Brian Poppe is vice president of innovation strategy at Mutual of Omaha. In this role, he monitors the everchanging FinTech and InsureTech landscape, identifies partnership opportunities that would align with Mutual’s strategy and then fosters those relationships. He also stands up an internal innovation community of practice to encourage responsible innovative ideas within Mutual of Omaha.

Previously, Poppe served as vice president of innovation strategy at Mutual of Omaha. In that role, he monitored the everchanging FinTech and InsureTech landscape, identified partnership opportunities that would align with Mutual’s strategy and then fostered those relationships. He also has prior experience as vice president of enterprise risk management (ERM) at Mutual of Omaha where he monitored, reported and suggested enterprise treatment of the risks facing Mutual. Notable accomplishments include leading an enterprise-wide governance, risk and compliance software installation, developing key risk indicators to monitor the company’s risks, supporting the implementation of a company-wide model risk management program, and performing both top-down and bottom-up risk assessments.

Poppe earned his bachelor’s degree in actuarial science from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2006. In March 2010, he achieved fellowship in the Society of Actuaries, attained his Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst designation in 2014 and is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He has previously served as chairman of the board and president of the Nebraska Actuaries Club. Additionally, he serves on the board of the Global Insurance Accelerator, an insurance-based start-up accelerator, and recently received the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Early Achiever Award.

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