We’re Changing the Way People Buy Insurance

Snejina Zacharia is the founder and CEO of Insurify, a one-stop-shop comparison platform for car, home, and life insurance. The platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to streamline the ordeal of shopping for insurance.Snejina also holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, which is where she initially set the ball rolling for Insurify. Setting up such a hi-tech platform to address insurance issues needs a lot of hard work, and she has worked with passion, humility, leadership, and a team-centric attitude to achieve this success.Snejina has over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, and has worked with several enterprise software and consumer internet companies. Before founding Insurify, Snejina was part of Gartner, where she established and grew three businesses, each of which earned millions in annual revenue across the U.S. and Europe/Middle East/Asia (EMEA).

Giorgos Zacharia serves as Chief Technology Officer of KAYAK and has served as its Chief Scientist since February 2009. Dr. Zacharia has extensive experience in machine learning and data mining and is also a co-founder

Over 10 years of experience managing cross-functional teams in product, content, design, engineering and marketing. Expertise: Product management, digital marketing, user research, front end web development, UI ...

Jackie is a seasoned leader in business development, sales, and customer success within the software and tech industries and currently leads the Strategic Partnerships team at Insurify. She has a diverse background spanning supply chain management, ed tech, travel, and safety science.

Kara has 12 years of experience spanning customer success, account management, and project management in software companies and marketing agencies. She oversees Insurify’s Strategic Partner Success function, ensuring partners are set up for success operationally and strategically, with a focus on achieving their long-term goals.

Lauren has 10 years of experience growing customer and partner relationships and has spent the last six in the P&C industry. She works closely with partners, cultivating and maintaining long-term relationships and executing partner strategies leading to shared growth.

Rob has nearly a decade of experience spanning strategy consulting, business operations, and strategic partnerships at a global consulting firm and software companies. He works closely with our partners to ensure they are set up to achieve shared long-term growth through data analysis, operational alignment, and strategic direction. Additionally, Rob leads our reverse partnerships spanning referral and marketplace partnerships.

Jacob has 10+ years of business development and strategic partnerships experience, driving deals from prospecting to close. He brings a founder's perspective and emphasizes cultivating trust, yielding long-lasting, mutually beneficial partnerships.

Evelyn Pimplaskar is Insurify’s director of content. With 30-plus years in content creation – including 10 years specializing in personal finance – Evelyn’s done everything from covering volatile local elections as a beat reporter to building fintech content libraries from the ground up.Before joining Insurify, she was editor-in-chief at Credible, where she launched and developed the lending marketplace’s media partnership’s content initiative and managed the restructuring of the editorial team to enhance content production efficiency. Formerly, as tax editor for Credit Karma, Evelyn built a library of more than 300 educational articles on federal and state taxes, achieving triple-digit year-over-year growth in e-files from organic search.Her early career included work as a content marketer, vice president and managing officer of a boutique public relations agency, chief copy editor for 14 weekly Forbes publications, reporting for large and mid-sized daily newspapers, and freelancing for the Associated Press.Evelyn is passionate about creating personal finance content that distills complex topics into relatable, easy-to-understand stories. She believes great content helps empower readers with the information they need to make important personal finance decisions.

Ashley is an experienced personal finance editor who has edited a variety of digital content over the years, including credit cards, insurance, mortgages, personal loans, student loans, and more. She is passionate about helping people learn more about personal finance so that they can empower themselves and achieve their financial goals.Ashley began her career as a journalist, working as a reporter and editor for print and broadcast news outlets. She also has a background in corporate retail communications, where she focused on web content and marketing communications development. Before joining Insurify, Ashley worked as a senior editor at Credible and a copy editor at Credit Karma.When she’s not editing, Ashley volunteers with the local Humane Society, takes trapeze classes (where she daydreams about running away and joining the circus), and hikes the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.Ashley earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Samford University.

John Leach is an insurance content editor who has worked in print and online. He has years of experience in car and home insurance and strives to make these topics easy to understand for everyone. John leads the copy desk team at Insurify. He has a linguistics degree from UC Santa Barbara.

Matthew Gross is an insurance editor at Insurify. He aspires to help readers make more informed decisions through well-crafted content. Matthew’s background in journalism and SEO taught him the value of keeping readers at the core of his work. Prior to Insurify, Matthew brought his user-centered approach to his work with global brands like Apple and Adobe. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Illinois State University.

Sydnie Harrell is a Marketing Content Writer at Insurify. With several years of experience in content creation, she is passionate about bringing brands to life through engaging storytelling and innovative digital campaigns. Prior to joining Insurify, Sydnie worked at Texas A&M University as a copywriter for the Office of the Provost and managed email newsletter campaigns for the Department of Communication and Journalism.Sydnie holds a Master of Arts in Communication with a focus in Communication and Media Sciences from Texas A&M University. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, summa cum laude, and a certificate in Communication, Diversity, and Social Justice, both from Texas A&M. During her studies, Sydnie conducted research on branding, crisis communications, and social media. She also served as a graduate teaching assistant for media editing and writing courses and was president of Texas A&M’s Her Campus Media chapter.

Becky Helzer is an editor at Insurify. She loves helping writers express their ideas clearly and authentically. With a diverse background in editing everything from curriculum and books to magazine articles and blog posts, she’s worked on topics ranging from home finance, insurance, and cloud computing to the best tools for home improvement. A proud graduate of Colorado State University with a degree in technical journalism, Becky lives in Fort Collins, CO, with her husband and their two spoiled rescue dogs.

Mark Friedlander is Senior Director, Media Relations, at the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), a New York-based nonprofit research and education organization focused on providing consumers with a better understanding of insurance. Mark serves as a national spokesperson for the Triple-I, handling a wide array of insurance industry media issues. His responsibilities also include spearheading the association’s hurricane season communications strategy and its member company support and media outreach in Florida, where he is based.Mark’s extensive background includes senior marketing and communications roles at Prudential Financial, HSBC Holdings plc, Arthur Andersen LLP and Main Street America Insurance. He has held leadership positions within several insurance trade organizations, including Board Chair and President at the Insurance Marketing & Communications Association (IMCA), Communications Committee Chair at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), and key roles on the advisory boards of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America's Trusted Choice® and Agency Best Practices® programs. Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism/public relations at The Ohio State University.Mark has been reviewing articles for Insurify since July 2023.

Dan Roccato enjoyed a successful 20-year career with two of Wall Street’s most prominent investment banks: Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Advising corporations, pension funds, and institutional investors, Dan served as an executive abroad for several years and traveled extensively to more than 40 countries. He became a recognized expert in global securities services and corporate stock options. In 2006, Roccato founded Quaker Wealth Management, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm. After growing the company to nearly $300 million of client assets in 2019, Dan completed a successful sale of the firm to employees.In 2014, Dan was elected to the board of directors of Delanco Bancorp, a publicly traded company that controls Delanco Federal Savings Bank. During his tenure on the board, the bank was successfully acquired by First Bank in a public transaction. Roccato is a graduate of Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University. Now, Dan is a clinical professor of finance at the University of San Diego School of Business, consistently ranking among the top of his peers. Previously, he was an adjunct professor of economics and finance at Rutgers University, where he was named Outstanding Adjunct Professor in 2012. Dan has also taught at Rowan College and lectured at Drexel University. He is a contributing author of the book “International Securities Lending,” published by Macmillan in 1992. Dan has also authored several articles related to investments, capital markets, real estate, and personal finance.Dan is a Fox News Contributor specializing in finance and economic analysis. He also appears regularly on News Nation and a variety of local media outlets.Dan has been reviewing articles for Insurify since July 2023.

David Marlett is the Managing Director of the Brantley Risk and Insurance Center. He is a professor in the Department of Finance, Banking, and Insurance at Appalachian State University and holds the IIANC Distinguished Professorship. David also serves on the Board of Directors for the Invest program and previously chaired the Loman Advisory Committee for the CPCU Society.David has taught courses in Risk Management and Insurance for the last 25 years, starting at Florida State University while in the doctoral program. Prior to graduate school, David worked as a commercial lines underwriter for USF&G in Tampa.He serves as a resource on insurance issues and is a frequent media contributor. He has been quoted by a wide range of outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and NPR.David has been reviewing articles for Insurify since March 2025.