HDVI Leadership Team

We’re an experienced team that combines the best trucking industry experts, with insurance veterans, and innovative technologists.

This approach ensures that we’re equally as focused on loss ratios, unit economics, and profitability, as on developing customer-focused solutions that support fleets in running safe, compliant, and profitable operations.

Leadership

Adam Barnett

President & CEO

Adam started his career in insurance product development before moving into underwriting. Adam progressed through team leadership roles, eventually heading up mid-fleet underwriting for a major transportation insurance company.

Cu Pham-Barnes

Chief Technology Officer

Cu has been the technical lead in several startups that have gone public, with proven expertise in open-sourced cloud infrastructure enabling massive scalable architectures. Cu has built and managed agile teams with modern tech stacks.

Brett Veness

VP of Finance

Brett brings over 15 years of industry experience in financial planning, operational accounting, and controllership to HDVI. His focus is creating a highly efficient team and processes, while driving growth through financial analysis.

Keith Halasy

Chief Revenue Officer

With more than 25 years in SaaS, mobility, and telematics marketing, Keith brings a unique blend of product marketing, branding, communications, demand gen, and partner programs with a focus on the trucking industry to HDVI.

Todd Witte

Chief Insurance Product Officer

An actuary with a broad set of experience including risk segmentation, pricing product management, and rate filings, Todd brings extraordinary knowledge and experience and an innovative approach to HDVI’s insurance solutions.

Bettina Rudisill

VP of Operations

A multi-skilled insurance leader with extensive experience in regulatory compliance, insurance product management, and operational excellence. Bettina brings remarkable knowledge and innovative capabilities to HDVI’s operational successes.

Advisors

David Michaelson

HDVI Advisor

Dave Michelson is an experienced leader in commercial auto insurance, having held numerous executive roles including CEO of National Insurance for more than 20 years. Dave currently serves as an advisor or board member for several insurance-related companies.

Dave Firstenberg

HDVI Advisor

Dave Firstenberg has spent the last 30+ years in leadership roles at a highly diverse set of insurance organizations. He’s now advancing his passion for helping people and organizations be successful at the intersection of risk underwriting, technology, and engineering.

William Kampf

HDVI Advisor

In 40 years at Progressive Insurance, Bill Kampf held key roles and was instrumental in building the organization and framework that made Progressive the leading Commercial Auto Insurer. He continues to influence the industry, serving as a strategic advisor to key companies.

Andrew Ladebauche

HDVI Advisor

Andrew Ladebauche is CEO & Co-Founder of Reliance Partners, Inc., a leading insurance brokerage and consultant for the transportation, logistics, and warehouse industries.

Chuck Wallace

Executive Chairman of the Board & CoFounder

Former Air Force pilot, now a serial entrepreneur and business advisor. Chuck co-founded and helped build Esurance into a market leader and has been part of teams that built industry leading businesses in insurtech, mobility, and fintech.

Ron Honken

HDVI Advisor

With over 30 years of experience forging agency partnerships and managing growth at some of the most well-known companies in the commercial insurance space, Ron Honkin’s deep industry expertise will serve HDVI, its agencies, and its insureds well.

Board

Alexei Andreev

Autotech Ventures

Co-founder and Managing Director of Autotech Ventures, a transportation-focused VC with over $500 million in assets. A stage-agnostic investor looking for disruptive innovations enabled by novel business models.

Jake Medwell

8VC

Co-founder and Partner, Jake leads 8VC’s logistics and transportation practice, which was ranked #1 globally in 2022. 8VC builds and invests in companies that build transformational technologies that create long-term economic and societal value.

Will Weatherford

Weatherford Capital

Managing Partner at Weatherford Capital, a family-owned growth equity firm that backs rapidly growing and technology-enabled companies in heavily regulated industries, like insurtech.

Jacqueline LeSage

Munich Re Ventures

Founder and Managing General Partner for Munich Re Ventures (MRV), the venture arm of reinsurance leader, Munich Re. With over $1B in assets under management and more than a decade of experience investing in early-stage companies, MRV accelerates the technologies and new business models tackling the biggest risks facing the world.

Adam Barnett

HDVI President & CEO