Y-Risk Innovation Labs

Y-Risk Innovation Labs

Driving Customer-Centric Innovation

We’re developing innovative, forward-thinking insurance solutions to help customers manage risk and grow.
Y-Risk Innovation Labs
The Hartford’s Y-Risk Innovation Lab develops and tests innovative new risk management solutions for our customers. The Hartford brings two centuries of risk experience in partnership with our key brokers and agents to deliver new products and technology-enabled, customer-oriented solutions to market.
 
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Y-Risk Labs helps accelerate product innovation by:
 
  • Developing innovative new coverage solutions to fill protection gaps
  • Developing technology-enabled customer solutions (e.g., telematics, worker safety)
  • Testing and evaluating the latest IoT technologies
  • Exploring emerging risks and topics in growth areas like mobility and corporate sustainability.
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Y-Risk Innovation Lab promotes highly efficient collaboration with a transparent, disciplined and repeatable “idea management” process. We manage our idea portfolio like a venture portfolio. We begin by investing in important ideas that succeed will help create strong risk solutions for our partners and customers.
Peter Mielert
Peter Mielert
Head of Y-Risk
Innovation Labs
Natalie Calletano
Natalie Calletano
 Innovation Project Manager
Wendy Dowd
Wendy Dowd
 Head of Product Innovation
Harold Fowlkes
Harold Fowlkes
Head of Innovation Distribution
Marlana Griffin
Marlana Griffin
Head of Risk Mitigation Innovation
Latasha Greene
Latasha Greene
Innovation Project Manager
Karl Meredith
Karl Meredith
Head of Risk Intelligence
Bhamini Patel
Bhamini Patel
Innovation Project Manager