My story
Fluent in the model, the P&L, and the reality.
I'm Abhishek Mishra — an AI product leader and growth executive who has spent 18+ years turning technology into insurance products that ship, get adopted, and move the P&L.
I work end-to-end: from the AI and cloud foundations, through the business-process reinvention, to the commercial outcomes. I started in engineering and consulting, learned insurance from the inside across P&C and reinsurance, incubated a venture-funded AI startup, and today lead AI-driven property and claims solutions at Swiss Re.
What I care about most is the rarest thing in this space: being fluent at once in the model, the P&L, and the operational reality of claims and underwriting.
Open to senior AI product leadership roles, advisory engagements, and speaking.
Career evolution
Consulting → Delivery → Product → AI Leadership
2007–2017
Consulting & transformation (Cognizant)
Business and IT transformation, core modernization, and Center-of-Excellence leadership across the UK, Europe, ASEAN, Middle East, ANZ, US, and India.
2017–2020
Product incubation (Cognizant Property Insights)
Incubated a $6M-funded deep-learning catastrophe-claims startup; grew the team 4→25; shipped an AWS AI claims platform; onboarded 6 insurers in beta and converted 3 to paying.
2020–2022
Market leadership (Cognizant, Director)
Grew a $30M P&L by 40%; served the top 25 US P&C insurers; built partnerships with Duck Creek, Guidewire, and Insurity.
2022–present
AI product & growth (Swiss Re, VP)
Global AI claims platform for climate risk; 30+ person team; 30%+ expense reduction; $1M ARR in 18 months; owned the global P&L; co-invented a patented Rapid Damage Assessment Risk Score.
Areas of expertise
What I bring, with receipts
Artificial Intelligence
Patented Rapid Damage Assessment
Machine learning, deep learning, generative and agentic AI, computer vision, RAG, and LLM evaluation/governance — applied to regulated insurance, not slideware.
Experience: ≈9 years hands-on AI/ML in insurance
- Co-invented a patented Rapid Damage Assessment Risk Score (Swiss Re, 2025)
- Built deep-learning catastrophe claims on AWS (incubated startup)
- Shipped agentic-AI onboarding cutting client time-to-market to ~2 weeks
- Built FACIA, a multi-agent catastrophe-analytics prototype
Zero-to-One Product Management
$1M ARR in 18 months
Taking AI concepts from raw idea to shipped, adopted, monetized product — owning strategy, roadmap, pricing, GTM, and P&L.
Experience: ≈9 years in product leadership
- Built $1M ARR in 18 months for a new AI claims product (Swiss Re)
- Incubated a $6M-funded startup; grew it 4→25 and 6 beta → 3 paying
- Designed a scalable tiered pricing model
- Shipped multiple 0→1 AI prototypes (claims, catastrophe, Workers-Comp)
Technology Transformation
$30M P&L grown 40%
Large-scale business and technology transformation — core platform modernization, operating models, and cloud/AI adoption across insurers and reinsurers.
Experience: 18+ years across transformation & technology
- Grew a $30M service-line P&L by 40% leading core transformation for top-25 P&C insurers
- Led legacy modernization across the UK, Denmark, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Riyadh
- Authored an AI adoption strategy and end-state architecture for a global reinsurer
Career philosophy
What I optimize for
Customer empathy, data-driven decisions, and hands-on execution. I believe the best AI products come from people who understand the domain deeply, design with the P&L in mind, and measure adoption — not just accuracy.
How I work: Discovery → Research → Strategy → Execution → Measurement → Iteration.
Current focus: Agentic AI, AI-native insurance products, and catastrophe/climate intelligence — plus building working prototypes to pressure-test what's real.
Leadership
How I lead
- Build teams that own outcomes, not tickets.
- Put controls and trust in from day one.
- Keep humans on judgment and money.
- Make the smallest change that ships value.
- Lead across functions — sales, actuarial, engineering, compliance — because AI products live at those seams.
The record
Career timeline
VP, Product Lead & Head of Growth — AI-driven Property & Claims Solutions
CurrentSwiss Re · Jul 2022 – Present · New York, US
- Global product vision and roadmap for an AI-driven claims platform for climate risk
- Built and scaled a 30+ team across the US and Europe
- Reduced claims expense 30%+ and processing time 40%
- Built $1M ARR within 18 months; owned the global P&L
- Co-invented a patented Rapid Damage Assessment Risk Score (2025)
Director, P&C Products & Services Market Leader — Core Platform Transformation & Innovation
Cognizant · May 2020 – Jul 2022 · Newington, CT
- Led solution sales/delivery across the top 25 US P&C insurers
- Partnerships with Duck Creek, Guidewire, Insurity
- Grew a $30M service-line P&L by 40%; 5 new clients, 4 multi-year deals
Sr Product Manager / Product Leader (Associate Director) — Cognizant Property Insights
Cognizant · Oct 2017 – Apr 2020 · Hartford, CT
- Incubated a $6M-funded deep-learning catastrophe-claims startup
- Grew the team 4 → 25
- Onboarded 6 insurers in beta; converted 3 to paying
Senior Manager Consulting (Associate Director)
Cognizant · Jul 2015 – Sep 2017 · Bangalore
- Consulting sales/execution across ASEAN, Middle East, UK, Europe
Manager Consulting (Senior Manager)
Cognizant · Jul 2012 – Jun 2015 · Chennai / Bangalore
- Led Policy Admin & Distribution CoEs; managed a team of 20
Senior Consultant (Manager)
Cognizant · Jun 2010 – Jun 2012 · US / Chennai
- Underwriting & policy-admin transformation engagements
Business Consultant
Cognizant · Jul 2007 – May 2010 · Chennai
- IT consulting and business requirements; US/UK pre-sales
Proof
Credentials & publications
Certifications
- AI Product Management Certification (Product Faculty)
- AINS (Associate in General Insurance)
- Artificial Intelligence for Product Certification
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Patent & Publications
- Rapid Damage Assessment Risk Score (issued 2025)
- Harnessing Social Media Data for Enhanced Underwriting Effectiveness (Asia Insurance Review)
- Right Touch Underwriting for Commercial Lines
- Realizing the Potential of Social Media: A Strategy and Approach for Insurers
- How Insurers Can Leverage Social and Messaging Apps to Enhance Digital Value
- Innovation for Improving Catastrophe Claims Response
- Swiss Re 2022 Business Report (contributor)
Speaking
- Duck Creek Formation 2022 (Orlando) — “How Commercial Insurers are Transforming Underwriting with SaaS Platforms”
Education
- MBA, Marketing & Systems — Xavier Institute of Management (2005–2007)
- B.Tech, Instrumentation & Technology — CET Bhubaneswar (2001–2005)
Beyond work
The personal side of the story is coming soon.