Appointments of Zack Wilder as CTO, Judah Korman as COO, and Mordy Beyman as Executive Vice President to advance dual strategy: In-house development of planned AI-native insurance products and AI-powered agency acquisition roll-up
Reliance Global Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: EZRA), an Insurtech company that acquires independent insurance agencies, consolidates them into a unified network, and supports them with a technology platform, today announced the appointments of Judah Korman as Chief Operating Officer, Zack Wilder as Chief Technology Officer, and Mordy Beyman as Executive Vice President, alongside two additional engineers who join Wilder in forming the company’s newly established AI product development team. As previously announced, Moshe Fishman, Senior Vice President of Insurtech, completes the team, bringing fluency in emerging Insurtech infrastructure that is transforming traditional insurance operations.
The appointments mark a next step in Reliance’s strategic direction: the development of AI-native insurance products intended for mass-market distribution and an AI-powered insurance agency acquisition roll-up. The appointments build on several years of execution, during which Reliance has acquired a network of independent agencies and developed the technology platform that it intends to serve as the foundation for its AI expansion.
“Reliance was founded on the belief that insurance, one of the largest and most entrenched industries in the world, was overdue for a fundamental rethinking,” said Ezra Beyman, Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Global Group. “We started by embedding technology into the agency model, and the results validated that thesis. Now we are going further: running our acquisition roll-up through an AI backbone and investing in insurance products that we believe AI has made possible for the first time. Judah, Zack, Mordy, Moshe, and the engineering team they are building are the right people to lead that chapter.”
Reliance is entering its next phase of growth with a dual mandate, with artificial intelligence as the strategic framework connecting both pillars. The first is an AI-powered insurance agency acquisition roll-up — building upon Reliance’s existing business of acquiring independent agencies and integrating them into a centralized operating platform designed to automate workflows, enhance underwriting, and extract compounding value from each agency’s data and operations. The second is the development of AI-native insurance products built for digital-first distribution at scale. The Company believes AI is not a feature layer added to either strategy; it is the architecture both are designed around.
The Company believes the roll-up model is meaningfully differentiated when powered by AI. Traditional insurance consolidators often face diminishing returns as acquired agencies require heavy operational integration and manual management. Reliance’s approach is designed to use automation and data intelligence to streamline back-office operations, improve coverage routing, and generate performance intelligence across the agency network, with the goal of compressing integration timelines and improving acquisition economics relative to conventional roll-up strategies.
The AI-native product is the company’s second approach: insurance products intended to be conceived entirely around artificial intelligence, not adapted from legacy models. This approach is expected to use AI for risk selection and pricing, to deploy conversational AI to replace traditional quoting and binding workflows, and to build data infrastructure that improves with every policy written. These are not incremental improvements to existing products; they are intended to be new products that the Company believes recent advances in AI have made possible.
The two pillars are designed to reinforce each other. Acquired agencies contribute carrier relationships, books of business, and proprietary data. The platform and in-house products, in turn, are intended to make each acquired agency more efficient and competitive. Reliance believes this positions the Company distinctly from both traditional consolidators and pure-play Insurtech companies operating without established distribution scale.
Leadership Appointments
Judah Korman — Chief Operating Officer
Korman joins as Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for scaling Reliance’s operating model across its growing network of AI-powered agencies and platforms. He brings a decade of experience building and exiting technology companies, with a track record that spans founding and scaling a mobile logistics marketplace to a successful acquisition, building, and growing numerous consumer apps, and serving as a private equity analyst on leveraged buyout transactions. He brings deep expertise in the operational complexity of scaling multi-sided platforms. In this role, Korman will focus on translating Reliance’s AI strategy into operating discipline across agency integration, workflow centralization, performance management, and scalable execution.
Zack Wilder — Chief Technology Officer
Wilder joins as Chief Technology Officer with extensive fintech experience, having led major engineering initiatives at Coinbase and Capital One in support of core financial and authentication infrastructure at two security-intensive platforms in financial services. At Reliance, Wilder’s mandate is to turn the Company’s AI strategy into product architecture, engineering execution, and scalable technology infrastructure — encompassing the AI platform powering the acquisition roll-up and the build-out of AI-native insurance products. His background building regulated, high-stakes financial infrastructure positions him to move with speed and precision in an industry where compliance and security are non-negotiable.
Wilder is joined by two additional engineers who form the founding members of Reliance’s AI product development team. The team’s initial focus is building the core AI infrastructure that will power both the agency roll-up platform and the Company’s first AI-native insurance products.
Mordy Beyman — Executive Vice President
Beyman advances to Executive Vice President of Reliance Global Group, formalizing a role he has held in practice for some time. He has been closely involved in shaping Reliance’s long-term strategic vision, including its positioning in technology and the investments that underpin its current AI initiative. Beyman’s involvement in the architecture of this new chapter — from identifying the AI opportunity to guiding the leadership build-out — makes his formal appointment a natural extension of the work already underway. In his role as Executive Vice President, Beyman will focus on coordinating strategic execution across the leadership team, technology roadmap, and broader AI initiative.
Together, these appointments are designed to give Reliance the ability to execute across product development, agency integration, technology infrastructure, and AI-enabled operating efficiency.
“Insurance distribution has been resistant to the kind of operational transformation that technology has brought to other areas of financial services. What Reliance has built is a genuine foundation for the agency network, the carrier relationships, and now the AI platform to centralize and amplify it all. An AI-powered roll-up is designed to be a meaningfully different proposition from a traditional consolidation play. The economics are designed to compound differently, the integration timelines are designed to compress, and the data advantage widens with every acquisition,” said Korman.
“I spent years at Capital One building infrastructure for an industry most people thought was too complex and too regulated to change quickly. Insurance is in a similar position today, and AI is now mature enough to do more than automate workflows. It can reimagine what an insurance product looks like, how it is priced, and how it reaches a customer. That is what we are building at Reliance, starting with a solid foundation and a head start on the rest of the industry,” said Wilder.
“I have been part of building this vision for some time, and what excites me most is that the timing is right. The AI tools available today are genuinely capable of transforming how insurance is distributed and how products are built. Reliance has the carrier relationships, the agency network that is licensed across the United States, and now the team to execute on that. My focus is making sure this initiative scales with the ambition behind it,” said Beyman.
