Penu Putta

About Penu Putta

I am a CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter), a certified insurance transformation leader with nearly 30 years of deep transformation experience across Property & Casualty, Individual Life, Group Life/Health, Annuity, and Retirement areas. I partner with CXOs and senior business/IT executives as a trusted advisor to modernize insurance core systems and deliver measurable profitability and sustainable growth.I have led large, global teams of professionals and successfully delivered complex, enterprise-scale business and technology transformations. My experience spans both Re-engineering and commercial off-the-shelf platforms like Guidewire, Duck Creek. I have extensive experience in Product, Rating (Ratabase, Insbridge, Earnix, akur8 etc), Forms and Underwriting Solutions across Lines with a strong focus on design, execution, scalability, and business outcomes.I bring deep expertise in AI enablement and advanced analytics, helping insurers build rich, governed data solutions across underwriting segmentation, regulatory and compliance reporting, and Customer 360/720 capabilities. These initiatives have strengthened end-to-end operations, elevated advisor and customer experiences, and unlocked new top-line and bottom-line value.My work is centered on creating explainable, compliant AI-driven solutions that improve loss ratios, expense ratios, fraud detection, and capital efficiency—bridging strategy and execution to drive real business impact.

Experience

1. SVP & Head of Insurance Technology Services

   DATAECONOMY

   Jan 2026 — Present · Columbus, OH, US

   I lead the Insurance Practice at DATAECONOMY, helping Insurance and Healthcare organizations across P&C, Life, Annuity, Retirement, Wealth, Reinsurance, Group Health/Life, Healthcare, and Life Sciences transform enterprise data into scalable, compliant, AI-driven decision intelligence.I am responsible for advancing DATAECONOMY’s Gen-AI-first strategy for the Insurance segment, translating domain-agnostic data and AI capabilities into insurance-specific, production-ready solutions. My focus includes building agentic AI solutions that improve pricing precision, risk segmentation, underwriting quality, and regulatory reporting at scale.I lead the design and delivery of self-service data and AI platforms that enable business, actuarial, risk, and operations teams to make faster, explainable, and regulator-ready decisions—driving measurable improvements in loss ratios, expense efficiency, compliance outcomes, and customer experience.

Education

• The American Insurance Institutes (https://web.theinstitutes.org/), USA

  Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Insurance, Underwriting, Investments

• Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

  M.Tech, Digital Electronics

  1994 — 1996

• AP Residential School, Gandipalem, Nellore (DT), Andhra Pradesh, India

  High School Diploma, Maths, Science, English, Telugu, Sanskrit

• AP Residential Jr. College, Bhadrachalam, Telangana, India

  Intermediate , Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Sanskrit, English

• National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering