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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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