Tony Villa

Chief Executive Officer OneShield

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Tony Villa is Chief Executive Officer of OneShield, the Marlborough, Massachusetts company that sells core policy, billing, claims and analytics systems to property and casualty insurers and managing general agents. He joined in January 2024 to run the OneShield Enterprise business and was promoted to chief executive in July 2025, when Cameron Parker, who had led the company since its 2020 acquisition by Pacific Lake Partners, moved to Operating Chairman. Villa arrived with a long record in the same market: senior product leadership at Applied Systems and fifteen years running Policy Processing Systems Corporation, an insurance software business spun out of Applied. OneShield says his job now is to turn it into an AI-native core systems provider.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of OneShield since July 2025.
• President of OneShield Enterprise, one of the company’s two platform businesses, from January 2024 to July 2025.
• CEO of Policy Processing Systems Corporation for 15 years, where he added systems integration and business process outsourcing subsidiaries and grew the business tenfold before its sale to a publicly traded software company, according to his company biography.
• EVP of Product Management and Marketing at Applied Systems, where he helped sell the company to Vista Equity Partners.
• Serves on the boards of Dream Payments and Transco Products.

Professional Journey

Villa’s career has stayed inside insurance software. At Applied Systems, the insurance agency management software company, he was EVP of Product Management and Marketing and, according to OneShield, helped sell the company to Vista Equity Partners. He then spent fifteen years as chief executive of Policy Processing Systems Corporation, a spinout of Applied focused on core systems for insurers. There he modernised the core systems business and started two subsidiaries, one in systems integration and one in business process outsourcing, and the business grew roughly tenfold before being sold to a publicly traded software company. OneShield’s own announcement of his appointment summarises this period differently, as fifteen-plus years as CEO of Insuresoft followed by time at Volaris Group.

He joined OneShield in January 2024 as President of OneShield Enterprise. The company runs two platforms, OneShield Enterprise and OneShield Market Solutions, serving carriers and MGAs across commercial, personal and specialty lines. In July 2025 he became chief executive. Cameron Parker, CEO since Pacific Lake Partners partnered with him and Brandon Parker to acquire the company in 2020, became Operating Chairman with responsibility for acquisitions; Pacific Lake said revenue had tripled under Parker. Liza Petrie succeeded Villa at OneShield Enterprise, Brandon Parker remained Chief Operating Officer and Rex Blazevich continued to lead OneShield Market Solutions.

On taking over, Villa set out the priorities as intelligent automation, AI-driven development and self-service for insurers, alongside the company’s existing push to make customers into advocates. OneShield now sells an AI Hub alongside its core systems.

Outside OneShield he sits on the boards of Dream Payments and Transco Products. His company biography says he plays pickleball, likes to travel and goes to college football and basketball games.

Education

University of Illinois Chicago

Law degree

Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

MBA

University of St. Francis

Bachelor’s degree