Head of Insurance GTM, Americas · ServiceNow

Max Malloy

REFLECT REFRACT RESONATE

My spark is brightest when designing and evolving digital experiences that help organizations make smarter decisions, move faster, and connect more meaningfully with customers, partners, and teams. My work sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and human behavior, translating legacy complexity into intelligent systems that feel intuitive, scalable, and adaptive.

While much of my recent work has been in insurance and insurtech, the throughline is consistent: building connected ecosystems, modernizing legacy thinking, and unlocking new ways for businesses to operate, evolve, and flourish. I'm particularly drawn to environments where I can influence how transformation, innovation, and orchestration move beyond buzzwords and become embedded in how the business actually works, driving differentiation, growth, and long-term value.


Matter(ing) over mind.

Matter is what defines us all, and the world around us. But mattering is what inspires me every day. We all bring our learned experience and mindfulness to our work. But mattering to someone, something, somehow is what gives us purpose.

I want every day, every encounter, every moment to matter — whether I'm advising a carrier on their next platform investment, building an Insurtech GTM strategy from scratch, or just having a conversation worth having.

For me, mattering is grounded through three simple words.

Reflect

Before designing change, look honestly at where you are. Not just at yourself — look at what's in the background of the mirror too. The systems, the people, the quiet dependencies that will shift whether you account for them or not. Real reflection means taking in the whole frame, especially the parts that are easy to overlook because they've been there so long they've become invisible.

Refract

Take the light you have and bend it just enough to reveal what wasn't visible straight on. The breakthrough hiding in plain sight from another industry. The process tweak that opens an entirely new pathway for AI-augmented work. Refraction isn't invention. It's perception. Most of the best ideas already exist somewhere. The skill is learning how to angle the lens.

Resonate

What you share outward should be crafted to land for them, not just from you. That requires real listening, not the kind where you're preparing your next sentence, but the kind where you're genuinely trying to understand what someone actually needs. Resonance is what happens when empathy and clarity meet. It's also, not coincidentally, how you build relationships worth having.


Built from the inside out.

Most people arrive at a GTM role having spent their careers on the vendor side. I took the other road. For eleven years across NORCAL Group and ProAssurance, which acquired NORCAL in 2021, I was the business owner, the builder, and eventually the person ServiceNow kept asking to come tell the story to their own customers.

What I was building had a name by the time I left: Business Orchestration and Automation Technology, what Gartner calls BOAT. But we were living it long before the framework existed. We saved thousands of hours annually, dramatically reduced compute overhead, and got nearly half of our renewal policies processing without a human touch. Not as a proof of concept. As a running operation.

"ServiceNow's lighthouse customer for insurance innovation and agentic AI — brought in to champion the platform's place at the center of Insurtech orchestration."

What I carry to ServiceNow isn't a playbook. It's the accumulated instinct of someone who spent a decade making these decisions with real stakes. I know what industry leaders are actually worried about when they say they're "not ready yet." I've been that leader.

My focus now is helping executive leadership across industry find their own version of what I helped build, on their terms, at their pace, empowered by a platform that they can make matter for them.

10,300

Hours saved annually through orchestrated automation at ProAssurance

59%

Reduction in compute time via AI-augmented workflows

43%

Of renewal policies processed with zero manual touch

11yrs

Building insurance transformation from the carrier side before joining ServiceNow

How We Built It: The ProAssurance Story via ServiceNow

Storytelling bends light in new directions.

I set out to build something that worked, and when it did, people wanted to hear about it. Over three years, that earned me a seat at tables I hadn't expected: alongside ServiceNow leadership, Gartner analysts, and the global insurance community at ITC Vegas. The credential I'm most proud of isn't any stage. It's that executive decision makers connected with something in my narrative that sparked a sense of reflection, refraction, and resonance.


Roadmaps emerge from reflections on the journey.

2026 — Present

ServiceNow

Head of Insurance Go-to-Market, Americas

Leading GTM strategy and field execution for ServiceNow's Financial Services Operations platform across U.S. commercial P&C, specialty/E&S, and wholesale brokerage. The job is helping carriers find their own version of what I spent a decade building, on their terms, with an honest sense of what it actually takes to get there.

  • Commercial P&C
  • Specialty / E&S
  • FSO Platform
  • AI Orchestration

2021 — 2026

ProAssurance

VP, Digital Experience & Strategy

Eleven years building what Gartner would eventually call BOAT, before it had a name. Led enterprise digital transformation, ServiceNow platform implementation and expansion, Agentic and Generative AI augmentation, and customer/partner self-service innovation. Became the carrier voice ServiceNow turned to when they needed someone to speak credibly about what insurance transformation actually looks like in practice. ProAssurance was featured in ServiceNow's Knowledge 2024 event branding alongside Wells Fargo, NHL, and TIAA, recognition of where the work had taken us.

  • BOAT
  • ServiceNow
  • InsurTech
  • Agentic AI
  • Digital Transformation

2014 — 2021

NORCAL Group

Director of Marketing & Brand

Led strategic marketing and brand expression across agent, insured, and employee channels for a national specialty insurer. Reimagined digital experience and experiential marketing through advanced innovations in online and in-person engagements. Translated business goals and industry insight into creative work that actually moved things forward.

  • Digital Experience
  • Insurance Marketing
  • Brand Strategy
  • Distribution

2011 — 2014

AMD

Senior Manager, Employee Engagement Communications

Built and launched a global employee engagement strategy for a major semiconductor company, including a Jive-based social business platform that was, at the time, one of the more ambitious internal community projects in the industry.

  • Enterprise Comms
  • Digital Platforms
  • Global Teams

Earlier

Texas A&M AgriLife · Ohio University · TXU Communities · Cox Interactive

Digital Strategy, Communications & Platform Leadership

Two decades of building digital platforms, content ecosystems, and communications strategies across higher education, energy, media, and state government. Developed web architecture and community platforms before most organizations had a name for that work either.

  • Digital Strategy
  • Web Architecture
  • Content & Media

Making presence matter.

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Outside of digital workflows, go-to-market, and executive briefings, nanoranch started as a simple idea. What if we treated even the smallest pieces of land as something worth caring for?

Not for productivity. Not for optimization. Just for the wild and native life that deserves to thrive there.

Over time, it's become something more personal.

A way to slow down. A way to pay attention. A way to create space — for birds, for butterflies, for pollinators, for whatever decides to show up, including memories of those we've loved and lost.

Visit nanoranch.org →

The best relationships are built on resonance.

If something here sparked something in you, whether it's an idea, a challenge, or just a shared curiosity — I'd really enjoy connecting.

I'm confident we'll have something worth talking about.