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PRESENTERS
Chris Pesce Matt Sackett
One80 Intermediaries DOXA Insurance Holdings
Chris was a principle shareholder Matt Sackett is President & CEO
and board of director for Gowrie of DOXA Insurance Holdings. He
Holdings, Inc. which owned two has over 20 years of MGA-specific
entities; Maritime Program Group, experience, driving dramatic growth
a national Program Administrator through all phases of his career.
and Gowrie Group, a regional Matt’s experience starts at a
retail insurance brokerage. Chris seven-year-old MGA, where he grew
served as President of Maritime Program Group and a division from $4mil in annual premium volume sales
Executive Vice President and Secretary of Gowrie to over $22mil. From there Matt started a specialized
Group. Chris had been at the helm of Maritime MGA from the ground-up, selling it five years later for
Program Group (MPG) since completing an internship a 40% annualized rate of return. Most recently Matt
there in 1995 while studying for his Bachelor worked for a large broker-owned MGA where, as head of
degree at Saint Joseph’s College in NY. Under sales, premium and revenue growth doubled during his
Chris’ leadership he oversaw the growth of MPG’s tenure, stopping an eight consecutive year contraction in
underwritten premiums from less than $4,000,000 premium and revenues prior to his involvement.
to in excess of $134,000,000 prior to selling the During his career, Matt has had the opportunity to
operations to One80 Intermediaries in 2019. engage with hundreds of different MGAs and has always
Chris is active in the insurance community. In addition been impressed with both their industry specific knowledge
to serving as President of the TMPAA, he’s on the and the strength of their teams. After selling his MGA
Producer Council for the American Institute of Marine and watching all that he built evaporate into a larger
Underwriters, as well as past service on the Executive organization, and combining this with the fact that many
Committee for the Independent Insurance Agents MGA owners want to take some, but not all of their chips off
Association of CT and as Chairman of the Young the table, Matt and his business partners conceived DOXA.
Agents Committee. Chris is a licensed continuing
education instructor and holds classes and speaking
engagements throughout the country on topics
ranging from operating and building a successful MGA Robert Walker
to various areas within the marine insurance specialty. Wilson Elser
Robert F. Walker, CIPP/US, is a co-chair
of Wilson Elser’s Cybersecurity & Data
Privacy Practice. He dedicates his
practice to helping clients respond
to security incidents, comply with
numerous data privacy and security
requirements, and assert and defend
against claims in state and federal litigation. Robert counsels
companies, including management teams and boards
of directors, in response to security incidents and data
breach investigations involving malware, network intrusion,
inadvertent disclosure and ransomware. With decades of
experience as a litigator and an appreciation for the priorities
of companies and business owners, Robert brings a unique
perspective to data privacy and compliance issues.
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