In this episode, Jack is joined by Guy Zeltser, CFO of Hippo Insurance. One of the more consequential decisions in Hippo’s recent history involved deliberately reducing the size of its homeowners insurance business. Following a difficult period in 2023, the company needed to rebalance its exposure to risk—even if that meant temporarily moving backward on […]
969: The Human Equation in Finance | Elizabeth Mann, CFO, Verisk
Elizabeth Mann began her career as a mathematician in academia, spending a decade in the field. Her initial plan had been to become a professor, on a path that would start with a Ph.D. and a postdoc. However, something was missing. Eager to engage more directly with the world at large, she pivoted her career…
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947: Finding Pathways to Innovation | Teresa Chia, CFO, Vertafore
Among the different career phases that Teresa Chia credits with having helped to advance her down the CFO path, there is little question that Phase 2 was the most formative. Still, how she came to enter this phase had little to do with career ambitions—or at least her own career ambitions. The second phase of…
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