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Linda Bambacus is a senior consultant at the Robert E. Nolan Co., a management consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry.

Heidi Wallis is a copywriter at Esurance.

Dave Edwards is a senior consultant at The Robert E. Nolan Co., a management consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry.

Clark Troy is the Research Director of the insurance practice at Aite Group, LLC.

Lindene Patton is Chief Climate Product Officer for Zurich Financial Services (Zurich). She is responsible for product development and risk management related to climate change. She is a project Board Member for the World Economic Forum Low Carbon Finance Initiative and the Forest Carbon Finance Initiative. She is an advisory board member for the University of California at Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. She is a member of the ICLEI* for Sustainable Governments Adaptation Experts Advisory Committee. Ms. Patton serves as the Vice-Chair of the Climate Change and Tort Liability Sub-Committee of the Geneva Association. Ms. Patton also serves on numerous government and non-governmental advisory boards, including the Executive Secretariat of the U.S. National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Financial Advisory Board, the Bureau of National Affairs' monthly publication, the Environmental Due Diligence Guide, and the US EPA Environmental Technology Verification Program. Ms. Patton is an attorney licensed in California and the District of Columbia and an American Board of Industrial Hygiene Certified Industrial Hygienist. She holds a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis, a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law.*ICLEI - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

Dr. Mary A. Weiss is Deaver Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management at the Temple University and a Past President of the premier insurance academic organization in the U.S., the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA). She is Editor of Risk Management and Insurance Review and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Risk and Insurance. Her research, consisting of more than 30 articles, has focused on financial services conglomeration, efficiency measurement of insurers, no-fault automobile insurance, reinsurance, regulation, and underwriting cycles.Her research has appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Business, Management Science, The Journal of Financial Intermediation, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory and Contingencies. Her articles have received awards from The Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and The Journal of Financial Intermediation.Dr. Weiss has made numerous research presentations at the Annual Meeting of the American Risk and Insurance Association. Her research also has been presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Brookings Institution, the Casualty Actuarial Society, Risk Theory Society, the Financial Management Association, the Western Economic Association, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Atlantic Economic Society, the Allied Social Sciences Association, and at conferences sponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and New York.She obtained her PhD at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has been on the faculty of Temple University since 1986. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School (2004-2006) and was selected as 2004 Distinguished Huebner Alumnus, Huebner Foundation, Wharton School. Her biography also appears in Who’s Who in America 2007. She served as a Distinguished Scholar at the NAIC’s Center for Insurance Policy & Research, a think tank, in 2009-2010.

Professor Quist-Newins has the distinction of holding the State Farm Chair in Women & Financial Services at The American College - the first and only endowed academic chair in the country devoted exclusively to the study of women and financial services issues. In this role, she works to increase The College's understanding of women's financially related expectations, attitudes, and actions.During her twenty-year career in financial services, Ms. Quist-Newins has achieved success as both a field producer and a corporate leader. Treasury & Risk recognized her significant contributions to the financial services industry by naming her to the magazine's elite list of "25 Outstanding Leaders in Finance Who Happen to be Women" in November 2008. In 2010, Quist-Newins authored the comprehensive academic textbook, Women and Money, Matters of Trust.Prior to joining The College, Professor Quist-Newins was a Senior Financial Consultant and Regional Management Associate with Thrivent Financial. In this role, she was responsible for recruiting and training new associates, as well as a client base of over 2,400 households and more than $75 million in assets under management. While at Thrivent, she consistently performed among the top ranks of producers and qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table every year.Professor Quist-Newins' industry background also includes positions as a Region Vice President with the ING Advisors Network and Director of Field and Distribution Channel Marketing at American Express. At both ING and American Express, she counseled field leaders and financial associates in representative recruiting, client acquisition and retention, and operational best practices.In addition to holding a master's in Business Administration from the Garvin School of International Management, she has earned the Certified Financial Planner®, Chartered Life Underwriter®, and Chartered Financial Consultant® advanced designations. Ms. Quist-Newins received her BA from the University of Washington.Ms. Quist-Newins lives in Frederick, MD, with her husband and two children. She is active in numerous charities, including Habitat for Humanity, Lutheran World Relief, and Lutheran Social Services.

September "Temie" Seibert began her career in the insurance industry in 1974. She has held numerous marketing positions, beginning with Marketing Executive for Group Health Cooperative, a Seattle-based consumer-governed health care system with over 500,000 members. She then became Supervisor of Health and Welfare Plans for PACCAR, Inc., a multinational technology company that manufactures heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth and Peterbilt nameplates.In 1989, she expanded her marketing and management experience into property and casualty insurance. For 11 years, she held the position of Executive Director of Associated Risk Managers (ARM) of the Northwest, a marketing association that comprised independent insurance agencies throughout Washington and Idaho. In 2000, she became Executive Director of IMCA and oversees operations with a primary focus on communications, marketing and the strategic planning process.Temie is actively involved in the American Society of Association Executives and has obtained her Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation. In 2002, she was listed in the First Annual "100 Most Powerful People in the Insurance Industry - North America," by the Insurance-Letter, an online news service serving the insurance industry.

Ms. O’Dea is Executive Vice President and Chief Claims Officer for AXIS Reinsurance. Ms. O’Dea joined AXIS Re in June of 2011 after 10 years as Director of Claims for PartnerRe where she was responsible for building out the U.S. claims team to support the company’s property and casualty reinsurance business. Prior to PartnerRe, Ms. O’Dea was Vice President and Claims Counsel with XL Re. She has over 25 years of reinsurance, insurance and law experience having worked in private practice representing insurance companies and later in house in the primary industry and later in reinsurance. Ms. O’Dea has been working exclusively in the reinsurance industry for the last 15 years.As Chief Claims Officer for AXIS Re, Ms. O’Dea is responsible worldwide for the management of the AXIS Re claims department with operations in the U.S., Bermuda and Zurich.Ms. O’Dea earned her B.A. from the University of Vermont and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut. She is a member of the Professional Liability Underwriters Society (PLUS), the International Association of Claims Professionals (IACP), the Claims Committee of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), and currently serves as President of the Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW).

Randi is a partner at Butler Rubin and focuses her practice on reinsurance matters including finite reinsurance, insurance insolvency and surety bonds. Her work typically involves multi-million dollar disputes in all aspects of reinsurance work, from pre-demand investigation through confirmation of arbitration awards in the courts. Randi began working at Butler Rubin as a summer associate in 1994 and joined the firm as an associate in 1996.Education:J.D., cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law, 1996B.A., cum laude, Franklin & Marshall College, 1993Phi Beta Kappa