Alicia is a Senior Vice President and the Healthcare Practice Leader within the Professional Risk team of Tango Specialty Insurance Company, a Managing General Agent focused on delivering specialty insurance products to our broker partners.

Prior to joining Tango, Alicia was the Healthcare Product Head at Hiscox USA, where she developed and supported professional and general liability products for healthcare professionals and sexual abuse and misconduct liability products for non-professional agencies and organizations. She has 15 years of underwriting and product development experience in the insurance industry, primarily in healthcare professional liability.

Alicia obtained a Bachelor in Mathematics with a concentration in Actuarial Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz and in early 2022 received her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Alicia is also a Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU) and has spoken on panels at various insurance industry events including PLUS and Crittenden conferences.

Alyssa is a Vice President in the Legal and Claims practice of Aon’s Financial Services Group. Alyssa’s areas of responsibility for Aon’s client base include review, assessment and advocacy involving coverage and legal issues arising from complex management liability claims.  

Alyssa first began working in the insurance industry in 2011. Prior to joining Aon, Alyssa was a Claims Team Leader for Beazley Insurance. In that role, she led a team of experienced Claims Managers on the Cyber and Executive Risk team. While at Beazley, Alyssa handled Employment Practices Liability Claims as well as Cyber and Tech claims. She was also the claims point person for the Safeguard product, handling both response and liability sexual misconduct and molestation claims.  

Prior to joining the insurance industry, Alyssa was an Associate at the law firm of Saltz Polisher, where her practice focused on the defense of employment discrimination and general liability matters, as well as onsite workplace discrimination and harassment training.  

Alyssa received her bachelor’s degree in Communications from Villanova University in 2001. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law in 2005, where she graduated Cum Laude. During law school, Alyssa held internships with a Pennsylvania state court judge, as well as the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office. She is admitted to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Alyssa frequently speaks on management liability topics at industry events, including PLUS, ExecuSummit, American Conference Institute and the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations.

Anthony is a Director of Tysers Insurance Brokers, specializing in Sexual Abuse & Misconduct Liability and Employment Practices Liability. He has been handling SAM/SML policies since 2006, and now places in excess of $30 million standalone Sexual Abuse into Lloyds of London. His team has developed an exclusive Tysers policy form and also place an SML/SAM Consortium into Lloyds which has the ability to offer up to $10 million in limits.

Anthony started with HSBC Insurance Brokers back in 1999, then moved to help set up Arch Intermediaries, which was ultimately purchased by Tysers. The team now consists of expertise in Cyber, Public D&O, E&O, Healthcare, FI and PI for Professional Firms.

Anthony regularly attends the WSIA and PLUS conferences to discuss Tysers expertise in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct.

Anthony has 20 years of experience as a London Broker, specializing in Sexual Abuse & Misconduct Liability, Employment Practices Liability, and Professional Liability.

Over this time, Anthony has been instrumental in developing niche products and establishing them as market leaders. In 2021, he was responsible for placing over $30 million gross written premium of standalone Sexual Abuse & Misconduct Liability into Lloyd’s of London. In recent years his team has expanded to also focus on Public D&O, Cyber, Healthcare and PI for Professional Firms.

Outside of work, Anthony spends most of his time running around after his three children aged 2, 4 & 6.

April is a senior underwriter with Business Risk Partners (BRP), where she has worked for over 15 years. She is currently on the Management Liability team, where she focuses on Sexual Misconduct and Molestation Liability (SML). 

April graduated from college in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. During her time at BRP, April has successfully grown and managed a portfolio of D&O, EPL and SML over the past decade. She handles both new and renewal business to a national distribution of brokers.

Ashleigh is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Labor & Employment Practice. She has experience defending employers in individual and multi-plaintiff lawsuits and pre-litigation claims for workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and the like. Ashleigh provides counseling to employers in personnel matters and assists in drafting policies and procedures. She also defends individuals and corporate entities against employment and non-employment sexual assault, sexual harassment, and negligence claims. 

Ashleigh is committed to securing the best results for her clients through aggressive and impassioned advocacy. She has experience with all stages of case management, from pre-litigation investigations and settlement negotiations, to litigating cases through informal resolution, mediation, summary judgment, or trial.

Ashleigh has secured many public victories for her clients and views each case as unique, and works with her team to develop a strategy which considers the facts, evidence, and the client’s objectives to reach the best result possible.

Ashleigh serves as one of the Firm’s National Editors of Labor & Employment Client Alerts. Prior to working at Lewis Brisbois, she worked as a law clerk with the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. Ashleigh has also worked as a law clerk with Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc., a firm specializing in juvenile dependency law. When not at work, she enjoys spending time with her two corgis.

Ashley is a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department and Chair of the firm’s Sexual Misconduct Liability Practice Group.  She handles the investigation and defense of claims for clients that often involve third party criminal acts, children and the elderly and other complicated areas that require precision and skill to successfully navigate, advise upon and defend.  

As a former rape prosecutor with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Ashley approaches each matter with sensitivity to the nuanced and correlated legal issues that arise in ever-changing corporate, employment and educational environments. She is well-known for vigorously protecting her client’s confidentiality while nevertheless providing an aggressive defense, given the sensitive nature of sexual misconduct claims.  

Ashley has considerable experience in the analysis, implementation and evaluation of written sexual assault and molestation policies and procedures, as well as the proactive investigation of alleged sexual assault and representation of corporate representatives, current and former employees and independent contractors, and other witnesses for deposition and trial. She also provides wrap-around crisis management services to clients in the public, private, college and university setting, specializing in VAWA and Clery Act compliance as well as investigating, adjudicating, and advisory services under Title IX and student conduct policies. Ashley is certified by the SUNY Student Conduct Institute.  

Ashley graduated summa cum laude from Villanova University as well as cum laude from Villanova University’s School of Law.  Ashley is currently an Executive Board Member of Villanova’s Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation, a Board Member of the Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia and a member of the Board of Directors for the Upper Main Line YMCA.

Brian is the Executive Vice President of the National Public Entity Liability Practice Leader for AmWINS Group Inc.  

Brian has 27 years of insurance experience; 25 of those years being at AmWINS.  His primary focus and area of expertise is the Public Entity arena where he works with each individual insured to develop a variety of programs and structures.

These programs and structures include: 1. Utilization and development of Blended Special Excess Liability forms providing GL, AL, POL, LEL, EPL, SML; 2. Utilization of corridors retentions; 3. Involvement with drafting & developing carrier policy forms; 4. Developing and managing Public Entity programs; and 5. Working side-by-side with retailers, insureds, and carriers to ensure cohesive understanding of all aspects of the risk.  

Brian also sits on various carrier boards providing them perspective and insight into current market conditions.

Charlie is the Vice President and National Healthcare Practice Leader for Socius Insurance Services, Inc.

Charlie has over 15 years of experience in Healthcare Professional Liability and Sexual Abuse coverage since beginning his career as an intern in 2008 with the Non-Profit Package team at USLI, followed by starting the Healthcare Professional Product at Apogee Insurance Group where he spent 7 years overseeing the Healthcare business along with the Sexual Abuse product line. In 2018, Charlie opened the first Philadelphia Office for Socius insurance where he currently spearheads the marketing and brokering efforts in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast region for Professional, Management, and Cyber liability.

Since joining Socius, Charlie has brought with him expertise in healthcare professional liability insurance along with abuse and molestation providing product oversight nationally in various industries including Social Services, Allied Healthcare, Hospital, Long-term Care, Behavioral Healthcare, and distressed Physician Groups. Charlie also has experience working on abuse and molestation coverage for national governing bodies, transportation companies, religious organizations, sports associations, and social services organizations that focus in residential care and youth services.

Christina joined Beazley in June of 2009. She is an Underwriter for public company and private company directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability and oversees the US South region in respect to these products.

Christina is also US Product Lead for Safeguard, Beazley's sexual misconduct offering. Additionally, she leads Beazley’s joint product venture for Safeguard and Deadly Weapons Protection, overseeing two production underwriters.

Christina started in Beazley's New York office and moved to London in 2011 as an Underwriter at Lloyds. She moved back to Atlanta in 2015 as part of Beazley's regional growth strategy. Christina graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Business and Financial Economics.

Jeff is a Partner in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois and the National Vice-Chair of the Labor & Employment Practice. His practice is dedicated to defending employers in employment litigation and counseling. The Daily Journal named Jeff one of the Top 75 Labor and Employment attorneys in California in both 2017 and 2019.

In 2007, Jeff became the youngest partner in the history of the law firm. He is known for his intellectual aggressiveness, accurate evaluation of cases, early case resolution strategies, and working with employers to make business-savvy decisions with respect to approaching litigation–whether that means taking the case to trial or settling early on.

Jeff specializes in defending businesses and individuals in sexual molestation and abuse cases arising both within and outside the employment context. He has successfully defended a number of these complex and challenging cases and, as a result, possesses the experience and discretion to confidently defend clients in these matters. Jeff is skilled in developing a litigation strategy that recognizes the sensitive and personal nature of these cases and works with his clients in achieving their goals – whether that be a complete vindication on the merits or pursuing an early and discreet resolution of the matter.

Jeff is also involved in all aspects of employment-related litigation, including first-chairing trials before juries and arbitrators. His robust practice includes defending employers in wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, ADA access, trade secret litigation, and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) class actions. He and his team also provide preventative counseling to employers regarding all employment practices, including drafting and auditing employee handbooks, preparing employment and severance agreements, drafting and reviewing employment applications for FCRA compliance, presenting sexual harassment prevention seminars, and evaluating termination decisions.

In April 2017, the Daily Journal selected Jeff as a “Top 40 Under 40” attorney, honoring the most accomplished young attorneys in the state of California. 

Jeff is an elected member of the firm’s Management Committee and is the Administrative Partner of the Los Angeles office. He is also on the Advisory Committee of the St. Thomas More Society – Los Angeles Chapter. When not practicing law, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young children and is an avid Boston sports fan.

Jill Ostrove is the SML, D&O, and EPL Public Practice Manager at ePlace Solutions, Inc. She is a licensed attorney in California, where she received her JD with honors from Western State University College of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of California, Riverside.

Prior to joining ePlace Solutions, Jill gained significant experience in various areas of law, including civil, family, bankruptcy, insurance defense, and as in-house corporate counsel. However, from a young age, her passion was firmly rooted in criminal prosecution.

As a prosecutor, Jill managed thousands of cases from investigation through filing, hearings, jury trials, and sentencing. Those cases encompassed, in part, domestic and sexual violence, child abuse, animal cruelty, substance abuse, gang crimes, sex offender crimes, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, and vehicular manslaughter.

Based on her experience, Jill was selected to train various law enforcement agencies on proper field techniques and procedures.

Since she was a child, Jill has always focused her attention on helping vulnerable and at-risk populations, whether that is sending sex offenders to prison, volunteering on the Board of Directors for local non-profits, working with victims of crime, helping the homeless population, or animal rescue.

Kacie is an associate in Montgomery McCracken’s Institutional Response Practice Group as well as its Catastrophic Sports Injury Defense Practice Group. Kacie concentrates her practice on Title IX investigations and advising, institutional response to sex and/or gender-based harassment and misconduct and the adjudication of student, employee and management disputes, and sports injury cases including traumatic brain injury (TBI) litigation. In addition to handling investigations and litigation in both practice areas, Kacie counsels athletes, schools, and sports organizations on sports-related injuries such as concussion and TBI, provides guidance on the management of sport-related injuries and Title IX complaints, and advises these institutions on minimizing and managing risk.

Kacie has recently presented on recent federal changes to Title IX regulations and the specific role of advisor in the institutional setting. Kacie also has presented on minimizing risk exposure and compliance-related issues at various law schools and undergraduate universities including Villanova School of Law and the University of Michigan, and before various sports organizations, including the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association.

Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken, Kacie was a Legal Extern in the compliance office at the University of Pennsylvania Athletics Department and a Legal Intern for the NBA Coaches Association. During law school, Kacie was a legal fellow to nationally-recognized sports executive Andrew Brandt in the Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law.

Melissa is a partner at the law firm of Troutman Pepper. She is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey. In her day-to-day practice, Melissa represents pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer products manufacturers in products liability, consumer fraud and mass tort litigation. She also represents clients in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries in connection with civil and criminal investigations by federal and state authorities.

Melissa also is active in pro bono matters and co-manages the firm’s New Jersey Children’s Supplemental Security Income Program, a pro bono effort to aid disabled children who have been denied SSI benefits.

Melissa’s representative matters include:
- Defending major pharmaceutical companies in federal multidistrict litigations and state litigations involving diabetes and atypical antipsychotic medications.
- Defending a medical device company in federal and state court litigations involving spinal implants, biologics and human tissue.
- Defending a major pharmaceutical company in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice grand jury investigation into the company’s good manufacturing practices and over-the-counter drug recalls.
- Defending a glass manufacturer in a federal class action involving a town’s contaminated water supply.
- Defending suppliers of chemicals and solvents in several state workplace exposure suits.

Michael Fogel, PsyD, ABPP, is a licensed clinical psychologist who is Board Certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He has extensive experience conducting forensic psychological evaluations at the state and federal levels and providing expert witness testimony in both civil and criminal matters.

Dr. Fogel has served as President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology, which is the ABPP specialty board responsible for the certifying process in forensic psychology, and on committees for the American Psychological Association addressing psycholegal issues and professional practice standards and guidelines. In addition, he served on the Illinois General Assembly’s Sex Offenses and Sex Offender Registration Task Force, which was charged with making recommendations to the General Assembly regarding legislative changes for evidence-based sex offender risk classification and monitoring practices.

In 2018, Dr. Fogel founded Redirect. After reading the headlines about workplace sexual misconduct, conducting workplace violence/threat assessment evaluations for organizations where incidents had been mishandled, and conducting sex offender risk assessment evaluations for over 20 years, Dr. Fogel knew that workplace sexual misconduct investigations required a new approach. By integrating forensic psychology with professional investigation, Redirect brings a scientific, trauma-informed, and objective approach to case investigation and consultation and a unique ability to help organizations prevent and respond to workplace sexual misconduct. The findings of the investigation are captured in a concise report that is behavior-based, suitable for legal and insurance purposes, and facilitates informed decision-making.

Olivia is a Claims Manager on the Cyber and Executive Risk team at Beazley and leads the Sexual Misconduct Liability claims team.

She is based out of the San Francisco office and has been with Beazley for over five years.

Prior to joining Beazley, Olivia practiced law with a national law firm for eight years where she specialized in commercial litigation, as well as insurance coverage and litigation.

Olivia obtained her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and her bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Middlebury College.

Paul is the EPL product leader for both the UK and US teams and was instrumental in developing the first SAM/SML policy issued by Beazley in 2006. This product was further enhanced in 2014 to become Safeguard.

Paul joined Beazley in April 2001 as an employment practices liability (EPL) underwriter and has over 30 years’ experience in the insurance industry and London market in both claims and underwriting roles. Paul has helped to establish Beazley's EPL & Safeguard team as one of the leaders in the market.

Paul is frequently requested as a guest speaker and has presented at conferences including ACI, ExecuSummit, The Defense Research Institute and NAPEO. 

Pilar is Senior Vice President in RT Specialty’s Burbank, CA office, leading a diverse RT ProExec team dedicated to delivering creative solutions and exceptional service to clients. Pilar has been with RT Specialty since the company began in 2010 and has experience in all lines of professional and management liability, focusing on complex risks including financial institutions, healthcare services and cyber liability.

Pilar has been a wholesale professional and executive liability broker since 2003. Previously, she was a broker with CRC Insurance Services, playing an integral role in leading the largest professional / management liability production team in the CRC Chicago office.

Pilar began her insurance career as an actuarial analyst, where she gained experience in actuarial modeling and commercial lines rating. A graduate of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Pilar earned a degree in actuarial science with a concentration in finance.

Randy is President and Co-Founder of ePlace Solutions, Inc., a company that specializes in risk management and loss prevention. Prior to co-founding ePlace in 1999, Randy engaged in a national law practice and is a member of the bar in both California and Michigan. Additionally, Randy is the co-founder and current partner of Business Advisors Law Group, a boutique law firm that provides advice on a wide range of topics to business clients throughout the United States.  

Randy’s legal experience and expertise in various substantive areas of the law continues to serve as the basis for building effective risk management solutions for business organizations in five (5) countries around the globe. As the head of ePlace Solutions, Randy now builds and manages teams of attorneys and other subject matter experts to provide risk management services to tens of thousands of organizations, both large and small, in connection with (a) employment discrimination/harassment and other alleged workplace wrongdoing, (b) data privacy and security (focusing on prevention of e-mail fraud, data breaches and ransomware), (c) corporate governance and preventing lawsuits against corporate directors and officers, and (d) sexual misconduct involving at-risk populations.  

Randy has been a member of many insurance-related organizations and frequent speaker on risk management and loss prevention strategies, especially related to insurance products focused on losses related to cyber/data breach, employment, D&O claims, and sexual misconduct. These include large insurance organizations and private organizations, Advisen, Professional Liability Underwriters Society, Risk & Insurance Management Society, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California, among others.

Rommel is a Senior Vice President at CRC ExecPro in Chicago. Rommel started his career with CRC in 2003. Prior to falling into insurance Rommel spent time at a fund of funds hedge fund in the Chicago Financial District. Rommel graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics.

Rommel leads one of the fastest growing teams at CRC ExecPro. His team takes a consultative approach to business and specializes in complex, hard to place programs. Rommel serves on CRC ExecPro’s national practice team for Financial Institution Liability and Complex Real Estate. Rommel also serves on one of CRC’s DEI committees.

Rommel lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. On Saturday mornings, you will find him with his marathon training group on the Chicago lakefront path.

Shawn is the SVP Religious and Nonprofit: CPCU, ARM of Risk Placement Services, Inc. and has over 25 years of Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance experience, both on the Commercial (Retail) and Wholesale side. His primary area of concentration is Casualty placements for large Religious & Nonprofit risks.

Shawn has been with Risk Placement Services (RPS), a division of Arthur J. Gallagher Company (Gallagher), since 2008.

Shawn manages the placement of 60 plus Religious accounts and groups. He also co-leads a team involved in underwriting and placing the P&C coverage for the Bishops Plan Insurance Company (BPIC), a Gallagher managed captive for over 30 Catholic Diocesan clients.

In addition, Shawn specializes in complex Sexual Misconduct and Abuse (SAM) placements. He’s had an SAM program in London since 2009 for various risks including Catholic Dioceses, other large Religious denominations, Sports Associations, Education, Nonprofits and Commercial accounts.

Shawn holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designations.