SIFM Young Professionals represent a growing and dynamic group within our organization. “Spotlight 2026” articles are a series of interviews with some of these outstanding young leaders in the insurance industry. Here’s what John Vicari has to share: VISION My teaching background taught me the value of viewing challenges from different angles. When facing a
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Dr. Krystal Duarte examines how women navigate cooperation, competition, close relationships, and career advancement across personal and professional contexts, with a particular focus on the hidden social and organizational costs that shape women’s career trajectories. Her recent work includes Why Businesses Should Value Caregivers Now (MIT Sloan Management Review), Women Aren’t Opting Out of Work. Workplaces Are Pushing
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James Knight has over 20 years of experience helping global insurers solve complex finance and actuarial challenges, driven by disruption from artificial intelligence, regulatory change, technology and cost pressures. His experience includes actuarial modeling and governance, financial reporting under US GAAP and Solvency II, capital modeling, AI strategy and enterprise-scale adoption, operating model design, and
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Amit Jain has more than 30 years of experience across a broad range of financial services organizations in Asia and the US. Currently, Amit leads the migration of MassMutual’s financial ledger technology ecosystem to a cloud-based SAP S4/Hana platform while driving the transformation of related accounting and reporting processes. Over last 15 years, Amit has led
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Rudy Dimmling has over 40 years of experience in insurance and business transformation including P&C, reinsurance, healthcare, credit, life, runoff and brokerage. He currently leads the business transformation & performance improvement group within FTI Consulting’s Global Insurance Services practice. Rudy specializes in implementing near- and long-term strategies and transformation change initiatives related to performance improvement.
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Tony Lew is the co-Founder of the largest InsurTech community in North America. InsurTech NY has run events, conferences and accelerators since 2019 and graduated 400+ portfolio companies. Tony is also the managing partner of InsurTech Fund, a seed-stage VC fund focused on InsurTech and InsurTech adjacencies with a portfolio of 25 companies. Prior to
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Nefissa Sator has over 24 years of experience in the financial services industry with actuarial, leadership roles. Nefissa is a certified wine expert, having earned the WSET Level 3 certification as an Oenology Sommelie from the International Wine Center in New York. She led the Accueil New York Wine Club from 2013 to 2019 and helped
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