Headquarters:
Toronto, ON
Year founded:
2001
Number of employees:
2,500+
Phone:
1 877 682 8772
Email:
customerservices@tssa.org
Website:
insurance.archgroup.com/
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/arch-insurance-group
Arch Insurance
Jamie Schibuk
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber
Marilyn Marshall
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability
Emily Licitra
Senior Vice President, Professional Liability
Leadership
Jamie Schibuk serves as EVP, professional liability and cyber, for Arch Insurance Group in North America. He joined Arch in 2009 as an underwriting manager in executive assurance. Prior to joining Arch, Schibuk spent four years working for The Hartford’s financial services department within the Hartford financial products unit.
Schibuk has a master’s degree in risk management from St. John’s University in Queens, NY, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He has also earned the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and Registered Professional Liability Underwriter designations.
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber
Jamie Schibuk
Marilyn Marshall is executive vice president of the professional liability division of Arch Insurance. Immediately prior to joining Arch’s professional liability team as head of PL Programs in 2018, she was a senior vice president in the Business Process Management (BPM) office of Arch, leading the open brokerage segment.
Prior to joining the BPM team, Marshall held various senior underwriting management positions in Arch’s executive assurance division, including alternative asset protection, financial institutions and growth and middle market, and was responsible for all operational aspects of the unit, including product development and IT initiatives. Before Arch, Marshall spent more than 10 years working for The Hartford. She also previously worked as an insurance broker for Marsh and as an underwriter and manager for Reliance National. She earned an MBA in finance from New York University and a BA in economics from Boston College.
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability
Marilyn Marshall
Emily Licitra is senior vice president, professional liability of the Northeast and Southeast regions for Arch Insurance. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the East Coast team for the Cyber liability department within professional liability. Licitra’s group considers cyber, technology E&O, and miscellaneous professional liability for a diverse range of revenue and industry classes.
After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross in 2014, she joined Arch Insurance as an underwriting trainee. Her career has developed within Arch over the last 12 years, her most recent position being senior vice president since 2026.
Senior Vice President, Professional Liability
Emily Licitra
Connor Brennan
Senior Vice President, Professional Liability
Connor Brennan is a senior vice president at Arch Insurance, where he leads the privacy/cyber, technology E&O, and miscellaneous professional liability team for the Central and West regions. His responsibilities include new and renewal business production, underwriting strategy and profitability, and distribution management. He joined Arch in 2016 and has over 13 years of underwriting experience, including the last eight years in cyber underwriting management, and previous roles underwriting large commercial D&O at Arch and professional liability at Hiscox.
Brennan is based in Chicago and manages a team of underwriters located in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science.
Senior Vice President, Professional Liability
Connor Brennan
Kyle Lutterman
Vice President, Cybersecurity Risk Engineer, Cyber Product Leader
Kyle Lutterman is an information security professional with over 10 years of experience in managed services with a focus on incident response. He has supported multiple government agencies and Fortune 500 clients and currently leads the cyber risk engineering team at Arch Insurance. In this role, he developed a proprietary framework for cyber insurance underwriters to follow and he consults with organizations seeking to enhance their cyber controls to obtain cyber insurance.
Vice President, Cybersecurity Risk Engineer, Cyber Product Leader
Kyle Lutterman
Arch Insurance has established itself as one of the leading cyber insurers in the United States by taking an entrepreneurial approach to underwriting. Understanding what has propelled Arch to the forefront of this fast-moving market reveals a combination of strategic investment, specialist knowledge, and an unwavering commitment to innovation.
At the heart of Arch's success is a corporate culture built around supporting clients with practical, tailored solutions. Arch empowers its underwriting teams to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, working closely with brokers and partners to craft coverage that meets each client's needs.
This ethos is most clearly embodied in Arch CyPro, the company's dedicated cyber insurance offering. CyPro is designed to be dynamic and flexible, enabling underwriters to adapt the product to the specific risk profile of each insured rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.
Arch's underwriting capability is underpinned by the Arch Risk Engineering Team (ACRE), whose members bring over 35 years of combined experience in digital forensics and incident response. This specialist bench strength gives Arch's underwriters an unusually informed view of real-world cyber incidents, enabling them to assess risks with greater precision and to stay ahead of emerging threats.
The cyber underwriting leadership team actively cultivates this edge, maintaining a focus on product development that keeps Arch at the forefront of the market. New hires benefit from an intensive onboarding process that includes weekly training sessions with risk engineering, collaborative account reviews, broker negotiations, and exposure to external thought leaders in emerging cyber risk — ensuring the next generation of underwriters is equally well equipped.
Beyond underwriting, Arch differentiates itself through a suite of preventative service offerings operating under the Arch BreachAlert brand. Designed to help organizations become more resilient and responsive, BreachAlert provides evaluations of identity and email security — two areas that sit at the forefront of cyber claims. The offering also includes off-hours alerting capabilities that are vendor-agnostic, ensuring clients can respond to critical security events outside of normal business hours. This commitment to pre-loss risk mitigation sets Arch apart from insurers who focus solely on indemnification.
Arch has demonstrated a particular ability to anticipate and respond to emerging liability trends. Recognizing the growing challenge of wrongful collection claims — where organizations face class-action litigation related to their use of pixels, trackers, and cookies — Arch has partnered with a leading provider of privacy scanning technology. This allows underwriters to quickly assess an organization's digital data practices and surface potential exposures before they result in claims. By taking a transparent, data-driven approach to this emerging risk class, Arch is able to underwrite it confidently while helping clients understand and manage their exposure.
The firm has also identified small to mid-market businesses as a key growth segment, reflecting broader trends in demand for cyber coverage across this underserved portion of the economy.
With a broad risk appetite, strong client retention rates, and a forward-looking strategy that includes potential integration of external scanning and assessment vendors, Arch is well positioned to sustain its leadership in the cyber insurance space.
“Expectations are high, as is support. There is a shared understanding that we are building something meant to last, both for clients and within the firm”
Jared Chase, Team Holmes – Signature Estate & Investment Advisors, LLC
Rich Gatz
Vice President, Cyber Claims
Neil FitzGerald
Vice President, Strategic Analytics
Dan Brazier
Vice President, Information Technology
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955
Rich Gatz is vice president, head of cyber claims for Arch Insurance Group. He is a cyber insurance and privacy subject matter expert and a distinguished Fellow of Information Privacy with the International Association of Privacy Professionals. A professed “coverage geek,” he enjoys crafting policy language that solves risk for Arch customers.
Gatz has spoken on various panels and at national conferences regarding cyber claims, insurance coverage, data breach response, and privacy issues plaguing technology. He is a graduate Ohio State University and DePaul University School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the state of Illinois.
Vice President, Cyber Claims
Rich Gatz
As vice president of strategic analytics, Neil FitzGerald is responsible for organizing data, analytics, and AI to strengthen TSSA’s evidence-based decision-making and improve safety outcomes across Ontario. FitzGerald brings over 25 years of experience across data management, governance, business intelligence, AI, and advanced analytics. He has delivered impactful data solutions across diverse industries including high tech/software, commercial real estate, and oil and gas.
FitzGerald earned his degree in computer science from Queen’s University, his MBA from the Ivey School of Business, and advanced certification in the application of AI from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Vice President, Strategic Analytics
Neil FitzGerald
Daniel Brazier, CPA, CA, serves as TSSA’s vice president of information technology (IT), following his previous role as chief financial officer, where he held broader responsibilities that included oversight of IT operations.
In this focused mandate, Brazier leads TSSA’s IT strategy and implementation, with a priority on modernizing the organization’s IT policies, infrastructure, and security to support its outcome-based regulatory approach.
Before joining TSSA, he held interim management and consulting roles with the Ontario Securities Commission and Moneris. Earlier in his career, he held a range of executive finance positions in Canada and internationally with CIBC, Standard Chartered Bank, and UBS.
Vice President, Information Technology
Dan Brazier
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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maintaining an in-house team of more than 20 programmers to facilitate fast improvements
direct bill options to streamline the payment process for the agent and the insured
providing IVANS policy downloads that enable up to 30 percent labor savings to independent agencies
delivering online capabilities including rating, policy documents, payments, and claims reporting
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InvestmentNews’ 2026 5-Star Wealth Management Teams award was awarded in May 2026 and recognized US-based firms for client growth and retention over the preceding 12 months. A total of 772 firms were nominated, and 97 were recognized following the IN editorial team’s qualitative and quantitative review. No fees were paid for consideration or receipt, and clients were not involved in the process. Some recipients, including the advisor, paid post-award fees for optional promotional materials, which did not influence the award process. Third-party rankings and recognitions serve as benchmarks but do not guarantee future investment success or represent individual client evaluations. For details on the professional designations displayed herein, including descriptions, minimum requirements, and ongoing education requirements, as well as full details on third-party rankings, awards, and accolades, please visit the similarly named section at seia.com/disclosures. Alternative investments may not be suitable for all investors. Signature Estate & Investment Advisors, LLC (SEIA) is an SEC-registered investment adviser; however, such registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training, and no inference to the contrary should be made. Securities offered through Signature Estate Securities, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services offered through SEIA, 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1600, Los Angeles, CA 90067, (310) 712-2323.
Many new clients arrive through referrals – from existing clients and professional partners – reflecting relationships built over time.
Perhaps the most telling aspect of SEIA’s recognition is what it says about the firm’s approach to client relationships at their most human moments. When markets grow turbulent and anxiety rises, the firm’s advisors are trained not simply to reassure but to slow decisions down, provide context, and gently reinforce the long-term plans when they are needed most.
In an era when wealth management is under pressure to automate, commoditize, and digitize, SEIA’s positioning within the wealth management landscape rests on something more analog: the steady presence of people who know their clients well, show up consistently, and take the responsibility of guiding others seriously.
Jared Chase adds, “Expectations are high, as is support. There is a shared understanding that we are building something meant to last, both for clients and within the firm.”
The firm’s investment approach, while secondary to its broader wealth management mandate, remains a key component of its process. In the past year across 2025, SEIA deployed structured notes; employed concentrated stock solutions, including long-short strategies and option collars; and leaned into conviction-driven individual stock selection through its internal investment management team – a combination utilized by the firm during a volatile market environment.
What further distinguishes SEIA from many of its peers is not only a structural choice but also a cultural one. A significant portion of the firm’s advisors began their careers at SEIA itself, advancing through a formal development track that emphasizes mentorship and shared responsibility. Long tenures are common, and turnover is relatively low.
Leadership at the firm has reinforced this culture through deliberate decision-making, consistently prioritizing infrastructure, governance, and people over rapid expansion. The result is an organization that has man aged to scale while maintaining a consistent, coherent client experience.
“We are not built around individual advisors; we are built around teams”
Brian Holmes, Team Holmes – Signature Estate & Investment Advisors, LLC
