Insurtech Accelerant Welcomes Chief Technology Officer Pete Horst

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accelerant, the insurtech empowering underwriters with superior risk exchange, data analytics, and long-term capacity commitments, today announced that Pete Horst has joined as Chief Technology Officer. Horst will lead Accelerant’s global platform strategy and development.

A software executive who excels at leveraging technology, Horst most recently served as Vice President of Engineering for business analytics platform Qlik, where he brought their platform to the cloud as an Enterprise SaaS offering. Before that, Horst held software development and engineering roles at IBM and Cognos.

"Accelerant at its core is a data and technology company. We are thrilled to welcome Pete to our team to lead our risk exchange initiatives to meet the needs of our Members and risk capital partners," said Jeff Radke, CEO and co-founder of Accelerant. "His expertise and strategic partnership will expand our industry leadership, authority and vision as we explore new frontiers.”

Accelerant specializes in serving a carefully selected and managed network of Members in the managing general underwriter and program administrator space across the United States, U.K. and Europe. It was founded by executives with more than three decades experience in the insurance industry who combined forces with leading technologists and data scientists to help underwriters drive market-leading profitable growth.

Horst will lead functions spanning Accelerant’s proprietary data and technology platform that helps Members better understand risk, benefit from insights, and handle operational and regulatory complexity.

ABOUT ACCELERANT

Accelerant is a data-driven, technology-fueled insurance platform that empowers underwriters to more effectively serve their insureds. We're using advanced data intelligence tools to rebuild the way that underwriters share and exchange risk. With a current focus on the small and medium-sized businesses that power our global economy and their niche insurance needs, we align incentives to improve outcomes for everyone. Our full-service risk exchange supports our carefully selected, best-in-class network of underwriting teams. We leverage granular information on each policy to deliver unprecedented insight into insurance pools, and our specialty portfolio is fully diversified with very low catastrophe, aggregation or systemic risk. We're proud to have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelins.com.