APP - Key Persons
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- Chief Insurance Officer
- Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society
- Insurance Information Institute in 2021 As Its Chief Insurance Officer
Dale Porfilio joined the Insurance Information Institute in 2021 as its Chief Insurance Officer. In this role, he oversees the Research and Education division, working closely with Triple-I subject-matter experts to develop data-driven industry insights and analyses. He also serves as a media spokesperson on thought-leadership matters and delivers board-level presentations at industry events and to Triple-I member companies.
Dale previously was senior vice president and corporate chief actuary at Genworth Financial, where he was responsible for the actuarial practice for all product lines and countries. Before that he was vice president and chief actuary at Kemper Corp., where he was responsible for pricing, reserving, predictive modeling, catastrophe management, and product management. He began his career at Allstate, working on pricing, product, research, and catastrophe risk modeling.
Dale is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS), Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), and summa cum laude graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. He and his wife, Carol, reside in Chicago, Ill., and are parents of three adult daughters.
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- Senior Vice President of Crum & Forster 's Structured
Daniel L. Sussman is senior vice president of Crum & Forster's Structured Products Group with a focus on a range of surety and credit risk products.
Prior to joining Crum & Forster, Sussman spent eight years at Ironshore, founding and serving as president of Ironshore's Global Credit and Political Risk unit. Sussman also served in a series of capacities culminating as XL Capital's CEO of Financial Lines, one of XL's strategic reporting segments, with broad responsibilities across a wide range of credit products, alternative risk transfer specialty products and funding solutions. Prior to XL, he was in private practice associated with Clifford Chance and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Sussman received his BA from Harvard College, his M.A. and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.C.L. from Oxford University.
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- Director of Research Operations and Membership
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- Executive Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Carolyn Kousky is Executive Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Kousky was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program and is a visiting Fellow at Resources for the Future. She is the recipient of the 2013 Tartufari International Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. She has a B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.
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- Professor of Meteorology at San José State University and Director of the NSF I / UCRC Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center
Dr. Craig Clements is a Professor of Meteorology at San José State University and Director of the NSF I/UCRC Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center. He leads research on fire weather, extreme fire behavior, fire-atmosphere interactions, and conducting wildfire field experiments. Dr. Clements has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and teaches courses in Fire Weather, Wildfire Science, Mountain Meteorology, Climate Change, and Meteorological Instrumentation. He received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Houston, his MS in Meteorology from the University of Utah, and a BS degree in Geography from the University of Nevada. His research is often featured in the media including PBS NOVA, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Time, CNN, and Scientific American.
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- James G. Dinan Professor Emeritus
Dr. Howard C. Kunreuther is the James G. Dinan Professor Emeritus in the Operations, Information and Decisions department at the Wharton School and the Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
Dr. Kunreuther has a long-standing interest in ways that society can better manage low-probability, high-consequence events related to technological and natural hazards. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Kunreuther received the 2015 Shin Research Excellence Award from the Geneva Association and the International Insurance Society in recognition of his outstanding work on the role of public-private partnerships in mitigating and managing risks.
His recent books include The Future of Risk Management (with R. Meyer and E. O, Michel-Kerjan), Managing Catastrophic Risk: How Companies are Coping with Disruption (with M. Useem), The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters (with R. Meyer), Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry (with M. Pauly and S. McMorrow) and At War with the Weather (with E. O. Michel-Kerjan).
Dr. Kunreuther holds an A.B. from Bates College and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Economics.
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- Director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research
Dr. Lars Powell is Director of the Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research (ACIIR) at the University of Alabama. ACIIR identifies and solves risk and insurance problems with research and education. Dr. Powell has previously worked in both academic and industry roles.
Dr. Powell's primary research interests include loss mitigation, insurer capitalization, and the effects of regulation on insurance markets. His work has appeared in several top academic and practitioner journals. His work has appeared in several academic and practitioner journals and is past president of the Risk Theory Society, former editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation, a founding board member emeritus of Arkansas Mutual Insurance Company, and a recipient of the National Association Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) Service Award.
He earned undergraduate degrees from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia.
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- Chairman of the Faculty of the School of Risk Management
Dr. Mark J. Browne is the Chair of the Faculty of the School of Risk Management in the Tobin College of Business at St. John's University, where he is the Robert Clements Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance. In addition, he is an associate member of the Munich Risk Insurance Center at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and a member of the International Research Advisory Board of the Risk and Insurance Research Center at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
Dr. Browne's expertise focuses on risk management, insurance, and employee benefits. Prior to St. John's University, he was the Gerald D. Stephens CPCU Chair in Risk Management and Insurance in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was president of the American Risk and Insurance Association, the Risk Theory Society and the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists. His research has appeared in many publications, including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, of which he is an associate editor, the Journal of Insurance Regulation, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, the Journal of Legal Studies and the CPCU Journal. He is a frequent commentator in the media including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Dr. Browne received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Martin F. Grace is the Harry A. Cochran Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to Temple, he was at Georgia State University where he was the James S. Kemper Jr. Professor of Risk Management, a Georgia Regents, and served as the Chair of the Risk Management and Insurance Department.
Dr. Grace's research interests include tort reform, catastrophe financing, industrial organization, and regulation and taxation of the insurance industry. He was president of the Risk Theory Society and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance. He has published more than 70 professional and scholarly papers and book chapters; consulted with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, state regulators, and industry associations; and testified before the U.S. Congress on the future of insurance regulation as part of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Dr. Grace holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics and a J.D. from the University of Florida.
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- Member of the Board of the American Risk
Dr. Born is a member of the board of the American Risk and Insurance Association and serves on the editorial board of the Risk Management and Insurance Review and of the Journal of Insurance Issues. She is the Chair of the Florida Panhandle District Long Term Care Ombudsman Council.
Dr. Phil Klotzbach is a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University where he has been for the past 17 years. He was co-author on the Atlantic basin hurricane forecasts with Dr. William Gray through 2005 and became the first author on the seasonal hurricane forecasts in 2006. Dr. Klotzbach developed the two-week forecasts currently being issued during the peak months of the hurricane season between August-October.
Dr. Klotzbach has published over two dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Climate and Weather and Forecasting. He is frequently consulted by the media and has been quoted regularly on the Weather Channel, Forbes, The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Klotzbach holds a B.Sc. in Geography from Bridgewater State College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University.
Dr. Robert E. Hoyt is the Dudley L. Moore, Jr. Chair and Professor of Risk Management and Insurance in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia where he teaches corporate and enterprise risk management and serves as the Department Head for Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate. He was Interim Dean of the Terry College in 2007 and has been on the University of Georgia faculty since 1988.
Before that, he was a Fulbright visiting professor of Risk Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, a Swiss Re Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Munich, and a Gen Re visiting scholar at the University of Cologne. He is past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association, past president of the Risk Theory Society, past president of the Southern Risk and Insurance Association, and a member of the International Insurance Society, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, the Western Risk and Insurance Association, and the American Finance Association. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and of the Risk Management and Insurance Review.
Dr. Hoyt is a recipient of the University of Georgia's Richard B. Russell Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Terry College's Outstanding Service Award, the Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Outstanding Research Award. He holds a degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Nebraska and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Risk and Insurance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he was an S.S. Huebner Fellow. He holds the professional designations of CLU and ChFC.
Dr. Robert W. Klein was an Associate Professor of Risk Management and Insurance and Director of the Center of Risk Management and Insurance Research at Georgia State University from 1996-2018. He is currently a consultant in risk management and insurance.
Dr. Klein is a leading expert on insurance regulation and markets with over 30 years of experience as a regulator and an academic researcher. He has published extensively on various topics on insurance and its regulation, including the structure and performance of insurance markets, solvency regulation, monitoring competition, price regulation, catastrophe risk, urban insurance, workers compensation, life insurance, and international insurance regulation. He also has testified frequently at legislative and regulatory hearings on significant issues affecting insurance consumers and the industry.
Dr. Klein received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University.
Job Titles:
- Applied Data Science, LLC
- Founder and CEO of Applied Data Science
Dr. Roy E. Lowrance is the founder and CEO of Applied Data Science and an advisor to venture capital firms on artificial intelligence with 40 years of experience in strategy development, information technology and academia.
Dr. Stephen Mildenhall is Faculty and Director of Insurance Data Analytics in the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science at St. John's University's Peter J. Tobin College of Business.
Dr. Mildenhall was Global CEO of Analytics for Aon and head of Aon Benfield Analytics where he helped found and establish Aon's Singapore Center for Innovation and Analytics and led a team of over 500 professionals in actuarial science, catastrophe modeling, accounting and financial modeling. Prior to Aon, he was vice president of Actuarial Pricing for Kemper Insurance and began his career at CNA.
Dr. Mildenhall is a frequent speaker and published author on risk theory, the intersection of insurance and finance, and the application of probability and statistics to reserving and rate making problems. He is a fellow and Board and Audit Committee member of Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), a board member of the CAS Institute, an associate of the Society of Actuaries, and a member of the Risk Theory Society. He served on the ARIA Board of Directors from 2013-2016 and was a member of the CAS Committee on the Theory of Risk and its chairman from 2008-2010.
He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, England, and a MA and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago. He is a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics, and a Catastrophe Risk Management Professional.
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- the Insurance Information Institute ( Retired ) View Bio Hi - Res Headshots
Steven N. Weisbart became a Non-Resident Scholar upon retiring from the Insurance Information Institute in 2020.
A thought leader in economics and insurance, Dr. Weisbart's current research interests are in retirement and pensions, although at the Triple-I he frequently presented on property/casualty insurance topics. Recent research includes the insurance protection gap and the impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. economy and P/C industry. He is a frequent speaker at industry and regulatory forums and commentator for CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
From 2005 to 2020, Dr. Weisbart was Senior Vice President & Chief Economist of the Triple-I. In this role, he oversaw economic research and analysis, preparing studies in support of the organization's communications mission, speaking to media and conducting briefings for member companies, industry organizations, and policymakers.
Before Triple-I, he was Vice President at TIAA and, before that, Associate Professor of Insurance in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. More recently he was Adjunct Faculty at the School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science in the Tobin College of Business at St. John's University.
He is the author and co-author of four books published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Financial Service Professionals, the CPCU Journal, The Geneva Reports, and Best's Review. He serves on the editorial board of the Risk Management and Insurance Review and was previously an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Service Professionals. He is a member of ARIA, AES, and the Society of Financial Service Professionals.
Dr. Weisbart received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an S.S. Huebner Foundation Fellow, and his B.A. in English from Cornell University. Dr. Weisbart holds the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) credential.
Dr. Tyler Leverty is the Gerald D. Stephens CPCU Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a senior editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the past president of the Risk Theory Society, and the vice president of the American Risk and Insurance Association.
His research interests are in the economics of insurance markets, insurance company operations, and public policy issues in insurance. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. Dr. Leverty has received recognition for both his teaching and research, including the Inspired Learning Chair at the Wisconsin School of Business, the Tippie College of Business Collegiate Teaching Award, the Casualty Actuarial Society Best Non-Life Paper Award, and the State Farm Companies Doctoral Dissertation Award.
He received a B.A. in History and Economics from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from Georgia State University.
Job Titles:
- Director - Strategic Communication
Janet Ruiz is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and was appointed as the Insurance Information Institute's (Triple-I) Director, Strategic Communication, in January 2019. Ruiz joined the Triple-I in January 2015 as the organization's California representative, bringing with her 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. She worked for 16 years at State Farm Insurance (underwriting, management, public affairs) and nine years with Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, the 150-year-old insurance company that specialized in entertainment, commercial and high net worth homeowners insurance. At Fireman's Fund, she was responsible for external communications, including strategic communication planning and media relations.
Ruiz has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey. She earned a chartered property and casualty underwriter designation (CPCU) and an associate's designation in management from the Insurance Institute of America.
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- Senior Research Analyst
- Senior Research Analyst at the Insurance Information Institute
Jeff Dunsavage is Senior Research Analyst at the Insurance Information Institute. In this role, he investigates and writes on a wide range of issues and topics relevant to risk and insurance.
A business writer and editor with experience spanning industries from insurance and banking to metals and telecom, Jeff has worked for Standard & Poor's, AM Best, MetLife and Verisk Analytics. He has worked in diverse capacities, including editorial and publications management; media relations and marketing; and communication around operational metrics and process improvement.
In all these roles, Jeff's focus has been on transforming data and expertise into compelling stories intended to drive business strategy and support decision making.
Jeff has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., and an M.A. in Corporate and Organizational Communication from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J.
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- Head of Digital Distribution
Laura Favinger joined the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) as chief administrative officer in March 2018. In her role, Laura leads the organization's industry engagement efforts and operational strategy. Laura comes to the Triple-I with more than 20 years of experience driving strategic engagement with policymakers and influencers across multiple segments of the insurance industry.
Previously, Laura was senior vice president and head of government and industry affairs for Zurich North America, where she directed issues campaigns and government affairs, both in the U.S. and abroad since 2007. Before joining Zurich, Laura served in various public affairs roles with Unum Group in Portland, Maine, a leading provider of employee benefits products and services.
Laura brings significant insurance industry knowledge about the property/casualty, life, disability and supplemental benefits sectors, as well as a proven track record of success as a manager and team leader. She also has extensive experience managing external relationships with key industry trade groups, including the American Council of Life Insurers, (ACLI), America's Health Insurance Plans, (AHIP), and the American Insurance Association (AIA).
Laura is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Media Relations for the Insurance Information Institute
- Vice President, Media Relations
Loretta Worters is vice president of media relations for the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), focusing her work on improving understanding of key insurance issues across all industry stakeholders including media, consumers, insurers, producers and regulators.
As a national spokesperson for the property/casualty insurance industry, Ms. Worters is frequently quoted in leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post and Forbes, among others, and appears regularly on television networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, CNN and FOX.
Ms. Worters handles major strategic issues confronting the insurance industry. She serves as the insurance industry's chief crisis communications officer, developing and implementing disaster communications plans and working with national media during such catastrophes as the COVID-19 pandemic, civil riots, hurricanes, wildfires and terrorism. She develops articles, thought leadership pieces, editorial content, product launches as well as business insurance campaigns.
Ms. Worters has worked to promote women's financial literacy through women's organizations including the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the National Network to End Domestic Violence. She served as a board member on the Allstate Foundation's domestic violence program (formerly Purple Purse®) and helped develop two publications as part of Allstate's Readiness Series, Creating Long-Term Financial Success and Financial Strategies for Immigrant and Refugee Women. She is currently a board member of the Northeast Region of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, which helps communities and enriches lives by uniting the collective strengths of the insurance industry in providing grants, volunteer service and leadership.
Ms. Worters headed up the Community Outreach Program directed by former Vice President Al Gore, which resulted in her writing the industry publication, Empowering Communities.
Ms. Worters has authored articles that have appeared in numerous publications including Carrier Management, The Geneva Association, The John Liner Review, National Underwriter, Professional Agent magazine, Risk & Insurance Economics has contributed to the book NOLO's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home and has been a guest blogger for Equifax's Finance and Small Business blogs. She also makes presentations and provides public relations counsel to industry associations and companies both nationally and internationally.
Prior to Triple-I, she worked for Scandinavian Airlines and Dean Witter Reynolds. She holds an M.A. in Communications from the New School and a B.A. in Journalism. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America.
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- Director of the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research
Lynne McChristian is the Director of the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research and a senior instructor in insurance and enterprise risk management at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Prior academic credentials include Faculty and Executive Director of the Center for Risk Management Education & Research at Florida State University, Visiting Professor of Mass Communication at the University of South Florida, and teaching positions at San Antonio College and St. Mary's University, both in Texas. McChristian's business experience includes 14 years at USAA in Florida and Texas with responsibilities for external communication, including strategic communication, and marketing for the life insurance business. She was a public relations manager for a Florida-based workers compensation insurance company and has worked in real estate marketing, public relations, and in television news.
McChristian has a B.A. in journalism from Marquette University and an M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Arkansas. She holds the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) professional accreditation and the associate's designation in management (AIM) from the Insurance Institute of America.
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- Social Media and Brand Design Coordinator
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- Director - Corporate Communications
- Insurance Information Institute 's ( Triple - I ) Director, Corporate Communications
Mark Friedlander was appointed as the Insurance Information Institute's ( Triple-I) Director, Corporate Communications in February 2020. Based in St. Johns County, Fla., Friedlander's responsibilities include spearheading member company support and media relations in Florida, as well as national media relations and other corporate initiatives. He joined the Triple-I in July 2019 as its Florida Communications Consultant. Friedlander's vast industry experience includes a 13-year tenure as head of corporate communications and assistant secretary at Jacksonville, Fla.-domiciled The Main Street America Group, a super-regional property/casualty carrier. In this role, he spearheaded all internal and external communications, media relations, customer marketing and social media.
Friedlander's extensive background also includes senior marketing and communications roles at Prudential Financial, HSBC Holdings plc and Arthur Andersen LLP. He also served as a communications consultant at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety. Additionally, Friedlander has held leadership positions within insurance trade organizations, including board chair of the Insurance Marketing & Communications Association and key roles on the Trusted Choice Company Partner Advisory Board and Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America's Agency Best Practices Program. Friedlander began his career as a sports writer and editor, covering the National Football League and Big Ten Conference, as well as a sports marketer supporting PGA Tour sponsors. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism/public relations at The Ohio State University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Communications Officer
Michael F. Barry is Chief Communications Officer, and the Head of Media Relations and Public Affairs, at the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I).
In this role, Mr. Barry develops strategic communications for the Triple-I. and serves as a spokesperson for the institute. Moreover, Mr. Barry provides insurance information to a wide array of the institute's stakeholders, including media, member companies, regulators, legislators and the general public, who have come to rely on the Triple-I.'s expertise and analysis.
Mr. Barry came to the Triple-I. in 2006 from the New York State Insurance Department, where he had served since 2004 as the agency's director of Public Affairs. He oversaw all of the department's communications functions and reported to New York's Superintendent of Insurance, Howard Mills. Before joining the Department of Insurance, he was Corporate Communications manager at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) between 1998 and 2003, and Public Information officer for the New York State Banking Department (1996-1998).
Mr. Barry was a member of the board of trustees between 2006 and 2012 at Briarcliffe College, which had a student body of more than 3,000 on three campuses in Bethpage, Long Island City, and Patchogue, NY. He is also a member of the board of directors at Irish-Americans in Government, a Long Island-based charitable group which consists of current and former municipal employees. A former weekly newspaper editor, Mr. Barry was, early in his career, the Public Information officer for the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, Long Island and an elected member of the Village of Manorhaven's board of trustees in Port Washington, NY. He holds a B.A. in Communications from Fordham University.
Michael Menapace, Esq., is an insurance lawyer, counselor, and law school professor. He is a partner in Wiggin and Dana LLP's insurance, cybersecurity, and class action practices where he advises insurers on policy construction, coverage, compliance, and regulatory issues.
Menapace began his legal career in the insurance and reinsurance practice group of a major international law firm. He often represents stock, mutual, and captive insurers on their dealings with state regulators, including proceedings concerning rates, applications for acquisition of control, and market conduct exams. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts.
Menapace teaches insurance law at the School of Law at Quinnipiac University, is a frequent speaker at industry events on insurance issues, and the author and editor of authoritative books, articles and commentary. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee as an invited expert on insurance and cyber security, is a vice-chair of the ABA TIPS Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Committee and chairs the ARIAS-U.S. Technology Committee.
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- Chief Economist and Data Scientist, Head of the Economics and Analytics Department
Dr. Michel Léonard, CBE, leads the Triple-I's Economics and Analytics Department. He is responsible for providing analysis and insight on industry economics and business performance, as well as other forward-looking, data driven insurance insights.
Michel brings more than twenty years of insurance experience to Triple-I, including senior and leadership positions as Chief Economist for Trade Credit and Political Risk at Aon; Chief Economist at Jardine Lloyd Thompson; Chief Economist and Data Scientist at Alliant; and Chief Data Scientist at MaKro LLC. In these roles, he worked closely with underwriters, brokers and risk managers to model risk exposures for property-casualty and specialty lines such as credit, political risk, business interruption and cyber.
Michel also currently serves as adjunct faculty at New York University's Economics Department. Previous academic appointments include Adjunct Faculty in NYU's Center for Data Science and Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University's Data Science Institute and Statistics Department. He was the recipient of a grant from the Spencer Educational Foundation to develop a course in data analytics for insurance. In these capacities, Michel provides a key link between the Triple-I, its Non-Resident Scholars and academia.
Michel holds a Bachelors of Arts from McGill University, a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard University, and a Masters of Arts and Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Economy from the University of Virginia, focusing on qualitative and quantitative risk modeling. He is a member of the Insurance Research Council Advisory Board.
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- Director - Media Relations
- Is Director of Media Relations at the Insurance Information Institute ( Triple - I. ) .
Scott Holeman is Director of Media Relations at the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I.).
In this role, Mr. Holeman, who is based Kansas City, Missouri, is charged with enhancing relationships with national media, providing insurance consumer education outreach and producing videos and consumer content for the Triple-I.
Prior to joining the Triple-I. in 2019, he served as Communications Director for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), where he led media and consumer education efforts that generated 6 billion+ in audience impressions through public service announcements, news releases, consumer alerts and social media campaigns. His efforts earned placements in numerous national outlets, including Good Morning America, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, NPR, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Under his leadership the NAIC garnered dozens of national and regional PR awards.
A former award-winning journalist, Holeman has served in roles including news director, anchor and reporter at television stations in Kansas and Missouri. He brings to the Triple-I. skills in strategic communications, national media relations, and government relations.
Holeman is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Journalism. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- Insurance Information Institute As President and Chief Executive Officer
Sean Kevelighan joined the Insurance Information Institute as President and Chief Executive Officer in August 2016. Previously, he was Group Head of Public Affairs for Zurich Insurance Group where he oversaw Government and Industry Affairs as well as Corporate Responsibility. He joined Zurich in May 2013 as Head of Government and Industry Affairs for North America, with responsibility for driving the public policy agenda in the region. Prior to that, he worked at Citigroup, Inc., as Head of Strategic Communications for its Global Consumer Banking business, and for Zurich, as Head of Group Media Relations in North America. He has served in various public sector posts in Washington, D.C. As a political appointee in the administration of President George W. Bush, he served first in the Department of Treasury as a spokesperson for economic issues, and eventually became Senior Advisor for the Office of Tax Policy. He was also the Press Secretary for the White House Office of Management and Budget. Additionally, he worked on Capitol Hill, serving on the staff of members of Congress; most notably as Legislative Director for Representative Bob Schaffer of Colorado. Sean's private sector experience in Washington, D.C. included positions at public affairs firms such as Edelman and Hill & Knowlton. He advised numerous multinational and FORTUNE 100 corporate clients on policy issue management programs, corporate reputation campaigns and crisis communications. Sean is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. He and his wife Annik have three children. He is an avid enthusiast of exercise and outdoors, participating regularly in triathlons and other sporting events.
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- Head of Membership Experience and Business Development
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- Advisor to the International Finance Corporation
- Senior Advisor, International Finance Corporation the World Bank Group
Susan Holliday is an advisor to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank where she focuses on insurtech and insurance for SMEs and women. She has served on insurance sector boards in UK, Brazil and India and is currently a board member of Tribal Planet, a Silicon Valley tech company, and an advisor to Eos Venture Fund and to several start-ups. She has worked across life, health, property and casualty insurance and reinsurance at both global and regional levels and led strategy for emerging markets and fintech. Prior to joining IFC, she was a managing director at Swiss Re, serving as head of strategy for Swiss Re's global reinsurance business and before this CFO of Reinsurance Client Markets and Group head of investor relations. Before Swiss Re, she was in equity research and equity sales covering the insurance industry at UBS, JP Morgan and Paribas. She started her career as a Chartered Accountant with Touche Ross (now Deloitte) in London and then established a counterparty credit analysis department for an insurance broker. Ms. Holliday is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment in the U.K. She graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern History and completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management and Women on Boards programs.
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- Global Head of Credit at Noble Energy
- Member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association
Tamika Tyson is the global head of credit at Noble Energy, a global, independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company.
Tyson has over 15 years of credit and industry experience in energy. At Noble, her responsibilities include managing the day-to-day credit functions, oversight of the derivative regulatory and contract administration function supporting commodity risk management, and supplier credit risk for supply chain. Her role covers the company's diverse resource base across the Gulf of Mexico, the Eastern Mediterranean region, and West Africa.
Tyson is a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association where she has served on various committees since 2012. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Business Administration in Finance and Economics from Sam Houston State University.
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- Executive Assistant to Sean Kevelighan & Corporate Secretary
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- Georgia Media Relations
- Representative in the Southeast for the Insurance Information Institute
William J. "Bill" Davis serves as a regional media relations representative in the southeast for the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I)-the industry-sponsored media and consumer information organization for the property and casualty insurance industry. He is based in Atlanta and is responsible for institute activities in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
He has been with the Triple-I since March 1982 and before that he served as a regional manager of corporate communications for United Airlines in Atlanta and Orlando. Bill also spent five years as public information officer for the city of Birmingham, Alabama. His professional career began as a radio and television news reporter and anchorman in Birmingham at Channel 13-an NBC affiliate. During his career, Bill has received a number of awards for his work in public relations and journalism, including from the Southern Public Relations Federation, the Public Relations Council of Alabama and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast and Film Communication.