Claims operations expertise, carrier technology experience

We built Fnolwise from the inside of the problem — from claims supervision floors and insurance technology teams, not from the outside looking in.

Team members

Valerie Lundgren — CEO and Co-Founder

Valerie Lundgren

CEO & Co-Founder

Former commercial claims supervisor at a Hartford regional carrier. Seven years in P&C claims operations, tracking 14 hrs/week lost to FNOL callbacks and incomplete intake. Ran a structured intake pilot achieving 40% callback reduction before founding Fnolwise in 2024. University of Hartford MBA.

Brendan Szymanski — CTO and Co-Founder

Brendan Szymanski

CTO & Co-Founder

Former senior software engineer at Guidewire Software, specialized in ClaimCenter API integrations for regional and national carriers. Six years building insurance technology infrastructure. Brings deep platform knowledge of how claims systems receive and process FNOL data at carrier scale.

Cecilia Otieno — Head of Carrier Partnerships

Cecilia Otieno

Head of Carrier Partnerships

Former regional account executive at Duck Creek Technologies, covering the Northeast carrier segment. Five years in claims management platform sales and carrier relationship management. Understands how technology buying decisions move inside carrier operations — and what makes implementation actually stick.

Arjun Venkatesh — ML Engineer

Arjun Venkatesh

ML Engineer

MS in Applied Statistics, University of Connecticut. Prior work in claims severity prediction at a Hartford insurtech. Leads the severity triage classification model at Fnolwise — designing the feature engineering pipeline, training on commercial P&C claim outcome data, and building the feedback loop that improves model accuracy from carrier data signals.

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