Marsha Cohen

Executive Advisory Board Member

Prior to joining Klinecone Consulting, Ms. Cohen served as Senior Vice President and Director of Education at the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA). While at the RAA, she founded  and headed the RAA's Reinsurance Education Institute. Over the past 24 years, the Institute has become the reinsurance industry’s premier educational organization. To date, more than 22,000 attendees have participated in the Institute’s educational programs. Before founding the Institute, Ms. Cohen served as Senior Vice President and Director of State Relations at the RAA. In that capacity she led the RAA’s state lobbying activities. Prior to joining the RAA, Ms. Cohen held corporate positions at Royal Reinsurance American Holdings and its subsidiaries.  She began her career at First State Insurance Company and New England Reinsurance Corporation.

Ms. Cohen is active in industry and professional affairs.  She has been honored by the Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW) as "Insurance Woman of the Year” and was named by Business Insurance as one of the "Women to Watch.” She has also been honored as one of Business Insurance’s Leading 100 Women and was presented with the Association of Professional Insurance Women's (APIW) "Women of the Future Award.”  She is a board member of the Insurance Federation of New York (IFNY), a member of the board of advisors of the Multicultural (Re) Insurance Association (MRIA) and a member of the Reinsurance and Surplus Lines Interest Group of the CPCU Society.  Ms. Cohen also has served as Treasurer of the D.C. Insurance Federation;  board member and Chair of the Insurance Education Council (IEC) of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL); President of The International Alliance of Women (TIAW); President of the   Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW); board member of the New York Chapter of CPCU; and as a member of Boston University’s Metropolitan College Advisory Board. In addition, she has been an Adjunct Professor of Management at Baruch College of City University of New York.

Ms. Cohen has been a speaker for many industry related organizations including: the  RAA, the Katie School of Insurance and Risk Management, Illinois State University, Drake University, the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society (IRES), the CPCU Society, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the Intermediaries & Reinsurance Underwriters Association (IRU, Inc), the Contracts Wording Discussion Group, the Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW), the National Association of Mutual Insurance Commissioners (NAMIC) and The International Alliance  of Women(TIAW).

Ms. Cohen received a Master’s degree from Boston University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany.  She is a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and an Associate in Reinsurance (ARe).