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The shift to more automation in workplaces is more than just a product of the pandemic — and it has a long way to go.

Financial services platform Alloy is providing employees with financial and legal support for abortion care.

By transferring healthcare purchasing power (and deductions) to the consumer, we’d see a swifter embrace of life-saving technologies, systems and data.

Banner Health is partnering with Instride to cover tuition costs for its nurses who wish to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees.

Sandee Perfetto is senior personal lines coverage director for Verisk’s Underwriting Solutions. Perfetto leads a team of personal lines and farm insurance professionals in using customer feedback, market knowledge, and business intelligence to drive the creation of new coverage products, and to maintain and enhance Underwriting Solutions existing programs. Over the years, Perfetto has helped develop a number of new personal lines products, and currently leads the personal lines development of insurance solutions for the sharing economy, millennials, autonomous vehicles, cyber and cannabis. Perfetto began her career at Verisk in the personal lines division. She graduated with a bachelor of science degree in insurance and finance from the University of Hartford and earned a master of science degree in education from Queens College. Sandee can be reached at Sandee.Perfetto@verisk.com.

John McDonough is Head of US Wealth Management Intermediaries Distribution at Invesco. He was previously the head of OppenheimerFunds’ Distribution and Marketing Teams, including Digital Distribution and Innovation.

Employees of color often avoid care because of mistrust and poor treatment. This telehealth platform is hoping to bring better support to those who need it most.

Matt is the Chief Operating Officer for Duck Creek Technologies. He brings more than 25 years of the insurance industry and technology experience to this global leadership role that is responsible for successful customer outcomes.

As COO, Matt is responsible for all of Duck Creek’s field operations, which encompasses the global customer experience through a full spectrum of customer account management activities. This experience ranges from customer expectation management, solution architecture & project proposals, implementation projects, SaaS provisioning, go-lives, and production servicing & support.

In previous executive roles, Matt was responsible for all day-to-day company operations, all new business development, and M&A activity that included Accenture’s acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies in 2011 and the joint-venture between Apax Partners and Accenture that resulted in the emergence of Duck Creek Technologies as an independent company in 2016.

Matt has deep roots in technology and is passionate about bringing innovative capabilities to the insurance market. In the formative years of the company’s technology solutions, Matt was chief technology officer for the Accenture P&C software group with responsibility for overall technology, architecture, and software blueprints for all P&C software products and a principal contributor to the original Claim Components software, now Duck Creek Claims.

Jim Bramblet is Accenture’s insurance lead in North America and is based in Chicago, Illinois. His expertise include digital transformation, operating model strategy and strategic cost reduction. Jim holds a BBA from University of Miami.

Across the country, schools are in a mad dash for substitutes and staff, thanks to cases that have broken records every day since the beginning of the year.