Vigitesh Tewary is a Practice Director with Everest Group's Insurance Information Technology practice, where he leads the firm's global coverage of the life and annuity market. Over his five and a half years with Everest Group, he has become a recognized voice in insurance technology, specializing in life and annuity insurance, retirement and pensions, digital experience platforms, and industry cloud.
Before joining Everest Group, Vigitesh worked with Deloitte and Tata Communications. He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Management Development Institute (MDI) in Gurgaon, India.
What Vigitesh Is Focusing On Right Now #
The life and annuity market has reached an inflection point, with carriers shifting from a cost-first to a growth-first mindset. Vigitesh's research and advisory work centers on helping insurance enterprises navigate the following three critical transformation areas that are reshaping the industry's competitive landscape.
Key areas of focus include:
- Customer experience and product innovation: driving new product launches across the annuity lifecycle, group benefits, and voluntary worksite benefits to fuel growth beyond the traditional life insurance market, which has remained relatively stagnant.
- System modernization around the core: expanding coverage of individual and group insurance technology, tracking new market entrants annually, and helping carriers adopt modern systems for new business while managing existing blocks efficiently.
- Intelligence in workflows and processes: moving beyond the AI hype to identify how it delivers real outcomes across claims, benefits management, and underwriting, focusing on process reinvention rather than technology application for its own sake.
Why This Matters #
Vigitesh's work addresses a fundamental shift in how life and annuity carriers approach modernization. His research challenges the traditional "do more with less" mindset by showing carriers they don't need to touch their core systems for existing business but can adopt new capabilities for new products and growth initiatives. This balanced approach helps carriers navigate the AI era strategically, choosing where to invest in innovation and where simplification serves them better. By emphasizing process outcomes over technology deployment, Vigitesh helps the industry avoid the bandwagon effect and instead align solutions, messaging, and value propositions with where individual carriers actually are in their modernization journey.More About Vigitesh #
Vigitesh Tewary is a Practice Director with Everest Group where he advises clients on go-to-market strategy, inorganic growth strategy, sales and marketing strategy, and partnership strategy. He is recognized as a subject-matter expert in driving coverage of life and annuity insurance, retirement and pensions, digital experience platforms, and InsurTech across global markets.
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