Insurtech Omniscience recruits VP engineering and VP of product
Insurance software provider Omniscience has recruited Nandu Jayakumar as vice president of engineering and Tom Niermann as vice president of products.
With a multi-decade engineering career in which he has both envisioned and architected next generation computing models, Nandu Jayakumar is leading the Omniscience engineering team to build out the company’s data science and artificial intelligence technologies. Most recently, he was vice president of software development at Oracle Corporation with the team that took the company’s analytics platform and products into the cloud. Previously, at Visa, Jayakumar led a global team in building services and access methods to Visa's centralized data platform with stringent compliance and security requirements. Prior to this, he was the architect for Yahoo's advertising and audience data assets.
“We are creating an entirely new foundation and product set to handle some of the most difficult business problems of the next decade,” said Sunil Rawat, co-founder and CEO of Omniscience. “Nandu is one of a handful of technologists to both be able to see the future and lead our engineering team to make it a reality.”
At Omniscience, Tom Niermann is responsible for leading product definition for products. With a background in entrepreneurship, he has specialized in developing unique and innovative approaches and products for start-up companies wanting to create a network effect in competitive markets.
Niermann worked at Google where he directed a team of product managers creating new business partnerships and oversaw the syndication of Adsense, Mobile, YouTube, Gmail, TV, Android, Content, and Checkout at Google. In addition to Google, Niermann founded three venture-backed companies serving in the roles of CTO and VP of Engineering.
“Our goal is to create powerful technology and products for customers in the financial services and insurance industries where the complexity of their requirements has not been deciphered yet and the future of their businesses is often at stake,” said Rawat. “Tom is able to understand customer needs and technology capabilities to see all the puzzle pieces and put them together into an entirely new kind of solution.”
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