Top insurance industry advisors Deborah Smallwood and Cindy Maike are
ebizQ's Insurance Community Managers. Their focus is on transforming
insurance companies into agile, business-driven enterprises where IT
enables business value.
As Community Managers, Smallwood and Maike will blog and podcast to
keep the ebizQ community fully informed on the latest news and
breakthroughs relevant to insurance. They will also be responsible for
publishing press releases, covering briefings, writing feature
articles and sourcing content from other analysts, industry
associations and vendors for publication on ebizQ. Finally, each week,
they will compile the most important news and views in an e-mail
newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing insurance community.
Focusing on the needs and challenges of today's insurance world,
Smallwood Maike & Associates, Inc is a strategic advisory firm that
offers a unique blend of research, advisory and consulting services
for both insurance companies and solution providers. By leveraging
best practices from both the management consulting and research
advisory disciplines, Smallwood Maike's service offerings are prime
for companies eager and ready to embrace change and achieve their full
business potential.
As co-founder of Smallwood Maike, Deborah Smallwood has held
leadership roles with Liberty Mutual, KPMG LLP, and TowerGroup, where
she consistently found new ways to leverage technology in achieving
optimal business performance. Her skill set includes business
strategy, the development of business and IT roadmaps, and the
delivery of application software. Prior to Smallwood Maike, Deb served
as Chief Transformation Officer (CIO) for a P&C, mid-tier regional
carrier and was the Managing Director of the Insurance Practice at
TowerGroup.
Co-founder Cindy Maike brings clients a wealth of insurance and
financial services experience, grounded in the business but reaching
deeply into the technology. Maike previously held a variety of
leadership positions at IBM and ACORD, where she honed her skills in
business architecture, development/standards, global software
marketing, business strategy, management consulting, business
architecture, and IT strategy. She has also been and continues to be
an advocate and active participant in the development of insurance
industry business architecture, process modeling, and information
standards.
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