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Michael Curtis has over 12 years of experience in litigation for public and private organizations. His current practice focuses on stymieing fraudulent claims that are brought by networks of conspiring plaintiff’s attorneys and medical professionals which are based on manufactured accidents, phantom and unnecessary medical treatment, and exploitative consumer litigation funding. Michael began his legal

Kate Northway is a communications executive with 15 years of experience specializing in media relations, executive visibility, crisis communications and content strategy. Kate advises companies and CEOs in financial services, technology and healthcare sectors, helping them navigate regulatory scrutiny, market volatility and reputational inflection points. Prior to her current role, Kate served as senior advisor to

Cory Fritz leads the trade and national security practice within the public affairs group advising clients who are navigating political, regulatory and legal scrutiny related to cross-border matters. As a member of US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s senior staff, he played a key role in shaping policy, strategy and messaging on issues including

James Wrynn has more than 40 years of experience as an attorney, regulator, executive, director consultant/advisor and expert witness in the insurance industry. Jim has been involved in domestic and global insurance regulations, policies and standards as well as assisting clients in developing strategies and programs dealing with regulatory issues, claims administration and analysis, identification

Andrew Mais has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services.  He was formerly the Connecticut insurance commissioner and NAIC president. In his current position, he provides risk and regulatory strategy and advisory services to insurance industry stakeholders. Andrew was also highly active on the national and international regulatory fronts. In December 2024,

Francine Semaya is currently a legal consultant in insurance regulation, reinsurance, insurance insolvency and transactional matters. Her practice encompasses reinsurance, captive insurers (in the US and abroad), insolvency and national and global insurance regulatory matters in the areas of property, casualty, life, annuity, surety and financial guaranty. In addition, she performs legal and compliance audits

David Altmaier has over 14 years with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. As the former top insurance regulator in Florida, David brings deep knowledge of the complex insurance market. In his capacity as commissioner, he led the Office of Insurance Regulation and had oversight over one of the largest insurance markets in the world. Under

Mithuna Sivaraman has over 13 years of experience in financial services specializing in tax issues. Formerly, Mithuna was with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where her practice focused on federal tax controversy and tax planning for multinational corporations, with an emphasis on transfer pricing, tax treaty interpretation, and related international taxation issues. Prior to

Thanga Ramalingam has over 20 years of experience in the financial services sector on large scale NextGen digital transformation, finance transformation, risk management, data management, cloud transformation and cognitive automation. Thanga specializes in large scale finance transformation and integrated risk/finance solutions to modernize and optimize business functions by leveraging cutting-edge tools and technologies. Thanga has led