BIO
Beth Maerz
Senior Vice President
Platform, Customer Experience & Innovation
Personal Insurance
Travelers
Beth Maerz is Senior Vice President of Platform, Customer Experience and Innovation for Personal Insurance, leading the strategy on new business capabilities and innovation efforts.
Recognized as a thought leader and global partner to InsurTech startups, Beth’s work has influenced transformative change across the insurance industry since she joined Travelers in 2005.
Through an ever-expanding network of influencers, she helps identify and explore new areas where Travelers can innovate to meet the future needs of customers and agents.
In 2016, she led the effort to establish the Hartford InsurTech Hub, an industry job-creation center for nearly a dozen start-up companies. In 2017, she and her team received the prestigious Travelers Chairman’s award for developing the company’s first true millennial product. Named to ACORD’s Top 10 list of 2018 InsurTech Leaders, she is recognized for driving global change and tangible outcomes.
Prior to Travelers, Beth held leadership positions with a variety of marketing and management consulting firms. She served as Vice President of Darwin Partners’ Solutions Group, and developed the pharmaceutical marketing consulting practice at Epsilon, a leading data-driven marketing services firm.
Beth holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut and a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from Boston University.