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Jack Rich has over five years of accounting and advisory experience serving clients in Grant Thornton’s Risk Advisory Services practice. Jack leads initiatives to evaluate financial crime vulnerabilities, enhance compliance frameworks, and strengthen corporate integrity and mitigate risks effectively. His experience includes conducting comprehensive assessments of fraud risk exposure for Fortune 500 companies to ensure […]

Garrett Buckless has more than 14 years of experience in public accounting, consulting, and the insurance industry. In his present position, he assists clients with business transformation, accounting advisory, and financial reporting. Prior to his time with Centri, Garrett was a senior manager with Cherry Bekaert, where he led the accounting transformation practice. He assisted clients

Colin Wilhelm has 15 years of experience thinking about federal policy, first on Capitol Hill, then as a journalist covering the inner workings of tax and economic policy for multiple outlets prior to joining Grant Thornton in 2023. Colin has covered the inner workings of Congress, including the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance

Gary Berger has over 25 years of insurance tax experience and is part of the Grant Thornton US insurance tax leadership team. Gary has significant experience in the taxation of global and US domiciled companies, as well as closely held corporations, focusing on tax consulting, tax planning, as well as assistance in tax provisions and

James Blackwell has over 25 years of experience in IT solution architecture, design, and delivery, with a keen focus on enterprise and mid-market businesses. His expertise lies in data analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence. Jim currently leads a team of IT professionals that include cloud architects, project managers, developers, business analysts, data analytics developers, and

Jamie Bouloux has over 18 years of experience in insurance and technology. Ryan Financial Lines provides a wide-ranging platform of financial lines products for the small-to-middle market, enterprise and large-insured market. Celerity Risk offers professional liability and media solutions. Prior to joining Ryan Specialty, Jamie served as the lead underwriter for CFC Underwriting’s large corporate cyber

Arleen Paladino has over 17 years of experience in the insurance industry. She is responsible for the organization’s financial reporting, management reporting, internal audit and planning and business unit support departments. Arleen’s experience with Crum & Forster includes roles in field reporting, financial operations, IT project management, SOX 404 compliance and internal audit. Arleen earned a

Jason Jacobs has over 20 years of experience in public accounting, insurance and financial services for public and private companies. As chief accounting officer, Jason leads the corporate accounting, financial reporting and financial controls functions. Before joining SageSure, he served as head of accounting policy at AIG and prior to that as an audit partner

Martin Hollander has over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. Serving in his current role for eleven years, Martin focusses on the strategic development of internal audit and building an integrated data analytics process as part of the function. Previously, he had multiple roles with global insurance companies (AIG, QBE) within internal audit,