Scott joined The Hanover in 2012. Today, he serves as chief product and underwriting officer for The Hanover’s commercial and specialty businesses. In this role, he leads the company’s enterprise coordination, product and underwriting efforts. Scott previously served as president of The Hanover’s middle market business for eight years. Under his leadership, the business unit grew nearly 32% through a focus on industry specialization and portfolio management. Prior to joining The Hanover, Scott held a variety of leadership roles at Selective Insurance and CNA. He is a graduate of Salem State University.

Liz is a cloud transformation leader with specialization in data and analytics. She is experienced in driving agile modernization of platforms and services used to build end-to-end analytic data pipelines that allow business partners to make data-driven decisions. She is a passionate evangelist of governed self-service, continuous optimization, FinOps practices, and creation of self-supporting user communities to scale adoption of new technology. Liz also leads enterprise data services that include Data Management, Governance & Privacy Practices, as well as Third Party Data availability and integration.

Liz has more than 20 years of experience delivering data, business intelligence and advanced analytics capabilities in consulting and financial services where her roles have spanned analytic platform product ownership, data science model deployment, solution architecture, web design, project management, and human resources.

As the current Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Insurance Services, Werner Kruck has taken on the role of Interim Treasurer for openIDL, pending another Governing Board member’s permanent appointment to that role.

Werner’s previous roles include the Senior Vice President of the American Modern Insurance Group and the Chief Operating Officer of Security First Insurance, and his areas of expertise include creating programs, companies and new approaches for insuring residential property, including homeowners, mobile homes, and low valued dwelling over the past 40+ years in the US and internationally. He brings a unique combination of knowledge in the areas of product development, marketing and technology.

Michael H. Lanza is Executive Vice President and General Counsel, with oversight for the company’s legal department, as well as regulatory, ethics and compliance, and legislative and government affairs functions. He also serves as Selective’s Chief Compliance Officer. Mr. Lanza joined Selective in 2004 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and was promoted to his current role in October 2007. Before that, he was a corporate advisor and consultant and served as Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary of QuadraMed Corporation, a publicly traded healthcare IT company. Previously, Mr. Lanza was Assistant General Counsel at CIGNA Corporation, where his responsibilities included state government affairs, health care compliance, and international matters. He began his career in private legal practice in Connecticut.

Mr. Sayers holds three and half decades of IT experience in the insurance industry, and began at the American Association of Insurance Services in 2015. Prior to this, he worked at Great American Insurance as a solutions architect, FJA, Inc as a project manager and consultant, Chubb as Software Architect and Selective Insurance as Programmer. During his full and distinguished career, he has covered numerous divisions of insurance including carrier (Selective, Chubb and Great American), vendor (FJA) and advisory agency (AAIS), as software developer, architect, project manager and consultant. Mr. Sayers specializes in Product Driven Development, Model Driven Development and Enterprise Architecture.

Brian has been in the property casualty insurance industry at Travelers for over 30 years.

Brian’s area of responsibility at Travelers is within the Business Insurance Actuarial and Analytics organization, with close ties to the product and underwriting organizations. Along with a very strong team, he leads commercial product filings, rate development, rate validation, and all statistical reporting for Travelers. He works daily with Business Units, Government Relations, Compliance, Legal and Claim. His role requires close relationships with regulators, associations and other industry members. Brian is an active participant within the industry, representing Travelers at APCIA, AICP, AAIS, NCCI, Verisk and the Linux Foundation.