Mike brings practical industry experience to the analyst role. As vice president of enterprise underwriting solutions at Zurich North America he led the evaluation of technology alternatives to support a new underwriting product development process. At Royal & Sun Alliance he held a number of leadership positions, including a field operations regional executive role. His technology implementation experience includes the installation and maintenance of billing, automobile policy administration, and workers compensation automation. In the 1990s, Mike led an initiative which delivered one of the first global online technical underwriting and claims learning platforms in the industry.

Mike has a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Davidson College and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).