The insurance industry has needed a makeover for decades. We gathered the smartest folks and built a Pure no-code solution ourselves.
About Us
What drives us
Vision
Innovation for humanity through tech for good.
We harness technology to enable more people to secure the insurance coverage they need to protect their loved ones down the road. At thinktum, we believe innovation should empower human minds while injecting transparency into every step. Our goal is for technology to enable and improve the lives of all those around us.
Mission
We dare leverage cutting-edge technology to empower human minds.
Technology solutions, like AI algorithms, are simply tools. They don’t guarantee outcomes. What they do is make the journey more efficient, accurate, and enjoyable for end users. Happier end-users are more likely to convert just as much as they are to recommend your services to others.
Our Values
Lead, revolutionize, and drive exponential business
Streamlining
A smart customer journey provides a much faster decision-recommendation. Questions are asked and answered using plain language and every question is based on the answers already provided to ensure hyper-personalization. We value a no-nonsense approach.
Digitalizing
People are looking for a digital customer journey. They want to be able to access products and services on their own time and the device of their choosing, regardless of the hour. Legacy systems simply won’t cut it. We enable modern preferences and solutions.
Augmenting
At thinktum, we believe that AI and other technologies are simply a means to an end, nothing more. It can enable a new way of working that is smarter, with more built-in clarity. AI makes people better at doing what humans do. We call it augmentation. Technology doesn’t augment humans, but rather frees them up from rote and mundane tasks to do what human minds do best – thinking and creating.
Reshaping
We’re committed to helping reshape the typical ecosystem into a modern, technologically advanced space that can tailor customer journeys for an everchanging audience of unique individuals.
Our Journey
We’ve come a long way
InsurTechNY 2022
Our Head of Strategy, Eugene Shafronsky, engaged in this first thinktum in-person expert panel on Reducing the Underwriting Cycle Time at this event. Additional snippets are available on our LinkedIn page.
SummerHack 2022
This global event brought together insurtech experts and innovators from all over the world for 2 days of insurance innovation and friendly competition. This year, we partnered with Swiss Re and our co-creation was named crowd favorite. Check out the photos and story on our LinkedIn page.
Insurtech Americas 2022
This was thinktum’s first time exhibiting at an industry event. We introduced ourselves, spoke with dozens at our booth, participated in roundtable & expert panel discussions, and were interviewed by FF News. The full interview is available on our Media page.
ITC Vegas 2022
In 2022, at ITC Vegas, we showcased our solutions suite’s new use cases at our new booth, hosted an Ask Me Anything session, and were interviewed with FF News. Check out photos, footage, and more on our thinktum LinkedIn page.
FF Awards 2022 Finalists
FF Awards holds an annual video competition and thinktum entered in 2022 with our first collaboration with VAX Films. We are thrilled our submission made finalist in the artificial intelligence category. You can watch our entry piece on our Homepage.
MUD 2023
The Metropolitan Underwriting Discussion (M.U.D.) Group's annual conference was fantastic this year, and thinktum represented as Gold Sponsors. The team made themselves available, booked meetings, and had so many conversations with attendees.
Rebranding overhaul
We’ve been busy bees rebranding and demonstrating our liz suite’s technology. Our website is now a proper reflection of thinktum’s DNA, you shall wonder no more what it is that we "actually do"!
AHOU 2023
This event gathers Underwriters from across North America. This year, we unveiled our rebranding in a new & festive booth with an interactive kiosk and a contest. Attendees could also watch our 30-second commercial boasting liz suite’s implementation timelines. Find it all on Social Media!
Insurtech Insights USA 2023
ITI NY is a beast. And thinktum was all in! We participated in an expert panel on “How Low-Code/No-Code is Refining Change Management”, helped judge The Ambitious Insurer awards, were interviewed by FF news, and demonstrated our liz suite to curious booth guests. Keep an eye on social for more!
Meet our Team
thinktum unites industry-leading professionals from various sectors
You can’t build a world-class solution without the brightest minds from many industries. Luckily, thinktum’s team is made up of experts, artists, innovators, and go-getters. With expertise in the insurance industry, data, solutions development, AI, and more, our people define our brand’s DNA.
David Slabodkin
CEO and Founder
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David Slabodkin
CEO and Founder
Vision
“Innovation for Humanity” is the cornerstone of David’s undertakings. It is also the foundation on which thinktum was built and it acts as a mantra guiding our path daily.
Experience
He began his insurance career in insurance sales and by the late 1980s, he designed, marketed, and developed products for a number of insurers in North America. Then he founded Canada Protection Plan (CPP) in 1992. David invests in technology companies and sits on numerous Boards. He founded thinktum in 2018 and continues to be involved with mentoring the team and providing expertise where needed.
Fun fact: David has founded and supports many charitable organizations and causes. His focus is grounded in improving lives and livelihoods throughout North America, with recent focus on South America.
Paul Reaburn
President
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Expertise
Life insurance product development, mergers and acquisitions, and reinsurance negotiations.
Experience
Led the set-up of thinktum and related companies’ legal structure, and led the acquisition and/or investment in sister companies.
Funfact: Loves science, especially physics.
Eugene Shafronsky
Head of Strategy
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Expertise
Product development, underwriting, distribution, team building, and big-picture leadership.
Experience
Developing and launching AI-driven tools, and multiple insurance products; built and led various national distribution teams.
Funfact: Unrepentant soccer junkie.
Stephen Cheeseman
Head of Legal & Compliance
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Expertise
Global legal knowledge and expertise in financial services, privacy law, AML and Fintech, admitted attorney in Canada, US, and UK.
Experience
Applying expertise in distribution channel compliance, privacy legal standards, and the life insurance technology platforms used to build thinktum’s solutions.
Funfact: His first professional job was with Procter and Gamble selling oil for deep fryers to restaurants.
Annie Chu
AVP, Strategic Partnerships
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Expertise
Managing and developing relationships/accounts, serving as a liaison between different departments, and ensuring projects and requirements are completed on time.
Experience
Insurance distribution channel experience, involved in launching AI-driven underwriting tools, experienced in working in a team environment.
Funfact: Not a big sports fan, Annie does enjoy watching tennis from time to time.
Genevieve Adam-Burns
Director of Underwriting & Technology Solutions
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Expertise
Underwriting, product development, and behavioral economics
Experience
Developed AI-driven tools and multiple insurance products, modeling of behavioral and AI-driven underwriting engines.
Funfact: Genevieve is also a professional actor and voice artist.
Mariane Lefebvre
Marketing Director
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Expertise
Big-picture marketing, social media, insurance/reinsurance market knowledge, Artificial Intelligence, and overall technology grasp.
Experience
Led social media for a major, global reinsurer, marketed AI-driven solutions in the insurtech space.
Funfact: Mariane is a competitive Irish dancer and living room (former) singer-songwriter.
Tatiana Shkarina
Senior IT Project Manager
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Expertise
Project management, Agile, building honest and open relationships. Customer focus attitude.
Experience
Delivering projects in accordance with PMBOK standards, time, scope, budget, and quality; leading cross-functional teams across time zones in a virtual capacity.
Funfact: Tatiana was born in one of the coldest cities in the world. She also graduated from a professional music school in piano.
Nicolas Riccomini
Team Lead, Senior Full-Stack Developer
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Expertise
Front-and back-end software development, software architecture, Agile team leadership.
Experience
Building modern web applications from scratch, to solve specific enterprise needs, improving the process of creating business value, while creating a solid team of professionals.
Funfact: Nicolas has not learned to drive (yet).
Careers
Join our team!
At thinktum, we built our workforce one person at a time. We’re always on the lookout for true professionals who love an exciting challenge and work best in a collaborative environment. We encourage continuous learning, innovation, and creative thinking & ingenious solutioning.
Kinvesting
Investing in like-mindedness
We aim to accelerate the research and development of innovative technology solutions, through collaborative partnerships, benefitting the sectors they serve for the greater good of humanity.
We are neither a typical venture capital firm nor an angel investor. Our partner startups scale quickly due to leveraging thinktum’s in-house talent. And for the most aligned, we offer small capital injections to get to MP or product launch.
thinktum partners with entrepreneurs and teams that share our philosophy and values:
- Innovation for humanity through tech for good
Your idea or technology moves society forward and improves humankind. - True partnership
You’re looking for a partner – in every sense of the term – to make your new company successful. We don’t simply make investments, just as you aren’t simply looking for cash. - More than just funds
You recognize you need skills and resources to compliment your current offering. - Building a sustainable business
You want to build a business that provides good jobs and helps communities. Good, so do we.
Have questions?
Connect with our experts.
If you have questions about our liz suite, AI-driven data management, Pure no-code, or how we can help you with your customer journeys, reach out to us. We’re so happy to clarify anything.
