Headquarters:
Irvine, CA
Year founded:
2010
Number of employees:
5000
Phone:
(866) 774-3282
Email:
sales@cotality.com
Website:
cotality.com/industries/property-insurance
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/showcase/cotality-insurance
“This isn’t just about software integration. It changes the paradigm”
Garret Gray, President, Global Insurance Solutions Cotality
Garret Gray
President, Global Insurance Solutions
Michael Porter
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, International Insurance Solutions
Jesse Herrera
Executive Vice President, Global Products and Operations
Leadership
Garret Gray is the president of Cotality’s global insurance business unit, where he leads a team of industry experts driving transformation across the property insurance ecosystem. His division focuses on developing market-driven solutions that leverage intelligence to significantly improve outcomes and build community resiliency worldwide.
Previously, Gray headed Cotality’s claims operations, delivering advanced technology solutions for carriers and contractors. He originally joined the organization following Cotality’s 2021 acquisition of Next Gear Solutions, where he served as founder and CEO.
President, Global Insurance Solutions
Garret Gray
Jacob Labrie is the EVP of North America insurance solutions, leading the go-to-market (GTM) and customer success functions for underwriting, claims, and catastrophe risk.
Inspired to improve the policyholder experience after a personal house fire in 2005, Labrie co-founded Accurence as CEO, pioneering several new industry categories. He later served as president of the insurance unit following a strategic merger with Next Gear, which was subsequently acquired by CoreLogic in 2021.
Executive Vice President, Insurance Solutions, North America
Jacob Labrie
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
Jacob Labrie
Executive Vice President, Insurance Solutions, North America
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
As property insurance has grown more complex, Cotality has built its identity on a simple premise: behind every data point is a policyholder, an adjuster, or a contractor searching for answers. By its own account, the company analyzes the largest objective property dataset in the country to deliver real-time hazard, underwriting, and restoration insights, and its recognition as one of IB’s Global 5-Star Technology and Software Provider for 2026 reflects how far it has pushed that human-centered approach into the architecture of the insurance lifecycle.
Traditionally, software only helps insurance and restoration workers manage a single isolated step in a property's journey. But Cotality takes that idea and connects the entire chain. The company is building a bridge that brings together underwriting, reinsurance, claims, and restoration in a whole new paradigm. They are paving the path toward an inevitable future state where the entire industry finally moves as one.
“This isn’t just about software integration. It changes the paradigm,” the spokesperson says. Powering that connection is Cotality’s CoreAI™, an engine that channels over a billion objective property data points to filter out the background noise and give users a high-definition view of reality.
The clearest expression of that philosophy is Cotality Claims Workspace, a platform designed to eliminate the fragmentation and communication bottlenecks of traditional claims management. In legacy systems, adjusters, mitigation teams, and reconstruction vendors operate in isolation, forcing adjusters and homeowners to act as manual middlemen passing notes and photos back and forth.
“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
Scottye Carter-Dewey
Vice President of HR and Senior HR Business Partner for Insurance Solutions
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
Scottye Carter-Dewey is the Vice President of HR and Senior HR Business Partner for Insurance Solutions at Cotality. A strategic human capital executive with over 18 years of experience driving growth in SaaS organizations, she leads a global team supporting 1000+ employees across the US, Canada, UK, Germany, and India. Following Cotality's acquisition of Next Gear Solutions, Scottye spearheaded a major business unit reorganization, harmonizing titles, compensation, and leadership retention strategies. Her culture-first initiatives drove a 10% increase in employee engagement and a 37% drop in voluntary attrition, proving her focus on maximizing ROI by empowering high-performing teams.
Vice President of HR and Senior HR Business Partner for Insurance Solutions
Scottye Carter-Dewey
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.
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Liane Brown
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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.
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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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