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
Associate General 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
Tom Karol serves as General Counsel - Federal in NAMIC’s Washington office. Tom represents NAMIC in Washington on issues impacting property casualty insurance companies and has primary management of NAMIC’s response to Dodd-Frank legislation and regulation. Tom is also the Leader of NAMIC’s Investment Services Practice.
Tom has extensive legal, regulatory and operations experience with major financial services companies, law firms, regulatory agencies and Congress. Tom was a leader in Deloitte’s Global Financial Services practice, a supervisory principal for a broker dealer, with the S.E.C. Division of Enforcement and with the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Tom graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and has a political science degree from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. He resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Kathryn, his son David and his daughter Julianne.