Keith Stonell joined Guidewire in January 2013 as the new Managing Director of EMEA. Keith is based in our London office and has the very important task of leading the next phase of investment to further develop the EMEA business for Guidewire.

Jayne Sayer currently heads up the Commercial Guidewire
Programme for Aviva UK&I General Insurance. Jayne has
considerable experience in programme and portfolio management including responsibility for IT, business and transformational change. She has also been the Business Manager for the UK General Insurance Chief Executive and has experience in both the General Insurance and Life business including International working in Australia.

Fedor has 15 years of insurance experience, beginning in 1999 as an Actuary, and later as Head of Motor at RESO-Garantia (a top 3 insurance company in the Russian Motor market). In 2007 he joined Intouch as Insurance Director – the first direct insurer start-up in the Russian market. In 2009 Fedor became Vice President of Renaissance Insurance, which was #1 in Russian direct insurance from 2009 to 2013.

Ben Brantley is the technical liaison between Guidewire’s customers and our core platform development organization. He ensures that our technology platform is continually designed and evolved to meet ever-changing customer requirements. Ben is also responsible for defining and articulating our long-term technology strategy and direction. Before assuming the role of Chief Technology Officer, Ben served as the founder and director of our technical sales team.

Luna started working for Santam at the tender age of 17 in 1990 as receptionist in a satellite office. In 2000, she moved to Commercial Underwriting Head office.  Luna was part of the core team implementing the first web-based commercial quotation platform available in the South African market in 2007.  She has been involved in multiple system replacements projects in her career at Santam, and strives to improve each time.

Amit Shah leads Product Marketing for Guidewire Live, a suite of hosted instant-on analytics applications that enable Guidewire customers to extend the value they can gain from their InsuranceSuite investment. Prior to joining Guidewire, Amit worked for over 10 years as a consultant advising various Fortune 500 companies on IT Strategy and Transformation.

Marc Beaujean is a Board Member and Member of the Executive Committee at P&V Group. He is in charge of Resources: IT, Marketing, HR and Group Change Management, since July 2012.
In parallel, he is the Board Member and Lecturer at HEC-ULg (Liège).
Previously, Marc worked at McKinsey & Co as Director from 1993 to 2012.

Over 180 insurers have chosen our solutions, and over 130 implementations of our applications are live or in implementation today. We are especially proud of the fact that many insurers have put their trust in Guidewire and are using or implementing our solutions today.

Many of our European customers are going to attend the event.

Please take the opportunity to learn from them first-hand about their experience working with Guidewire and using our applications.