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Hippo Holdings HIPO

US equityMarket cap rank #3271Insurance - Property & Casualty
$34.89 +$0.10 (+0.29%)
Market closed · Nov 6, 8:10 pm ET · Last extended-hours $34.89 0.00%
Open$34.06
Prev close$34.79
Day range$33.64 – $35.09
Volume250.4K
Market cap$928.83M
P/E (TTM)28.4
Dividend yield–
Founded2015
CEOMr. Richard McCathron
Employees540
HeadquartersSan Jose, United States of America
Websitewww.hippo.com

Revenue per employee

$89.2K$367.9K$646.7K$925.5KDec '21Dec '23Dec '25

540 employees as of 2025/FY (+13.0% YoY). Revenue per employee is total revenue divided by headcount — a rough productivity gauge, not a per-worker pay figure.

Management team

Richard McCathron President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Age 54 · Total comp. $5,997,265.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Richard McCathron has served as a member of our Board of Directors and as our President since February 2017, and as our Chief Executive Officer since June 2022. Prior to Hippo, Mr. McCathron held senior executive positions at various insurance companies including First Connect Insurance as its President and Chief Executive Officer from October 2012 to February 2017, Home Value Protection, Inc. as its Chief Revenue Officer from April 2011 to March 2012, Superior Access Insurance Services as its President and Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to October 2010, and Mercury Insurance Group as its Regional Vice President from April 2004 to June 2007. Mr. McCathron is both a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and a Certified Insurance Counselor and sits on the board of directors of Spinnaker Insurance Company and First Connect Insurance. He is an advisor for several other insurtech companies and holds a B.S. in Finance from Oregon State University.

Stewart Ellis Director
Age 50 · Total comp. $4,083,084.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Stewart Ellis will join the Board of Directors as a non-independent director effective June 3, 2026. Mr. Ellis currently serves as our Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer and will resign from this position and become a consultant to the Company effective May 1, 2026. Prior to his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Mr. Ellis served as our Chief Financial Officer from February 2019 to March 2025. Prior to joining Hippo, Mr. Ellis served as Chief Financial Officer at Activehours (d/b/a Earnin), a mobile fintech company, from April 2017 to February 2019. From July 2012 to April 2017, Mr. Ellis was employed by BloomReach, Inc., an enterprise software company where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Ellis also served as Vice President, Finance, and other roles, of 23andMe, Inc. where he was employed from September 2008 to July 2012. Mr. Ellis holds a bachelor's degree with a concentration in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Guy Zeltser Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
Age 38 · Total comp. $2,133,771.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Guy Zeltser has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2025 and oversees all financial functions of Hippo. Previously, from June 2022 to March 2025, Mr. Zeltser served as the Company's Vice President of Finance, and from August 2020 to June 2022, he served as the Company's Director of Strategic Finance. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Zeltser was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, where he was employed from September 2017 to August 2020. Mr. Zeltser holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Accounting from Tel Aviv University and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Torben Ostergaard President and Chief Executive Officer of Spinnaker
Age 56 · Total comp. $1,368,976.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Torben Ostergaard has served as Spinnaker's President and Chief Executive Officer since April 2021. Prior to joining Spinnaker, Mr. Ostergaard was an advisory board member of Opendoor from January 2019 to January 2021, and also spent twelve years at USAA, most recently as the Chief Risk Officer from January 2010 to January 2020. Mr. Ostergaard holds a Bachelor in Business Administration and Master in Finance from Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences (Aarhus University).

Michael Stienstra Chief Insurance Officer and General Manager, Hippo Home Insurance Program
Age 41 · Total comp. $1,333,768.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Michael Stienstra has served as the Company's Chief Insurance Officer and General Manager, Hippo Home Insurance Program since January 2024 and as the Company's Chief Actuary since April 2021. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Stienstra was a Senior Vice President leading the actuarial team for Personal Risk Services at Chubb from October 2018 to April 2021. Mr. Stienstra holds a BBA in Actuarial Science and Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with a concentration in Marketing and Finance.

Sandra S. Wijnberg Chairman of the Board
Age 69 · Total comp. $214,157.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Sandra Wijnberg has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2020. From 2014 to 2019, she was an executive advisor of Aquiline Capital Partners, a subsidiary of Aquiline Holdings LLC, a registered investment advisory firm and from 2007 to 2014 was a partner and the chief administrative officer of Aquiline Holdings LLC. From 2014 through 2015, Ms. Wijnberg served as the Deputy Head of Mission for the Office of the Quartet in Jerusalem, a development project under the auspices of the United Nations. Previously, Ms. Wijnberg served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., a global professional services company and was treasurer and interim Chief Financial Officer of YUM! Brands, Inc. Prior to that, she held financial management positions with PepsiCo., Inc. and worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Ms. Wijnberg serves on the board of the following publicly traded companies: Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., and T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and previously served on the boards of Tyco International plc from 2003 to 2016 and TE Connectivity Ltd. from 2007 to 2009. She is a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Ms. Wijnberg holds a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.

John D. Nichols, Jr Independent Director
Age 65 · Total comp. $201,370.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

John Nichols has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2022. Most recently, Mr. Nichols served as Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at Protective Insurance Company where he oversaw the acquisition of the company by Progressive Insurance Company in 2021. Prior to Protective, Mr. Nichols was the CEO of Axis Reinsurance Ltd. and held various roles, including President, during a fifteen-year stint at RenaissanceRe Ventures Ltd. He currently serves on the board of Glass House Brands, a publicly traded company, and on the board of several private companies, including Delaware North Companies, Chelsea Avondale/Max Insurance and Greenie Re, and previously served on the boards of Brit Re and Sussex Re, Enhanzed Re, and National General Insurance Company. Mr. Nichols holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Babson College.

Sam Landman Independent Director
Age 45 · Total comp. $191,370.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Sam Landman has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2017. Mr. Landman currently serves as a Managing Director of Mosaic General Partnership and served as a Managing Director of Mastry Inc. since February 2021. Mr. Landman served as Managing Director of Comcast Ventures from 2009 to 2021, where he was involved in sourcing, diligencing, and advising portfolio companies across a range of categories, including fintech, commerce, social, video, healthcare, marketing technologies, and cleantech. In addition to his role on the Hippo board, Mr. Landman serves as a member of the board of several private companies. Mr. Landman holds a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University and a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Mark Schaaf Independent Director
Age 49 · Total comp. $185,370.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Mark Schaaf has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2023 Mr. Schaaf currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Superhuman, having joined the company in August 2024. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer at Retool, Inc. from December 2022 to December 2023. Prior to Retool, Mr. Schaaf was the Chief Technology Officer of Instacart, where he led the engineering organization from 2018 through significant expansion in preparation for the company's IPO. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Technology Officer for Thumbtack and as a Senior Engineering Director at Google following its acquisition of AdMob. Mr. Schaaf holds a BS from the University of Notre Dame.

Hugh R. Frater Independent Director
Age 70 · Total comp. $185,370.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Hugh R. Frater has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2018. Since June 2023, Mr. Frater has served as the Chairman of the Board of Vessel Technologies, Inc. Previously, Mr. Frater served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae from March 2019 to May 2022, after serving as the interim Chief Executive Officer from October 2018 to March 2019, and serving on their board since 2016. Mr. Frater served as a director of VEREIT, Inc. (NYSE: VER) beginning in April 2015, serving as its Non-Executive Chairman from September 2015 to November 2021. Mr. Frater previously led Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC, a national commercial real estate company providing comprehensive capital solutions and investment sales advisory and research services for multifamily and commercial properties. He served as chairman of Berkadia from April 2014 to December 2015, and he served as chief executive officer of Berkadia from 2010 to April 2014. Earlier in his career, Mr. Frater was an executive vice president at PNC Financial Services, where he led the real estate division, and was a founding partner and managing director of BlackRock, Inc. Mr. Frater holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.

Lori Dickerson Fouche Independent Director
Age 56 · Total comp. $183,370.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Ms. Lori Dickerson Fouche has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2021. Ms. Fouche served as Chief Executive Officer of TIAA Financial Solutions from August 2018 to December 2020 and served in various senior roles at Prudential Financial from July 2013 to July 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Fouche served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fireman's Fund Insurance Company from February 2006 to June 2013, and as Senior Vice President of Chubb Specialty Insurance from August 2002 to February 2006. Ms. Fouche holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, and she currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University and the Boards of Directors of Kraft Heinz Company and Aegon, both publicly traded companies.

Susan Claire Holliday Independent Director
Age 59 · Total comp. $108,396.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Susan Holliday has been a member of our board of directors since October 2025. She brings over 30 years of experience in global financial services, specializing in insurance, strategy, and risk management. She worked in several areas of the IFC and the World Bank until June 2022, and prior to that, was a managing director at Swiss Re, serving as Head of Strategy for Swiss Re's global reinsurance business and, before this, group Head of Investor Relations. She currently serves on the board of PensionBee Group plc (LSE:PBEE) and the advisory board of Xyant, and previously served as a board director in the UK, US, Brazil, Nigeria, and India, with a focus on regulated financial services. She graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern History and completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. She is a Chartered Accountant and a Qualified Risk Director of the DCRO Institute, holds the HBS Corporate Director Certification, and the NACD, DC.

Laura J. Hay Independent Director
Age 63 · Total comp. $107,896.00 · As of 21 Apr 2026

Laura Hay has been a member of our Board of Directors since October 2025. She has more than 35 years of experience in financial services and was most recently the Global Head of Insurance for KPMG International until her retirement in 2023, where she led more than 10,000 professionals across 90 countries and advised on growth strategy, innovation, and risk management. Driven by a desire to increase the number of female leaders within financial services, she launched Mind the Gap, a blog featuring C-suite and board-level women from around the world. She developed and delivered hundreds of Confidence and Risk-Taking workshops to over 20,000 women and male allies worldwide. She currently serves on the Boards of two publicly traded companies, MetLife and Everest Group, as well as Board of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York. Ms. Hay is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura Boettcher Chief Operating Officer
Age 43 · As of 14 Jun 2026

On June 10, 2026, the board of directors of Hippo Holdings Inc. appointed Laura Boettcher as the Company's Chief Operating Officer (the COO). Ms. Boettcher, age 43, has served as the Chief Operating Officer of Hippo Analytics Inc. (Hippo Insurance), a subsidiary of the Company, since February 2024, overseeing daily operations and balancing the needs of Hippo Insurance's customers with those of the business. Prior to that role, she served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hippo Insurance from March 2022 to January 2024, where she provided executive-level strategic support directly to the CEO and contributed to organizational strategy, cross-functional coordination, and key business initiatives across Hippo Insurance. Prior to that role, she served as Director of Reinsurance at Hippo Insurance from September 2021 to February 2022, where she managed reinsurance strategy and relationships, applying deep industry expertise to support Hippo Insurance's risk and capital structure. Prior to joining Hippo Insurance, she was a Senior Vice President at Guy Carpenter, where she developed reinsurance strategies for personal lines clients, including Hippo Insurance. Ms. Boettcher holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing, and a Master of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

From SEC filings, via Futu. Compensation is total reported pay for the most recent fiscal year on file, not base salary alone.

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