Scott Ham is the CEO of Pinpoint Predictive and was previously the President & CEO of Transamerica’s life, P&C and non-life business, where he provided strategic vision and leadership to global organization. At Transamerica he oversaw day-to-day operations and management of over 6,000 employees, $1.6 billion in new sales and over $6 billion in overall premium. Scott more recently was extensively involved with insurtech startups as a strategic advisor at McKinsey & Co, where he also led a Small Commercial Insurance SaaS platform that made possible real-time underwriting and pricing decisions through cutting-edge machine learning analytics and 3rd party data. Scott is joining Pinpoint to lead the company through a period of unprecedented growth.

Avi Tuschman is a Stanford StartX entrepreneur and an internationally recognized expert in the science of individual variation in behavioral propensities.

Before founding Pinpoint, he advised corporations, banks, and 18 heads of state on people analytics. During his doctoral research, he sought out the best data for making individual-level, forward-looking predictions. This inquiry led him into the field of quantitative psychology.

Tuschman later wrote a highly acclaimed science book on psychometric traits and political behavior, which was published through Prometheus / Random House in 2013 and 2019. The book received praise from top science writers and coverage in mainstream and peer-reviewed media from 25 countries. It has been published in paperback, Audible, and Chinese-language editions.

Tuschman founded Pinpoint to make standardized people data privacy safe and easy to use in scalable commercial applications.

Lucy has over 25 years of track record of building and growing businesses within the insurance and other industries. Most recently, Lucy served as Chief Revenue Officer for Flyreel, an AI-based insurtech company that was recently acquired by Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions in 2022.  As a founding member of the team, she worked to develop and refine product market positioning and was instrumental to the growth of the company.

Prior to Flyreel, Lucy was Senior Vice President & Partner within a multi-billion-dollar consulting firm where she worked with C-suite executives to improve and optimize strategies and programs with cutting-edge technology. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Virginia and her MBA from the Wharton School of Business.  She lives in Denver with her husband and two children.

Wei Hsu is a Stanford Computer Science alumnus and a full-stack engineer specialized in developing highly scalable applications. He led the engineering teams of his previous companies through two acquisitions. Previous to Pinpoint, Hsu was a team member at a venture originally seed-funded by Facebook, where he managed a ten-person team as Director of Engineering.

In his free time, Hsu is a dedicated fan of Stanford Football and also loves third-wave coffee shops.

Previous to Pinpoint, Evan Zamir spent three and a half years as one of two data scientists at Skout, one of the world’s largest location-based social-networking and dating apps. In this role, he worked across a wide-variety of challenges with numerous tools, including the automation of picture moderation via deep-learning models, up until the company’s acquisition by MeetMe.

Before moving into industry, Zamir taught for five years as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. He has a BS from Johns Hopkins, a PhD from Washington University, and a Postdoc from the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he studied the biomechanics of embryonic tissues, including the heart, through various experimental, imaging, and computational methods.

Josh is an insurtech and insurance veteran and former #1 ranked insurance analyst, who is working with leading founders and visionaries, to help build the future of insurance.

Josh has deep experience in insurtech on both coasts, having previously been the Chief Insurance Officer at Gabi in San Francisco, a Senior Vice President at EverQuote in Boston, and having held roles in underwriting, growth, strategy, finance, and M&A at notable insurers including Progressive, OneBeacon, and The Hanover.

Josh also brings a deep perspective as a former Wall Street analyst, as for six years he led the US Insurance team at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co in New York. Josh and his team were four times named to the “All America Research Team” by Institutional Investor, twice ranking as #1.

Josh earned his B.S. at Cornell University, and completed his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Peter Kelly is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in London. He is a senior insurance professional in the FTI Global Insurance Services practice assisting management teams in strategy development and decision-making in the areas of technology and data. Peter has helped a number of insurers assimilate new tools and processes to transform decision-making and improve competitiveness and profitability. He brings expertise across a wide range of technical frameworks from underwriting rules, to actuarial models, to machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry both in the UK and internationally, Peter has deep experience in predictive modeling. He is a published author, sought-after speaker and advisor in the areas of strategy development, decision-making systems, applied behavioral and cognitive science, and automation.

He has worked in over 20 countries in senior management capacities, leading teams that have developed and successfully implemented solutions in pricing, marketing, claims channel optimization, fraud, and distribution management. Peter has direct experience in most lines of general insurance including private motor, homeowners, landlord, commercial property, credit, finite risk, and business owners coverage, and he has worked across the industry with significant experience with primary insurers, reinsurers, brokers, captives, and advisory firms. Leveraging this experience, he has been a board member of various organizations in the insurance industry, including public, private, and residual insurers; and has led projects to establish bespoke insurers and special purpose vehicles.

David Gritz is an InsurTech community leader, public speaker, and InsurTech advisor. He has been featured in recognized Insurance media including Carrier Management, Digital Insurance, IIR, AM Best TV, and the Re/Image Podcast. David is the co-founder of InsurTech NY, the largest InsurTech community in the NY metro area. David also serves as a strategic advisor to high-growth InsurTechs to help them go from concept to scale. Previously David has served as the Director of Innovation for the Silicon Valley Insurance Accelerator (SVIA) and has led product at Zero, a behavioral safety-focused InsurTech acquired by EverestRe. He holds a J.D. from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and business and industrial engineering degrees from Lehigh University.