Headquarters:
Level 14, 12 Creek Street, Brisbane, Qld 4000
Year founded:
2026
Number of employees:
10
Phone:
1800 096 829
Email:
andrew@hsua.com.au
Website:
columnzero.com.au
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/showcase/cotality-insurance
“This isn’t just about software integration. It changes the paradigm”
Spokesperson, Cotality
Andrew Martin
Chief Technology Officer
Michael Porter
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, International Insurance Solutions
Jesse Herrera
Executive Vice President, Global Products and Operations
Leadership
Andrew Martin is the chief technology officer at ColumnZero, where he leads the development of software designed specifically for the insurance industry. With more than a decade of experience building underwriting platforms, he has focused on simplifying complex business processes, improving data quality and creating technology that supports real-world underwriting operations. Rather than adopting off-the-shelf solutions, Martin has helped develop systems from the ground up, working closely with underwriters and brokers to ensure technology solves practical problems and continues to evolve alongside the businesses that rely on it.
Chief Technology Officer
Andrew Martin
Jeremy Barnes is technical lead at ColumnZero, where he oversees the design and development of software that supports modern insurance operations. With a background spanning both finance and insurance, including more than eight years developing insurance technology, he combines strong technical expertise with a practical understanding of business processes. Barnes works closely with stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions, helping ensure the platform continues to evolve alongside the needs of underwriting agencies and insurers.
Technical Lead
Jeremy Barnes
Jesse Herrera is executive vice president of global product and operations for Cotality’s insurance business unit, overseeing product management, engineering, and customer support for underwriting, claims, and restoration solutions. He joined Cotality through the 2021 acquisition of Next Gear Solutions, where he was COO. Herrera brings deep expertise in property and casualty insurance, restoration, and job management software, with prior senior roles at Mitchell International (now Enlyte), Serent Capital, Bain & Company, and GE Capital.
Executive Vice President, Global Products and Operations
Jesse Herrera
Jeremy Barnes
Technical Lead
Michael Porter is the senior vice president of international markets at Cotality, where he leads insurance solution operations outside North America. A seasoned insurance technology expert, he specializes in guiding property insurers through complex digitization journeys. Porter frequently collaborates with Europe’s largest insurers to drive transformative initiatives and spearhead the adoption of pioneering, market-first technologies.
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, International Insurance Solutions
Michael Porter
Lucy De Oliveira
Senior Vice President, Marketing, Insurance Division
Lucy De Oliveira is the senior vice president of marketing for Cotality’s insurance division, where she drives growth through strategy, branding, and customer engagement. She joined Cotality in 2019 via the Symbility Solutions acquisition, later advancing through senior roles at CoreLogic before becoming SVP in 2024. With over 20 years of tech and insurance marketing leadership, De Oliveira excels at building high-performing teams and shaping top-tier campaigns. Based in Toronto with her family, she loves big ideas and good conversations.
Senior Vice President, Marketing, Insurance Division
Lucy De Oliveira
ColumnZero develops technology that sits at the centre of modern insurance operations. Originally built within High Street Underwriting Agency, the platform was created to solve the practical challenges underwriting agencies face every day, where spreadsheets, disconnected systems and manual processes create unnecessary complexity.
Over more than a decade, the company analysed every stage of the policy lifecycle and rebuilt it into a single platform that supports underwriting, policy administration and operational workflows. The result is a flexible solution with a robust foundation that integrates with existing systems, captures higher-quality data, reduces manual effort and gives insurance agencies the confidence to scale.
Rather than being designed by external consultants, the platform was developed by professionals working within an underwriting agency and refined through years of real-world use. Today, ColumnZero brings that same proven foundation to insurance businesses seeking technology designed around the realities of modern underwriting.
“We have created an entire system of educational materials to accompany our clients as their cases advance. Working to minimize the stress and uncertainty caused by litigation allows clients to focus on the hard work of rehab and adaptation”
Brenda Hollingsworth,
Auger Hollingsworth Accident & Injury Lawyers
Peter Lovasz
Senior Vice President, Ecosystem Solutions
Tim Kempe
Chief of Staff, Insurance Solutions
Erin Ellis
Senior Associate
Liane Brown
Partner
Peter Lovasz is senior vice president of ecosystem solutions at Cotality, where he leads go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, and customer success across enterprise and SMB markets. He oversees teams spanning sales, strategic accounts, client enablement, customer engagement, and operations, helping customers maximize business outcomes through technology, data, and workflow solutions. Prior to Cotality, Lovasz spent much of his career at Mitchell International in a variety of leadership roles. He is recognized for leading high-performing teams and delivering growth through a relentless focus on customers, execution, and business outcomes. Lovasz holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business and an MBA in Marketing from San Diego State University.
Senior Vice President, Ecosystem Solutions
Peter Lovasz
Tim Kempe is the chief of staff for Cotality’s insurance solutions business unit, where he aligns the executive team around strategic vision and drives M&A and partnerships into execution. He joined Cotality via the 2021 acquisition of Next Gear Solutions, where he had served as chief of staff since 2015, scaling the company through multiple funding rounds and five acquisitions. Kempe is passionate about property insurance tech, particularly how AI is compressing delivery cycles and enabling faster responses to customers and partners.
Chief of Staff, Insurance Solutions
Tim Kempe
Erin Ellis has over a decade of experience and a proven track record of success advocating for survivors of both recent and historical sexual and physical abuse. She represents plaintiffs from across Canada, demanding acknowledgment and compensation for the harms perpetrated or facilitated by individuals and institutions, including abuse by teachers, coaches, relatives, foster parents, doctors, and clergy.
Ellis has a deep understanding of civil abuse litigation. Her extensive experience allows her to work effectively with her clients to determine the best approach for each individual case. She is passionate about representing survivors and uses compassion, dedication, and strong advocacy skills to assist her clients.
Senior Associate
Erin Ellis
Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
Partner
Liane Brown
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Ben Irantalab
Partner
Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
Partner
Ben Irantalab
Workspace aggregates all parties into a single ecosystem with a verified source of truth, while logic-based prompting effectively digitizes the knowledge of veteran adjusters so that novice desk adjusters can generate accurate, consistent estimates. As a web-based, zero-download application, it also removes the IT burden of rigid legacy desktop software.
Adoption tells the story Cotality prefers to measure: “We don’t measure our success by sudden spikes or temporary hype. We measure it by steady, trusted adoption.” Its restoration software drives daily workflows for more than 8,700 restoration companies across the United States and Canada, and it partners with the vast majority of the top 25 insurance brands in the country.
Those same instincts shape how Cotality innovates. The company embeds itself with carriers, adjusters, and restoration contractors on the front lines, turning their daily friction points directly into its development pipeline rather than treating technology development as an isolated process. As the company puts it, “We co-create the future with the people who understand firsthand what the future needs.”
Looking ahead, Cotality is anchoring its strategy to four vision pillars: cognitive imagery, interoperability, seamless workflows, and agentic AI – the latter embodied by its intelligent assistant, Aly. The common thread across all four pillars is supporting human operators rather than replacing them. As the company puts it, “Technology alone doesn’t rebuild a community or restore a home. People do.”
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