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PRESENTERS

Andrew Siffert Dawn Thompson
BMS Re US Live Oak Bank

Andrew Siffert is a Vice President and Dawn Thompson is Senior Government
Senior Meteorologist within BMS Re Relations Manager for Live Oak
US Catastrophe Analytics team. He Bank. Dawn leads advocacy efforts
works closely with clients to help them in Washington D.C. with Congress,
manage their weather related risks federal agencies, and local and state
by adding value through catastrophe government agencies.
response, catastrophe modelling, product development Previously, Dawn was Senior Vice President, Director of
and scientific research and education. He has 16 years Federal Affairs, and Associate Counsel at the NC Bankers
of industry experience having worked in the energy and Association where she led federal grassroots and advocacy
insurance industry focusing his meteorological knowledge efforts, answered bank regulatory and compliance
on helping companies manage their weather risks. Prior to questions, maintained corporate governance, and was the
joining BMS, Andrew worked for FlagstoneRe as a CAT Project staff liaison for the NC Young Bankers and Bank Security
Manager/Meteorologist and was responsible for developing Committee. Prior to her role at the NC Bankers, Dawn
LiveCAT products, frontline research, and analytics used in practiced law at Stewart & Schmidlin, PLLC in Smithfield,
the underwriting process. He has also worked at ACE Group NC. Dawn is a graduate of Campbell School of Law in
with the development of ACE Global Weather Insurance Raleigh, NC and Stetson University in DeLand, FL.
products and helped pioneer the weather derivatives market
and energy trading markets while working at Aquila Energy
Corp. Andrew has educational background that spans the
sciences with a master’s degree in meteorology from the
University of Utah and was member of the 2002 Olympic Robert Thompson
weather support team. World Wide Specialty Programs

Robert Thompson is a Vice President
with World Wide Specialty Programs
with 22 years of Staffing Industry
Neal Stanley experience. Bob started as a
Palmetto Advisors principal in a marketing firm. His
firm focused on market research
Neal Stanley has over 40 years of
experience in the management and and analysis of the staffing industry with World Wide and
direction of insurance companies and American International Group as two of his many insurance
insurance agencies. For the last 15 clients. Bob sold his firm in 2007 and joined World Wide
years, he was associated with United as a Vice President to run their New Business, Broker
Valley Insurance Services, Inc. as a Development and Workers Compensation Divisions.
director, consultant and principle officer of the company. He is an experienced manager whose skills range from
In those capacities, he assisted in the development and marketing, research, analysis, and sales, customer/broker
implementation of United Valley’s long-range business relations to underwriting and loss control, as well as co-
plan. During his tenure, United Valley became a dominant authoring a Staffing Industry Risk Management Manual.
insurance agency network and it developed a large agency Bob is from New York and has four grown children.
operation. Neal retired from United Valley in 2017 and
reopened his consulting business. Palmetto Management
Advisors LLC is a consulting company that provides
consulting services to insurance networks and assists May 7-9, 2018
insurance agencies in perpetuation.

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