Anne Marie Towle

CEO, Global Risk & Captive Solutions, Hylant

Session: Captive 101: Understanding the Fundamentals

A veteran of the captive and global risk insurance industry, Anne Marie leads the Global Risk and Captive Solutions team at Hylant.

She has over 30 years of experience with large, complex risk projects and has worked with captives and other alternative risk transfer vehicles in many key onshore and offshore domiciles. Anne Marie has advised organizations ranging from the Fortune 50 to large privately held companies through various aspects of evaluating their risk profile, risk purchasing and risk retention strategies. Customized solutions are her specialty. She has worked with healthcare, construction, real estate, manufacturing, marine, oil and gas, and professional sports and entertainment industries to manage their total cost of risk.

Anne Marie has been involved with captive projects through feasibility and implementation, developing unique customized structures tailored to each client’s needs. She has been instrumental in arranging fronting and reinsurance programs for her captive clients. Prior to joining Hylant, Anne Marie was an Executive Vice President with JLT and formerly a Senior Consultant with Willis Towers Watson. Anne Marie also spent time as a Senior Manager in public accounting and ten years in taxation, providing consultancy services to captive owners. She spent six years in the private industry in the insurance tax departments of several Fortune 100 insurance and financial institution companies.

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

Throughout her career, Anne Marie has been closely involved in captive insurance organizations at the local, state, and national levels. She currently serves on the Hawaii Captive Insurance Council (HCIC), is Chair and founding member of CICA’s Amplify Women (Captive Insurance Companies Association), and is on the curriculum committee, as well as an instructor for the International Center for Captive Insurance Education (ICCIE). Anne Marie served on the Board of Directors for the Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) from 2017-2023. She served on the ICCIE board and was Chair in 2023 and was on the conference committees of the VCIA (2017 Chair), CICA, World Captive Forum (WCF), the South Carolina Captive Insurance Association (SCCIA) and HCIC.

PROFESSIONAL SPECIALTIES

Anne Marie is honored to be named to the Captive Review Power 50 for the past ten years, rising to #7 in 2020. In 2019, she was named a Business Insurance Women to Watch. She was named a Risk and Insurance “Power Broker in Captive Insurance” from 2021 to 2024 and named the 2021 Captive Professional of the Year. In 2024, Anne Marie was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Industry Service Award. Anne Marie is a requested frequent speaker and author on various risk management and captive insurance topics.