EmergIn Risk is a focused managing general agent that provides risk transfer solutions for complex technology and media exposures. Our mission is to deliver market-leading insurance services and solutions to enable businesses to respond, recover and survive the world’s technology threats.
We concentrate resolutely on providing insurance solutions for cyber, technology and media exposures, including related E&O requirements, combined cyber and property, and third-party risks. Our comprehensive solutions are predicated on a deep understanding of industry-specific, technology-driven exposures and the relevant threat vectors associated with how businesses interact within the global economy. Our underwriting models then look to align the risk conventions that modern organisations face across projected and real-life loss scenarios.
Our detailed analytical approach gives the market-renowned carriers behind EmergIn the comfort that we venture their capital wisely and ensures our clients receive an exhaustively considered coverage offering and risk-adjusted price.
EmergIn is a composite of a light and agile MGA working under the powerhouse Ryan Specialty – the fast-growing, service-focused wholesale broker and managing underwriter with revenues of $1.4 billion in 2021.
While the needs of individual insureds for risk transfer solutions are often similar, their exposures can be extremely nuanced. No submission is the same, as few companies have the same technology configuration, professional service offerings, or media exposure.
Every risk undergoes an in-depth underwriting progression that brings them in line with other market submissions, while also considering the results from the latest risk analysis technologies and a comprehensive analysis by an experienced group of market-leading underwriters.
We believe that we must access as much data as we can to underwrite any account. However, we do not believe that any single technology or standardised underwriting approach should define our interactions with the global marketplace. The underwriting of these risks must evolve with the constantly shifting threat landscape.
While the needs of individual insureds for risk transfer solutions are often similar, their exposures can be extremely nuanced. No submission is the same, as few companies have the same technology configuration, professional service offerings, or media exposure.
Every risk undergoes an in-depth underwriting progression that brings them in line with other market submissions, while also considering the results from the latest risk analysis technologies and a comprehensive analysis by an experienced group of market-leading underwriters.
We believe that we must access as much data as we can to underwrite any account. However, we do not believe that any single technology or standardised underwriting approach should define our interactions with the global marketplace. The underwriting of these risks must evolve with the constantly shifting threat landscape.
EmergIn's transatlantic team of cyber and media-risk specialists stands apart due to our diverse skillset. Our breadth of experience includes backgrounds in insurance, law, engineering, risk management, government and IT.
Our diligent team believes in "table-top" underwriting and the careful dissection of each risk. Coverage and prices are crafted based on the merits of the client's exposure and are not dictated by obstinate ratings or automated systems.
Jamie launched EmergIn Risk London in 2015 after leading various cyber, technology, and media departments across CFC Underwriting and AIG. At EmergIn, he leads the charge on strategy, policy, and governance and acts as the capstone underwriter for all risks.
George Paraskeva - Practice Lead
George has seen cyber from both sides, first as a cybersecurity consultant and latterly as an underwriter. Before joining EmergIn in 2021, he led Occam Underwriting’s cyber practice, and before that, he was Information Security Officer at MS Amlin, which he joined from BAE Systems’ cybersecurity consulting team.
Jessica Campbell - Underwriter
A cyber specialist in Lloyd’s for more than ten years, Jessica joined Barbican’s cyber and technology team. Her particular skill with complex technology E&O covers has attracted the respect of market peers, as do her notable insights and interventions into tactical issues within the cyber market.
Isabel Farrow - Underwriting Assistant
Isabel provides intimate underwriting support to the London team. Before EmergIn, she operated across Cyber, Political Violence, and Terrorism lines and brings a wealth of experience outside of the Cyber niche. Isabel is a graduate of English Literature from St Mary’s University, London.
Conor Houlihan - Underwriting Manager
Conor underwrites cyber risks with a particular focus on energy, financial institutions, and manufacturing. Before joining EmergIn, he specialized in cyber at Lloyd’s TM Kiln, after almost a decade underwriting property, energy, and construction risk for Warren Buffet’s General Reinsurance.
Alexandra Leventaki - Operations Assistant
Alexandra is the operational focal point of EmergIn for client services and internal and group liaison. Her broad experience inside and outside insurance is reinforced by an extensive cultural prowess honed in multiple European countries, including as a technical administrator for engineers.
Josh Neary-Gibson - Underwriter
Josh joined EmergIn directly from the broking community, having previously worked at JLT and then Marsh in London. With a focus on large and complex cyber, tech E&O and media risk transfer, he has also been heavily involved in industry-specific projects, including an aviation cyber facility, marine cyber placement drives, and the growth of cyber property damage.
Thomas Wedlake - Senior Underwriter
Tom joined EmergIn to focus on European cyber and technology risks. He was previously an underwriter with Talbot at Lloyd’s, where he spent ten years underwriting US and international property risks from its London and Dubai offices.
Peter Williams - Senior Underwriter and Distribution Lead
Pete, who has been with EmergIn since its genesis, is its top production underwriter. He has spent a dozen years in London underwriting and broking roles and possesses far-reaching market knowledge and relationships that support his lead on broker engagement.
Mike Maraini - Practice Lead
Mike leads EmergIn’s US cyber and technology E&O team. He joined ThinkRisk in 2014 before the transatlantic merger that created EmergIn and boasts more than a decade’s experience in the class. Prior he was at Philadelphia Insurance Company, where he underwrote management liability and professional risks.
Ryan Kelley - Senior Underwriter
Ryan spent three years at Chubb underwriting cyber, technology E&O, and management liability before reuniting with Mike Maraini at EmergIn Risk in 2020. He had spent seven years at Philadelphia Insurance Company, where he wrote his first cyber risk.
Ryan Kratz - Senior Underwriter
Ryan practised insurance coverage law for a decade with Kissel Stratton & Wilmer LLP before he joined EmergIn, so he brings an invaluable perspective. He understands the interests of insurers and has first-hand experience in claims management, coverage disputes, policy language, and claims evaluation.
Marty Manion - Senior Underwriter
Marty brings over a decade of industry experience to EmergIn Risk. Most recently, underwriting cyber and technology risk at Zurich. Before this, he was with Brit overseeing their E-Trading strategy in the US market. His experience includes working with retail and wholesale channel partners on complex assignments for large, middle-market, and national accounts.
Angela Buenning - Practice Lead, Media
Alongside underwriting, Angela manages EmergIn’s media liability team, which she’s been part of for over a decade. Before that, she was a business analyst and senior underwriting assistant at AXIS. In all, she has 18 years of experience in speciality insurance.
Nicole Simmons - Media Liability
Nicole is supremely experienced. She has been underwriting EmergIn media risks for a decade, after passing 15 years at Chubb in various underwriting roles covering media liability, miscellaneous professional liability, and other speciality insurance products.
Cheri Baker - Underwriter
Cheri is responsible for producing new Film & Entertainment opportunities. She underwrites film and media risks within the global media team and has over a decade’s experience in underwriting. Before which, she was a Risk Manager at Warner Bros, where she was responsible for the management and implementation of insurance programs for television and music video productions.
Alyson Cain - Underwriter
Alyson joined EmergIn with underwriting experience in miscellaneous professional, townhome, and homeowners’ association risk and excess lines garnered at carriers including Hiscox, US Risk, and Markel. She even made a brief venture into claims, which provides a useful point of view.
Chelsey Gagnon - Underwriter
After more than six years at EmergIn, Chelsey oversees renewals and underwrites a substantial portion of the book. Before joining the team, she spent several years at Business Risk Partners as an underwriting assistant in their management liability practice.
Hui Yu - Underwriting Manager
From her start as a loss adjuster, Hui shifted her career first into broking cyber, technology and media coverage, then to underwriting it. She has 20 years' experience, including 15 in cyber and media, for companies including Allianz and Principia.
Brooke Tanner - Global Head of Claims
Brooke heads up EmergIn’s claims capability. She has practiced insurance coverage, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and data privacy law at various New York City-based law firms for nearly a decade. Her prior role was manager/claims counsel for a third-party administrator. For the past five years, Brooke managed bustling cybersecurity, data privacy, and intellectual property claims practice, as well as personally adjusting claims herself.
EmergIn Risk is a part of the Ryan Specialty family. Ryan Specialty is a service provider of specialty products and solutions for insurance brokers, agents and carriers.
Ryan Specialty provides distribution, underwriting, product development, administration and risk management services by acting as a managing underwriter and a wholesale broker. Ryan Specialty's mission is to provide industry-leading innovative specialty insurance solutions for insurance brokers, agents and carriers. ryanspecialty.com (NYSE: RYAN)
Ryan Specialty was founded in 2010 by Patrick G. Ryan, the widely respected insurance veteran, founder and former Chairman and CEO of the Aon Corporation. Mr. Ryan saw the need in the marketplace for a specialty organisation dedicated exclusively to creating sophisticated insurance solutions for risks that demand innovation, proven leadership, outstanding industry expertise and quality services on behalf of brokers, agents and carriers.
Within Ryan Specialty, EmergIn Risk falls within the Underwriting Managers specialty. Underwriting Managers deliver an independent and entrepreneurial approach to the specialty lines space by providing a unique operational, legal, actuarial and technical support platform. Underwriting Managers' exceptional resources and back-office support allow underwriters to focus on the risk itself, delivering superior service to brokers, agents and carriers.
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