MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 7, 2026--
OneShield, a leading provider of core insurance technology solutions for property and casualty insurers and MGAs, has appointed Rick Becker as Senior Vice President, New Products. The newly created role is focused on bringing new capabilities to market for OneShield customers, extending work the company already has underway.
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Becker brings decades of experience leading technology, operations, and product organizations across the P&C insurance industry. He has held President, COO, CDO/CIO, and EVP roles at companies including DUAL North America, Align Financial Holdings, MAPFRE USA, and AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah. His career spans building digital insurance platforms from the ground up, integrating complex MGA operations at scale, and converting legacy underwriting into configurable, data-driven systems.
"Insurance technology is at an inflection point," said Becker. "Carriers and MGAs are moving from experimenting with AI to running it inside daily underwriting and claims work, and the ones doing that well are already seeing it compound. OneShield is at the cutting edge of the industry’s transformation and has the team, the customer base, and the conviction to help them get there, and that's why I'm here."
Becker's appointment reflects OneShield's continued investment in practical tools its customers can put to work. "We did not hire Rick to fill a gap. We hired him to raise the bar," said Tony Villa, CEO of OneShield. "Rick has spent decades on the customer side of our industry, running the exact businesses our software supports. That perspective, combined with his hands-on work with AI, is what we want driving new capability into our customers' hands."
The appointment comes during a period of accelerated growth for OneShield across its P&C insurer and MGA base. The company is building a set of AI-native capabilities for underwriting, claims, and billing operations, designed to go into production without disruption to the systems customers run today. Further announcements are planned as that work reaches customers.
About OneShield
OneShield develops and delivers modern, flexible core systems to P&C carriers and MGAs. Built for speed, configurability, and real-world operations, OneShield’s policy administration, billing, and claims products have a proven track record helping insurers modernize without the cost, risk, and timelines typically associated with other vendors. Today, insurers process over $20B in premiums on OneShield platforms.
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OneShield Appoints Rick Becker as Senior Vice President, New Products
Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have signed a mutual defense agreement, while the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have stepped up attacks on Saudi-linked targets.
Here’s a look at developments across the Middle East on Friday. Full coverage can be found here.
Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, nuclear power Pakistan and Turkey, which has NATO’s second-largest army and a rapidly growing defense industry, signed a mutual defense agreement on Friday.
The deal stipulates that an armed attack on either of the three countries will be regarded as an attack against them all. It was signed during a meeting in Saudi Arabia between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan's foreign ministry said.
“The Agreement is intended to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression,” the ministry said in a statement.
The deal comes at a time when Saudi Arabia, whose critical infrastructure and oil facilities have come under attack as part of the war in Iran, has been looking to diversify its defense partnerships.
Iran-backed Houthis launched attacks on Marib province in eastern Yemen Friday morning, in the latest escalation with Saudi-backed forces, a military official with the forces in Marib said.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media, said the missiles were fired from west of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
Qassem Bahaibah, health minister in Yemen’s internationally recognized government, said in a statement on social media that the attacks targeted a refugee camp and residential areas, killing at least two people and injuring 14 others.
The Houthis did not immediately claim the attack.
Separately, the rebel group struck the Najran region in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the Yemeni border on Thursday, the official spokesperson of the Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, confirmed in a statement on X overnight.
He said the attack wounded 11 civilians, including a woman and a child who suffered second-degree burns, and accused the rebels of carrying out “indiscriminate shelling against civilian objects.”
The rebel group did not claim responsibility for the attacks in Marib or Najran. A spokesperson for the Houthis, Nasruddin Amer, said on X on Friday that the group will continue to target gatherings of Saudi-backed forces.
The attacks mark a major escalation since a truce in 2022 largely halted fighting. The civil war pits the Iran-backed Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition allied with Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
—By Ahmed Al-Haj in Aden, Yemen and Fatma Khaled in Cairo
The Lebanese army said the soldier was lightly wounded on Friday while he was in a bulldozer opening roads in the southern village of Mansouri.
Mansouri was subjected to Israeli shelling earlier this week, according to Lebanon’s state news agency.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
The Israeli army launched strikes Wednesday in southern Lebanon in response to what it described as Hezbollah’s violation of the ceasefire and called on residents of Mansouri to flee — the first such warning Israel has issued in Lebanon for weeks.
FILE - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shake hands during a welcome ceremony, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)
