ABOUT US

Mark Wood is President and CEO of LifeScienceRisk. LifeScienceRisk offers appointed brokers a single source for both primary and excess insurance for Life Science firms in the pharmaceutical, medical device and nutritional supplement sectors.

Mark has over 35 years of experience in specialty commercial insurance loss control and underwriting, with an emphasis on the Healthcare and Life Science industries specializing in heavy casualty underwriting including Medical Professional, Medical Product and E&O Liability.

His career includes positions of increasing responsibility at a number of U.S. insurance companies, where he was responsible for Medical Product Liability, related Professional Liability and multi-line Property and Casualty underwriting operations focused on the Life Science industry.

Mark holds an AAS Professional Nursing degree from SUNY Health Sciences, a BA Health Care Administration from Minnesota’s Metropolitan State University, an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) Designation and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) Designation. Additionally, he attended the Wharton School’s Insurance Executive Development Program.

Michael Garofalo is the newest member of LifeScienceRisk. He joined as the Product Development Manager. Mike has over 35 years of experience in Casualty and Professional Liability as a retail and wholesale broker as well as an underwriter. The past 25 years have been focused within the Life Science arena forging an expertise on development of strategic client facing brokerage solutions and structuring specified creative and complex insurance placements built on that strategic alliance.

Mike has been an underwriter at LW Biegler, a Crum & Forester Company, as well as a regional underwriting manager at AIG. He then became a broker as VP at AJ Renner & Associates, a boutique wholesale broker; then moved to Aon Corp., as Director in the Life Science Practice Group; and then became SVP for the Life Science Practice at the wholesale firm RT Specialty.

Mike has a BA and MBA from Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. Mike has been a past member of the Illinois Surplus Line Association as well as a past member of the Medmarc and Berkley Life Science Broker Advisory Councils. Finally, Mike wrote and hosted the WRIN-TV Life Science D&O / Product Liability series.

Catherine Gill joined LifeScienceRisk in October 2012 and is responsible for management of key producer relationships and underwriting a profitable book of Life Science Product Liability business for the facility. She also is the deputy underwriter for the facility and assists in the development of products, guidelines and management of our relationships with our underwriting partners. Catherine places an emphasis on customer service, establishing relationships with insurance brokers and securing new business placements.

Prior to joining LifeScienceRisk, Catherine was with CNA Insurance Company for seven years as a dedicated Life Science underwriter. During her tenure, she worked her way through the ranks from Underwriting Trainee in 2005 to her role as Underwriting Consultant when she left in 2012. Catherine has worked with a broad cross section of the industry from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, device and nutritional supplement companies.

Catherine graduated from New York University in 2005 with a BA in Medical Ethics.

Roohi Khan joined Ryan Specialty Group in July 2011 working with the Long Term Care Team of Sapphire Blue. She transitioned to LifeScienceRisk in 2014 with an initial focus on nutritional supplement business. Her role has expanded and she responsible for underwriting a profitable and diversified book of business encompassing pharmaceutical, medical device and nutritional supplement firms. With her background as a physician, Roohi provides extensive and invaluable knowledge and a remarkable underwriting perspective to the team.

Roohi is a 15 year veteran in the insurance industry. She has enjoyed various underwriting positions with upward mobility and greater responsibilities. Roohi devoted seven years with CNA Insurance Company as an underwriter specializing in Allied Health Care, Long Term Care, Hospital and Miscellaneous Health Care business. In addition, during that time, Roohi gained experience in Alternative Risk Transfer. Prior to joining Ryan Specialty Group, Roohi spent four years with Beazley Group, as a dedicated Long Term Care underwriter.

Roohi earned her M.D. – Doctor of Medicine from Uniremhos Medical School, Santo Domingo, DR.

Vivian joined LifeScienceRisk in July 2012, and is responsible for management of key producer relationships and underwriting a profitable book of Life Science Product Liability business for the facility.

Throughout her 24 years in the business, Vivian has enjoyed a diverse career spanning various underwriting positions in specialty Professional Liability, and Medical Product Liability. Prior to joining LifeScienceRisk, Vivian spent 10 years with CNA Insurance Company as an underwriter specializing in meeting the liability insurance needs of Life Science companies. Vivian has worked with a broad cross section of the Life Science industry, but has had a specialized focus on firms producing generic pharmaceuticals and drug delivery technologies.

Vivian graduated from DePaul University with a BS in Business Administration and holds a CLCS certification.

Thomas McNally joined Sapphire Blue in August of 2012 and moved into the LifeScienceRisk team in February of 2014. He is responsible for management and underwriting of the Nutra program.

Tom’s insurance career spans over 20 years beginning as a broker with Johnson and Higgins (now Marsh), and for the past 16 years as a specialty underwriter focused on Medical Product Liability and Allied Healthcare business with Markel and with Beazley prior to joining Sapphire Blue and LSR.

Tom is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross.