It happened nearly a month ago, but it's still big news. Microsoft's Kevin Kelly, a long-standing, high-profile insurance technology advocate, has moved to Brea, Calif.-based XDimensional Technologies, Inc.
XDimensional, the provider of Nexsure, an Internet insurance agency management solution, announced that Kevin has joined XDimensional Technologies as executive vice president, Enterprise Markets.
According to his new company, Kevin’s responsibilities include advancing and articulating XDimensional’s vision, strategy and execution in the areas of large account point-of-sales and service environments, carrier call centers, and large brokerages and agencies. Kevin will also manage XDimensional’s relationship with Microsoft and other Insurance Value Chain partners – the partner program he founded and lead while at Microsoft.
Bob Juracka, President of XDimensional stated, “With our focus on and demand from large enterprise agencies and brokerages, we needed additional top industry talent to lead our charge in this critical marketplace. We’ve had the privilege to work and partner with Kevin over the years, experience his outstanding and exceptional contributions, and recently had the opportunity to invite him aboard. We couldn’t be more pleased by his joining the XD team and with the opportunity to leverage his enormous experience on this important customer segment.”
Coming from a decade of work at Microsoft in the areas of worldwide strategy development, executive relations and sales support, Kevin has more than 20 years experience working on insurance technology initiatives, focused on business process improvement.
According to Kevin, “I’ve watched XDimensional from their initial stages of development as a Microsoft partner, through their current success, serving some of the most important and pivotal insurance entities in an enterprise capacity. At Microsoft, we valued XDimensional highly and regularly pointed out their great approach to a challenging application space. XDimensional’s vision for insurance processing and their platform architecture set the standard for how all applications should function looking ahead. I am delighted to be a part of a great executive team and this superb company.”
Frankly, I'm glad to see Kevin is still in the industry, and I look forward to seeing and hearing more from him. Kevin has been a mainstay on several panels I have chaired, and he alsways has something interesting, if not controversial, to say. In fact, I'll do my best to get Kevin on one of my upcoming panels--maybe alongside his ex-boss Bill Hartnett. Now that could be fun!