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Vinita Jajware-Beatty is President of the Toronto Insurance Women’s Association (TIWA), a not-for-profit
trade organization. As President, Vinita acts as a resource for the entire insurance community including
brokers; underwriters; claims; actuarial; and risk management professionals. In addition to her role with
TIWA, Vinita serves as Chair of Dive In Canada, a DEI initiative from Lloyds of London. As an insurance
professional with a risk management and property claims background, Vinita brings over 23 years of
career experience to many diversity and inclusion initiatives within the insurance industry, including
chairing a Women in Insuretech and Global Insuretech conference series through the India-based
organization Altaworld. Along with her work with TIWA, Vinita is the Chief Operating Officer of Enkompass
Power & Energy Corporation. A national engineering and field services firm, Enkompass has operations
rooted in industries including construction; telecommunications; healthcare; manufacturing; food and
beverage; pharmaceutical; mining; and insurance.
Vinita Jajware-Beatty
President
Toronto Insurance Women's Association (TIWA)
Day 1- 18th September
Whitney Day
Senior Vice President, Workforce Absence Management
Hub International
Within HUB People & Technology Consulting, Whitney leads the Workforce Absence Management (WAM)
practice with a clear focus on helping clients build and foster effective absence management
programs. Whitney has more than 18 years of experience in the Group Benefits, Disability and Total
Absence Management industry, including 13 years of consulting for many Fortune 500 companies across
industries. She utilizes this experience to develop strategies to create quality client engagements,
projects, and relationships. Prior to HUB, Whitney spent the first half of her career on the carrier side of the
market in operations leadership at MetLife. The second half of her career has been focused on Absence
Management consulting and she was most recently a Principal at Mercer. With her expertise in driving
growth through internal and external relationship management, Whitney’s focus is continuing to develop
and expand HUB’s high-quality absence managements programs and services. Whitney graduated with
a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carthage College, and is holds an Illinois Life, Accident & Health
Producer’s License.
Meredith Barnes-Cook is a Partner in the Advisory and Research practice at ReSource Pro, where she
helps carriers and solution providers thrive in a complex and changing digital world. She is an
award-winning insurance go-to-market and transformation strategist with almost four decades of
industry operations and technology experience. Before joining ReSource Pro Consulting, Meredith
spent 33 years at Liberty Mutual, where she was responsible for numerous digital, product, and
organizational transformations and new operating models. Most recently, she was the industry GTM
strategist at Ushur, an AI customer experience SaaS startup, driving growth and brand awareness
across both the P&C and LA&H segments.
Meredith Barnes-Cook
Partner
ReSource Pro Ecosystem