his 24 years in leadership roles. Today, Dave serves as President of his own consultancy, DWM Consulting, LLC. He specializes in the property and casualty insurance industry and has served as a board director or advisor to leading businesses including Protective Insurance, Lytx, CompScience, Roadz and High Definition Vehicle Insurance. He holds a B.S. from Miami University and an M.B.A from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Jay joined the Insurance Quantified advisory board in 2021. He is the retired CEO of AXIS Reinsurance, where his successes included profitably growing the business, improving analytical capabilities and expanding into strategic capital partnerships. He previously served as Executive Vice President of Renaissance Reinsurance, President of Renaissance Underwriting Managers and President of RenaissanceRe Ventures, and before that held various positions at Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company. He currently serves on the boards of Delaware North Corporation, Chelsea Avondale Group Ltd., and Hippo Holdings, Inc. . Jay holds a B.S. from Babson College.

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Ed joined the Insurance Quantified advisory board in 2022, following a career at Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC, where he was a trusted advisor to global insurance companies for more than 40 years. He most recently served as Executive Vice President, and previously held roles including Casualty Specialties Leader, Head of Eastern Region and Global Clients Executive Leader. Ed has extensive knowledge in product, general, professional and management liability lines, in addition to reinsurance risk management strategies. In addition to his advisory role, Ed is a current board member and co-founder of Lifeguard.org, a global research platform. He holds a B.A. from the University of Hartford.

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Brian Modesitt

Chief Executive Officer
Brian joined Two Sigma Investments in April 2013 and has led Two Sigma’s entry into the insurance business, culminating in the formation of Insurance Quantified. Brian has over 20 years of experience in financial services innovation, with a particular focus on the insurance industry. He has co-founded or provided the first institutional capital to over a dozen companies and has served on the board of directors of many of these companies. Prior to joining Two Sigma, Brian served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Financial Services at Vestar Capital Partners. Previous employers include TCW/Crescent Mezzanine and Morgan Stanley. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Fulbright Scholar.
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Shireen Braun

Head of Client Services
Shireen delivers innovative client onboarding, professional services and client success programs to Insurance Quantified clients. She and her team ensure client success through quick onboarding, enabling clients to adapt to new market conditions while driving insights for underwriter decision making. Shireen is passionate about customer success and leveraging technology and talent programs to drive innovative service solutions. Prior to Insurance Quantified, Shireen held various leadership positions over a 14-year career at Bloomberg LP, most recently as Managing Director, Global Client Success at IHS Markit (formerly Ipreo). Shireen holds a B.A. in Linguistic Anthropology from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.

John Paladino

Head of Sales
John focuses on helping insurers realize critical business goals through the application of technology and data science. With over 17 years of sales, relationship management and business development experience, he has focused extensively on optimizing complex business workflows and delivering value to business professionals across financial services. To this day, John is convinced that sales is not about products, but about listening, relationships and solving business challenges. Prior to Insurance Quantified, John held various client-facing roles and leadership positions at Bloomberg LP for nearly 18 years. John holds a B.S. in Biology from Villanova University and an M.B.A from Monmouth University.

Mike Tessalone

Chief Financial Officer
Mike oversees both the financial and corporate operations of the business. He is also responsible for driving growth through market engagement and evaluating new partnership and investment opportunities. Prior to Insurance Quantified, Mike served as a Senior Vice President for Willis Capital Markets & Advisory, an investment bank focused solely on the insurance industry. In this role, he executed strategic advisory, M&A and capital raising transactions across a broad spectrum of P&C insurance, distribution/MGA and service companies. Previous work experience includes investment banking roles in the Financial Institutions Group at Banc of America Securities. Mike holds a B.S. in Finance from Pennsylvania State University and currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute of Insurance Innovation within the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

Jody Tracey

Head of Human Resources
Jody focuses on organizational design and effectiveness, workforce planning, compensation and talent management strategies for Insurance Quantified. Having been part of executive teams leading three IPOs, Jody’s passion is building high-performing technology businesses. Prior to Insurance Quantified, Jody served as Head of HR for similarly high-growth companies, including IPC Information Systems, IntraLinks and FX Alliance. She also worked at GTE and Thomson Reuters after these companies acquired IPC Information Systems and FX Alliance, respectively. Jody holds an M.B.A. from Pace University and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She teaches as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.

Jeff Tyler

Head of Product, Data Science & Engineering
Jeff leads a high-performing team of product managers, engineers, data scientists and program managers and is responsible for the strategy and development of Insurance Quantified’s products. Jeff joined Insurance Quantified after over 11 years at Bloomberg LP, where he innovated and drove transformation across all aspects of trading systems. Prior to Bloomberg, Jeff was a software engineer focused on intelligent radar signal processing algorithms and high-performance computing at Black River Systems Company. Jeff holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from SUNY Polytechnic Institute with a focus on applying neural network architectures to signal processing.