Insurtech Corvus taps Capital One cyber exec as first-ever CTO

Cyber managing general underwriter  Corvus Insurance, a provider of smart commercial insurance products powered by AI-driven risk data, has appointed its first chief technology officer (CTO) from Capital One.

Vincent Weafer (pictured) brings over 25 years of engineering leadership experience to the company, and will help Corvus further advance its technology offerings.

Weafer previously served as senior vice president of cyber engineering at Capital One, where he led a multi-disciplined team of cyber, technology, and machine learning engineers focused on threat and risk mitigation. He also held engineering and research leadership roles at McAfee, Intel and Symantec, where Weafer focused on providing best-in-class protection solutions in malware, host and network intrusion, email, vulnerability, and web security. Weafer currently serves as executive advisor to automated endpoint threat investigation solution startup TriagingX.

Mike Lloyd, co-founder and chief product officer of Corvus, said: “ Corvus is thrilled to welcome Vincent onto our growing team. His background as a technical and cybersecurity leader will be instrumental to us as we continue to scale. Vincent’s experience will help our best-of-breed technology suite soar to new heights to delight our customers and further our mission to make the world a safer place.”

Weafer commented: “ Corvus is making tremendous strides in its risk mitigation efforts across the board, so to be able to utilize the data gathered from its proprietary security scanning technology to eliminate the impact of adverse events for policyholders is critical.

“I am thrilled to be joining the team and to be able to leverage my background in enterprise solutions delivery, security and data analytics to reinforce Corvus’s leadership position for assessing and combating cyber risk.”

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