Skin in the Game
The Kairos team is built with seasoned leaders at the intersection of telematics, data and analytics, safety and claims, strategy, product design, and marketing. We prefer a collective approach, customizing the team to match each client’s needs and opportunities with our specialties.
Telematics
Dave Huber
Kairos Founder and President
An insurance and telematics pioneer, Dave launched the industry’s first-of-its kind, patented UBI product in the early 2000s. He led development of the first mobile telematics app in the insurance agency channel, and created the strategy and business model to allow for the consumption of multisource telematics data for scoring, pricing, and consumer services. Today, Dave is a leading evangelist for the concept of a portable driving score. He speaks and publishes regularly on that and related topics.
As Founder and President of Kairos Solutions, Dave brings together a team of high-talent, highly performing, highly experienced leaders in multiple fields.
Data and Analytics
Don Wedding
Don brings 20 years of industry experience in data science and statistical analysis, including extensive knowledge of SAS. He’s made significant contributions as a subject matter expert, and developed models for risk and CRM in banking, insurance, retail, telecom, and capital markets. Don also teaches data science in both university and corporate settings. He’s currently Director of Data Science at Sprint, while developing and leading courses on statistics, predictive models, and SAS programming at Northwestern University.
Safety and Claims
Marc Zeitlin
Marc is a performance-driven leader whose four-decade career spans multiple industries, and leadership roles in companies such as Progressive, AIG, Farmers, and Insurance.com. His achievements include the development and deployment of AIG China’s first social media effort, creation of AIG’s Road Safety program in China, early leadership in bringing insurance to the Internet, and pioneering roles in the development of both insurance comparative rating (empowering local, independent agents to easily get rates from multiple carriers) and UBI.
Jim Daues
Jim brings experience in a variety of senior roles at leading P&C insurance companies. His last role was Head Risk Officer at Farmers. Prior to that, he led the operations (COO) of the company’s $13B personal lines business. His earlier role at Farmers was SVP of Claims. The latter role gave him responsibility for all property claims in the company’s homeowners, condo, rental, manufactured housing, commercial property, and special lines businesses. Jim also served as Senior Product Manager/General Manager for Progressive, with leadership for various aspects of the company’s business in several Western states.
Strategy, Product Design, and Marketing
Bob Nicolay
Bob’s 30-plus year career in the insurance industry has included leadership roles in product design and management, distribution and sales, marketing, CRM, and service for Progressive, along with small/early-stage insurers such as National Interstate and Permanent General Assurance. He’s developed and executed creative strategies for top and bottom line growth in both personal and commercial lines through local/national agents and brokers, affinity programs, strategic alliances, digital agents/aggregators and direct sales.
Denese Ross
Denese brings more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, with specialization in strategy, product development, programs, pricing, and regulation. She’s currently managing partner of the Denese Ross Consulting Group helping insurance companies, managing general agencies and early-stage start-ups succeed in specialized areas of the property & casualty insurance business. She has held executive leadership roles at GMAC (now National General Insurance), the California State Automobile Association IIB (CSAA) and Commerce West Insurance Company, a MAPFRE Company. Denese is a long standing board member of the Society of Insurance Research (SIR).