Board of Directors

Assaf Wand is a co-founder of Hippo, serves as Executive Chairman of our board of directors and was our Chief Executive Officer from October 2015 to June 2022. Prior to Hippo, Mr. Wand was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sabi Inc., a consumer goods company, from May 2009 to October 2015. Mr. Wand also served as a consultant with McKinsey & Company from August 2005 to December 2006. Mr. Wand holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a dual degree from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel for a B.A. in finance and an LL.B in law.

Richard McCathron is our CEO and President and has served as a member of the Board of Directors since February 2017. Prior to Hippo, Mr. McCathron held senior executive positions at various insurance companies including First Connect Insurance as its President & Chief Executive Officer from October 2012 to February 2017, Superior Access Insurance as its President & Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to October 2010 and Mercury Insurance Group as its Regional Vice President from April 2004 to June 2007. Mr. McCathron is both a Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter and a Certified Insurance Counselor and sits on the board of directors of Spinnaker Insurance Company and First Connect Insurance. He is an advisor for several other InsurTech companies and holds a BS in Finance from Oregon State University.

Amy Errett has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2021. Ms. Errett has served as Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Madison Reed since April 2013, and has served as a partner at True Ventures since June 2015. Ms. Errett has served on the board of directors of The Bay School of San Francisco since June 2019, and the board of directors of The University of Connecticut since December 2015. Ms. Errett holds an MBA from The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut.

Eric Feder has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2018. Mr. Feder also serves as the Managing General Partner of LEN X, LLC, since 2019, where he oversees Lennar’s innovation and venture capital investing. Prior to his current role, Mr. Feder was Vice Chairman at Rialto Capital from 2008 until 2018. From October 2004 to October 2008, Mr. Feder owned Cirrus Capital, LLC, a real estate venture.

Lori Dickerson Fouché has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2021. Mrs. Fouche´ served as Chief Executive Officer of TIAA Financial Solutions from August 2018 to December 2020 and served in various senior roles at Prudential Financial from July 2013 to July 2018. Prior to that, Mrs. Fouche´ served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company from February 2006 to June 2013. Mrs. Fouche´ holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.

Hugh R. Frater has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2018. Mr. Frater is currently the chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, after serving as the interim chief executive officer from October 2018 to March 2019, serving on their board since 2016. Additionally, Mr. Frater currently acts as the non-executive chairman of the board of VEREIT, Inc. He previously led Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC, a national commercial real estate company providing comprehensive capital solutions and investment sales advisory and research services for multifamily and commercial properties. He served as chairman of Berkadia from April 2014 to December 2015, and he served as chief executive officer of Berkadia from 2010 to April 2014. Earlier in his career, Mr. Frater was an executive vice president at PNC Financial Services, where he led the real estate division, and was a founding partner and managing director of BlackRock, Inc. Mr. Frater holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Noah Knauf has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2019. Mr. Knauf focuses on investments in high growth technology companies, with a particular focus on healthcare, fintech, gaming and frontier technology. He serves on the boards of N3twork, Nurx and Relativity Space. He is also actively involved with investments in BYJU’S, Hyperscience and Locus. Mr. Knauf co-led Kleiner Perkins’ Digital Growth Fund team, which became BOND in 2019. At Kleiner Perkins, he invested in a range of innovative companies including Better Mortgage, Epic Games, SmileDirectClub, Toss, and UiPath. Mr. Knauf continues to co-lead the three Digital Growth Funds totaling $2.8 billion of committed capital. Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Mr. Knauf served as Managing Director at private equity firm Warburg Pincus where he contributed to almost twenty investments in growth companies over nine years from June 2006 to June 2016. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Knauf worked as an investment professional at Parthenon Capital from February 2003 to August 2005 and as a consultant at Bain & Company from July 2001 to February 2003. He received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar, and a BS summa cum laude in Business Administration from the University of Arizona.

Sam Landman has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2017. Mr. Landman serves as a Managing Director of Mastry Inc. Mr. Landman served as Managing Director of Comcast Ventures from 2009 to 2021. In addition to his role on the Hippo board, Mr. Landman serves as a member of the board of several private companies. Mr. Landman holds a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

John “Jay” Nichols Jr. has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2022. Nichols, an accomplished insurance and reinsurance executive with more than four decades of experience, has held multiple leadership and board positions throughout his successful career. Most recently, Nichols served as Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at Protective Insurance Company where he oversaw the acquisition of the company by Progressive Insurance Company. Prior to Protective, Nichols was the CEO of Axis Reinsurance Ltd. and held various roles, including President, during a fifteen-year stint at RenaissanceRe Ventures Ltd. He currently serves on the boards of Delaware North Companies, Brit Re and Sussex Re, Enhanzed Re, Chelsea Avondale / Max Insurance Company, and previously served on the board of National General Insurance Company.

Sandra Wijnberg has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2020. From 2015 to 2019, she was an executive advisor of Aquiline Capital Partners, a subsidiary of Aquiline Holdings LLC, a registered investment advisory firm and from 2007 to 2014 was a partner and the chief administrative officer of Aquiline Holdings LLC. From 2014 through 2015, served as the Deputy Head of Mission for the Office of the Quartet in Jerusalem, a development project under the auspices of the United Nations. Previously, Ms. Wijnberg served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., a global professional services company and was treasurer and interim Chief Financial Officer of YUM! Brands, Inc. Prior to that, she held financial management positions with PepsiCo., Inc. and worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Ms. Wijnberg is a director of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., and T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and previously served on the boards of Tyco International plc from 2003 to 2016 and TE Connectivity Ltd. From 2007 to 2009. She is a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a director of Seeds of Peace. Ms. Wijnberg holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.