Spike Lipkin is the CEO and Co-founder of Newfront. Previous to Newfront, Spike was one of the first employees at Opendoor, where he helped grow a five-person company into a business currently valued at more than $3 billion. Prior to Opendoor, Spike was an investor at Blackstone, where he served on the startup team that built Invitation Homes into the largest owner of single family real estate in the United States. At both Opendoor and Blackstone, Spike ran the purchase of commercial insurance, and his experiences with brokers was so bad that he began looking into how the insurance industry could be improved. This led Spike and Gordon to found Newfront.

Spike grew up in Colorado and received degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (BA), Cambridge (MA), and Stanford (MBA).

Mike Brown is Newfront’s Chief Operating Officer. Mike has a long and exceptional track record in business, with stints at McKinsey and executive leadership positions at Facebook and Twitter, followed most recently by a role running all of Asia for Uber. In that role he oversaw 2,100 employees and managed a $5 billion annual budget.

Mike grew up in the Bay Area and has degrees from Yale (BA) and Stanford (MBA).

Anna Beach is the Chief Insurance Officer for Newfront Insurance. She has worked in insurance for 28 years and across a wide variety of roles, which has given her a comprehensive view of the industry, its problems, and the potential to make dramatic improvements. Anna is responsible for ensuring quality control and internal risk management, maximizing our carrier and vendor partnerships, and solving complex insurance related matters.

Anna has worked on the carrier side, on the brokerage side, and has built and managed sales and service teams. She has built the property-casualty practice for a benefits firm and has run the US operations for an insuretech firm.

Gordon Wintrob is the co-founder and CTO at Newfront Insurance. He leads the development of Newfront's platform and operating system. Gordon grew up in a home steeped in insurance expertise. His dad ran AIG's Life and Retirement business and urged Gordon to apply his technical skills to the insurance industry to improve the client and broker experience. Gordon attended MIT and worked at Morgan Stanley, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs during his time there. Prior to Newfront, Gordon founded StackLead, a company that built automated technology to research sales leads. He sold that company to LinkedIn and it became LinkedIn's jobs product, aggregating millions of postings across the web.

As Head of People, Heather Dunn makes a best-in-class experience of everything that touches the life cycle of an employee at Newfront, from recruiting and compensation to benefits and training programs.  

Heather joined Newfront from Dropbox, where she co-led the HR business partner team. Heather has an insurance background, having launched her career at a workers' compensation firm before working at Microsoft in recruiting, compensation, and HR business partner roles.

Heather holds a BS degree from Central Michigan University and a master's degree from Michigan State University.

Mike Daoussis is Newfront’s Head of Program Innovation, responsible for deploying our deep carrier relationships and industry-leading technology to build out captive programs.

Mike is a longtime industry expert responsible for building some of the most sophisticated and successful captive programs in the industry. Mike has served in leadership roles at Lockton and Willis, where he ran their construction practices, and also worked at Wells Fargo/USI and Aon.

Mike grew up in Orange County and has degrees from USC (BA) and UCLA (MBA).

As Head of Safety & Loss Control, Nicole Lopez builds and implements loss control programs to mitigate risks for Newfront clients. Prior to joining Newfront, she spent 11 years as a civil litigator and prosecutor focusing on safety and protecting the community. ⁣She was successful in more than 50 jury trials and grand juries, ranging from embezzlement and fraud to wiretap gang cases. ⁣More recently, Nicole headed the safety and compliance division at a rideshare company for children. 

Nicole earned degrees from Amherst College (BA) and the University of California, Hastings (JD).

As Head of Talent, Stacy Ferranti leads Newfront’s recruiting engine. Before joining Newfront, Stacy was Senior Director of Talent at cloud database company MongoDB, where she was the first recruiting hire and helped grow the team from 30 people to more than 1,600 over 10 years. Before that, she was a recruiter at GAP, Inc. 

Stacy holds a BA degree from the University of San Francisco.

Aaron Forth owns the company’s product strategy as our Chief Product Officer. He leads our product management and design teams while partnering closely with engineering to help Newfront build amazing products and services for our clients. 

Aaron was previously CPO at equity management company Carta and fitness network Strava. Before that, he was VP of Product at Mint and General Manager of Personal Finance at Intuit after its Mint acquisition.  

Aaron holds a BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Running our claims department, David Lencioni’s long career spans the agency side (Aon), the carrier side (Zurich), and large, sophisticated private entities (Uber). Most recently, David joins Newfront from Uber, where he set up their claims organization and can boast of having overseen more claims than any other private company in America. It was at Uber that he saw how modern technology can transform claims management and he resolved to return to the insurance industry in order share his experience and drive the industry forward.

David grew up in South San Francisco, earned his BA at St. Mary’s on a D-1 baseball scholarship, and earned his MBA from Lake Forest.

Jonathan Young joined Newfront as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in September 2019 after serving as outside counsel for two years. Jonathan brings a wealth of experience from the insurance and legal fields to Newfront. He began his career at the United States Department of Justice before moving on to legal giant Reed Smith, where he served as a managing partner at the New York office. Jonathan left Reed Smith to join the executive leadership at Harleysville Insurance. He eventually returned to the practice of law, focusing mainly in litigation and insurance-related matters.

Jonathan was raised in Brooklyn, NY and educated at the University of Virginia (BA) and Georgetown Law (JD).

General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

As Vice President of Engineering at Newfront, Jared Shapiro leads our team of engineers in solving deep technical problems and creating industry-defining products for our customers. He was most recently a VP of Engineering at Roblox, where he was responsible for all core systems and platform features as well as mobile apps. He has held engineering leadership roles at several companies in the media, gaming, and mobile industries.

A native of Florida, Jared earned his BA and BFA from The New School in New York City.

Raphael runs strategic growth at Newfront. Prior to Newfront, he joined Segment.com as their first employee and went on to run sales as it grew from a four-person company to a $2 billion business that is one of the most successful startups in Silicon Valley. Raphael left Segment to join Newfront because of his passion for supporting salespeople and his belief that Newfront is well-positioned to become an industry-defining business.

Prior to his work at Newfront and Segment, Raphael was a corporate attorney on Wall Street, working on distressed debt M&A transactions and securities litigation, and before that he worked on telecom development in West Africa.

Raphael grew up in Cincinnati and received degrees from New York University (BA) and New York University School of Law (JD).

Zach leads the finance team at Newfront, focused on ensuring smooth financial operations for the whole team and supporting intelligent investment in growth. Zach began his career in private equity, driving operating improvements and completing transactions across seven different industries and a dozen portfolio companies. Before Newfront, he built the finance team at Collective Health, a late-stage growth business with more than 500 employees, focused on improving health insurance and serving the large, self-insured employer market.

Zach was raised in the Bay Area and received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated summa cum laude and served as commencement speaker. He also received his legal (JD) and business (MBA) degrees from Stanford.

As Chief Sales Officer, Garth Hamilton leads brokers in developing client solutions and continuing the firm’s rapid organic growth. Before joining Newfront, Garth was Chief Sales Officer and property/casualty market leader at HUB, where he led the Pacific Northwest sales team of more than 300 professionals to three years of unprecedented organic growth. Garth is a former insurance broker and agency principal with expertise in wholesale real estate and retail placements.

Garth earned his BA degree from Eastern Washington University.

We're ‍
a ‍
modern ‍
brokerage ‍
innovating ‍
on ‍
behalf ‍
of ‍
our ‍
clients. ‍

Why we started Newfront

And we’ve assembled a team that’s uniquely qualified to transform the industry.

250+
team members

60+
brokers

10 specialized
practice groups

4000+
clients

Our leadership team brings together the best from insurance and technology.

Spike Lipkin

Mike Brown

Anna Beach

Gordon Wintrob

Heather Dunn

Mike Daoussis

Nicole Lopez

Stacy Ferranti

Aaron Forth

David Lencioni

Jonathan Young

Jared Shapiro

Raphael Parker

Zachary Kruth

Garth Hamilton

Become part of a team unlike anything seen before in the industry.

Join us!

We're hiring

Meet our Brokers

Emily Sugars

Seth Word

Adrianne Peixotto

Stephen Gorman

Serge Vorobets

Forrest Wittenmeier

“The insurance industry hasn't evolved to help you grow your business. That isn't acceptable anymore, and that's why we started Newfront Insurance.”

Spike Lipkin

Latest articles

Newfront Insurance – notes on changing the industry

Building Newfront's Tech Platform: An interview with Josh Lewis

Newfront for Businesses

Newfront for Private Clients

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Why we started Newfront

And we’ve assembled a team that’s uniquely qualified to transform the industry.

250+team members

60+brokers

10 specializedpractice groups

4000+clients

Our leadership team brings together the best from insurance and technology.

Spike Lipkin

Mike Brown

Anna Beach

Gordon Wintrob

Heather Dunn

Mike Daoussis

Nicole Lopez

Stacy Ferranti

Aaron Forth

David Lencioni

Jonathan Young

Jared Shapiro

Raphael Parker

Zachary Kruth

Garth Hamilton

Become part of a team unlike anything seen before in the industry.

Join us!

We're hiring

Meet our Brokers

Emily Sugars

Seth Word

Adrianne Peixotto

Stephen Gorman

Serge Vorobets

Forrest Wittenmeier

Spike Lipkin

Latest articles

Newfront Insurance – notes on changing the industry

Building Newfront's Tech Platform: An interview with Josh Lewis

Newfront for Businesses

Newfront for Private Clients

We're ‍
a ‍
modern ‍
brokerage ‍
innovating ‍
on ‍
behalf ‍
of ‍
our ‍
clients. ‍

250+
team members

60+
brokers

10 specialized
practice groups

4000+
clients