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Contributor profiles<br />

Marsh<br />

1166 Avenue of the Americas<br />

New York, NY 10036-2774<br />

United States<br />

Tel + 1 212 345 6000<br />

www.marsh.com<br />

Dennis Kearns<br />

Managing Director, Financial &<br />

Professional Liability Practice<br />

dennis.kearns@marsh.com<br />

Dennis Kearns is a managing director and<br />

manager of the Claims Advocacy Group for<br />

Marsh’s Financial and Professional Liability<br />

Practice, specializing in complex coverage<br />

and claims issues concerning directors<br />

and officers liability, employment practices<br />

liability, fiduciary liability, and professional<br />

liability insurance. Dennis leads a team of<br />

11 lawyers serving as claims advocates<br />

for Marsh clients and works extensively<br />

with advisory brokers and clients on policy<br />

language, manuscript endorsements,<br />

and other legal issues regarding the<br />

structure and placement of management<br />

liability insurance. Prior to joining Marsh<br />

in 2011, Dennis spent 11 years at Chubb,<br />

serving as an executive underwriter,<br />

underwriting counsel, and coverage<br />

counsel. He also served as a senior<br />

attorney in Chubb’s claims department,<br />

providing insurance coverage advice<br />

on personal and commercial insurance<br />

policies and monitoring coverage litigation.<br />

Dennis previously served as underwriting<br />

counsel and held several positions in the<br />

claims department at AIG, where he was<br />

responsible for adjusting high-end exposure<br />

claims under multimedia, corporate,<br />

miscellaneous, and Internet professional<br />

liability polices. Admitted to practice law<br />

in 1993, Dennis has also held positions<br />

in private and public legal practice and<br />

has served as an adjunct professor. He<br />

has served as a speaker and panelist at<br />

several seminars on directors and officers<br />

liability insurance topics, including events<br />

sponsored by RIMS and the American<br />

Conference Institute.<br />

99 High St<br />

Boston, MA 02116<br />

United States<br />

Tel + 1 617 385 0200<br />

David Hong<br />

Managing Director, Financial &<br />

Professional Liability Practice<br />

New York, NY<br />

david.hong@marsh.com<br />

David Hong is the U.S. Placement leader<br />

and a senior advisor in Marsh’s Financial<br />

and Professional Liability Practice. In<br />

his role as an advisor, he assists clients<br />

on the evaluation and design of risktransfer<br />

solutions that address financial<br />

and professional exposures, including<br />

directors and officers, errors and omissions,<br />

employment practices and fiduciary- and<br />

crime-related products. Mr. Hong is<br />

recognized for his technical expertise in<br />

risk-profile evaluation, coverage analysis<br />

and related securities compliance and<br />

corporate governance issues. He advises<br />

a variety of publicly traded U.S. and<br />

multinational companies that have D&O<br />

insurance programs supported in the U.S.,<br />

European and Bermuda marketplace.<br />

Prior to joining Marsh in 2004, he was a<br />

securities attorney for nine years in New<br />

York and San Francisco, focusing on<br />

mergers and acquisitions, public and private<br />

debt and equity placements, corporate<br />

governance and securities compliance. In<br />

his nine years as a securities lawyer,<br />

Mr. Hong has been the general counsel for<br />

a software and communications company<br />

and was an attorney with Morrison &<br />

Foerster LLP. He has represented a broad<br />

base of clients in industries including<br />

technology, aerospace and defense,<br />

mining, consumer products, transportation<br />

and power and energy. He holds a JD<br />

degree from Georgetown University Law<br />

Center and a BA from Columbia University.<br />

345 California Street,<br />

Suite 1300<br />

San Francisco,<br />

CA 94104-2679<br />

United States<br />

Tel +1 415 743 8000<br />

Susan Ott<br />

Vice President, Private Client Services<br />

San Francisco<br />

susan.ott@marsh.com<br />

Susan Ott directs asset protection<br />

consulting and insurance services offered<br />

to affluent individuals and families. Her<br />

25 years of extensive risk management<br />

experience provides her with unique insight<br />

into delivering tailored client solutions that<br />

help protect wealth as well as physical<br />

assets. Prior to rejoining Marsh in 2011,<br />

Susan worked as the managing director<br />

of Personal Insurance for another Bay<br />

Area brokerage. She has been a featured<br />

speaker at several industry conferences<br />

and wealth management events, including<br />

the Risk & Insurance Management Society<br />

(RIMS), the Family Firm Institute (FFI)<br />

and the Family Office Exchange (FOX).<br />

Ms. Ott is a graduate of the University<br />

of San Francisco with a BS in business<br />

administration and a master’s in human<br />

resources and organization development.<br />

She also holds the designation of Associate<br />

in Risk Management (ARM) from the<br />

Insurance Institute of America.<br />

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