Team

• Robert Lukas, VP, Underwriting Sciences.  Robert R. Lukas has joined FirstBest Systems as the VP, Underwriting Sciences. He was most recently a Principal of Realistic Outcomes Incurred which provides consulting services focusing on business models and associated technology initiatives in the financial institution arena. Bob is the former Chief Information Officer of the Hartford’s Property/Casualty Company with responsibility for the company’s application portfolio. His focus was on establishing a new IT governance model for the Property/Casualty enterprise.
  
  Bob’s over 30 years of IT executive experience includes the establishment of more effective IT governance models for property/casualty enterprises and exploiting technology to create revenue generating opportunities. He founded and directed the Hartford Technology Services Company, a subsidiary of the Hartford which provides a wide range of technology services to the Hartford and to other corporations in the area. The company generated $34 million of revenue in its first year of operation. Today, it employs over 400 business technology professionals. Bob also served as President of CLA Corp., a Hartford subsidiary that marketed insurance software and technology services to other insurance providers.
  
  Bob has been active in business and technology associations, including: The Life Office Management Association (LOMA), The Advisory Boards for Technology Companies, Partners Program at Forrester Research, Inc., and Boston University Research Center, School of Business Administration.



• Kelly Lynch, FirstBest Senior Director, Underwriting Sciences, Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU). Lynch brings more than 15 years of insurance industry experience to FirstBest, including underwriter for Kemper National Insurance Company, loss control engineer for highly protected risk (HPR) property accounts with Industrial Risk Insurers, manager of facultative and treaty business for Swiss Re America’s Engineered Risk Department (ERD), and manager of Quanta U.S. Holdings' program division, where she had operational and underwriting oversight over more than $175 million of direct written premiums written by Managing General Agents on behalf of Quanta.



• William F. (Bill) Cutting, CPCU, FirstBest Business Analyst, Underwriting Sciences. Cutting brings 25 years’ experience in underwriting management and sales to FirstBest. Previous roles have included production specialist with Lexington Insurance, a leading P&C insurer; underwriter consultant with Kemper Insurance Companies; director of underwriting for RTW; portfolio underwriter for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.; senior underwriter with American International Group (AIG); and pricing analyst with The Hartford Insurance Group.



• Paul Cummings, FirstBest Vice President, Engineering. Previously, as vice president of worldwide software development for the S1 Corporation, he led the creation of S1’s Enterprise Insurance product line and managed development of other Web-based financial services products.



• Leonard C.G. (Geoff) Smith, CPCU, FirstBest Strategic Advisory Board. With over 35 years’ of insurance industry experience, Smith was most recently executive vice president, COO and board member of ePolicy. After a 30-year career at Hartford Financial Services Group, he retired as president, Commercial Affinity Operations, one of three Hartford North American Property/Casualty operating companies. His career there spanned commercial P&C underwriting and sales leadership.