Meghan Hannes

Meghan Hannes Bio 2026

Ms. Hannes is Co-Founder and Chief Underwriting Officer of K2 Cyber Insurance Services, LLC, where she owns the company’s P&L and leads underwriting strategy across product design, underwriting appetite, pricing adequacy, actuarial model integration and risk engineering.

At K2, Ms. Hannes has led the move from underwriting built on historical, manual processes to an AI-enabled underwriting model. She designs the underwriting logic and process architecture behind K2’s AI tools, pairing seasoned underwriting judgment with modern data and automation to make faster, more consistent and better-informed risk decisions.

Previously, as US Head of Underwriting Management for Cyber Risks at Beazley, Ms. Hannes set the strategic direction for underwriting across the division’s full product portfolio, with oversight of pricing adequacy, underwriting guidelines, management information and reporting, and product and application development. Before Beazley, she served as Cyber and Technology Product Head at Hiscox, and held product management and senior underwriting positions at Axis Insurance, The Hartford and Chubb Insurance.

A recognized industry voice, Ms. Hannes has co-chaired industry events including NetDiligence and Zywave. She received the 2020 NetDiligence ‘Toby Merrill’ Cyber Industry Award and was a 2024 nominee for Zywave’s Cyber Visionary Award.

She has lent her perspective to notable publications including The Economist, Reuters, Dark Reading, The Insurer and Insurance Business America.