ABOUT
EvolutionIQ is powering the next wave of the insurance industry.
We use data to create better outcomes for clients, carriers and employees.
Our Vision is to power the data-driven insurance revolution, enabling carriers to use all available data to deploy the lessons of the past directly to the front lines, making claims handling better, fairer and faster.
Our Strategy
We work with leading carriers across major lines of business to unlock the value in their own data, supercharge insights with our own proprietary data, and ensure impact on the most pressing opportunities in their claims organizations.
Who We Are
To accomplish our goal, we’re creating a team that can bring the most advanced technology in the world into an industry known for risk aversion and methodical progress. We find that the best products are made with the input of those from business and technical backgrounds, insurance and non-insurance, all working together with freedom to dissent and add constructive critique.
Before coming together at EvolutionIQ, members of our team were at the forefront of technology, finance and insurance, some leading global teams and others as a team of one. While our business is based in New York, since the start of the pandemic we’re working where we feel most productive, whether that is in Manhattan, Brooklyn or in a rural setting far from New York.
Meet Our Team
Tom Vykruta
Chief Executive Officer
Tom’s career has spanned more than two decades within elite technical organizations. Most recently Tom was a leader within Google’s Applied Machine Learning organization, leading teams from Mountain View and New York over the last 8 years as Google’s embraced the big data revolution.
Mike Saltzman
Chief Operating Officer
Mike started his career at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, where he grew to lead investment teams covering insurance markets, embracing both human and machine-based investment insights. Mike then received his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Jonathan Lewin
President
Jonathan is an experienced enterprise software founder, with a proven track record of leading, building and scaling businesses that partner with clients at the strategic level.
Rooney Gleason
Chief Insurance Officer
Rooney is an insurance industry veteran with over 35 years experience as a broker, insuretech executive and most recently as a senior executive at Argonaut Insurance Group, where he was President of the Grocery & Retail group for 5 years.
Karan Uppal
Head of Data Science
Karan is a data science leader with experience at the forefront of Natural Language Processing, time series data ingestion and product creation. Karan leads our data science organization, but also is a hands-on client advocate and engagement partner.
Benjamin Berry
Head of Product
Benjamin leads our product team, backed by experience both as a product manager for 10 years, and a skilled software engineer before that. Benjamin splits his time between our customers, our data science team and our product engineering team, with the goal of creating the most effective products in the industry.
Andrew Naoum
Head of Sales
Andrew comes to EvolutionIQ to lead the sales effort, scaling into new lines of business and geographies. Previously, Andrew led sales at Taboola, where he grew the annual revenues from $10 to $100 million and Button where he doubled revenue year over year.
Wrenny
Head of Office Pawlitics
Wrenny is new to the insurance industry, and prefers artificial raw-hide to artificial intelligence.
Advisory Board
Our board members bring decades of experience in the insurance industry, having led global businesses and been at the forefront of the last decade of rapid technical progress.
Bob Deutsch
Bob Deutsch serves as Senior Advisor to both Oliver Wyman and Aquiline Capital Partners. He is a Director of four insurance firms, including Wilton Re and Ariel Re. Bob’s prior operating experience includes various senior roles at GE’s life & health insurance companies, Hamilton Insurance, GCP Capital Partners, Ironshore, CNA, Executive Risk and Swiss Re.
Win Hotchkiss
Win has led large transactions within the insurance industry for over 30 years on behalf of financial sponsors, carriers, brokers and reinsurance platforms. Win was a founding member of Marsh & Mclennan Capital, after having been Senior VP at Endurance Re.