Elliot L. Konschak

Work with growers and input retailers to increase the adoption of yield improvement programs. Backing ag manufacturers and retailers proven yield performance products and practices with yield performance guarantees.
De-risk farmer adoption of modern ag products and practices with a yield performance guarantee.


Addressing the "Yield Gap" faced by farmers by providing OptimalAg solutions that provide yield performance guarantees.

Increasing the adoption of yield improvement programs.


Backing Ag Manufacturers & Retailers yield performance products with guarantees.


Underwrite, guarantee, and provide go-to-market solutions for ag manufacturers & retailers to help solve their farm customer’s yield growth problems.


OptAg performance-backed guarantees solve the "Yield Gap" problem and drive ROI “Yield Performance”.

• Identify and research solutions to support businesses.
• Research and assess remote sensing solutions: aerial, satellite.
• Identify technology to improve efficiencies.
• Integration of cloud-based precision ag data directly from growers.
• Develop solutions to assist with agent work management.
• MPCI Crop Policy Dashboard
• Support the BI and Analytics teams to validate data.
• "Summary of Performance" report for financial reporting.
• Act as a key representative with the software vendor for the Crop and Livestock processing system.
• NCIS TIPS Committee member.
• CIPA 508(h) Committee member.

• Identify and research solutions to support business
• Research and assess remote sensing solutions: Aerial, satellite
• Identify technology to improve efficiencies
• Research emerging agronomic advances such as biologicals and agronomic-driven risk management solutions for growers
• Develop solutions to assist with verification and validation of loss adjustment
• Support Private Products
• Research private products that complete with our product offerings
• Enhance current private product offerings
• Develop new private products
• Evaluate technologies that support new private products
• Weather Insurance
• Surplus Lines offerings for agri-business

• Oversight of private products in support of MPCI
• Crop-Hail rating, filing, and new product development
• Attend agent and adjuster training, sales conferences, and crop insurance industry events
• Develop training and marketing materials on private products for agents and growers
• Manage Private Products staff
• Implement underwriting standards, limits, and procedures
• Drive internal and contract analytics for identifying opportunities and adverse state, county, crops, and policy forms
• Evaluation of key competitor private products
• Implemented updated underwriting experience evaluation for Crop-Hail writing
• Implemented rate increases in states/counties with historically poor results
• Launch of private product as supplement to MPCI (BAND) with favorable returns and support of MPCI Premium growth

• Oversight of MGA delivering MPCI on behalf of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions under policy issuing company Westport Insurance Corporation
• Perform MGA annual audit for compliance with internal controls
• Attend MGA agent and adjuster training, sales conferences, and crop insurance industry events
• Assisted with fund designation determinations, including advancement of new fund designation model for Standard Reinsurance Agreement based on recent trends of time
• Contributed to annual SRA Plan of Operations submission
• Participated in the Crop-Hail and Named Peril product development and rating
• Support the quarterly and annual financial reporting requirements by assisting internal finance and MGA staff to provide proper data, information, and narratives
• Implementation of custom SalesForce for crop insurance marketing
• Launch of Crop Shortfall product for middle market Agribusiness clients for agriculture cooperatives, food processors, and other ag retailers
• Achieved a 90% policy count increase
• Streamlined Crop-Hail rate filing
• Launched new price support product as MPCI supplement
• Cross-sale initiative for Errors & Omissions Insurance for crop insurance agents

• Oversight of MGA delivering MPCI on behalf of OneBeacon
• Approve monthly RMA SCORE reports (new AIP requirement), assist with RMA National Financial Operation Review, interact with RMA on Stand Reinsurance Agreement issues, maintain contact with key RMA staff on policy issues
• Attend MGA agent and adjuster training, sales conferences, and crop insurance industry events
• Participate in fund designation determinations, including development of new fund designation model for Standard Reinsurance Agreement
• Support the quarterly and annual financial reporting requirements by assisting internal finance and MGA staff to provide proper data, information, and narratives
• Identified key deficiencies in RMA required reporting by MGA
• MPCI Premium increase of 80% with implemented crop-hail and MPCI marketing strategy

• Company Overview: NAU Country Insurance Company
• Provided operational leadership, identify business opportunities and support expansion and growth plans
• Established strategic alliances with vendors and independent insurance agents
• Reported to the Chief Executive Officer
• Vice President of Underwriting was a direct report
• Regional Underwriting Managers also co-reported
• NAU Country Insurance Company
• Established and maintained a culture of processing excellence to achieve data error rate under 1% Gross Premium on MPCI
• Acted as lead Subject Matter Expert on iPad-based solutions for Application, Acreage Reporting, and Policy Change systems for mobile software platform
• Implemented document management system for paperless environment and establishment of departmental workflows including integration with iPad-based software

• Company Overview: NAU Country Insurance Company
• Established and oversaw underwriting standards of MPCI line to ensure timely and accurate processing of policyholder data
• Maintained company standards to meet Compliance requirements of the RMA SRA
• Created and managed the Training department for State Continuing Education and RMA accredited hours for licensed agent
• Managed National Training Director
• NAU Country Insurance Company
• Implemented Business Continuity Plan, including offsite data facility providing real-time backup utilizing Oracle and NetApp
• Launched web-based mapping software for independent agent use
• Designed and released major rewrite of quoting software featuring quick-generate tools to instantly show several policy coverage options with one click

• Company Overview: NAU Country Insurance Company
• Implemented Business Continuity Plan, including offsite data facility providing real-time backup utilizing Oracle and NetApp
• Launched web-based mapping software for independent agent use
• Designed and released major rewrite of quoting software featuring quick-generate tools to instantly show several policy coverage options with one click
• NAU Country Insurance Company

• Company Overview: NAU Country Insurance Company
• Managed software license agreements for third party use of internal policy processing software
• Managed IT Director, Software Manager, Field Services Manager and over 40 indirect reports
• Responsible for the completion of RMA Standard Reinsurance Agreement
• Managed relocation and merger of crop branch office and software company to a single location
• Oversaw creation of a single brand for general agencies, insurance companies and acquired software company
• NAU Country Insurance Company

• Reported to the President
• Represent NAU Country Insurance Company at industry meetings
• Perform technical support and software training for field staff and agency force
• Maintained $13 Million USD sales territory
• Re-design of third party processing system which is currently still active with QBE; upon implementation, 20% more premium was processed without increasing staffing
• Performed agent, adjuster, and farmer training, which also included the co-creation of training materials
• Created the first map-based acreage report approved by RMA for MPCI
• Designed and tested development of quoting software
• Designed loss adjustment software on Windows CE platform

• Reported to Vice President of Operations
• Performed underwriting, loss adjustment, agent training, and marketing functions
• Performed agent, adjuster, and farmer training which included the co-creation of materials
• Developed crop insurance industry's first handheld software for MPCI loss adjustment to be fully deployed across the entire loss adjustment staff
• 1,500% ROI, 93% reduction in errors initial year, reduced open claim to 2.1 days per DOI audit
• Introduced PowerPoint and computer projectors to the training process

• Data entry of crop insurance documents for MPCI and Crop-Hail departments