John-Bernard “JB” Duler
Co-Founder, EFN
John-Bernard “JB” Duler co-founded EFN with Thomas Jensen in 2003.
He has a 30 year background in business creation and management including founding Esurance the leading personal auto insurance business and more recently Kiv Broker, Visada and Automatic. He founded Duler and Co. which was acquired by Arthur J. Gallagher (NYSE: AJG) in 2012. Before that John-Bernard was a founder and was the CEO of Formatics Technologies, a software company formed to offer products to accelerate sustainable manufacturing in the chemical and food processing industries.
Early in this career, he gained worldwide experience having held senior management posts with global financial services companies such as AXA, Cigna (now Chubb). John-Bernard has lectured on finance and entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and San Francisco State University and has served as a mentor and judge for venture competitions with EFN at Stanford University, UC Berkeley and for the Global Social Venture Competition.
John-Bernard holds the European equivalent of a BS in mathematics, a MS in engineering from Ecole des Mines in France, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.