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PRESENT A TIONS

Panelists:

Brian Cohen, Arden
Brian S. Cohen is the co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Arden Insurance Services, a
specialty MGA that focuses on Community Associations. He also is an operating
partner with Altamont Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Palo Alto,
Calif. Previously Brian served as the President & CEO of Pacific Specialty Insurance
Company and its affiliated companies. He also served as President and CEO of Clear
Technology, and in several senior executive roles at Farmers Insurance Group
including as its Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the Office of the President.
Prior to joining Farmers, Brian played a leading role in building a diversified retail
and financial services company that catered to the Latino market. Brian started his
career as a C.P.A. and then practiced corporate law. He earned his business degree
from the University of California, Berkeley and his law degree from the University of
Southern California.

John Colis, Euclid
John is the President and CEO of Euclid Insurance Services, Inc., a holding company
for specialty program administrators. He is also past president of the TMPAA
Advisory Board. Prior to joining Euclid, John worked in the corporate insurance and
reinsurance business, spending time in London as a broker at Lloyds, at General
Reinsurance Corporation and at Aon Risk Services. He received his Bachelor of Arts
degree from Northwestern University and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School
of Management, Northwestern University.

Lisa Doherty, Business Risk Partners
Lisa Doherty is a Founder and CEO of Business Risk Partners a specialty underwriting
firm based in CT. BRP underwrites professional liability, management liability and
cyber coverages. Launched in 2000 BRP serves agents and brokers nationally. In
2022 Business Risk Partners was sold to Amwins, a leading wholesale insurance
distribution firm. Lisa continues to lead Business Risk Partners within the Amwins
Underwriting Division.

Prior to BRP, Lisa spent several years underwriting at AIG and Executive Risk, as well
broking at Marsh. Lisa has a BA from Brown University with a dual concentration in
International Relations and Economics. She is married and lives in Longmeadow
with her wife and 2 teenage children.

Matt Sackett, DOXA
Matt Sackett has over 25 years of MGA-specific experience, driving dramatic growth
through all phases of his career. Matt has run and grown divisions for a small MGA,
launched and sold an MGA to Aon after 5 years, turned around a negative growth
curve for a business that shrank to half its size over an 8-year period, built successful
multi-line sales teams, and participated on acquisition teams.
During his career, Matt has had the opportunity to engage with hundreds of different
MGAs and has always been impressed with both their industry specific knowledge
and the strength of their teams. After selling his MGA and watching all that he built
evaporate into a larger organization, combined with the fact that many MGA owners
want to take some, but not all their chips off the table, Matt and his business partners
conceived DOXA.

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