Founder, chairman and CEO
RYAN SPECIALTY GROUP
A legend in the insurance world, Patrick Ryan is the founder of Aon Corporation and has served as its chairman and CEO for more than 41 years. In 2010, he founded Ryan Specialty Group, which today is a global organization boasting a wholesale brokerage, underwriting managers and other specialty services for agents, brokers and carriers.
In 2016, Ryan has focused on organic growth and key acquisitions to continue his company’s mission of serving specialty insurance agents, brokers and carriers. RSG has launched two new MGUs this year – EmergIn Risk (cyber) and SafeWaters Underwriting Managers (luxury yachts and ocean cargo) – to bring its total number of MGUs to 17. Its wholesale broker, RT Specialty,is now the third-largest wholesaler in the US.
Ryan is a member of the International Insurance Society’s Insurance Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. He became an Academy of Arts and Sciences Inductee in 2008, has been recognized as the College of Insurance’s Insurance Leader of the Year and is the recipient of the Insurance Federation of New York’s Free Enterprise Award.
