McKell Risk Services, LLC, through its industry experts, brings together extensive experience in underwriting, brokerage operations, and administrative functions. The company draws upon the experience and knowledge of its staff to provide value added services including pre-underwriting risk opportunities in compliance with the guidelines and procedures established with its partner carriers.

The company combines the resources and the experience necessary to work in a retail brokerage, wholesale brokerage, reinsurance brokerage, contract marketing and managing general underwriting capacities.

In response to specific initiatives, McKell, through its network of strategic partners, has the ability to assemble a team integrating a broad range of industry disciplines including underwriting, brokerage, administrative services, claims oversight, and actuarial. The following team of professionals contributes to the McKell Risk Services operation on a regular basis:

Donald Fuchs ()

Don Fuchs, the principal of McKell Associates, is a managing member and lead underwriter for McKell Risk Services. Don has extensive underwriting experience in commercial liability lines concentrating on excess and umbrella covers. Don’s underwriting background of approximately twenty-five years includes underwriting and financial analysis positions at AIG, and Continental Reinsurance. For the past 16 years Don has been employed at McKell Associates in various underwriting and management positions in the managing general agency and wholesale brokerage operations for this Florida based concern. Don has a Bachelor of Science from University of West Virginia, and has several industry designations. He is a licensed Florida insurance producer and a licensed Surplus Lines Broker.

Phillip Kuehl ()

Phil Kuehl began working with McKell Risk Services in 2009. Phil provides underwriting and administrative support to Don and remains available for individual risk underwriting during peak activity. During his more than thirty years experience in the insurance business, he has worked in traditional casualty insurance companies, specialty companies, and MGA organizations. Building on a solid background in admitted and non-admitted casualty lines underwriting he built interdisciplinary underwriting teams to produce, underwrite, manage and evaluate books of business for property and casualty companies involved in the Excess and Surplus lines field. The scope of this work included leading collaborative work teams to integrate actuarial, claims and finance into the underwriting discipline for a comprehensive understanding of the business and its profitability. He has also prepared and negotiated reinsurance contracts and analyzed the cost benefit of those treaties. In addition to experience at the branch and home office level at insurance companies, Mr. Kuehl has worked on the agency side to incorporate these underwriting disciplines into program management and incorporated underwriting guidelines with technology to create more effective and efficient underwriting tools and to upgrade agency technology, allowing agents to track business, monitor results and negotiate favorable reinsurance terms. Mr. Kuehl holds a B.S. in Math from Simpson College.

Trisha Fuchs ()

Trisha Fuchs has had a long association with McKell Associates and predecessor companies. Ms. Fuchs has experience in all phases of wholesale and managing general agency operations, first working out of the McKell Associates office in New Jersey and later the Florida office. As a key member of the McKell team, Trisha is providing underwriting and administrative support in the Florida office, and has responsibilities for coordinating activities between the McKell Risk Services offices in Bradenton, Florida and Cranford, New Jersey.

Raymond Williams Jr. ()

Ray Williams has been a Northport Financial partner since its founding in 2002. Mr. Williams, working in the Cranford, New Jersey office is an underwriting Manager of McKell Risk Services providing underwriting and administrative management services. Ray is active in insurance, reinsurance and risk management consulting. Mr. Williams has consulted managing underwriting facilities regarding carrier strategies, minimum underwriting documentation requirements and data management requirements designed to effectively manage their carrier relationships. Prior to the formation of Northport Financial, Mr. Williams' experience exceeds twenty-seven years with national and international insurance companies. Carrier responsibilities included the launch of several startup underwriting facilities, actuarial liaison for in-depth underwriting results analysis and large account home office referrals. Mr. Williams holds a B.A. in History from Seton Hall University and an MBA in Quantitative Analysis from Seton Hall’s Graduate Business School. He is a licensed New Jersey insurance producer.

Carl Fuchs ()

Carl Fuchs is a founding partner of Northport Financial in Cranford, New Jersey. As a result of Northport’s principal interest in McKell Risk Services, Carl is a Manager of MRS. Carl’s activities encompass a wide range of complex insurance, risk management and forensic underwriting matters. In the property and casualty area, Mr. Fuchs represents insurance and reinsurance carriers by providing due diligence and compliance audits of a wide range of underwriting facilities. Prior to forming Northport Financial, Mr. Fuchs worked for over thirty years in all phases of insurance company operations including underwriting, underwriting management, administration and home office management for large national and international insurance carriers. He received his B.A. from Hastings College and has several insurance related designations including Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, Associate in Reinsurance, Associate in Insurance Accounting and Finance, Associate in Risk Management and Associate in Premium Auditing. Mr. Fuchs is a licensed New Jersey insurance producer.

Leon Gonzalez ()

Leon Gonzalez is a McKell Risk Services strategic partner and a principal of Southport Financial Group. Both McKell and Southport share offices in Cranford New Jersey, reflecting the close working relationship between these two organizations. Mr. Gonzalez has been actively involved in a number of Northport Financial and McKell Risk Services initiatives including working closely with Northport’s information technology team designing underwriting databases. He has conducted market research for McKell Risk Services creating a niche business plan later incorporated into targeted marketing program. Mr. Gonzalez has also used his surplus lines experience to provide underwriting support for MRS. Mr. Gonzalez held various underwriting and reinsurance brokerage positions during the twenty-four years preceding the formation of Southport Financial Group in 1996. He has extensive experience in the surplus lines arena. In addition to his experience at an international insurance carrier and major reinsurance brokerage firms, Mr. Gonzalez has been a principal and active manager at several independent reinsurance brokerage facilities. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Social Sciences from Muhlenberg College. He is a licensed New Jersey insurance producer including Surplus Lines Authority.

Alfred H. Frezza ()

Al Frezza is a principal and founding member of Southport Financial Group, a McKell strategic partner. Working out of the Cranford office, he has participated on various McKell project teams drawing upon his more than thirty-five years of underwriting and reinsurance brokerage experience. His contributions have included closely controlled retail book of business analysis, database design for the wholesale facility and a fronting solution for a specialized insurance portfolio. Prior to the formation of Southport Financial Group in 1996, Mr. Frezza held underwriting and senior officer positions at a major insurance company and reinsurance brokerage firms. During his time with Southport, he held the senior management position for a joint venture that functioned as a managing general underwriter of facultative reinsurance. Mr. Frezza graduated from Penn State University, subsequently spent two years in the US Army, and then earned an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a licensed NJ insurance producer including authority for Surplus Lines.

Andrea Flood ()

Andrea Flood joined Northport Financial in 2006. She provides in-house underwriting and operational support on a variety of Northport Financial and McKell Risk Services activities. Ms. Flood has assisted the development of underwriting and administrative service initiatives in response to specific needs identified by Northport clients. She has assisted producing underwriting guidelines, evaluating Workers Compensation experience modification calculations, and has conducted target market research for small commercial clients. Ms. Flood remains an in-house resource for Directors and Officers and Errors and Omissions coverage. Ms. Flood’s prior experience includes eight years underwriting and underwriting management of Directors and Officers and Error and Omissions insurance at a major international insurance carrier. She holds a B.S. degree in Finance from Susquehanna University.

Northport Financial, LLC (www.northportfinancial.com)	Northport Financial, LLC is an insurance and risk management consulting firm that operates as a resource to insurance companies, reinsurance companies, risk retention groups and pools, risk managers, MGAs, and producers. Northport has an ownership interest in McKell Risk Services and provides underwriting and administrative services to MRS.
Southport Financial Group, Inc. (www.southportgroup.com)	Southport Financial Group, Inc. is a provider of capital financings, management services and real estate development. As strategic partners Southport, Northport, and McKell Risk Services, jointly pursue a wide range of business ventures.