Insurtech buyers look healthy, says Vertafore's BJ Schaknowski. (Photo: Shutterstock) InsurTech buyers look healthy, says Vertafore's BJ Schaknowski. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Vertafore is a Denver-based InsurTech company that's high-tech enough to be watching blockchain technology closely, to be thinking about quantum computing, and to be using an analytical system based on artificial intelligence technology on a regular basis.

One thing BJ Schaknowski, vice president of sales and marketing at Vertafore, sees is that, overall, in spite of all the talk about upheaval, InsurTech buyers look healthy.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.