Gray Nester is CIO at Brown & Brown Insurance, first joining the company in 2019 as CIO for the retail segment before taking on the enterprise IT leadership role in 2021. Prior to Brown & Brown, Nester served as Senior Vice President and Business Information Officer of the Insurance Division at BB&T (now Truist). He also helped to found IDFederation.org, a nonprofit group of insurance industry leaders seeking to reduce cyber risk through the development and deployment of more effective security practices.