Gwenn Bézard is a co-founder of and research director at Aite Group, where he leads the Insurance practice (encompassing P&C Insurance, Life Insurance, and Healthcare Insurance). He also oversees the firm’s Banking & Payments practice and the Research Design & Data team.​ He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is researching how technology is creating new market opportunities for insurers.

Mr. Bézard has over 15 years of experience assisting financial institutions, payments companies, and technology vendors with advisory services and strategy consulting. Prior to founding Aite Group, he was a senior analyst within Celent's banking group, where he helped build an industry-leading payments practice. Before that, Mr. Bézard was with BNP Paribas, where he headed the research team of L'Atelier, the bank's technology and Internet intelligence division. He also served as an analyst at Plénitudes, a management consulting firm that specializes in change management.

Mr. Bézard holds a Maîtrise degree in contemporary history from the University Rennes II, France, and is fluent in English and French.