Catherine A. Mulligan

Head of Cyber Practice Group, Managing Director

 

Responsibilities
Catherine is a Managing Director within our Global Cyber Practice Group. In this role she is responsible for the growth and development of  Aon Benfield’s cyber capabilities and service offerings using cyber-related broker, data, and analytics resources. 

Experience
Prior to joining Aon in 2017, Catherine served as the Head of Professional Liability at Zurich North America where she managed the portfolios and teams underwriting Miscellaneous and Healthcare Professional Liability and Security & Privacy. She was named to the position in March 2016. Previously, she was Head of Specialty Products Errors & Omissions, leading that team in double digit growth and establishing Zurich North America as a key market in the security & privacy (“cyber”) space. 

Prior to Zurich, Mulligan was an AVP at Chubb, where she was a regional underwriting manager in the technology division, earning her Underwriting Specialist designation with a focus on E&O. She later spent three years as a broker at William Gallagher Associates in New York, where she worked with technology and life sciences companies. 

She first began working in the industry in 1997. 

Expertise
Catherine has specialized in the risk management and risk transfer issues around Technology Errors & Omissions (E&O), Intellectual Property, and Security & Privacy for 20 years, both as an underwriter and a broker. She is a frequent speaker at events relating to Security & Privacy and Technology E&O issues and regularly contributes to articles and interviews for industry publications. 

Catherine is a key contributor to the public sector dialogue around cyber insurance. She provided testimony on the state of the cyber insurance market at a 2015 hearing of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security in Washington, D.C., and at a 2016 hearing of the White House Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. She also has presented to the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI) and is a regular participant at Department of Homeland Security and Department of Treasury Roundtables on the topic.

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