Gregory Owen Email & Phone Number

Management and Technology Advisory Services focused on the Insurance and Financial Services industry.

Kansas City, MO, US

• A.M. Best “A-“ (Excellent) rated life insurer with a wholly owned introducing broker N.I.S. Financial.
• Over $6 billion of life insurance in force offered through a captive agency force primarily selling the Balanced Program; a modified whole life insurance policy where, after the first policy year, the policyholder.

Austin, Texas, US

• A.M. Best “A“ (Excellent) and Standard & Poor’s Rating of “A-” (Strong) rated life and annuity insurance carrier with 113,000 annuity contracts and $15.9 billion of life insurance in force.
• Senior technology officer with responsibility for all aspects of technology infrastructure, development, and support services for all insurance operations domestic and internationally.

Wooster, Ohio, US

• Responsible for all IT related services and operations for WRG and an independent insurance agent network of 500+ locations (2,700+ producers) selling Auto, Home, Farm and Commercial insurance.
• Member of WRG Operating Committee setting WRG business strategy and annual business plan.
• Chair of WRG IT Steering Committee providing technology project governance, cost benefit analysis and prioritization.
• Member of WRG Enterprise Risk Committee (ERM)

New York, New York, US

• Member of LTC executive management team reporting to LTC division head. Primary responsibility for all IT related services and operations for NY Life LTC. This includes development of long-term system’s strategy in.
• Introduced formalized project management disciplines to the whole of LTC, including the implementation of MS Project Server to centrally manage the allocation of LTC resources across the organization.
• Improved primary IT audit controls and verification processes focused primarily on daily batch processing, asset management, desktop software management and reporting.
• Improved access to data by utilizing consulting assistance to develop a subject oriented data warehouse and introduced standard reporting tools (Crystal Enterprise and Business Objects).

Kansas City, MO, US

• Responsible for all applications development. Managed a team of 6 direct reports and a staff of 130 (300+ with contractor resources) with a development budget of $75M.
• Directed the development of an enterprise-wide data warehouse and electronic data interchange processing.
• Managed IT vendor contract negotiations, billing, offshore infrastructure and processes.
• Implemented Six Sigma process improvement methodologies to define IT processes, facilitate business process improvements and a SDLC tollgate methodology.
• Introduced layered and service oriented architecture development practices.
• Responsible for all IT quality inspections.

Boston, MA, US

Began as a Programmer / Analyst and ended my tenure as a Client Service Representative and CIO of the P&C Re America's subsidiary.As CIO I was responsible for increasing the Property and Casualty Segment’s top line by opening new markets, improving operating margin by driving out cost and providing Six Sigma Quality benefits through the application of.

• Responsible for office automation analysis and application support.
• Developed real-time bond inventory system for Bond Trading Desk.

Bs, Computer Science

Ac/Dc Circuits And Digital Electronics