Issue Experts
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Phillip Arnzen
Regional Vice President – Midwest
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Anna Buhlinger
Federal Affairs Director
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Brian Christenberry
Regional Vice President – Great Lakes
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Erin Collins
Senior Vice President - State and Policy Affairs
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Tony Cotto
Director of Auto and Underwriting Policy
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Bri Dahl
Public Policy Analyst
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Katherine Duveneck
Federal Affairs Director
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Kristin Eichhorn
Assistant Vice President – Political Involvement Programs
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Jimi Grande
Senior Vice President - Federal & Political Affairs
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Tom Karol
General Counsel - Federal
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Lindsey Klarkowski
Director of Data Science & AI/ML Policy
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Patrick McCarty
Federal Affairs Manager
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Caitlin Murray
Regional Vice President – Southeast
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Matt Overturf
Regional Vice President – Ohio Valley & Mid Atlantic
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Cate Paolino
Director of Public Policy
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Christian Rataj
Senior Regional Vice President – Western Region
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Colleen Scheele
Public Policy Counsel, Solvency & Tax Policy
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Jon Schnautz
Vice President - State Affairs
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Ward Tisdale
Regional Vice President - Southwest
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Brandon Vick
Regional Vice President – Northwest Region
Cate Paolino, J.D., MBA, MPA, serves as NAMIC’s director of Public Policy. She is responsible for providing the association and its membership with key policy expertise and analysis on legislative and regulatory issues of interest to the property/casualty insurance industry at the state, federal, and international levels.
Paolino is a former NAMIC regional vice president of the Northeast region. She came to NAMIC from Travelers, where she worked in business insurance, serving as senior counsel and second vice president, Regulatory Research and Compliance. She spent more than 10 years as senior counsel at the American Insurance Association. Her skill set includes legislative and regulatory analysis, and legislative drafting including the drafting of model legislation. She also has experience with commercial insurance issues and drafting and presenting testimony.
She holds an MPA from Brown University, an executive master of business administration from Suffolk University, and a law degree from the University of Connecticut.