Mike is the Senior Vice President – Benefits, North America at Artex Risk Solutions, Inc. In his role, Mike leads the Benefit Captive strategy, which provides employers with the opportunity to better manage health plan risk and costs through the development and management of captive insurance programs.

Mike has over 25 years of experience structuring single-parent and group captive insurance programs for both employee benefit and property casualty coverages. Mike is one of the early innovators in the Benefit Captive space developing stop-loss group captive programs while working for both stoploss carriers and captive management firms.

Mike is a past Chairperson for the Self-Insurance Institute of America (www.siia.org) Captive Committee which promotes industry education and advancement of captive programs furthering the interests of captive owners, service providers and insurance industry professionals.

Mike graduated from Swarthmore College with bachelors of art degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He lives
in San Francisco with his wife and two children.