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Mike Strakhov, MBA, CCLA, CPCU and Operating Committee, and also serves on The Diversity
Live Oak Bank Council, and the Travelers Foundation Board. Woodward also
Mike Strakhov joined chairs the Travelers
Live Oak Bank with Environmental, Social,
more than 27 years and Governance (ESG)
in the Insurance Committee, and she is
industry. He has held the Executive Sponsor
positions as a claims of the Military and
adjuster, commercial Veterans Diversity
producer, personal Network for the
and commercial company.
lines marketing Woodward joined
manager, territory Travelers in 2008 from
manager and the Goldman Sachs to
head of a large multi-state agency. Prior to Live Oak, establish The Travelers Institute as the company’s thought
Mike served as Branch Vice President of CNA Insurance leadership and public policy platform.
Companies for the state of Ohio. His career also included
tenure with Chubb Group of Insurance Companies where Prior to her current role, Woodward worked at Goldman,
he was a Branch Manager responsible for all aspects of Sachs & Co. for ten years, where she was the founding
management for the states of Alabama and Mississippi. Executive Director of the company’s Global Markets Institute,
He then moved to First Niagara Risk Management (FNRM) the firm’s international public policy and institutional investor
in various roles including, Interim CEO and Managing educational platform. She also served as Vice President
Director of Field Operations of a $67M+ revenue and Director of Washington Equity and Bond Research
insurance broker consisting of 90 producers across NY, for Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment Research where
PA and CT. As a member of the FNRM acquisition team, Institutional Investor magazine recognized her as a top
he participated in the review and analysis of a significant Washington analyst for investors.
number of agency acquisitions. Mike has a Master’s in
Insurance Management from Boston University and Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Woodward worked on
a CPCU designation from the American Institute for Capitol Hill for 12 years, as Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S.
Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters. Senate Finance Committee working for Chairman Bill Roth,
where she was instrumental in creating the Roth IRA. She also
Mike is the Head of Insurance Lending at Live Oak Bank. was the Chief Economist for the Senate Governmental Affairs
He’s responsible for leading the insurance lending team Committee and the U.S. House Budget Committee under
in developing a profitable portfolio of insurance agency Chairman John Kasich.
loans for the bank.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the United States
Chamber of Commerce Foundation, is a member of the
Board of Overseers of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, and
a member of the President’s National Small and Medium
Enterprise (SME) Export Council. Reactions Magazine named
her to the Top 50 Women in Insurance, and in 2016, she was
named to the Hot 100 in Insurance list by Insurance Business
America Magazine. In 2017, she received the 2017 Power
Joan K. Woodward Women’s Leadership Award by NY Moves magazine.
The Travelers Institute
Woodward holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and
Joan K. Woodward is Executive Vice President of Public Policy political science and a master’s degree from The American
for Travelers, and President of The Travelers Institute. She University. She also studied at the University of London.
is a member of the company’s Management Committee