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“Insurance has been my passion from day one, and it fuels my drive to build a platform that will change the insurance industry for the better”
Curtis Barton,
ALKEME Insurance
Waleed Husain is Ryan Specialty’s CRO, joining the firm in the fall of 2022. He specializes in enterprise risk management, designing scalable risk management solutions from scratch that encompass operational risk, reputational risk, liquidity risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, market risk, consumer compliance and second-line risk mitigation with a focus on achieving safety and soundness.
A Hot 100 winner, Husain knows a lot about managing. “Leadership is about enabling others to become the best version of themselves,” he says. “It’s about having the courage to question the status quo and empowering teams to own difficult problems and join in shared success. A strong leader aligns skills and interests with business needs, which results in a rising tide that lifts everyone.”
Husain most recently served as senior vice president of risk management for Wintrust Financial, where he focused on developing a risk management framework for liquidity risk and capital markets that was commensurate with the company’s overall size and complexity.
Prior to his role with Wintrust, Husain was managing director and CRO within JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s consumer community bank. Prior to that, he was a leader in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s supervision and regulation function, charged with oversight of a portfolio of financial institutions amid the 2008 financial crisis following the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Husain earned his bachelor of science in finance from the University of Illinois. He is a US-commissioned bank examiner through the Federal Reserve System and has completed leadership coursework through the Wharton School. Husain has published material on the use of working capital for the Graduate School of Stanford Business titled “Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.”
What are his goals for the future? “I want to help Ryan Specialty achieve long-term sustained growth by leveraging a best-in-class risk model that is scalable and is ready to meet our clients’ ever-changing needs,” he says. “The world around me is changing faster than ever before, and I look forward to actively playing a dynamic role in the business across several different facets.
“Most importantly, I want to be a source of knowledge and wisdom for my two beautiful children, Inaya and Hasan, as they embark on their individual dreams. Remember: Always dream big.”
180 N Stetson Avenue, Suite 4600, Chicago, IL 60601
312 448 8443
waleed.husain@ryansg.com
linkedin.com/in/waleedhusainriskexecutive
ryanspecialty.com
Waleed Husain
Chief Risk Officer
Ryan Specialty
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Master of Business Administration, 2017–2019
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Served as SVP of risk management at Wintrust Financial
Served as the managing director and CRO at JPMorgan Chase & Co. within the Consumer Community Bank
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Excellence awardee – Independent Mortgage Adviser of the Year category at the New Zealand Mortgage Awards
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Currently, Barton is CEO of ALKEME Insurance , one of the nation’s fastest growing insurance acquisition platforms. Barton led a merger and acquisition of seven “founding” entities to form ALKEME in late 2020, in the thick of the pandemic. He took ALKEME to market and secured private equity funding through GCP Capital Partners out of New York. ALKEME had year-over-year revenue growth of well over 100% in 2021 and is on track to double its revenue again in 2022 while maintaining a 13% organic growth clip.
Under Barton’s leadership, ALKEME has also won numerous honors, including being named in the 2021 Top 50 Brokers of Insurance Journal and the 2021 Top 100 Brokerages, Fast Brokerages and Best Places to Work in Insurance of Business Insurance.
“I know it sounds cliché, but I am laser-focused on changing the insurance industry for the better,” he says. “We are building technology, processes and products that are meeting the needs of a changing world. It is imperative that the insurance industry keeps up with the fast pace of change, and I want to make sure I do my part.”
Prior to ALKEME, Barton founded Venture Pacific Insurance, a regional brokerage in southern California that was acquired by ALKEME during the merger. Barton also co-founded Brokkrr, a digital lead generation insurtech platform.
Barton received his BA from the University of Arizona. He has been included in IBA’s Hot 100 list four times in a row. He was also recognized in Vertafore’s Top 25 Disruptors in the insurance industry.
“We are building technology, processes and products that are meeting the needs of a changing world. It is imperative that the insurance industry keeps up with the fast pace of change, and I want to make sure I do my part”
Curtis Barton,
ALKEME Insurance