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Steve Prymas has over twenty years of Professional Liability experience. He was previously the Vice President, Specialty Lines Manager and Global Chief Underwriting Officer of Cyber for Gen Re where he was charged with setting strategy and growing specialty lines across Treaty and Facultative reinsurance. While at The Hartford, Steve was responsible for strategic direction, underwriting staff, and P&L of The Hartford’s management & professional liability business. His experience also includes the introduction of predictive modeling, objective risk tiering, third party data proxies, online quoting and automated cross-selling. He also chaired The Hartford's enterprise-wide Cyber Working Group.

In addition to his roles at HFP and Gen Re, Steve has spoken at and chaired several PLUS and Advisen events.

Steve’s passion for insurance started at the early age of 13 when he made change for homeowners’ payments at the petty cash register of a local insurance agency.

Steve is a graduate of Hamilton College and member of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.

Heather von Zuben is one of a small number of Latina executives on Wall Street.

Joel is Senior Director, P&C Demand for MediaAlpha, the leading customer acquisition platform in the insurance industry. In this role, Joel leads the client-facing team that works with P&C advertisers to profitably acquire customers at scale, ensuring campaigns are highly efficient and meet client objectives.

Prior to joining MediaAlpha, Joel spent six years with Liberty Mutual, most recently as Senior Director, Marketing. Joel holds an MBA and an MS in Information Systems from Boston University.

John Mackowiak is chief business development officer at Advyzon, a cloud-based platform that combines portfolio management, customizable performance reporting, trading and rebalancing, client web portals, client relationship management (CRM), client billing, and document storage.

John leads the sales and service effort and contributes to development of the Advyzon platform. Prior to working at Advyzon, he spent 12 years at Morningstar, most recently as product manager for Morningstar Office.

Ben Siewert joined International Planning Alliance in November 2019 after a 12-year career as an audit and accounting professional with KPMG, The Siegfried Group and JP Morgan Chase. He holds his CPA as well as his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Penn State University.

Siewert focuses his practice on working with families, as well as fellow mid-career professionals.  He enjoys explaining financial concepts and decisions to his clients using the athletic principles he has learned over the course of 30 years as an amateur athlete.  Every athlete works with a coach to enhance their strengths and improve their weaknesses — finances deserve the same care.