Aviad Pinkovezky is President and CEO of First Connect Insurance Services, a digital marketplace focused on simplifying how independent agents, carriers, and MGAs connect and do business. At First Connect, Aviad leads work at the intersection of insurance distribution, marketplace strategy, and product execution, with a focus on reducing friction for independent agencies and creating better ways for agents and markets to work together. Aviad spoke in 2024 at our InsurTech Spring Conference, on Making the Agents Life Easier, alongside James Riviezzo, Rhonda Marcucci, Cameron Torstenson, and John Keddy.
Aviad Pinkovezky brings a background across high-growth technology, product leadership, and insurance. Before becoming President and CEO of First Connect Insurance Services, Aviad spent nearly nine years at Hippo Insurance, where he served as President of First Connect, Chief Product Officer, and Head of Product. He joined Hippo as the company’s first non-founder employee and helped the company reach unicorn status in under four years with a product team of three.
At Hippo, Aviad helped build an integrated customer, partner, and data platform from the ground up, enabling a home insurance quote in 60 seconds and an online purchase in less than five minutes. He also helped scale the platform for nationwide expansion across home insurance lines and multiple distribution channels, including portals for customers, agents, and lenders. In addition, Aviad built a complex insurance quoting platform for strategic partners in less than six months, replacing a 20-year legacy system without service disruption.
Before entering insurance, Aviad Pinkovezky served as Senior Product Manager for LinkedIn Company Pages, where he led product management and strategy for a product used by millions of companies. He grew the LinkedIn Company Pages ecosystem from 3 million to 8 million pages in two and a half years and is a co-inventor of 12 U.S. patents, pending and issued, largely focused on representing business entities over social media.
Earlier in his career, Aviad worked as a Summer Associate at McKinsey & Company and served as Head of a Technology Research Section in the Israel Defense Forces, where he managed a team of 25 soldiers and officers. Aviad holds a master’s degree in Management and Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business and completed Reforge’s Growth Series. For an insurtech audience, Aviad brings a practical perspective on insurance distribution, independent agents, carrier and MGA connectivity, product-led growth, and scaling digital insurance platforms.
