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Seth Rachlin is a social scientist, business leader, and entrepreneur currently active as a researcher and teaching professor. His research and teaching focuses on the challenges posed to social, economic, and political institutions by innovations in technology and by climate change.

Prior to turning to academia, Dr. Rachlin enjoyed a 30-year career in the consulting industry. He founded, built, and negotiated the sale of two companies to publicly traded entities. He served as a senior executive for a global systems integrator. And he has provided strategic counsel to more than 100 Fortune 500, middle market and early-stage companies in the insurance and technology sectors.

Dr. Rachlin is currently Assistant Teaching Professor of Social Data Science in the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Arizona State University. He assumed this full-time position in 2023 having taught part-time at ASU, the University of Arizona and at the University of Chicago since 2021.

Until December of 2022, Dr. Rachlin was Executive Vice President and Global Insurance Industry Leader at Capgemini, a global consultancy and services provider headquartered in France. At Capgemini, Dr. Rachlin was responsible for setting the firm’s Insurance industry strategy, managing its relationships within the Insurance marketplace, and for shaping and articulating the company’s perspective on the industry.

Prior to joining Capgemini, Dr. Rachlin was President of the Information and Analytics Division of Advisen (now Zywave), a leading provider of data and analytics to the commercial insurance industry.  While at Advisen, he oversaw the successful launch of Advisen’s cyber risk and predictive analytics products.

Dr. Rachlin was CEO of Moore Stephens Business Solutions (MSBS), a leading provider of performance management solutions to property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers and managing general agents. Dr. Rachlin founded MSBS in 2006 and successfully concluded its sale to Majesco in April 2010. The sale delivered over a tenfold return to the company’s investors.

Dr. Rachlin began his entrepreneurial career as CEO of Connect Systems, Inc. a New York based data management consulting firm he founded in 1995. At Connect, he and his team built systems to automate customer and investor outreach in association with four demutualizations (insurance IPO’s) and eight class action settlements. These systems managed the distribution of over 200 million pieces of mail as well as complex workflows involving over five billion pages of documents. In 2002, Dr. Rachlin negotiated the sale of Connect to Net2S, a publicly traded French IT staffing firm later acquired by British Telecom.

Dr. Rachlin is an acknowledged and widely quoted thought leader on topics concerning the intersection of risk and technology. He is a frequent conference speaker and a sought-after industry expert, regularly providing commentary to leading business press vehicles such as The Economist, The Financial Times, S&P Market Intelligence, and Reuters wire service.

Dr. Rachlin holds an undergraduate degree in History from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, and has published broadly in the academic, technical, and popular press. He is a Board Member of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in Arizona. And he is an active member of Princeton University’s Alumni Schools committee, interviewing 15-20 high school seniors each year on behalf of the university’s admissions office.