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 Them Out (Fast Company), and Why Mid-Career Woman are Leaving Corporate America for Entrepreneurship (Fast Company).

Krystal bridges research and practice, transforming insights into meaningful progress toward more equitable workplaces.

Krystal earned a BA in psychology from California State University at Fresno.  She was awarded an MA and a PhD in psychology from Oklahoma State University.

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 building and leading global teams. James directs actuarial modeling, governance and technical advisory across MetLife’s global actuarial organization, and has embedded AI into the monthly work of MetLife’s Finance function worldwide — a growing portfolio of scaled solutions that is reducing cycle times and freeing capacity for higher-value analysis.

Earlier in his career, James was EMEA Chief Actuary, overseeing actuarial teams across 25 countries and $15 billion in assets, serving on the EMEA Finance Leadership team and on the board of MetLife Reinsurance of Bermuda.

James earned a First-Class master’s degree in mathematics from Durham University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (US), a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (UK).

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 and delivered multiple large-scale cross-functional finance transformation initiatives focused on technology modernization, close reengineering and acceleration, process automation, business reorganization and efficiency, and targeted operating enhancements including shared services migrations.

Formerly, Amit was the head of enterprise operations transformation at Wells Fargo serving the bank’s consumer, commercial, corporate, wealth and investment banking operations. Earlier in his career journey, he had public company audit roles with Deloitte as well as financial controllership and FP&A roles with GE Capital, ICICI Bank and AIG.

Amit holds a B. Com (Hons) degree from the University of Delhi, India. He a Chartered Accountant (India), a Certified Public Accountant (Colorado) and a Six Sigma Certified professional. 

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.

Formerly, Rudy served as chief strategy officer for Cardinal Innovations Healthcare, responsible for developing and implementing the organization’s transformation into a fully integrated healthcare insurer.

Rudy was also with Alvarez & Marsal where he assisted clients in improving financial and operational performance. Before consulting, he was chief administrative officer for a reinsurance subsidiary of a Fortune 100 global insurance company where he was responsible for the claims and actuarial functions.

Rudy earned a BS in accounting and an MBA in finance from Adelphi University. He is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor and a Change Management Practitioner.

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 building InsurTech NY, Tony held product strategy and management leadership roles at Alibaba and Gartner, where he managed $1B IT product research business to double digit growth annually. Tony also advised and helped fortune 500 companies with growth and operational strategy as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

Tony has a BS in information decision systems from Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded an MS in information management science from George Washington University, and an MBA in strategy from NYU Stern School of Business.

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 Sommelier from the International Wine Center in New York.

She led the Accueil New York Wine Club from 2013 to 2019 and helped promote wine culture through community events and partnerships, including collaborations combining French cinema and wine in New York City.

Mattthew Cassidy has over 20 years of experience in internal audit specifically with the operations of insurance carriers, reinsurers and brokers. He currently leads IA innovation and technology risk solutions, including IT audit and control automation.

Matt has run large global internal audit programs and SOX implementations. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies on evaluating and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their audit programs. He has also led the integration of offshore teams to ensure the highest quality, while minimizing the cost of delivery.

Matt earned a BS in business administration, decision and systems sciences from Saint Joseph’s University. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Dennis Sweeney has over 17 years of experience serving Insurance clients. Dennis has led both outsourced and co-sourced internal audit programs performing insurance SOX, MAR, and ICFR compliance assurance and operational audit reviews.

His main areas of focus include third-party risk management, internal auditing, process documentation, internal control assessments, reconciliation services, data & business analytics, financial reporting, process excellence, and external quality assessments.

Dennis earned a BASc in accounting from Rowan University.