Laird Rixford
President at Tessarai
Carrollton, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorLaird Rixford is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive with over a decade of senior leadership driving growth, M&A, and product strategy across insurance, banking, and mortgage platforms. Currently leading Capsara and serving as Founder/CTO of Tessarai, he focuses on secure data exchange and platform architecture while previously scaling Hexure into a PE-backed SaaS business with strong recurring revenue and strategic acquisitions. He built his career founding and exiting companies—most notably growing Insurance Technologies Corporation through multiple acquisitions and an accretive exit—and has a track record of converting service-led businesses into product-driven enterprises with industry-leading margins. Laird blends hands-on technical visioning with market-facing roles in sales, partnerships, and public speaking, emphasizing education and product-agnostic guidance for clients. An early entrepreneur who started a garden-removal business at 11, he still brings that builder’s curiosity to modern data and automation challenges in insurance. Based in Carrollton, Texas, he combines operator experience, investor perspective, and board-level advisory to help companies scale.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish
Github Skills (4)
insurance10
api8
dotnet1
ruby1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
getitc/turbotags
Jan 2016 - Mar 2020
TurboTags is an integration format developed by Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC) to allow insurance carries, vendors, and agencies to communicate data between two insurance related systems.
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years 2 months
apicorporationitctechnologiesagencies
lrixford/FakeO
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Fake Object data generation and population, like Ruby's Faker gem, for .NET
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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