Executive Insights: Vertafore CTO Liz Nguyen

Vertafore CTO Liz Nguyen relocated to Colorado about six year ago. Time away from work is spent hiking with friends, including her two corgis, Harry and Sophie. (Image provided by Liz Nguyen)

Vertafore, the insurance-technology provider, recently announced the appointment of the company’s first female chief technology officer (CTO), Liz Nguyen.

As nice as it is to be first, however, Nguyen says that what makes her right for the role has little to do with gender and everything to do with the two decades she spent developing software for a series of highly-regulated industries. The “secret sauce,” adds Nguyen, who first joined Vertafore in 2019 as vice president of product development, is her ability to build relationships across an organization.