Jim Loveland is a senior vice president of Verisk Analytics and president and chief executive officer of Xactware Solutions, the leading provider of estimating systems for the property insurance, remodeling, and restoration industries. The company’s technology tools include software estimating programs for PCs and tablet PCs, as well as online systems for replacement-cost calculations, estimate tracking, and data trending in real time.

Mr. Loveland is a group executive responsible for Verisk Underwriting Solutions and Xactware. Verisk Underwriting Solutions, a division of Verisk Analytics, develops and delivers underwriting information and services for the property/casualty insurance industry. The division has responsibility for Verisk’s A-PLUSTM, Coverage VerifierSM, LOCATION®, LOCATION Analyst, QuickFill®, and 360Value® product lines, among others. 

During Mr. Loveland’s tenure as Xactware's president and CEO, the company has expanded business operations into several international markets, broadened its customer base into new vertical markets, joined the Verisk Analytics Family of Companies, and overseen the release of many new products and services. Today, Mr. Loveland leads a company with more than 400 employees.  

Mr. Loveland has been with Xactware since 1988. Before being appointed CEO, he was senior vice president of XactNet, the pricing, property-estimate network, and data-mining division of the business.

Mr. Loveland holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Brigham Young University and a master of business administration degree from the University of Utah. He serves on the boards of a number of charitable organizations. In 2011, Utah Business magazine named Mr. Loveland CEO of the Year.