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A Journey of Experience
and Innovation

A Journey of Experience and Innovation

We bring together decades of specialty underwriting expertise with modern technology to solve the challenges our distribution and carrier partners face every day.

We bring together decades of specialty underwriting expertise with modern technology to solve the challenges our distribution and carrier partners face every day.

About

Who We Are

We founded Vivere with a simple belief: specialty insurance shouldn’t be slow, opaque, or difficult to access. Our team of industry veterans saw firsthand how antiquated processes were failing our distribution partners and their clients.

Why We Exist

The specialty insurance market has long been held back by outdated legacy systems, inefficient processes that prolong program rollouts, and a lack of alignment of interests between underwriters and carriers. These frictions slow innovation and dilute results.

Vivere was built to re-imagine the underwriting workflow and remove these frictions. Powered by Fawkes, our proprietary technology platform, we combine elite underwriting talent with AI-driven tools that automate what should be automated and focus underwriters on what actually requires their expertise.

How We Deliver

At Vivere, every vertical and underwriter is carefully selected to ensure that we deliver consistently superior outcomes for our partners. Our discipline drives measurable impact: programs launch in a fraction of the time, policies are fully underwritten in minutes instead of hours, and real time analytics provide transparency and alignment at every stage.

OUR TEam's experience includes

100+

years of combined specialty underwriting experience at Swiss Re and other major firms.

10+

successful product launches

$1B+

in gross written premiums managed

OUR PRODUCTS

OUR PRODUCTS

LEADERSHIP

Team Member

Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

Chris McKechnie

Team Member

Chief Technology officer

Chief Technology officer

Sachith Gullapalli

Team Member

Chief underwriting officer

Chief underwriting officER

Michael Levins

Team Member

Chief Underwriting officer

Chief Underwriting officer

Rachael Dougherty

Team Member

Chief Underwriting officer

Chief Underwriting officer

Bradley Ignasiak

Team Member

VP of operations

VP of operations

Dani Lefland