Michael W. Bell Michael Bell, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Manulife Financial, is responsible for the financial affairs of the Company including Finance, Accounting, Capital, Valuation, Treasury, Controllers, Taxation, Investor Relations and Reinsurance. He is a member of the Company’s senior executive management committees. Michael is based in the company’s headquarters in Toronto, Canada.

A seasoned international insurance executive with a strong actuarial, financial and business management background, Michael Bell joined Manulife in June 2009 and officially commenced his new duties in July. Prior to joining Manulife, he spent six years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CIGNA Corporation in Philadelphia, USA. As CFO, Michael directed the global financial functions for this Fortune 200 Company with annual revenue of $20 billion. He also had responsibility for the Investment Management and Strategic Planning functions as well as the Corporate Insurance and run-off Reinsurance businesses. At CIGNA, Michael led the sale of their Retirement business and the purchase of Great West’s healthcare operations.

Prior to being appointed CFO at CIGNA, Michael Bell served for two and one half years as President of CIGNA Group Insurance business, and under his leadership earnings in this operation increased nearly threefold over a three year period. In his time at the Company, he advanced through key management positions in Retirement & Investment Services, HealthCare and in individual insurance. In 1994 he became Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for CIGNA’s Intracorp subsidiary and in 1995 he was appointed Vice President and Actuary for CIGNA HealthCare. He also served as Vice President of Corporate Accounting and Planning from 1997 through July 2000.

Michael graduated summa cum laude from University of Illinois with a B.Sc. in Actuarial Sciences and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.

Adam Berk Adam Berk is a principal in Ernst & Young LLP’s Human Capital group. Based in Houston, Adam has 19 years of experience in HR and retirement consulting, including helping companies effectively manage enterprise pension risk, developing market competitive retirement plans, and implementing effective workforce strategies. He has served clients across multiple industries including energy, chemical, financial, forest product and transportation industries. Adam has led numerous industry based studies and has advised companies on HR issues in connection with mergers, acquisitions and divestures. He frequently speaks at conferences and provides strategy and actuarial consulting to clients regarding reward design, workforce management, and overall retirement financial management including investment, benefit, accounting, funding and regulatory policy.

Alan Buerger Alan Buerger is co-founder and CEO of Coventry. Recognized as one of the most influential people in the life insurance industry, Mr. Buerger has been one of its chief innovators. He created a secondary market for life insurance, pioneered the resulting life settlement industry, and has worked continuously to expand the power, value, and flexibility of life insurance.

Under Mr. Buerger’s leadership, Coventry has transformed the life insurance industry. Consumers now have the opportunity to sell their insurance policies in a free market environment. Coventry’s efforts have enabled policyowners to receive more than $3 billion for their unwanted policies.

Mr. Buerger is an expert on the convergence of life insurance and capital markets and is known as the voice of the life settlement industry. He has been a keynote speaker on a range of subjects including emerging trends in life insurance, longevity-linked assets, and balancing regulation and opportunity in growing industries.

Today, Coventry is a global financial services company with operations throughout the world’s major financial centers, including Philadelphia, New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Bill Coffin Bill Coffin is the Editor in Chief of National Underwriter Life & Health. He has been covering the insurance and risk management industries for 17 years. Prior to joining National Underwriter, he was the Director of Publications for the Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS), where he ran Risk Management magazine, RiskWire and the Risk Management Monitor blog. He has also worked for the American Re-Insurance Company as a research analyst, and as an editor for the A.M. Best Company, where he wrote for Best’s Underwriting Guide, BestWeek and Best’s Review.

Bill speaks regularly at industry events and his work has appeared in numerous other business publications, including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Captive Review, Financier Worldwide and New European Economy. He is also a published novelist and game designer as well as the co-founder of Reliquary Press, an independent book publisher. Bill lives with his family in Oakhurst, New Jersey.

Richard DeHaan Rich de Haan is a Principal in the Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services practice of Ernst and Young and is based in the firm’s New York office. Rich has more than twenty years of industry experience, with emphasis on capital markets activity including, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets securitizations and private structured transactions, and life settlements. In addition, Rich has been active in capital and surplus relief structuring, economic and embedded value implementation and reporting, and reinsurance. Rich is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and Institute Actuaries in the UK and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA). He has authored numerous articles on mergers and acquisitions, securitizations and Asian insurance markets, and is a regular speaker at seminars and actuarial meetings.

Henry Essert Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Henry was the Chief Risk Officer of MetLife, a market leader in the U.S. insurance industry. His risk and insurance experience also includes roles as Managing Director of a major global financial strategy and risk management consultancy, President and CEO of the Enterprise Risk Consulting division of a leading insurance brokerage and consulting services provider and managing partner of a global insurance actuarial consultancy.

Henry’s professional focus is on the advancement of risk management capabilities. Both as an industry executive and an advisor, he has led successful overhauls of risk management frameworks, enhanced risk department staffing and supporting technology capabilities and established risk governance structures. His work emphasizes the application of risk insights to business decision making. He has advanced understanding and buy-in of risk/reward mindsets with boards of directors, executive management and line of business leadership groups.

Henry is an active sponsor of improving risk management skills in the industry and the modernization of solvency regulation. During his time as an industry executive, he was a member of the CRO Forum and led the ACLI’s International Solvency Task Force.

Henry holds a Master’s degree in mathematics from McMaster University. He has attained Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. He is a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He has published a number of articles on risk and insurance, including “The Future of Risk Management” Best’s Review , “Risk and Enterprise Value” in the Geneva Papers and “Actuarial Appraisals – Theory and Practice” winner of the best paper of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries Proceedings (1995).

Douglas A. French Doug French is the Managing Principal of Ernst & Young’s Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services practice and is based in the firm’s New York office. In addition, he is responsible for all advisory services for the insurance sector within the firm’s Financial Services Office. Prior to joining Ernst & Young he was a Principal and Global Practice Director of a major actuarial consulting firm.

Mr. French has spent over 24 years in actuarial consulting and has extensive experience in various areas including mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, sales compliance and market conduct, product development, financial reporting and measurement, asset/liability management, financial projections and modeling, and distribution economics and effectiveness.

Prior to entering actuarial advisory services, Mr. French was involved in various areas of life insurance company actuarial operations, with an emphasis on product development. Mr. French holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries.

He is a frequent speaker at industry seminars on topics such as enterprise risk management, capital management, economic capital modeling, retirement income and Solvency II. Mr. French is a co-author of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia sessional paper “Margin on Services Reporting: The Financial Implications,” which was the Institute of Actuaries of Australia 1993 Parker Prize Winner.

Helen Galt Helen M. Galt is senior vice president, Chief Risk Officer and Company Actuary, responsible for oversight of the company’s risk management infrastructure and processes to ensure they are appropriate and fully support Prudential’s businesses.

Galt also has actuarial oversight responsibility for all actuarial functions and for various product risk management and enterprise insurance program activities. She reports to the Board on actuarial matters and periodically leads projects to enhance the company’s financial management practices and measures.

Galt became company actuary in 1993, was appointed senior vice president in October 2005 and was named chief risk officer in April 2007 when the position was created. Galt also led several of the teams that implemented Prudential’s demutualization in December 2001.

Galt also was president of Pruco Life and Pruco Life of N.J., wholly-owned subsidiaries of Prudential, with oversight responsibility for variable and interest sensitive life products and all individual annuity products. She also was vice president and associate actuary, responsible for product development and pricing for the portfolio of participating life insurance products.

Galt has had assignments in the Common Stock, Group Insurance and Individual Pensions areas, and in the Individual Insurance Systems and Administration Department where she was responsible for actuarial, sales illustrations, and new business systems, and led a team that reviewed Field Office automation needs.

Galt has a BA from Douglass College and an MS degree from Rutgers. She is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

David Goldman David Goldman is a Director in the Fixed Income Division of Credit Suisse and a founding member of its Longevity Markets Group. The Longevity Markets Group intermediates longevity and mortality risk on a global basis. Its product lines include life settlements, derivatives, securities and fund structures, European pension risk transfer and insurance company capital relief transactions. David is currently responsible for the Group’s life settlement business and its global fund initiatives. Before his work in the Longevity Markets Group Mr. Goldman covered global reinsurance clients for Credit Suisse, focusing on structured credit derivatives. David graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics.

Stephen B. Gruppo

Steve Gruppo is Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer for TIAA-CREF and a member of the firm’s Executive Management Team. He oversees all risk related functions, including market risk, credit risk, quantitative analytics, operational risk, strategic risk, business continuity, and investment valuations. He and his team are responsible for the proper identification, measurement, and management of risk across the enterprise to ensure that the organization’s risk-taking activities are understood and managed consistently with the firm’s risk appetite.

Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in 2004, he was a Senior Vice President in the Risk Management Department at Lehman Brothers. He led a team that managed firm’s credit risk to corporate and insurance obligors, including all exposures associated with trading, lending and derivatives counterparty activities. He also led the development of the firm’s framework for managing country risk as Country Risk Manager. Prior to this role, Mr. Gruppo was head of Market Risk Management for all fixed income trading at Lehman. He was a member of Lehman’s Commitments and Fairness Opinion Committees.

Mr. Gruppo also held various positions in Credit Risk Management and High Yield Bond Sales at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and CS First Boston. He began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was trained in the bank’s Credit Development Program and was a credit officer and relationship manager for commercial banking clients.

Mr. Gruppo is a graduate of Hobart College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.

C. Robert Henrikson C. Robert (Rob) Henrikson is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), the largest life insurer in the U.S. and a leading provider of insurance and financial services to more than 70 million customers worldwide.

As CEO, Henrikson has positioned MetLife to expand its domestic leadership positions and capitalize on emerging life, annuity and retirement markets outside the U.S. In addition to counting over 90 of the top one hundred FORTUNE 500® companies among its corporate clients, MetLife is a leading provider of group insurance and retirement & savings offerings. MetLife also is the largest life insurer in Mexico, and offers products and services to customers in the U.S., Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe.

Henrikson is chairman of the board of the American Council of Life Insurers. He is the former chairman and a current board member of the Financial Services Forum. He also serves on the boards of The New York Botanical Garden, the New York Philharmonic, the Partnership for New York City, and is a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History.

Henrikson received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law. His dedication to both institutions continues, serving as chairman of the board of Wharton’s S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education and as a trustee of Emory University.

Donna Kinnaird Donna Kinnaird is President of Swiss Re Life & Health America Inc. and she joined Swiss Re in 2002. Kinnaird started in public accounting and eventually held CFO and COO Positions with primary insurance companies, acquiring an extensive background in primary life insurance and life acquisitions.She is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accounts. Ms. Kinnaird earned a Bachelors degree in Accounting from Indiana State University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Butler University.

Ellen Z. Lamale Ellen Lamale is an executive with The Principal Financial Group. She is Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, with responsibility for Actuarial, Internal Audit & Risk Consulting, Corporate Treasury, and Capital Markets. Lamale first worked for The Principal during 1976 as a summer actuarial intern. In 1977, she joined the company on a full time basis as an actuarial student. Lamale received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1975 and her master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. in 1976.She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA), and a member of the Iowa Actuaries Club.

Cynthia Mallett
Cynthia Mallett is Vice President, Product & Market Strategies in Corporate Benefit Funding (CBF), in the US Business organization of MetLife. In addition to product research, new idea evaluation, investment strategies and market analysis, Cynthia oversees CBF’s thought leadership and external strategy development and execution. Cynthia oversees CBF’s thought leadership and external strategy development and execution. Cynthia has more than 25 years of experience in developing and implementing employee benefit programs and products. Immediately prior to assuming her current responsibilities in December 2005, Cynthia founded and ran the Post Retirement Benefits (PRB) group at MetLife to address non-pension retiree benefit liabilities for Institutional clients.

Cynthia joined MetLife in 1979, and was appointed Assistant Vice President in 1989 with responsibility for product management, marketing, and National Accounts client consulting in structuring group life and health programs before developing the PRB group. She earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and obtained her CLU designation from The American College in 1982. She has been a Registered Principal with the NASD/FINRA since 1996.

Peter R. Porrino Peter R. Porrino is Ernst and Young’s Global Director of Insurance Industry Services. Peter manages the firm’s worldwide expansion of insurance industry services and supporting resources, and he oversees strategic planning and industry thought leadership and marketing initiatives.

With 30 years experience working in and advising the industry, Peter has considerable property/casualty expertise in reinsurance, commercial insurance and personal lines insurance. His background includes designing and implementing solutions to improve the quality and value of management’s financial information; developing effective relationships with the investor community and security analysts, including how to position business strategies and present meaningful financial and non-financial performance information; identifying appropriate candidates, assessing values, and pricing acquisitions; and business strategy assessment and redeployment.

Peter, a CPA, joined Ernst & Young in 1978, serving in the firm’s National and New York insurance practices for 15 years before leaving the firm to serve in senior management positions at several insurance companies, primarily Zurich Financial Services (ZFS). He served as the chief financial officer of Zurich Centre Group, a diverse group of global insurance, reinsurance and finance-related businesses. He also served as the chief financial officer and as chief operating officer of Zurich Reinsurance Centre, Inc. He rejoined the firm in 1999.

He holds an MBA in finance from New York University and a BBA in accounting from Pace University. He is a past chairman of the board for the Western Connecticut Chapter of the MS Society and is a current member of the Advisory Council for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Mark Puccia Mark Puccia is a managing director in Financial Services. As Chief Criteria Officer of Insurance Ratings worldwide, Mark is responsible for establishing insurance rating criteria and overseeing ratings quality for property/casualty insurance, reinsurance, life/health insurance, and various international insurance company ratings. He established Standard & Poor’s initial ratings of life/health insurers and property/casualty insurers in the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to his insurance responsibilities, Mark is a member of Standard & Poor’s Analytic Policy Board, which oversees criteria for all of Ratings Services. Mark is also the chief criteria officer for the Funds Ratings Group. In this capacity, Mark will be overseeing criteria development for money market funds, bond funds and government investment pools.

Mark’s prior work experience includes several years with Chase Manhattan Bank’s insurance lending group arranging multi-million dollar credit facilities for several large insurers. He arranged the first foreign financing for the country’s largest stocked-owned diversified financial services institution. He previously served as a senior management analyst with Connecticut General Corp.’s group pension operations.

Mark holds a B.A. in economics from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Pennsylvania.

Chris Rahm Chris Raham is a Senior Actuarial Advisor in the Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young, and has seventeen years of experience serving the financial services industry. Leader of the firm’s Retirement Income team, Mr. Raham is responsible for the delivery of the firms’s product and actuarial services aimed at institutions seeking a competitive advantage in the retirement market place.

A frequent contributor in both mainstream and industry publications, Chris has recently appeared in SmartMoney, Best’s Review, and National Underwriter. Recent presentations at industry events include “Navigating the Road to Retirement” at the 2008 Retirement and Savings meeting of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, “Changing the Retirement Paradigm” at ReFocus 2009, and “Optimization in terms of a portfolio of products at EBRI’s 64th Policy Forum, May 2009.

Julius A. Rousseau, III Jule Rousseau is a partner in Arent Fox’s New York office and focuses his practice on insurance and reinsurance. He advises clients in all areas of the business, including disputed issues, policy and treaty wording, and regulatory compliance. Jule’s practice includes property and casualty, life, and accident and health insurance. Jule has developed an expertise in the life settlement business and with premium finance structures used in the purchase of life insurance. He represents policyholders, lenders, life settlement brokers and hedge funds providing capital to the industry.

Michael E. Sproule Michael E. Sproule is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for New York Life Insurance Company overseeing: the Office of the Chief Actuary; the Controller’s Department; Mergers & Acquisitions; Financial Planning Analysis and Budgets; Rating Agency relationships; the Office of Risk Management; the Tax Department; and, the Treasury Department. He became a member of the Executive Management Committee in May 2002.

With 38 years of industry experience, Mr. Sproule joined New York Life in 1999 as Senior Vice President in charge of Mergers & Acquisitions. Before joining New York Life, Mr. Sproule was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AmerUs Group in Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to that, he was a consultant with Tillinghast and spent his first 17 years in the insurance business at MetLife in a variety of operating and financial positions in the individual, group, pension and property casualty businesses.

Mr. Sproule received a bachelor’s degree in math and physics and an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Toronto. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Ewout Steenbergen Ewout Steenbergen serves as chief financial officer. In this role, he is responsible for strategic finance, actuarial, risk management, capital planning, income taxes, financial reporting and treasury for ING Insurance U.S.

Prior to taking this role in January of 2010, he served as chief financial officer and chief risk officer for ING Asia Pacific. Steenbergen has held a number of management roles for ING including serving as regional general manager in Hong Kong. CEO of RVS, an ING Group company based in the Netherlands that provides a broad range of insurance and pension products. He has also served as head of corporate strategy, general manager of Retail Czech Republic and Slovakia, and director of Employee Benefits at Nationale-Nederlanden, ING’s life insurance company in the Netherlands.

Prior to joining ING, Steenbergen was a consultant at the actuarial firm, Ten Pas (now part of Mercer). He holds a master’s degree in actuarial science from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and a master degree in business administration from the University of Rochester (New York, USA).

Christopher J. Swift Christopher J. Swift is executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. As the company’s CFO, Swift is responsible for finance, treasury, capital, accounting and investor relations. Additionally, Swift is leading the newly formed Strategic Initiatives Office, which is charged with aligning and integrating the company’s strategy, capital investment, financial investment and operating plans across the enterprise. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Swift began his career as an auditor with KPMG focused on financial services. He rose through the ranks at the firm and was eventually appointed head of the Global Insurance Industry Practice. In this capacity, he worked with clients from both the Life and P&C segments. He was responsible for matters ranging from strategic and regulatory to audit, risk, advisory and tax services.

Swift received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Marquette University and earned a certified public accountant designation. He is a member of the International Insurance Society.

Mike Temple Mike Temple is Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at Unum Group. In this capacity, he is responsible for oversight of the company’s enterprise risk management program.

Temple joined the company in 1985 and has served in a variety of roles over the course of his career. Early in his career, he had assignments in the company’s annuity business with management responsibility for its pricing and underwriting practices. In 1997 he was named Vice President, Disability Pricing where he assumed responsibility for the actuarial pricing of the company’s disability business. In 2002, he accepted the role of Vice President, Large Case Practice and led efforts to improve the segment’s financial performance. Then in 2005, he was named as the company’s Chief Risk Officer. In 2006 and 2007, he led the successful completion of the industry’s first two disability securitizations. Over the last five years, Unum has significantly improved its risk profile by reducing its overall risk exposure while strengthening its financial position.

Temple is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and holds a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst credential. He is also a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Over the last 15 years he has presented at several industry meetings, and has been interviewed for articles published in trade association periodicals. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with honors.

Throughout his career, he has been involved with a variety of local volunteer organizations including serving on the board of the Chattanooga Room in the Inn and on the Advisory committee of the Bethlehem Center.

Mark R. Thresher Mark Thresher – executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nationwide — In addition to finance, Mark leads Nationwide’s investment operations and Nationwide Realty Investments.

For the last five years, he served as president and chief operating officer of Nationwide Financial. Previous to that, Mark was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Nationwide Financial. He joined Nationwide as vice president and treasurer in 1996. Prior to joining Nationwide, Thresher spent 18 years with the accounting firm KPMG, LLP.

Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Otterbein College. Mark is a member of the Financial Services Roundtable, and of the Otterbein College Board of Trustees where he chairs the audit committee and serves on the investment and advancement committees. Mark will serve as the 2009-2010 statewide campaign chair for the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, for which he currently is a board member and serves on the program services committee. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American College Center for Ethics in Financial Services.

In addition, he is chair of the COSI Columbus board of trustees, and was a congressional delegate for the 2006 National Summit on Retirement Savings held in Washington, D.C.

Steven N. Weisbart, Ph.D., CLU Steven N. Weisbart is senior vice president and chief economist for the Insurance Information Institute. Dr. Weisbart supports the organization’s communications mission, speaking to media and conducting briefings for member companies, industry organizations and public policymakers. A specialist in annuities, pensions, and life, disability and long-term care insurance, Dr. Weisbart frequently also makes presentations on property/casualty issues to industry audiences as well as legislative forums.

Since joining the I.I.I. in 2005, Dr. Weisbart has authored several significant research papers and articles on a variety of insurance issues, including the threat of an avian flu pandemic and the effect of the aging U.S. population on the property/casualty insurance industry.

Before joining the I.I.I., Dr. Weisbart served as vice president at TIAA-CREF in New York, where he was responsible for reports and informational publications for customers and others on insurance, pensions and related financial topics. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF he was associate professor of Insurance in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance in the College of Business at Georgia State University. Dr. Weisbart is a member of the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Society of Financial Service Professionals.

Dr. Weisbart received his Ph.D. and Master of Arts degrees in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an S.S. Huebner Foundation Fellow. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cornell University. Dr. Weisbart also holds the Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) credential.

Dr. Weisbart is an adjunct professor at the School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science in the Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University.

James J. Wrynn

James J. Wrynn is the 40th Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department. He previously served as the Executive Director of the New York State Insurance Fund. He has 25 years experience as a trial attorney focused on insurance law.

Wrynn was a founding partner in the law firm of MacKay Wrynn & Brady, LLP, which specializes in the area of civil litigation and appellate practice, with strong emphasis on insurance law. He has an extensive legal background in insurance, counseling agents, brokers, risk retention groups and insurance companies in most lines of insurance and excess insurance, reinsurance, self-insurance and captive insurance. His experience includes knowledge of insurance, accounting and tax issues affecting entities doing business both on and offshore.

Wrynn is admitted to the federal and state courts in New York and New Jersey and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has designations as both an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) and Associate in Captive Insurance (ACI).

Wrynn is a member of the New York and New Jersey State Bar Associations, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and is a board member of the Catholic Lawyers Guild – Queens County. Previously, Wrynn served on the Board of Managers and the Grievance Committee of the Queens County Bar Association, as past-president of the Brehon Law Society, and as an officer in the Flushing Lawyers Association. A former member of the Network of Bar Leaders, he also served as a board member of the New York City Economic Development Corp. and the New York City Business Relocation Assistance Corp.