Chris Ridge
Managing Director, River Oak Risk
- Role
- Managing Director at River Oak Risk
- Location
- Greenville, SC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chris Ridge
20+ years of legal, executive management, business development, consulting and technical experience in the fields of reinsurance, captive insurance management and operations, alternative risk finance, corporate self-insurance, insurance linked securities, and insurance program closure solutions (run-off, loss portfolio transfer, captive insurer acquisitions and dissolutions, etc).Specialties: captive Insurance and reinsurance; runoff and legacy claim closure services for corporate self-insureds, captive insurance companies and risk retention groups; consulting services for domestic and off-shore captive insurers including board participation, operations, taxation, due diligence, feasibility studies, domicile selection, program design, legal structuring, formation, management, corporate governance, vendor relations, regulatory compliance, claims and operational audits, business analytics, collateral relief, runoff, loss portfolio transfer and closure solutions.
Experience
Managing Director
May 2024 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US
Responsible for directing the captive management and consulting operations of River Oak Risk, LLC, including structuring client insurance programs, underwriting, claims management, accounting and regulatory compliance functions as well as managing client, broker, TPA, professional vendor, and regulator relationships.
Education
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Juris Doctorate, Law
1990 — 1993
University of South Carolina
B.S., Marketing & Management
1985 — 1989
Florida State University
Masters, Risk Management and Insurance
2002 — 2004
Skills
- Consulting
- Captive Insurance / Alternative Risk
- Claim
- Actuarial Science
- Liability
- Financial Risk
- Reinsurance
- Loss Portfolio Transfers
- Underwriting
- Alternative Risk
- Risk Financing
- Insurance Law
- Casualty
- Workers Compensation
- Management Consulting
- General Insurance
- Corporate Governance
- Commercial Lines
- Insurance Brokerage
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Strategy
- Employment Practices Liability
- Business Development
- Litigation Management
- Excess
- Property & Casualty Insurance
- Employee Benefits
- Umbrella Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Claim Investigation
- Insurance
- Claims Management
- Captives
- Loss
- Management
- Program Management
- Disability Insurance
- Commercial Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Brokers
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