Our Panelists:
Ty Reil
VP & CIO-BD and Tech
National Indemnity Company
Ty Reil is an accomplished professional with over 28 years of experience leading technology and new business development in the P&C insurance industry. This includes the formation, design, and building of multiple business teams in revenue generation, customer service, and compliance and licensing functions. He has assembled and built an enterprise level team of high-level technology professionals and has led enterprise-wide transformative technology initiatives. He is a collaborative leader focused on leading a modern technology organization to drive business transformation.
Ken Knaub
SVP, CIO
WoodmenLife
Ken Knaub is a forward-thinking technology leader and an experienced IT executive, with an ability to turn innovative ideas into tangible outcomes by leveraging modern technologies, methodologies, nd leadership skills. He is passionate about developing and motivating teams to achieve organizational objectives, focusing on empowerment to create impactful solutions.
Currently serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at WoodmenLife, Knaub has contributed to defining and executing the organization’s IT strategy while ensuring alignment with it’s organizational objectives and executing the organization’s IT strategy while ensuring alignment with it’s organizational objectives. His strategic and operational oversight spans across areas including application development, infrastructure and operations, data & analytics, enterprise architecture, and agility. He also enjoys a strong cup of coffee, a few brews, and chasing his 3 kids around with his wife.
Justin Webster
CTO
HDR
Justin is the Chief Technology Officer responsible
for enterprise Information Technology strategy
and operations at HDR. He has technology
leadership experience across multiple industries
including financial services, health and wellness,
supply chain, ag-tech, transportation, telephony,
insurance, and government systems.
Prior to joining HDR, Justin was Vice President of
Innovation Strategy with LPL Financial, where he
established a digital innovation lab and
technology discovery exploration process to
conceive and incubate product innovations. He
also worked at TD Ameritrade, where he was
Director of the Exploration Lab. He established
an enterprise artificial intelligence program, was
a key leader of an agile transformation, and has
an extensive software development background.
