Deborah Smallwood

Top insurance industry advisors Deborah Smallwood and Cindy Maike are ebizQ's Insurance Community Managers. Their focus is on transforming insurance companies into agile, business-driven enterprises where IT enables business value.

As Community Managers, Smallwood and Maike will blog and podcast to keep the ebizQ community fully informed on the latest news and breakthroughs relevant to insurance. They will also be responsible for publishing press releases, covering briefings, writing feature articles and sourcing content from other analysts, industry associations and vendors for publication on ebizQ. Finally, each week, they will compile the most important news and views in an e-mail newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing insurance community.

Focusing on the needs and challenges of today's insurance world, Smallwood Maike & Associates, Inc is a strategic advisory firm that offers a unique blend of research, advisory and consulting services for both insurance companies and solution providers. By leveraging best practices from both the management consulting and research advisory disciplines, Smallwood Maike's service offerings are prime for companies eager and ready to embrace change and achieve their full business potential.

As co-founder of Smallwood Maike, Deborah Smallwood has held leadership roles with Liberty Mutual, KPMG LLP, and TowerGroup, where she consistently found new ways to leverage technology in achieving optimal business performance. Her skill set includes business strategy, the development of business and IT roadmaps, and the delivery of application software. Prior to Smallwood Maike, Deb served as Chief Transformation Officer (CIO) for a P&C, mid-tier regional carrier and was the Managing Director of the Insurance Practice at TowerGroup.

Co-founder Cindy Maike brings clients a wealth of insurance and financial services experience, grounded in the business but reaching deeply into the technology. Maike previously held a variety of leadership positions at IBM and ACORD, where she honed her skills in business architecture, development/standards, global software marketing, business strategy, management consulting, business architecture, and IT strategy. She has also been and continues to be an advocate and active participant in the development of insurance industry business architecture, process modeling, and information standards.

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