2025 Cyber Symposium On-Demand

Erin joined INSUREtrust as an Executive Vice President in 2019. She is now a Director in the Cyber Practice focusing on sales and production for INSUREtrust’s cyber and technology retail clients. Erin helps to ensure INSUREtrust’s products, services and solutions stay ahead of the market and competition. She is passionate about investing in the future talent of the industry and spends time at college recruiting fairs focusing on risk management majors.

Erin has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry specializing as a broker for cyber, technology, and professional liability coverages.

Erin began her insurance career as a FINPRO broker at Marsh USA, Inc. followed by leading the Cyber Practice for RCM&D, Inc. Prior to joining INSUREtrust, Erin was a National Practice Advisor in the USI Executive & Professional Solutions Practice.

Erin holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance with a concentration in Risk Management and Insurance from Virginia Commonwealth University (magna cum laude) and received her Management Liability Insurance Specialist (MLIS) designation in April of 2013.

Nadia N Hoyte is a National Cyber Practice Leader in the Executive & Professional Risk Solutions Practice. She heads USI’s Cyber Practice (AKA Cyber Federation). She serves as an in-house resource for all professional liability, technology errors and omissions, media liability, network security, and privacy related lines of coverage. In her role, Nadia is responsible for developing program strategy, building insurer relationships, and designing insurance risk transfer solutions. She also provides consultative services, training, insurance contract analysis, vendor contract analysis, placement, and policy administration.

Nadia has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, with 15 specializing in Cyber and Professional Liability exposures.

Prior to joining USI, Nadia was the Cyber Practice Leader at a small wholesale brokerage firm. Here she focused on delivering targeted Cyber Insurance solutions designed to enhance insurance agency portfolios.

Prior to that, Nadia was a Senior Vice President at Willis Towers Watson. While at Willis, she was skilled at understanding clients’ unique needs, tolerance for risk, distilling complex information for laypeople and delivering bespoke insurance solutions.

Nadia started her career at Marsh USA, where she served in many capacities. At Marsh USA, Nadia was a specialty broker who concentrated on creating and delivering solutions for convergent risks. And most importantly finding homes for hard-to-place specialty risks.

Tim Francis is a Vice President at Travelers and serves as the company’s Enterprise Cyber Lead. In that role, Tim has oversight of the company’s cyber product management, including underwriting strategy and product offering globally. Tim is one of the insurance industry’s foremost cyber experts, with comments appearing in a number of premier media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNBC.com, Reuters, Insurance Journal, PropertyCasualty360 and Business Insurance, among others. He has served as a committee chair for many prominent cyber conferences and is frequently a featured speaker on the evolution of cyber risks and how businesses can protect against them. A graduate of the University of Maine, Tim has been with Travelers since 2005 and became the company’s Enterprise Cyber Lead in 2010.

Tony Dolce, RPLU is the Vice President and Head of Professional Liability, Cyber and Technology E&O underwriting at The Hartford. Tony has been in the insurance industry for more than twenty years, serving in various management roles in both claims and underwriting, concentrating in Cyber, Technology and Professional Liability. He frequently speaks at cyber-related events around the country, authors thought leadership pieces and serves on several insurance industry groups. Over the course of his career, Tony has handled several large cyber and technology matters, including major data breach and privacy cases. Prior to working for insurance carriers, Tony was an attorney for several years at a large New England-based law firm, specializing in insurance coverage and commercial litigation. Tony also served as the law clerk for the Chief Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court. He earned his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Connecticut and is a member of the Connecticut state and federal bars. Tony also holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and the Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU) designations.

Paul Needle serves as Senior Vice President, Cyber Treaty Underwriter for Munich Re US.

He began his insurance career as a Managing General Underwriter for AON Affinity before serving as a professional lines underwriter for AIG and Zurich Insurance. Prior to joining Munich Re in April 2021, Paul spent eight years at CNA Insurance, most recently as the Financial Institution Cyber Product Lead.

As an active member of the Sector New York Area Maritime Security Committee (AMSC), Paul consults the US Coast Guard on cyber risk. He earned an MBA in Finance and an M.S. in IT Auditing and Cybersecurity from Temple University. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from the University of Scranton.

Eric Allen is the North American Chief Underwriting Officer for Axis’ Global Cyber and Technology team. Eric is responsible for developing underwriting strategies and driving profitability across Axis’ North American Cyber, Technology, MPL, and Media portfolios. Eric joined Axis in 2020 and has over 17 years of cyber insurance experience. Before joining AXIS, he was a Vice President at Chubb Insurance, having also held underwriting and claims roles at AIG and Liberty Mutual.

Rick is a Senior Broker for NFP’s Cyber Practice.  His responsibilities include driving the cyber renewal process, consulting year-round on your cyber controls and processes, negotiating directly with carriers and designing the optimal program based upon your needs and expectations. 

Rick also is the Placement Leader for the Cyber Practice, who is responsible for overall operations and managing the national team’s approach to cyber placement and carrier relationships. 
 
Rick is based in Chicago.  He is an attorney, with experience as an insurance coverage specialist in management liability and professional liability and cyber policies.  He also was an underwriter, handling professional liability, management liability and cyber policies for publicly-traded companies and large private companies. 

Rick lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and their four kids and their golden doodle, Tilly.

Jeremy Gittler, Esq. leads Resilience’s Global Claims team and aims to further its reputation as the most efficient, capable and respected partner in the cyber insurance industry. Before joining Resilience, he held both Cyber Underwriting and Claims leadership positions at global commercial insurance provider AXA XL, where he launched and built its Cyber Claims team from its infancy. Earlier in his career, he handled AIG’s most complex cyber and technology claims, and also worked as a litigation attorney at a large law firm in New York. Jeremy holds a law degree from Cardozo School of Law, and a B.A. from Emory University.

Christine leads a team of specialists focused on managing privacy liability, technology E&O, and media claims, as well as cyber incident response including complex business interruption losses. With experience dating back to 2009, when she began handling these claims at AIG, Christine has witnessed firsthand the maturation of the cyber market to its present state, as well as the increased creativity and sophistication of threat actors and plaintiff’s bar. Christine’s depth of experience and insights into the evolution of the cyber landscape enable her to provide invaluable guidance to AXA XL insureds and brokers. Her team’s proactive approach and commitment to staying abreast of emerging trends allows them to effectively navigate the complexities of litigation and regulatory investigations in the ever-evolving cyber arena. Christine earned her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law and is admitted to the New York State Bar.

Marcin Weryk, RPLU is the Head of North American Production Underwriting at Coalition, and previously the Head of Business Development. At Coalition he is involved in underwriting strategy, employee and product development, and broker engagement. Marcin was previously the Head of Cyber – West and South Region at AXA XL and Underwriting Director at CNA Insurance.

Mark Camillo is currently CEO of CyberAcuView (www.cyberacuview.com), an industry consortium of leading cyber insurers created to enhance innovation, improve market efficiencies, and support collaboration among multiple stakeholders for the long-term benefit of policyholders, insurers, and the connected economy.

Prior to joining CyberAcuView, he most recently was the Head of Cyber, EMEA at AIG based in London, UK, responsible for the CyberEdge® suite of end-to-end risk management solutions. Before moving to London, Mark led the AIG cyber team for the Americas based in New York, NY. Mark joined AIG in 2001 and held positions of increasing management responsibility in various parts of the organization including eBusiness Risk Solutions, Affinity Group, Professional Liability, and the Fidelity team.

Prior to AIG, Mark worked in sales, marketing, and product development for Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and SITEL Corporation. Mark has a Masters of Business Administration from the University at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wyoming.

Jonathan Hatzor co-founded Parametrix in 2018 to tackle the growing risk of cloud outages. Parametrix developed technology to monitor IT service performance, enabling the first parametric cloud downtime insurance. The company also launched a cloud outage ILS with Hannover Re and earned the trust of top insurers and brokers. Before this, Jonathan founded Matter, a 3D property visualization tool acquired by Treedis. He continues to lead Parametrix in helping businesses manage IT failure risks.

Pascal Millaire is the CEO of CyberCube, which was established under his leadership in 2015 within Symantec and has operated as a standalone business since January 2018. Today, CyberCube’s analytics are used by over half of the top 50 cyber brokers, 30 of the 40 largest US and European cyber insurers and the world’s leading reinsurance and reinsurance brokerage institutions.

Previously, Pascal was President of a hotel software company and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where he served companies in the insurance industry. Pascal holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Crystal leads US Cyber Analytics for Aon Reinsurance Solutions, utilizing her expertise in actuarial experience-driven analyzes, as well as cyber catastrophe modeling.

Crystal has worked with four cyber catastrophe vendor models and Aon’s bespoke scenarios to quantify affirmative and non-affirmative cyber exposure.

She joined Aon in 2018 and has contributed to several thought leadership pieces including Aon and parametrix’s paper on Cloud Outage Diversification and the US Cyber Market Update Study, leveraging data from the NAIC Cyber Supplemental Exhibit.

Richard DePiero is the US head of Sompo Pro which provides solutions for Cyber, Technology, MPL, A&E, MPL and Lawyers Indemnity. Richard joined Sompo International in 2019 as the Product head of Cyber Liability. In his role he is responsible for product development, setting the appetite, creating underwriting standards through assessing risk, industry forecasting, and portfolio management. Richard is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Prior to joining Sompo International, Richard worked at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions as the Head of North American Cyber Liability, Technology, Media Errors and Omissions underwriting for four years. Prior to that he worked at Marsh USA where he led the East Zone placement brokers for large commercial clients in the FINPRO Center of Excellence. In this role he served as a national resource for clients and colleagues focusing on Cyber Liability, Technology/Telecom Liability, Media and Miscellaneous Liability with responsibilities including advising clients on risk identification, programs design, manuscripting policy language, and pricing.

Brian joined Lockton Re in 2024 to lead their US Cyber Practice, bringing over 20 years of insurance broking and underwriting experience. He most recently served as the Cyber Product Officer at Zurich North America, where he was responsible for managing the underwriting portfolio within Financial Lines, setting the Cyber underwriting strategy, and developing market-leading products for customers.

Prior to joining Zurich, Brian was the Northeast Cyber Broking Leader for FINEX at Willis Towers Watson where he served as a trusted advisor and placement specialist, providing risk purchasing advice to healthcare, financial institution, and professional service clients. He began his career at AIG in the professional liability claims division and eventually transitioned to underwriting, where he gained a deep knowledge of Technology Errors and Omissions, Cyber, Media and Professional Liability coverages.

As a reinsurance broker, Brian focuses on the development, design, and placement of cyber and professional lines reinsurance programs for a range of clients, including large national and global accounts.

Joined MR F&C in his current role as North American Cyber Leader in 2020. Prior to joining Munich Re, was with Marsh for 15 years serving as Managing Director and Cyber Product Leader; where his responsibilities included advising clients on issues related to intellectual property, technology, privacy, and cyber risks as well as negotiating with carriers on terms and conditions. Prior to Marsh, held various underwriting and legal positions at AIG. Started career as coverage counsel for Lloyd’s of London.

Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in Economics/ Fordham University at Rose Hill
Juris Doctor, Fordham University School of Law

Melissa is the Head of US Cyber Risks at Beazley where she leads a team of underwriters in the middle market and large client segments. Prior to joining Beazley in 2024, Melissa held leaderships positions at two of the largest global brokers where she built and managed teams in both middle market and specialty. She has expertise in executive level client consultation of complex risk transfer programs with a concentration in management and professional liability products.

As the Global Head of Cyber Insurance at AIG, Tracie Grella is responsible for the strategic direction of the company’s cyber insurance portfolio and for managing cyber insurance risk across all of AIG’s property and casualty lines.

Tracie has more than 25 years of experience in cyber insurance, effectively navigating the complex intersection of technology and risk management. Known for her visionary approach to risk assessment and mitigation, Tracie has played a pivotal role in shaping the industry’s response to the constantly changing cyber threat landscape and is an influential figure in safeguarding businesses and organizations against this key peril of the modern digital era.

Committed to strengthening cybersecurity awareness and resiliency globally, Tracie is a sought-after speaker and a trusted advisor to organizations, think-tanks, associations, and government officials seeking to improve cybersecurity awareness, best practices, and legislation.

Commonly called upon as an industry expert by insurance trade and mainstream publications on cyber liability and professional liability issues, Tracie has appeared on Squawkbox and Fast Money and has been named an Executive to Watch by Risk & Insurance magazine and a Woman to Watch by Business Insurance. Tracie is a co-creator of a patented process for underwriting cyber risk and holds a B.S. in finance from Rutgers University.

In my role as a manager of a team handling cyber claims, I provide leadership and guidance to ensure the efficient and effective management of cyber claims processes. I oversee a team of five individuals, supporting their professional development, setting clear objectives, and providing ongoing feedback to drive performance excellence.

My responsibilities include overseeing the entire lifecycle of cyber claims, from initial assessment to resolution, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies. I facilitate training sessions to keep the team updated on emerging cyber threats, industry trends, and best practices in claims management.

Additionally, I serve as a point of escalation for complex claims issues, utilizing my expertise to resolve challenges and ensure timely and satisfactory outcomes for our clients. I also collaborate closely with other departments to streamline processes, enhance communication, and optimize resource allocation.

Overall, my role involves a combination of leadership, team management, technical expertise, and strategic decision-making to ensure the successful handling of cyber claims and the delivery of exceptional service to our clients.

Harriet is a Partner at MDD Forensic Accountants, and is based in New York. Harriet has spent the last thirteen years working as a forensic accountant specializing in insurance claims, servicing clients in both the US and Latin America. For the past seven years, Harriet has specialized in the review of business interruption losses resulting from cyber incidents.

Howard began his career out of law school clerking for a judge in Trenton, New Jersey. Thereafter, Howard was an associate at Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg where he litigated E&O, D&O and coverage matters. Thereafter, Howard joined Fox Rothschild as a litigator until he began his career in insurance.

Howard joined Ironshore in 2012, handling claims related to all financial and executive lines, including D&O, E&O, Crime/Fidelity, Fiduciary liability and Cyber. In late 2014, Howard became the cyber claims manager and solely focused his claims portfolio on cyber-related matters. In 2018, Howard joined the cyber practice at WTW as a cyber specialist, and in 2021, joined Marsh, as a cyber claims broker and leader.

In 2024, Howard rejoined the private practice of law at Pierson Ferdinand. Howard focuses his law practice on insurance coverage, privacy litigation and incident response.

Monica Tigleanu, is a seasoned cyber insurance expert with 14 years of experience in the industry and she currently serves as the Cyber Strategy Director at BMS Group. In this pivotal role, her primary focus is to advance BMS’ cyber (re)insurance strategy by developing sophisticated risk management solutions designed to address the continuously evolving cyber risk landscape. Monica assists organisations ( including insurance companies) with transferring their cyber risk allowing them to manage the impact of cyber events. Leveraging her extensive global network, Monica connects new capacity from various (re)insurance hubs, leading the development of innovative products that offer tailored and previously unattainable coverage.

Monica has held an array of senior positions at esteemed organisations such as Munich Re, Marsh, Beazley, and AIG. As Marsh’s inaugural Cyber Property Damage Leader, she expertly promoted cross-class collaboration within the insurance industry by connecting the fields of property insurance, engineering, cybersecurity and technology risk.

As a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and the only Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) in the cyber insurance industry, she is acutely aware of the challenges organisations face when it comes to maintaining cyber resilience as well as quantifying cyber risk. Monica is also certified CRISC and CIPP US/EU. Monica’s unwavering dedication to tackling complex issues and devising innovative solutions keeps her at the cutting edge of the rapidly evolving cyber risk landscape, making her an invaluable resource for organisations as they navigate the complexities of modern cyber insurance.

Catherine Lyle is a SVP within Tokio Marine HCC- Cyber & Professional Lines Group heading the Claims and Incident Response teams for Cyber. With more than 25 years of claims experience, Catherine’s work focuses on leading a team that ensures the quick resolution of cyber events and claims, as well litigation involving professional liability policies for technology, media, and telecommunication companies. She is a frequent speaker and published author regarding cyber law and claims. Prior to joining Tokio Marine HCC- CPLG, Lyle was the Head of Claims at Coalition and was an attorney for General Electric as well as an Assistant Attorney General for The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lyle is a member of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Colorado Bars.

Payal Patel joined Marsh in 2015 as an Assistant Vice President within the firm’s Cyber Practice, where she worked with large clients to help identify and manage their cyber risks. In 2016 she was promoted to Vice President and in 2019 she was promoted to Senior Vice President and US Errors & Omissions/Cyber Practice Leader for Marsh’s Northeast Zone. In this role, Payal is responsible for delivering innovative cyber and professional liability solutions and insights to clients throughout the region. In recognition of her accomplishments, Payal was named a Managing Director by Marsh in 2021 and a Cyber Power Broker by Risk & Insurance magazine in 2020 and 2023. In 2023, Payal was tapped to lead Marsh’s UK Cyber Practice in London for seven months on an interim basis until a new leader was appointed. She continues to support Marsh’s Global Cyber Practice in client retention and growth efforts. She is based in Philadelphia and is a graduate of Temple University.

Elizabeth (Liz) Dill, CIPP/US is a Partner at Mullen Coughlin, located in Richmond, Virginia. She focuses her practice on counseling and representing clients across all industries, including in the healthcare and life sciences; financial services & insurance; education; professional services; retail/e-commerce; manufacturing and distribution; and technology industry sectors, as well as non-profit organizations and governmental entities, in all facets of data privacy and security preparedness and incident response. Liz is Co-Chair of the firm’s Advisory Compliance practice group. She routinely advises her clients on the development of comprehensive data privacy and security compliance programs tailored to their industry sector and geographic scope of operations in compliance with numerous U.S. federal and state data privacy and security statutes and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA);the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and its amendment the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA); the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA); the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA); the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA); and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), among others.