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Thirty years of powering what's next in insurance, data & financial services.

Greg McCutcheon

Greg McCutcheon

Founder & Principal

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  • 30+ years in financial services & insurance
  • Former Managing Director, Verisk Canada
  • Former President, Opta Information Intelligence
  • Former President, SCM Risk Management Services
  • Introduced iClarify™ to the Canadian insurance market (2009)
  • Led Opta through acquisition by Verisk (NASDAQ: VRSK), 2022
  • Top 30 Most Innovative Business Leaders, Insights Success, 2017
  • BAH, History & Politics, Queen's University

Greg has spent 30 years leading digital transformation across Canadian insurance and financial services. As President of Opta Information Intelligence, he grew the business into Canada's largest property data aggregator, serving every major Canadian P&C insurer, before leading its 2022 sale to Verisk (NASDAQ: VRSK), where he continued as Managing Director of Verisk Canada.

He's a recognized leader in property intelligence, data, analytics, and insurance technology. In 2009 he introduced iClarify™ to the Canadian insurance market, a solution that set a new benchmark for insurance-to-value (ITV) accuracy and desktop property validation, and remains an industry standard today. His impact earned recognition as one of the Top 30 Most Innovative Business Leaders by Insights Success in 2017.

Much of Greg's career has been spent inside private-equity-backed organizations, which means he's lived the pressures, the pace, and the strategic trade-offs that growth-stage companies actually face. He founded OpticIntel to bring that experience to a wider set of leaders, on their terms.

A career timeline
2017 Recognition

Top 30 Most Innovative Business Leaders

Recognized by Insights Success magazine for impact on data and analytics in insurance.

2000s Leadership

President, SCM Risk Management Services

~7 years leading risk and information services for Canadian P&C insurers.

1997 Industry entry

Enters Canadian P&C insurance

The first of three hard markets navigated over a 30-year career.

A trusted voice on Canadian insurance, data & analytics.

Across his career, Greg has been a regular contributor to industry conversations on AI, underwriting, hard markets, and the future of property intelligence.

Canadian Underwriter Feature

Data to the rescue: predicting winners and losers in a hard market

A featured interview on how advanced analytics separate the insurers that thrive in hard markets from those that don't, drawing on lessons from three hard markets across Greg's career.

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Canadian Underwriter Industry

How AI is changing the landscape of Canadian pre-fill data

On training computer vision models to recognize building structure, occupancy, and construction features, and what that means for the future of underwriting in Canada.

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Insurance CIO Outlook Cover feature

Comprehensive solutions for geocoded property intelligence

A magazine cover feature on Opta as Canada's largest aggregator of property data, covering over 10 million residential and 2 million commercial properties.

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Canadian Underwriter Industry

How to make tenant insurance applications more user-friendly

On rethinking insurance application design from the consumer's perspective, and where the industry is finally catching up to the expectations of digital-first customers.

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Canadian Underwriter Industry

What's contributing to rising reconstruction costs in Canada?

An interview on lumber inflation, supply chain disruption, and the cascading impact on insurance-to-value calculations across Canadian property portfolios.

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Canadian Underwriter Announcement

Opta and Risk Management Services combine forces

Coverage of the operational integration that strengthened Opta's nationwide field services capability, laying the foundation for what would later become Verisk Canada.

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2017
Top 30 Most Innovative Business Leaders
Insights Success magazine
2016
Innovator of the Year
Insurance Nexus, Canadian Insurance Analytics Conference
2016
Most critical service provider
FC Business Intelligence, Future of Canadian Insurance