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Our leadership

Our team has built and grown startups and comes from top technology companies like TripAdvisor, Amazon, KAYAK, and JP Morgan. We value integrity, intellectual curiosity, and personal drive. Our passion, smarts, and slightly rebellious streak have helped us transform the insurance industry and bring it into the 21st century. We wholeheartedly believe that technology can empower customers to make the best decisions for their personal needs.

Snejina Zacharia
Snejina Zacharia
Founder/CEO
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, PhD
Giorgos Zacharia, PhD
Co-founder
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
Tod Kiryazov
Tod Kiryazov
Co-founder / Product
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 ...
Gene Shkolnik
Gene Shkolnik
CTO
Chang Jo
Chang Jo
Chief Finance Officer
Janna Mullane
Janna Mullane
Head of People & Culture
Jack Adams
Jack Adams
VP of Audience
Evelyn Pimplaskar
Evelyn Pimplaskar
Director of Content/Editor-in-Chief
Jessica Edmondson
Jessica Edmondson
Director of Media Outreach
Anita Taylor
Anita Taylor
Director of Retention and Lifecycle Marketing
Lauren Wagner
Lauren Wagner
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships
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.
Jackie LoVerme
Jackie LoVerme
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
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 Clark
Kara Clark
Director, Strategic Partnerships
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.

Our editorial team

Our editing team includes veteran personal finance editors, specialized subject matter editors who are licensed insurance agents, and data scientists – all of whom excel at helping readers understand insurance industry news and trends that affect their financial well-being.

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Insurify’s advisory panel

Insurify’s advisory panel helps our editorial team ensure our content is accurate, relevant, and addressing current news and trends in the insurance industry. Panel members draw on a wealth of insurance knowledge from their work as agents, educators, and industry leaders.

Headshot of industry expert Daniel Roccato
Daniel Roccato
Advisor
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.
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Board of Directors

James O'Neill
James O'Neill
Board Director
Daniel Tsiddon
Daniel Tsiddon
Board Director