Anna Buhlinger
Federal Affairs Director
Erin Collins
Senior Vice President - State and Policy Affairs
Tony Cotto
Director of Auto and Underwriting Policy
Bri Dahl
Public Policy Analyst
Katherine Duveneck
Federal Affairs Director
Kristin Eichhorn
Assistant Vice President – Political Involvement Programs
Alex Gleason
Assistant Vice President - Federal Affairs
Jimi Grande
Senior Vice President - Federal & Political Affairs
Tom Karol
General Counsel - Federal
Lindsey Klarkowski
Director of Data Science & AI/ML Policy
Ross Lien
Regional Vice President, Midwest
Patrick McCarty
Federal Affairs Manager
Caitlin Murray
Regional Vice President - Southeast
Matt Overturf
Regional Vice President, Ohio Valley & Mid Atlantic
Cate Paolino
Director of Public Policy
Andrew Pauley
Government Affairs Counsel
Christian Rataj
Senior Regional Vice President – Western Region
Colleen Scheele
Public Policy Counsel, Solvency & Tax Policy
Jon Schnautz
Vice President - State Affairs
Ward Tisdale
Regional Vice President - Southwest
Brandon Vick
Regional Vice President – Northwest Region
Rory Whelan
Regional Vice President – Northeast
Cate Paolino, JD, 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, legislative drafting including the drafting of model legislation, experience with commercial insurance issues and drafting and presenting testimony.
She holds an MPA from Brown University, an EMBA from Suffolk University, and a law degree from the University of Connecticut.