Tracey began her career at General Re and McKinsey, going on to hold top positions at Frank B. Hall and Alexander & Alexander before becoming part of the senior management team reporting to the president at Aon. Tracey was heavily involved in steering the strategy of Aon's E&S businesses, spanning multiple wholesale, MGU, alternative risk and consulting practices globally.
In additional to her duties in the E&S space was a 6-year stint consolidating service and claims operations and acquiring synergistic businesses into the claims and service vehicle. Tracey's experience across the entire insurance transaction chain led her to discover a need for a better, more efficient and customer-centric operation, and she responded by launching Breckenridge in 2009.
Currently Tracey is the Managing Partner at TCH Holdings, LLC where her activities include consulting with companies looking to increase efficiencies and top line growth. In addition to strategic consulting, Tracey is involved in TCH Investments and serves on several advisory boards.
Don Desiderato is a former Fortune 100 Executive and Founder of Mantissa Group LLC, a strategy consulting firm serving the CIO executive and their extended leadership teams. He is a deeply experienced senior technology executive helping leaders with their technology strategic plans, as well as simultaneously focusing on leadership development and culture.
Mr. Desiderato is a seasoned leader with broad executive experiences across industries, most recently in life insurance, annuities, and retirement services, both domestically and internationally. Don’s most recent experience was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at New York Life. He was accountable for the New York Life’s Core Insurance, Strategic Insurance Businesses, and Agency technology. In this role, Mr. Desiderato was accountable for managing a large-scale transformation effort ranging from core Insurance and Sales platforms to the modernization of infrastructure and data environment. In addition, he was a member of the Insurance Group Senior Leadership Team.
Don’s previous New York Life role included CIO for the Investments Group technology. In this role, he was on the Investments Group Senior Leadership team and led similar transformation initiatives. During his tenure, he regularly interacted with members of the Executive Management Committee and has presented to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Desiderato earned a BS in Computer Information Systems from Quinnipiac University and is currently serving on the Quinnipiac University business school Advisory Board.
As a global health and life insurance executive of more than 25 years in 42 countries, Larry has extensive experience in both public/social and private health insurance ecosystems. He has a reputation for innovative thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills, as well as broad speaking, publication, and board service background.
Larry served as Corporate Vice President of LIMRA LOMA Global leading international research, member engagement, and consulting through 2019. He was previously with Aetna for 20 years, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of Aetna Asia, residing in Shanghai, where he was responsible for P&L results, sales, operations, strategic planning, government relations, and corporate businesses. He has held additional officer positions in the US, Middle East, and Africa for Aetna. Larry also led various academic research grants for federal and state government entities in the U.S.
Born in the U.S., he received both Bachelor’s of Engineering and Master’s of Public Administration The Ohio State University. Larry is currently consulting and advising various companies on global health and life insurance matters.
Greg Murphy is an accomplished financial services and insurance executive with a passion for leading change at the intersection of business and technology. He has extensive experience in the disciplines of wealth management, financial planning, life insurance, and property and casualty (P&C) insurance.
Greg’s most recent endeavor was to lead the US launch of a London based insurtech startup. He played the US CEO and Senior Vice President role for Instanda and successfully introduced this revolutionary brand to the US insurance market. Prior to this startup, Greg played leadership roles in several U.S.-based financial corporations. He acted as Vice President – Business Transformation and IT Strategy for W.R. Berkley Corporation where he drove an innovation program and platform strategy for the entire family of Berkley companies. Murphy served as Associate Vice President, Strategy and Execution at Voya Financial, where he transformed the life underwriting operations. He also held director-level positions with Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans where he lead an award winning re-design of the technology used by financial advisors.
In the technology world, Murphy spent time at Oracle and as an independent consultant, and he is a sought-after resource on the topics of customer relationship management (CRM), wealth-related packages, and core insurance platforms.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from Augsburg University and has completed graduate level work in Finance at the University of Minnesota.
Cheryl is a senior executive with extensive experience in the life insurance and financial services industries. She has over a decade as a P&L leader managing multi-billion-dollar businesses, and is recognized for her success driving business digitization and transformational change.
Cheryl is currently Founder/CEO of Kingsfield Strategic Consulting, LLC, a boutique management consulting firm focused on providing strategic advisory services to help organizations achieve long term sustainable growth.
Cheryl spent twelve years leading life insurance companies, serving as President for Kemper Life, Foresters Financial, and Liberty Mutual Individual Life. She has also held the role of Global Chief Strategy, Innovation, Marketing and Technology Officer.
Earlier in her career, Cheryl held leadership positions at HSBC Bank, in support of a variety of business lines including secured and unsecured lending, credit cards, banking products, auto finance and private label retail cards. She has worked across multiple B2B, B2C and B2B2C distribution channels. As Senior Vice President, HSBC insurance, she received a patent for launching one of the first fully digitized life insurance platforms. Prior to HSBC, she was at Wells Fargo and Discover Card.
Cheryl has over ten years of non-profit board experience with the Medical Information Bureau (MIB), Lawrence General Hospital, and the Merrimack Valley YMCA, and has served in advisory roles with several insurtechs and an engagement platform provider.
Cheryl has a BS in Marketing from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
After high profile careers in the NFL and commercial music production, John Scully made an immediate impact in his first full year in insurance by working with Brown & Brown and setting Illinois state worksite sales records. This unusual achievement led to recruitment by a fledgling AIG worksite operation as the lead for development efforts in the Midwest.
Working with AIG led to John’s quick ascent through the ranks and ultimate promotion to National Account Executive for AIG Benefits, a multi profit center marketing group reporting directly to the corporate CEO.
In the years that followed his AIG tenure, Mr. Scully filled multiple industry roles, including national positions at carriers CV Starr and Aflac along with high net worth marketing, working closely with M Financial. Exposure at high levels of these organizations and others with which he regularly interfaced resulted in the creation of close, diverse, senior industry relationships and an abiding sense of effective strategic thinking.
In 2013, John decided his extensive network was sufficiently powerful enough to put to effective use through Scully Consulting LLC, an organization through which he and his associates advise broadly on distribution, marketing, product, process, technology, M&A, search, and virtually all aspects of insurance.
Though an unanimous All-American football center at Notre Dame, John is best to know at his alma mater for co-writing the anthem "Here Come the Irish."
Chris Siudzinski has thirty years of experience in the Life and Health insurance space. He began his career with Milliman where he rose to Consulting Actuary before moving on to become AIG’s Chief Direct Marketing Actuary. At AIG he oversaw campaign analytics and product development for the direct-to-consumer line across forty plus countries and the US.
Later at MetLife, he helped build the company’s global direct-to-consumer capabilities and created some of the first fully digital life products in the US. He was also heavily involved in the deal development, pricing, and due diligence of MetLife’s acquisition of AIG’s International Life Company.
Currently, Chris is founder and lead actuary of INSKI Consultants LLC, specializing in digital platform consulting for Insurers, Reinsurers, and Insurtechs. He is equally agile in product development, deal assessments and negotiations, and the analysis of new platforms and tools that are revolutionizing online distribution. Throughout his career he has been the go-to actuary when companies are looking to transform business lines through innovation and unique risk management solutions.
Chris is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin—Madison with Bachelors in Math and English literature. He is an active member of the Society of Actuaries Marketing and Distribution council.