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PRESENTERS

Lee Brenner Brian Cohen
Swiss Re Arden Insurance Services
Lee Brenner is Head of Broker Brian S. Cohen is the co-founder,
Regional & National Client Markets Chairman & CEO of Arden Insurance
at Swiss Re. In this role, Lee looks Services, a specialty MGA that
after a team of highly skilled focuses on Community Associations.
professionals that handle a $1.5bn He also is an operating partner with
portfolio of standard and specialty Altamont Capital Partners, a private
property & casualty treaty clients equity firm based in Palo Alto, CA.
inclusive of program business. Lee started in the industry Previously Brian served as the President & CEO of Pacific
with the Kemper Companies. When Kemper Reinsurance Specialty Insurance Company and its affiliated companies.
was sold to GE Insurance in 1999, Lee made the move He also served as President and CEO of Clear Technology,
to GE Reinsurance. In 2006, Swiss Re purchased the and in several senior executive roles at Farmers Insurance
GE Insurance operations. Lee has been with Swiss Re Group including as its Chief Marketing Officer and a
since that 2006 acquisition. Lee has a broad based P&C member of the Office of the President.
underwriting and client management background with
particular experience in most U.S casualty lines of business.
He is a graduate of Valparaiso University with a B.S. in
finance, a degree he’s found particularly relevant to his John Colis
career in the insurance industry. Euclid Program Managers
John Colis is the President and CEO
of Euclid Insurance Services, Inc.
Euclid operates as a program
Jerome Breslin administrator for specialty property
Clear Blue Insurance Group casualty insurance programs as well
Jerome Breslin is President & CEO of as a general agency involved in the
Clear Blue Insurance Group. He began sales of various employee benefit
his insurance career as a regulatory products. In all cases, Euclid receives its business from
compliance lawyer for Standard insurance agencies and wholesale brokers. The firm
Insurance Co. in 1995. Jerome does business in all fifty states and has 90 employees.
progressed to executive compliance Euclid was founded by Peter G. Colis in 1952 as a retail
roles with MetLife and AIG, finally insurance agency. John joined his father after working
moving to Bank of America in 2003. At Bank of America, in the reinsurance and program insurance business.
Jerome was responsible for building an international Prior to joining Euclid, he spent time in London as a
insurance business that totaled over $800 million in broker at Lloyds, at General Reinsurance Corporation
premiums by the end of 2008 and transacted business in and at Aon Risk Services. John is a two-time graduate of
eight (8) countries. The Bank of America Insurance Group Northwestern University having received his Bachelor
Holding Company consisted of General Fidelity Insurance of Arts Degree in 1979 and his MBA from Northwestern’s
Company, General Fidelity Life Insurance Company, Lloyd’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1983.
Syndicate 2112, Bank of America Reinsurance Corporation
and Bank of America Insurance Agency. In July of 2009,
Jerome moved his business to AmTrust Financial Services,
Inc. taking with him a team of professionals and over $150
million of specialty program business.
Jerome’s background and experience are varied ranging
from insurance regulatory and legal positions to business
development, underwriting, and executive leadership and
agency management roles. Jerome has spent the bulk of
his career building de-novo businesses in an executive
leadership capacity.

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