Andrew Wynn is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Ascend, a complete financial operations platform built for the insurance industry. At Ascend, Andrew leads a company that brings together AI-powered accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in one platform. His work helps insurance businesses replace manual billing, collection, and accounting with automation from collection to close. Ascend serves more than 4,000 customers, including 25 of the 50 largest brokers in the country. Andrew spoke at our 2024 InsurTech Spring Conference on “Driving Digital Growth in Specialty and Commercial,” alongside Wendi Bukowitz and Philip Charles-Pierre.
Andrew Wynn co-founded Ascend in 2021 to modernize how the insurance industry manages its financial operations. He brings a product-focused approach to that work. Years of building technology companies across insurance, data, and consumer platforms shaped his approach. Before Ascend, Andrew co-founded and led Sheltr. The platform handled all of the maintenance and care a home needs, saving homeowners time, money, and stress. Hippo Insurance acquired Sheltr in 2019. Andrew then led the business as Hippo Home Care while serving on the Hippo leadership team.
Before insurance, Andrew Wynn led product management at Looker. Google later acquired the data platform for $2.6 billion. He then spent more than three years at Instacart in data and catalog leadership roles. There, he grew the platform’s product selection 200-fold. Earlier, Andrew completed a technology leadership program at Levi Strauss & Co. He also served as an economic development consultant with the Peace Corps in Senegal, helping local mango growers reduce waste in their supply chain. Andrew studied at Purdue University.
For an insurtech audience, Andrew brings a builder’s perspective on insurance financial operations, accounting automation, insurance payments, premium financing, billing and collections, broker and carrier technology, and the infrastructure decisions modern insurance businesses face as they modernize their back office.
