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Darren Wood is the founder and president of Recoop Disaster Insurance, a first-of-its-kind, multi-peril disaster insurance product. 

Darren is an insurance industry veteran, with over 25 years of experience. He previously served as the division president for Holmes Murphy, a top 25 insurance broker, where he was responsible for the delivery of value-added solutions to insurance clients. He also held senior project management and operational leadership roles with Marsh Consumer (now Mercer), focusing on the delivery of employee benefit and affinity solutions to consumers through Fortune 1,000 clients. Darren received his degree in Accounting from Simpson College, earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) designation and is a veteran of the United States Army.   

Rachel is one of the premier leading insurance professionals with over ten years of experience in the industry. After launching her career as a management liability underwriter at AIG, she spent several years as a client advisor for the Financial Institution Group at Marsh. Rachel advised on risk management for the world's largest banks, insurance companies,  asset managers & funds. Since joining the Founder Shield as a Senior Account Executive in 2017, she now leads the Customer Success team. Rachel focuses on client advising, improving policy language for venture-backed companies, including financial institutions, ecommerce, and SaaS companies, and developing new tech to continue driving innovation in the insurance industry.

The bank and insurance company continues to battle its rivals over their use of technology USAA claims it invented.

Katka is an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company, based in Boston. She serves private equity clients with expertise in financial technology, including insurance, wealth management and banking. She has conducted more than 20 diligences in the space and has served financial technology companies on growth, pricing, and go-to-market strategies as well as M&A. Katka holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, an MSc. in financial economics from the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, and a BSc. in mathematics from University College London.

Luke Adaline is group market manager, U.S. Distribution, at Sun Life U.S.

David Healy is senior vice president, Group Benefits, at Sun Life U.S.

Mark Calabria, who oversaw the two government giants under Trump and was fired by the Biden administration, said in a recent interview that the government-sponsored enterprises are once again at risk of insolvency.

RBB Bancorp says it's investigating complaints by its former vice chairman, who stepped down along with another director, about potential conflicts of interest involving other members of the board.

Aaron Toops is co-founder and CEO of Aerify.io, a managed services IT business whose clients include approximately a dozen CPA firms in central Indiana.