Our Technology
Opterrix™ was designed, validated, and scaled using lean innovation principles within several top insurance companies. Our user-centric development philosophy focuses on deep industry empathy, behavioral science, best-in-class technology, and speed to value.
Every dataset, feature, and workflow was meticulously designed and rigorously tested by insurance experts, data scientists, designers, and world-class cloud engineers.
Meet our Advisory Group
Joan Lamm-Tennant, PhD
Joan Lamm-Tennant
Joan Lamm-Tennant brings significant industry, risk management, and academic experience, having held global business leadership roles and a distinguished career as a professor of finance and economics.
Currently, she is an advisor to numerous private equity and venture capital firms focused on early-stage insurtech, including Helios Investment Partners, the largest emerging markets-focused PE firm globally to receive B Corp certification.
Barbara Bufkin
Barbara Bufkin
Barbara's nearly four decades in the Insurance and Reinsurance industry have spanned executive leadership roles on a global platform encompassing InsurTech, Operational & Strategic responsibilities, including business and product development, while fostering a culture of innovation, mentorship, and sponsorship and recruiting and leading top millennial talent.
Joe Schneider
Joe Schneider
Joe enjoys helping companies like Opterrix break new ground. At AmFam, he oversees Enterprise M&A as well as Tenney 110 and portfolios of adjacent businesses and venture studios.
Before joining American Family, Joe was an investment banker in the US and the UK. He advised insurance carriers, brokers, and insurtech businesses on M&A, capital raising, and other strategic matters.
Victor Gensini, PhD
Victor Gensini, PhD
Victor Gensini is an associate professor of geographic and atmospheric sciences at Northern Illinois University. He is a leading researcher in the study of severe convective storms and climate change.
Victor's expertise in dynamical downscaling convective weather, data processing, and visualization is helping Opterrix to develop the next generation of convective severe weather analysis tools for the Risk community.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Decades of experience in P&C insurance and customer-driven technology. Opterrix’s leadership team has the background you need to move your business forward.
Ben Zimmerman
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Beles
Chief Product Officer
Andrew Witherspoon
Chief Technical Officer
John Clark
Marketing Director
Jordan Liebl
Director of Operations
Nikki Pucci
Director of New Business Development
Niels Jorgensen, PhD
Data Scientist
Vincent Kenney
Senior Platform and Data Architect
Nicholas Ryan
Engineering Lead
Cindy Hollenberger
Director of Customer Success
Phani Bhaskar Kadali
Data Scientist
Nicole Gumina
Project Manager
Dave Hamm
Project Manager
Wish Waraich
Project Manager
Catherine Sibley
Front End Engineer
Hunter Brooks
Full Stack Web Engineer
Robert Grindrod
Full Stack Web Engineer
Bryce Gust
Full Stack Web Engineer
Brett Rojec
Full Stack Web Engineer
Maryna Pryadka
Front End Engineer
JC Mckinney
Quality Assurance Engineer
Carolyn Hasselkus
Senior Developer
Jasmine Brodus
Client Support Specialist