Insurance professional with extensive surplus lines, runoff, and carrier experience leading professional staff and mitigating claim portfolios. A leader in a successful runoff, acquisitions, and servicing operation and has overall responsibility for the reduction of pending claims and reserves, mitigating exposures, and improving results. Provide leadership in M&A including due diligence and the integration of acquired entities, portfolios, claims, and staff into ongoing operations. Acquisition experience includes loss portfolio transfers and entire companies.Areas of experience and success include: change leadership, employee development, acquisition integration, scaling of operations, expense control and reduction, process improvement, succession planning, new systems integration, budgeting, forecasting, claims operations management, claim litigation management, captive runoff, contractor liability, New York Labor Law, public entity liability, professional liability, and construction defect. Michael serves as co-chair of the Perrin Conferences National Construction Defect Conference where he has been a panelist and moderator.Michael is co-founder and board member for two non-profit organizations and currently serves as the President and Board Chair for Lantern Light Camps, Inc. - a nonprofit which creates outdoor adventure and educational opportunities for youth. Lantern Light Camps operates The Wah-Tut-Ca Reservation, a 300 acre camp in Northwood, NH on the shores of Northwood Lake.