Chris Eberly is a Senior Principal in the Insurance practice at Datos Insights with expertise in IT leadership, transformational technology implementation, enterprise information/data management, and technology strategy for the insurance industry.
Prior to joining Datos Insights, Chris was VP and head of Life & Producer Services IT at Lincoln Financial, where he led the Implementation of FAST as the strategic life policy administration platform, significantly improved performance on the core compensation platforms, operationalized the Life centralized data store, moved a core legacy platform off the mainframe to AWS, and expanded agile development practices. Before Lincoln Financial, Chris supported many carriers with strategic management as VP of Research and Consulting at Novarica. Prior to Novarica, he was SVP of Insurance Solutions IT at Voya, where he was responsible for all IT services supporting the retail life and employee benefits business lines and for designing, planning, and building technology innovations that enable Voya to deliver new products and reach new markets in these business segments.
Chris has over 35 years of extensive industry experience in managing, designing, building, and implementing systems to support life, annuity, group benefits, and retirement services organizations. He has presented in many industry forums in the U.S. and London. In 2008, he was one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders. Chris attended Fairfield University and Trinity College.