Jess Butler

About Jess Butler

Jess Butler, VP Product Management for Connectivity at Vertafore, has over 19 years in the property and casualty industry with Personal Lines & Commercial Lines backgrounds across product, pricing, process, and technology roles. Thriving on solving complex business problems that don’t have a clear solution, Jess is responsible for relentlessly delivering innovative and cutting edge approaches to utilizing analytics and technology to help our customer improve both top and bottom-line performance.Before joining Vertafore, Jess worked at Mutual Capital Analytics for 3 years and The Travelers for 16. She most recently helped build Mutual Capital Analytics as COO to a profit generating consulting practice start up growing to over 15 employees and 25 carrier customers in under 2.5 years. Prior to that she worked at The Travelers and led led the efforts on many of the top cross-discipline strategic priorities for Small Commercial. This included developing the digital comparative-rater integration strategy and the execution of the API technical build; in addition, Jess was responsible for the end to end business process for post-acquisition activities.She has held leadership positions within the Product Management organizations for both Small Commercial and Personal Lines, accountable for some of the largest states and regions in the portfolios. Jess is Co-Founder and President of We Bear This Together Foundation, a charity created to support Connecticut families that have children with epilepsy. She holds a BS in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from University of Hartford.

Experience

1. Vice President of Product Management

   Vertafore

   Dec 2022 — Present

   Leading market connectivity teams for Commercial and Personal Lines solutions.

Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  BS

  2000 — 2004

• University of Hartford

  MBA

  2004 — 2007