About Patra Corp
Patra Corporation is dedicated to providing insurance back office services to the insurance industry. Our mission is to leverage expertise and economies of scale to reduce our customer’s operating costs and risk exposure. Patra Corporation maintains a corporate office and printing/mailing facility in San Carlos, CA.
Patra India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Patra Corporation, is a 24-hour operations facility located in Visakhapatnam (Vizag), India. Patra recruits, trains and employs highly educated professionals, with bachelors and masters degrees. Our Patra India professionals work in teams dedicated to each customer, providing around-the-clock service.
Management Team
Patra Corporation is managed by Dan Easterlin and John Simpson, both of whom have decades of process re-engineering experience utilizing software systems and outsourcing services. They have built and integrated solutions in various industries including insurance and financial services.
Dan Easterlin - President
Before co-founding Patra Corporation, Dan spent nearly 25 years developing, marketing, selling and supporting enterprise and Internet software and services for high tech companies and in corporate information services (IS). He has held management positions ranging from first line through senior vice president in companies across the spectrum from startups to large established corporations.
With high tech vendor and executive experience at IBM, Ask Jeeves, Ceridian and Evolve, Mr. Easterlin specializes in market research, product management and sales force development. In IS management roles at AAA and SSA Marine, Mr. Easterlin led requirements definition, new systems planning, and business process optimization projects in the insurance and containerized shipping industries.
Dan Easterlin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Mathematics and a BA in Philosophy. He received an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of California.
John Simpson – CEO
John Simpson brings over 20 years of process and software design, as well as enterprise application experience to Patra Corporation, having designed, developed and launched several prominent services throughout his career.
Most recently John was the co-founder & CEO of CyberBills, an Internet Bill Payment and Presentment company, which was named by Online Banking Report (Feb 2004) as one of the top 25 web banking technology innovations of all-time. In 2001, Metavante, a billion dollar subsidiary of M&I Bank, purchased CyberBills and today the CyberBills services are now an integral part of the offerings by Wells Fargo and Chase banks as well as over 500 other financial institutions.
Prior to CyberBills, John worked as a Product Manager for Healtheon Corporation (now WebMD), as a Regional Account Executive for Ceridian (Fortune 500 ERP Software), a Sr. Consultant for AON Consulting, and a Software Manager for Kay Jewelers.
John has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Richmond, VA.