August 27, 2019
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DataCubes and St. Joseph University Forge Research Collaboration

AI & machine learning research & academic partnership with St Joseph University Maguire Academy of Risk and Insurance Management - Haub School of Business to advance AI

CHICAGO (Aug. 27, 2019) - DataCubes, the leading decision automation platform that helps commercial P&C insurance carriers automate intelligence gathering, discover important underwriting insights and make better underwriting decisions in near real-time, today announced a collaborative partnership with St. Joseph University, one of the top insurance schools in the country.\nThrough the relationship, DataCubes and St. Joseph University’s Risk Management and Insurance program will collaborate to design, implement and monitor a mutually beneficial research program. The program, which aims to build on existing insights and broaden research in the field of AI and machine learning, will initially focus on bringing DataCubes’ technology to the classroom.\nDataCubes’ d3 Underwriting™ platform, which uses AI and machine learning to help commercial insurance carriers optimize and automate the underwriting decision process, will be integrated into the students’ curriculum. DataCubes will help facilitate research projects, offering guidance and mentorship, best practices on innovation, as well as internships to St. Joseph’s Risk and Insurance Management students. The partners will also collaborate on the university’s annual insurtech symposium.\n“St. Joseph University’s Risk Management and Insurance program consistently ranks in the top five undergraduate insurance programs in the country and we are thrilled to be sharing expertise and working with some of the best scientific minds in the country,” said Harish Neelamana, DataCubes co-founder and chief product officer. “The research we do together will have the potential to influence the evolution of the entire industry!”\n“This immersive program will nurture talent, ideas and discoveries,” said Michael Angelina, executive director of the Academy of Risk Management and Insurance at Saint Joseph’s University. “We look forward to working with DataCubes on our vision to bridge academia and business with the goal of developing talent and advancing the insurance industry.”\nThe mission of the Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management is to promote and support the concept of risk management and insurance education; to provide services to risk management and insurance students, including scholarship aid, recruiting, internships/cooperative education, counseling and placement; and, with and through the University, to support the Department of Finance, which houses the risk management and insurance program.

About DataCubes

Headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, and founded in 2016 by Kuldeep Malik and Harish Neelamana, DataCubes is the first decision automation platform for commercial P&C underwriting. The company has revolutionized the commercial underwriting process with cutting-edge AI and data science. Commercial carriers of all sizes use DataCubes to make real-time underwriting decisions based on rich data and highly accurate intelligence gathered by external sources to improve productivity, profitability, efficiency and accuracy. To learn more, visit datacubes.com.

About Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management

Created by James Maguire ’58, founder of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the mission of the Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management is to promote and support the concept of risk management and insurance education; to provide services to risk management and insurance students, including scholarship aid, recruiting, internships/cooperative education, counseling and placement; and, with and through the University, to support the Department of Finance, which houses the risk management and insurance program.

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CHICAGO (April 28, 2026) – Convr®, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company serving commercial insurance organizations with its modular underwriting workbench announces the hiring of Jason Allen as Vice President, Customer Experience.

In this role, Allen will lead Convr’s Customer Success Services and Customer Support teams, driving strong adoption, support and advocacy across Convr’s customer base. With a strong strategic focus, Allen will further strengthen the bridge between Convr’s cutting-edge AI technology and customer requirements for the Convr Underwriting Workbench. He will partner closely with Business Development, Product and Executive Leadership to align roadmap, go-to-market strategy and customer feedback.

Allen has extensive experience driving business value with AI-powered operating systems that improve efficiency, as well as a proven track record of client success driving accelerated time-to-value. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Customer Experience, for Aprimo, the enterprise Marketing Technology organization serving regulated and non-regulated industries. For nearly 10years with increasingly responsible roles, Allen delivered an end-to-end customer lifecycle operating model spanning onboarding, adoption, renewals and expansion, focused on customer efficiency with executional discipline for improved customer outcomes and engagement.

Prior to his time at Aprimo, Allen served as Vice President of Professional Services and Solutions Sales at Teradata. Earlier in his career, he served as a managing consultant at Ernst and Young/James Martin and Company focused on operational excellence.

Jason’s expertise in enterprise AI SaaS systems, automation, and program implementation will help Convr’s clients more readily achieve and demonstrate industry-leading growth and efficiency.

Allen has an Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He and his family live in Indiana.

Look for him soon at online and in-person events demonstrating his strong commitment to customer success at Convr. Learn more about Convr at convr.com.

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A Decade of Innovation: Convr Celebrates 10 Years as the Top Underwriting Workbench

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  1. 130% increase in efficiency
  2. 70% reduction in submission through quote times
  3. 30% increase in win rate for new business underwriting
  4. Quote turnaround times reduced to 1-2 days
  5. 10x increase in productivity

In addition, Convr customers across the board have experienced reduced customer IT spend, quicker identification of material changes within renewals, and increased number of submissions processed daily. \n“The Convr AI Underwriting Workbench is the most advanced and visionary platform available today,” said Gary Johnson, Vice President of Commercial Lines for Ohio Mutual Insurance Group. “Our underwriters are eagerly anticipating the workflow, accuracy, and service advantages that we’ll realize once we have this key tool at our disposal.”\nEven more, over the course of the past decade, The Convr AI Underwriting Workbench surfaced some 120 billion risk exposures and added 17 billion data points to the Risk 360 data lake as well as released hundreds of enhancements to Convr users. As a leading AI-powered commercial insurance data-driven underwriting workbench, Convr is proud to mark these wins as a reflection of ingenuity, innovation and customer success.\nConvr has an unparalleled passion for commercial insurance underwriting and we’re certain our customers will continue to see benefits well beyond our tenth anniversary. You can schedule a demo and explore how Convr’s AI Underwriting Workbench can transform your commercial underwriting performance, efficiency and profitability.

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CHICAGO (March 17, 2026) – As the leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for commercial insurance, Convr® equips customers with a conversational AI assistant embedded directly into the underwriting workbench.\nThe Generative AI approach supports underwriting analysis by helping teams dig deeper into submission data and uncover actionable insights. Those insights can then be acted upon immediately — informing changes, updating the submission, creating tasks, or taking other necessary steps — so underwriters can move forward efficiently. \nPurpose-built on the Convr Context Engine — comprised of a commercial insurance ontology, knowledge graph, and semantic layer that powers a multi-line schema — this unique foundation enables the Generative AI to deliver high-performing interactions out of the box with minimal model dependencies showing a holistic view of the risk with ease and confidence.\nHow Convr AI worksThe Generative AI module lets underwriting teams discuss submissions interactively and complete action steps directly within the submission. The AI-powered assistant reviews both the data in a submission and relevant public data available to Convr. It then creates a summary with key observations for the underwriting team, and complete the remaining steps needed to finalize the submission.\nThe technology is designed to enhance underwriting efficiency and accuracy as the Generative AI streamlines day-to-day tasks by instantly retrieving submission details, summarizing risk data, and answering underwriting questions in real time.\n“This is similar to ChatGPT where we can ask any observations or questions about a submission and the result is an accurate account or summary of the results,” said Harish Neelamana, Co-Founder and President at Convr. “Following a prompt, it can actually take an action and finalize the submission for the underwriter.”\nWhether a customer is reviewing a complex commercial policy or triaging new submissions, the Generative AI module helps underwriters work smarter, not harder all within the Convr AI ecosystem. And conversations with the AI Assistant are memorialized in the underwriting file making it easy for an underwriter to analyze and improve its usage.\nThis workbench feature marks a pivotal moment in commercial insurance as Convr advances the industry from manual underwriting to technological innovation.

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