Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Matt Wielbut

Prior to founding Openly, Matt spent 4 years as a Partner at Elements Insurance, one of the fastest-growing property & casualty insurance agencies in Massachusetts, which he co-founded in 2013 and sold in 2020.

Matt began his early professional career on Wall Street where he spent 8 years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President in Engineering with projects spanning operations, sales, and marketing.

Matt is a serial entrepreneur; investing time in projects ranging from graph-based concept search to improve the way consumers find local business to a platform to deliver hyper-specific educational videos to students to bridge the gap between school and home.

Outside of his entrepreneurial endeavors Matt works on personal programming and robotics projects and is an avid skier and sailor.

Chief Operating Officer

Christopher Bacon

Chris Bacon is the Chief Operating Officer at Openly, joining the company originally as the VP of Agent Engagement in August 2018. As Chief Operating Officer, Chris oversees the insurance operations which include, sales, agent experience, claims and marketing.

Prior to joining Openly, Chris spent 13 years at Liberty Mutual in a variety of sales and claims roles both in the US and internationally. In his last role, he was the VP of Global Claims Excellence. In that role, he led a team of claims experts that partnered with local country operations to optimize their claims experience.

Chris currently lives in Boston with his wife and two sons and is a passionate runner and golfer.