Headquarters:
San Francisco, CA
Year founded:
2017
Number of employees:
700+
Phone:
248 932 9030
Email:
help@coalitioninc.com
Website:
coalitioninc.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/coalitioninc
“After another year of record growth, we continue to make meaningful investments in technology, talent, and resources, which enable our associates to perform at their best”
Danny Kaufman,
Burns & Wilcox
Coalition
Joshua Motta
CEO and Co-founder
Shawn Ram
Chief Revenue Officer
David Lynders
Head of Insurance
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Joshua Motta is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition. Before taking on this role, he was the CXO and head of special projects at Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), a $25-billion web infrastructure and security company, following roles at Goldman Sachs, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Microsoft, among others.
CEO and Co-founder
Joshua Motta
Shawn Ram leads Coalition’s business development, underwriting, and strategic insurance initiatives, where he oversees insurance and technical teams of underwriters, risk engineers, customer success, and actuaries. His nearly 20-year career includes experience leading teams at Aon and Crystal & Company.
Chief Revenue Officer
Shawn Ram
David Lynders leads Coalition’s portfolio underwriting, actuarial, claims, and insurance operations organizations. He draws upon 30 years of insurance experience in underwriting leadership and as a broker. He is known for assembling high-performing teams, a strategic and proactive approach to the business, and a track record of prioritizing and delivering profitable results. Prior to Coalition, Lynders held various roles at Falcon Risk Services, AIG, AXIS Capital, and Marsh.
Head of Insurance
David Lynders
““After another year of record growth, we continue to make meaningful investments in technology, talent, and resources, which enable our associates to perform at their best”
Danny Kaufman,
Burns & Wilcox
“Our teams, highly regarded for their expertise, are consistently stepping in to deliver an innovative approach or solve a complex coverage issue for our clients”
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Burns & Wilcox
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“Our teams, highly regarded for their expertise, are consistently stepping in to deliver an innovative approach or solve a complex coverage issue for our clients”
Danny Kaufman,
Burns & Wilcox
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Tiago Henriques
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Tiago Henriques is the chief underwriting officer at Coalition, overseeing technical underwriting and security research. Previously, he founded BinaryEdge, acquired by Coalition, and held roles at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), UBS (NYSE: UBS), and Swisscom. With deep expertise in cyber risk, Henriques shapes innovative underwriting strategies to protect businesses from emerging threats.
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Tiago Henriques
Robert Jones
Head of Global Claims
Robert Jones leads Coalition’s global claims function, overseeing the development and growth of the claims team, managing Coalition’s vendor network of external panel providers, and helping internal underwriting teams to develop risk selection strategy. Before joining Coalition, Jones previously spent 32 years at AIG (NYSE: AIG), where he served as executive vice president of financial lines, specialty claims.
Head of Global Claims
Robert Jones
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. By combining comprehensive, market-leading insurance coverage with cybersecurity tools and services,
Coalition helps businesses manage and mitigate potential cyber incidents. Its consistent innovations in coverage reward security-conscious policyholders.
Coalition policyholders can better understand their cyber risk through the firm's cyber risk management platform, Coalition Control®, where they can also access expert advice for remediation. The insurer's proven approach actively minimizes the impact of cyber risk, with policyholders experiencing 73 percent fewer claims than the industry average based on National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) data.
Leveraging its relationships with leading global insurers and capacity providers, including Coalition Insurance Company, Coalition offers Active Insurance products to businesses in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.
“Our teams, highly regarded for their expertise, are consistently stepping in to deliver an innovative approach or solve a complex coverage issue for our clients”
Danny Kaufman,
Burns & Wilcox
Rich Gatz
Vice President, Cyber Claims
Mark Bernacki
Chief Underwriting Officer
Julie Prewitt
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955
Rich Gatz is vice president, head of cyber claims for Arch Insurance Group. He is a cyber insurance and privacy subject matter expert and a distinguished Fellow of Information Privacy with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
A professed “coverage geek,” he enjoys crafting policy language that solves risk for Arch customers. He has spoken on various panels and at national conferences regarding cyber claims, insurance coverage, data breach response, and privacy issues plaguing technology.
Gatz is a graduate of Ohio State University and DePaul University School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the state of Illinois.
Vice President, Cyber Claims
Rich Gatz
Mark Bernacki is the chief underwriting officer of Amwins, the first to serve in the role. Prior to that, he served as president of Amwins Special Risk Underwriters. In addition to his leadership in underwriting, Bernacki runs the Amwins Alternative Risk Transfer Team for Amwins.
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Mark Bernacki
Julie Prewitt has worked on nearly every aspect of marketing and advertising in her nearly 20 years in the industry. Her team at REInsurePro manages branding, advertising, events, content, digital campaigns, and agent engagement and plays a key role in product development.
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Julie Prewitt
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
In personal lines, Burns & Wilcox grew nearly 30 percent overall and nearly 50 percent in new business production, cementing its position as the largest personal insurance wholesaler in the US.
In 2024, the Burns & Wilcox personal lines team launched the FloodPlus product through Burns & Wilcox IssueQuick, a proprietary and automated rate-quote-bind-issue platform. Utilizing a unique Flood API, FloodPlus pairs cutting-edge risk modeling with claims data, alongside the broadest primary flood coverage form in the marketplace.
The team also announced the expansion of the Burns & Wilcox relationship with Wildfire Defense Systems to include Texas and New Mexico, bringing a unique wildfire loss prevention and mitigation service that now includes 12 US states.
The Burns & Wilcox professional liability team continued building its bench strength and furthered its depth of expertise and geographic footprint. Additionally, the team established a multitude of new insurance company partners that will continue to bring innovative solutions to the marketplace.
Technology once again was central to the success of Burns & Wilcox over the last year. Capitalizing on a significant investment with Salesforce, the company rolled out new CRM capabilities along with a Commercial Comparative Rater that handles thousands of submission opportunities monthly.
Looking at 2025, Burns & Wilcox expects to increase automation to drive even greater production efficiencies and capture increased market share.
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“We will continue to strengthen our service proposition and customer experience as a key differentiator, as we build on the momentum we have achieved to date across multiple business lines and territories,” says McLean. “Our im is to continue to grow our market relevance and strengthen our partnerships with our strategic brokers as we expand our leadership position in key sectors.
“We will also continue to invest in talent. We are committed to drawing from the broadest pools of talent, and to creating an environment that attracts and retains stellar employees. We recognise the importance of building teams that are diverse, collaborative, and innovative and are dedicated to cultivating a supportive and inclusive workplace culture in which all our employees can thrive.”
