Headquarters:
16501 Ventura Blvd., Suite 200, Encino, CA 91436
Year founded:
1974
Number of employees:
280+ employees
Phone:
(818) 382 2030
Email:
Hallie.Harenski@cfins.com
Website:
tmhcc.com/cyber
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/tmhcc-cyber-and-professional-lines-group
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Mike Palotay
President, Tokio Marine HCC – Cyber & Professional Lines Group
Jacob Ingerslev
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Tech
Tina Levine
Vice President, Cyber Underwriting Product Management
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Michael Palotay joined NAS insurance in 2009 to lead their new cyber & tech underwriting facility. When Tokio Marine HCC acquired NAS, Michael was the chief underwriting officer, focusing on maximizing underwriting profitability, product development and overall business development. He continued in this role within the Cyber and Professional Lines group at Tokio Marine HCC through December 2021. On January 1, 2022, he was appointed president of the group, where he continues to focus on delivering innovative products and services that drive success for the company’s clients, partners and employees.
President, Tokio Marine HCC – Cyber & Professional Lines Group
Mike Palotay
Jacob Ingerslev joined Tokio Marine HCC – CPLG in 2022. He has over 20 years of experience in a wide range of underwriting disciplines across the US, European and Lloyd’s insurance markets. Jacob joins CPLG from The Hartford where he has been chief underwriting officer for the cyber risk and technology E&O business for the last five years. Prior to this, he was head of US technology E&O, cyber and media liability at CNA. As the senior vice president of cyber & tech, he is responsible for developing all aspects of the cyber proposition, bringing a particular focus to broker relationships, ongoing technological innovation and product development to accelerate the group’s continued growth.
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Tech
Jacob Ingerslev
Tina Levine joined Tokio Marine HCC – CPLG in 2012. As the vice president of cyber underwriting product management, she oversees underwriting and operations, and leads project management for the cyber & tech team.
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Kareen Boyadjian
Vice President, Underwriting – Product Leader MEDEFENSE, e-MD® and NetGuard SELECT®
Kareen Boyadjian joined Tokio Marine HCC – CPLG in 2011. As vice president, underwriting – product leader of MEDEFENSE, e-MD® and NetGuard SELECT®, she specializes in production, managing and marketing.
Vice President, Underwriting – Product Leader MEDEFENSE, e-MD® and NetGuard SELECT®
Kareen Boyadjian
Jordan Mutton
Head of Inside Sales
Through leadership, approachability and expert knowledge of the finance industry and corresponding consumer trends, Jordan Mutton has led award-winning, high-performing teams, continually exceeding benchmarks. Building relationships is core to Jordan’s values, a skillset that has positioned him as a key leader within the industry.
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Jordan Mutton
Tokio Marine HCC – Cyber & Professional Lines Group (CPLG) is the US marketing name used to describe the cyber and professional lines-related insurance operations of Tokio Marine HCC. Tokio Marine HCC is a member of the Tokio Marine Group, a premier global company founded in 1879 with a market capitalization of $38 billion as of December 30, 2021. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Tokio Marine HCC is a leading specialty insurance group. Its major domestic insurance companies have financial strength ratings of A+ (Strong) from S&P Global Ratings, A++ (Superior) from AM Best, and AA- (Very Strong) from Fitch Ratings.
“At CPLG, we provide a thoughtful and technology-driven approach to underwriting, offering hands-on assistance from our threat intelligence team to our incident response department,” says Michael Palotay, president of CPLG. “We have made it our mission to focus on partnering with our insureds to provide risk management solutions with access to third-party vendors that offer best-in-class threat prevention controls and security measures."
“We manage risk by utilizing big data and AI technology to review thousands of potential threats, identify the most dangerous ones, and inform our clients of their potential vulnerabilities so that they can make more-informed cyber protection decisions to stay ahead of potential attacks,” he says.
CPLG has been a specialty insurance leader for over 40 years, providing insurance solutions for clients all over the United States. The company is committed to driving the insurance industry forward by offering a broad range of innovative products and programs in cyber & technology E&O, professional liability and turnkey reinsurance.
“Now, we have much more frequent recognition awards because we want to celebrate people staying at CAAT and recognize the contributions that they bring to the organization”
Julie Giraldi,
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Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich
School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at
The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and
Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Sarah M Stewart
Associate
Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the
Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years
of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation
of the company’s internal customer
service department.
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
CPLG combines flexibility, knowledge, and strong financial backing with deep technical expertise in underwriting and claims to service the cyber and professional insurance demands of today’s businesses. Building strong relationships between brokers, policyholders, underwriters and reinsurers, along with a focus on offering best-in-class coverage, innovative services and technology solutions, CPLG remains at the forefront of an evolving insurance market.
CPLG is committed to developing products and services to meet emerging threats and ensure their clients have the best risk management tools and resources available to reduce the risk of a cyber attack. With a dedicated team of cyber insurance and in-house claims experts, the group is made up of experts with industry knowledge and a wealth of cyber security experience. In addition to reviewing cyber security controls, the company leverages data and artificial intelligence (AI) during the underwriting process to accurately accommodate the exposure, claims, and loss history of each unique risk.
“In the near future, we are committed to being forward thinking in our approach and will continue to develop innovative products and services to meet evolving threats,” says Palotay. “Our philosophy is to identify gaps in the marketplace and create effective solutions. We are laser focused on staying ahead of the curve, investing in emerging technologies such as AI and advanced analytics.”
Policyholders have access to free online training, phishing trainings and simulation, and compliance materials to be protected and prepared. With a cyber threat intelligence team, policyholders mitigate their risk with information and active alerts of their potential vulnerabilities. Having this knowledge exchange makes CPLG a leader when it comes to cyber risk.