Ashwin Agarwal
Ashwin Agarwal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Advocate Technologies, a modern insurance consulting company leveraging world-class insurance consultants and technology to improve the insurance review process for commercial lenders. Ashwin has over 15 years of experience serving as a Board Member on insurance and reinsurance companies, as the lead insurance investor at a multi-billion private equity fund, and as a Mergers & Acquisitions investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In his career he has been a part of $10 billion+ of financing transactions as an investor. In these roles Ashwin advised the CEO’s of multi-national insurance companies on strategy, new product launches, and financings. At Advocate, Ashwin leads a team of 60+ insurance experts and technologists providing insurance reviews to lenders across pre-closings and servicing. His team oversees tens of thousands of loan reviews a year across commercial real estate including Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, HUD, CMBS, Construction, Bridge and other private lenders. He also directly oversees the product strategy and development of Advocate’s insurance compliance technology automation/AI platform which reduces loan time to close by 50% and improves the operational efficiency of reviews by 5x, delivering significantly lower insurance operational costs and high quality to lenders compared to legacy solutions.
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