CCC Promotes John Goodson To Chief Technology Officer

By AIT News Desk On Aug 10, 2021

Experienced Digital Transformation Leader to Drive Innovation Across the P&C Insurance Economy

CCC Intelligent Solutions Inc. (CCC), a leading SaaS platform for the P&C insurance economy, names John Goodson Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Goodson joined CCC in 2020 successfully driving innovation across the business, accelerating application of AI throughout solutions, and expanding industries served by the CCC Cloud platform which serves 30,000 businesses. Goodson succeeds Pete Morowski who is retiring after eight years with the company.

“I’m excited to expand my role at CCC to and expand the impact our technology can have on the industry and on the lives of drivers”

As Chief Technology Officer, Goodson will lead research and development, product development, architecture, security, IT operations and infrastructure, business applications and data science. This will enable CCC to continue powering mission critical workflows, intelligent automation, and better experiences for clients and the millions of drivers they serve.

The announcement follows CCC’s return to the public markets listing on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, August 2. The return to the public market will accelerate investments in innovation across the P&C insurance economy, including the recently announced plans to incorporate advanced AI into its CCC ONE® collision repair platform, as well as full digitization of the estimating process for a portion of repairable claims with the launch of CCC® Estimate – STP.

“John’s depth of experience will serve CCC well as we enter our next phase of growth driving new innovation and applied AI that powers our customer’s digital transformation and their ability to improve experiences for the millions of drivers they serve,” said CCC Chairman and CEO Githesh Ramamurthy. “CCC will continue to deliver industry leading solutions expanding on the reputation Pete Morowski and our technology team earned CCC as a leading AI, SaaS, telematics, IoT provider to the industry. We thank Pete and wish him well in his retirement.”

Goodson joined CCC following successful tenures at multi-billion-dollar technology companies. He has succeeded in advancing the company’s global transformation objectives using AI and data to improve customer experiences. Goodson, who owns numerous technology patents, helped establish several industry standards, such as Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC). He is also a published author (“The Data Access Handbook”).

“I’m excited to expand my role at CCC to and expand the impact our technology can have on the industry and on the lives of drivers,” said Goodson. “The CCC Cloud connects trillions of points of data, massive and micro businesses, and the latest technology to power mission critical workflows, improving response times, experiences, and how providers interact on behalf of their shared customers. It is an exciting time to be at CCC and to support an extremely talented team of data scientists, engineers, and leaders as we work together to transform the industry.”