Leadership Team

Max started States Title, now Doma, in 2016 after personally experiencing the friction and labor caused by title insurance in the homebuying process. Since then he has worked to provide an innovative solution to homeowners, brokers, and mortgage bankers. Max is an entrepreneur with experience founding and operating technology companies. Prior to Doma, Max was Founder and CEO of Evolv, Inc., an enterprise predictive analytics software company, which he led through their acquisition by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2014 where he served for two years on the senior executive team post-acquisition as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.

B.A. Northwestern University

Andy has over 15 years of experience in bringing large datasets and scientific rigor to credit card lending, hyper real-time fraud detection, high-energy particle physics, and astrophysics. His research career began in the physical sciences, where he derived new results on galaxies, cosmology, and dark matter. The statistical techniques he utilized found a surprising application in financial services, where Andy, as Director of Data Science at Capital One Bank, created several transaction and application fraud models for credit cards. At Doma, Andy has led the deployment of the first title insurance model of its kind, which determines risk for title defects using proprietary algorithms inspired by his past experience in these diverse applications of statistics.

B.A., M.A., & Ph.D., Harvard University

Wendy joined Doma in 2020 to develop its risk management approach, compliance program, governance and controls to support the company’s rapid expansion and path to IPO.  She embraces Doma’s ambitious objectives, bringing to bear her diverse background in risk management, data driven leadership and execution, operational excellence, and focus on talent development and acquisition.  Wendy currently oversees our operations, risk management, compliance, legal, and information technology functions.  Previously, she served as Vice President of Risk at Mosaic, a specialty finance company. Prior to Mosaic, Wendy held various leadership roles at Navient and Sallie Mae, consumer finance companies.

Todd is responsible for leading sales, business development, product marketing, and finance, as well as overseeing new strategic business lines. Previously, he led Doma’s corporate development function, focused on mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and other corporate strategic initiatives. In prior roles as a head of corporate development at companies including TPx Communications, Verint Systems, and Neustar, Todd was responsible for leading the strategy and execution of mergers and acquisitions transactions and partnerships. Earlier in his career, Todd worked as an investment banker advising large corporate clients in technology, communications, and media sectors on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising activities.

B.S, M.S. University of Florida
MBA University of Chicago

Vikas Singhal is a Partner at Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. and the Founding Partner Partner and Chief Investment Officer of HSCM Ventures. He has primary responsibilities in the HSCM Ventures and Re/Insurance Strategies. Most recently, Vikas was a Co-Founder and Partner at Gracie Point, a specialty finance company he helped to start in 2010 which focuses on specialty lending in the life insurance industry.

Prior to Gracie Point, Vikas worked at Concord Capital Management, focused on structured finance strategies in insurance. He started his career at UBS Investment Bank in Structured Products. He is the HSCM board representative for Branch, Buckle, Corvus, Dayforward, Gracie Point, Earned, Mulberry, Renegade, TensorFlight, and Inclined.

Vikas graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

John Smith-Ricco (Managing Director, Portfolio Operations) joined Centerbridge in 2019 and focuses on the Firm’s portolio operating effort. Prior to joining Centerbridge, John was a Principal at Bain & Company, where he advised corporate and private equity clients on transformation and organization practices. Prior to business school, John was a Senior Marketing Associate at General Mills.

John earned a B.A. in History at Carleton College, and later an MBA at Harvard Business School.

Julia Talish (Principal, Investment Team) joined Centerbridge in 2022 and focuses on investments in the Financial Service sector. Prior to joining Centerbridge, Julia was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs. Julia earned a B.A. in Economics at Vanderbilt University.

Alan Colberg retired in early January 2022 after seven years as the chief executive officer of Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), and as a director of the company’s board of directors. He is a transformative leader and organization builder with a track record of value creation for all stakeholders.

At Assurant, he led a multi-year transformation of the company which resulted in five consecutive years of strong profitable growth and delivered outperformance vs. the S&P 500. While at Bain, he founded and led a high growth start-up region and also led a tripling and global scaling of Bain’s Financial Services practice.

In 2019, Alan was ranked first by buy-side analysts and third overall (tie) for Best CEO in the midcap insurance sector and Institutional Investor’s annual survey and in both 2020 and 2021 he was ranked second overall for Best CEO.

Alan earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in accounting and finance with highest honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is responsible for identifying and prioritizing expansion opportunities across the United states.

Max started States Title, now Doma, in 2016 after personally experiencing the friction and labor caused by title insurance in the homebuying process. Since then he has worked to provide an innovative solution to homeowners, brokers, and mortgage bankers. Max is an entrepreneur with experience founding and operating technology companies. Prior to Doma, Max was Founder and CEO of Evolv, Inc., an enterprise predictive analytics software company, which he led through their acquisition by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2014 where he served for two years on the senior executive team post-acquisition as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.

B.A. Northwestern University