About Kovrr

Renee Guttmann is one of the transformational women in the cybersecurity and privacy industry. She has delivered world-class global information security programs for Coca-Cola, Time Warner, Royal Caribbean, Campbell and CapitalOne. She helped establish the office of the CISO services for Optiv.

She is recognized as a savvy early adopter/implementer of emerging technology solutions. Renee is advising startups with defining their products and services, and go-to-market strategies.

On the community front, she partners with other CISO's on cybersecurity training and mentorship. She has been active as a Board Member and Advisor in a large children's mental health facility for almost a decade and the recipient of numerous industry awards including CSO Hall of Fame.

Dax Craig is the co-founder and president of Pie Insurance, a digitally enabled, direct workers compensation insurance company.

Prior to founding Pie Insurance, he was the founder and CEO of Valen Analytics, a data science company that leveraged its large consortium data assets to help carriers price insurance policies more accurately and achieve lower loss ratios. Prior to founding Valen in 2004, Dax founded and led several successful technology companies.

He currently serves on the executive advisory board of the University of Tulsa’s College of Business and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.

Dax graduated from the University of Tulsa with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing. He earned his MBA in finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Visesh has over 20 years of experience as an Actuary and Chief Risk Officer in the insurance industry. 
He chairs the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Cyber Risk Working Party which provides guidance to actuaries and insurers on how to better understand and manage cyber risk.

He is also  Head of Actuarial at Medical Protection Society which covers the healthcare professions for clinical negligence.
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Visesh co-founded Shoal, which became part of Cyence, a cyber modeling start-up where he became Director of Actuarial and Risk and continued in this role after Cyence was acquired by Guidewire. Prior to working for Cyence and Guidewire, Visesh was Chief Risk Officer for Asta, a Lloyd’s of London Managing Agent, Actuarial Leader for Genworth and a Consulting Actuary for Deloitte and PwC.

David Clouston is a specialist in insurance and reinsurance catastrophe-risk, covering all forms of exposure-management, catastrophe modeling, project-management and IT systems. David served as Deputy Head of Catastrophe Risk at Lloyd's of London from 2011, and then as Head of Lloyd's Risk Aggregation division from 2016 to 2018. He left Lloyd's in 2018 to start a new venture called Pelagius, whose purpose is to help understand and manage catastrophe risk in the insurance sector and more widely. Pelagius offers a consulting and contracting service to re/insurers; pro bono work for projects related to education; and coaching in career & personal development within the corporate sector and privately. David has an MSc in Coaching and Behavioral change from Henley Business School. David is a regular speaker in the UK and internationally on modeling extreme events, regularly co-chairing (with Dr Federico Waisman) the Annual CAT Risk Management & Modeling Europe conference in London.

David Hallstrom is the National Cyber Advisor for USI Insurance Services where he consults with companies across varied industry sectors on Cyber, Media and Tech E&O risk. David has more than 30 years’ experience building successful technology E&O, professional liability and cyber insurance books of business at the carrier, broker, wholesale and MGA level. 
Immediately prior to joining USI, David was a Senior Vice President for Willis Towers Watson. David also served for eight years as Assistant Vice President, Cyber Line of Business Leader for CNA Financial Corporation, where he was responsible for worldwide Cyber underwriting strategy and profitability. 

David has previously served in leadership roles at Risk Placement Services, Zurich North America, Near North National Group and Aon.