About Us

Our Story

About Us

Our Mission: To apply our extensive experience and specialized knowledge to successfully meet the needs and objectives of our financial institution clients and to develop mutually profitable long term relationships with them based on integrity, trust and common values.

Our Clients: For over thirty years, Corrigan & Company has focused exclusively on serving the needs of our financial institution clients. These include commercial banks, thrifts, insurance companies, securities firms and credit unions. Each of these organizations shares a common characteristic which sets them apart from other businesses. The ability to leverage capital with very low cost funds makes them ideal candidates for the purchase of life insurance.

Michael Corrigan, Chairman & CEO

Michael Corrigan, Chairman & CEO

Our Team:

Cailen Corrigan Conroy/Executive Vice President/Joined 2010

Sean Conroy/Executive Vice President/Joined 2010

Kristina Thomas/In-House Counsel/Joined 2005

Steve Whipple / Financial Analyst / Joined 2021

Kelley Lovejoy / Underwriter / Joined 2020

Leslie McFadden/Director of Human Resources/Joined 2003

Michael E. Corrigan is the Founder and Chairman of Corrigan & Company. Mr. Corrigan received his MBA with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Washington in 1978. He joined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, where he held positions in sales, investment banking and sales management. He left Merrill Lynch to join Great Northern Insured Annuity Corporation (GNA), a start-up life insurance company that built its business around the sale of insurance products through financial institutions. At GNA, Mr. Corrigan was responsible for product distribution and served on the company’s Investment Committee. GNA grew to be a company with two billion dollars in assets. Thereafter, he served as President of GFC Securities Corporation, a subsidiary of Beverly Hills-based Gibraltar Financial Corporation. Gibraltar was a twelve-billion dollar S&L. He then joined Protective Life Corporation to assist the company in a major strategic redirection. As the senior officer responsible for all investment, product design, and sales, he oversaw a fourfold increase in the Company’s asset base and profitability. His efforts included the oversight of a number of acquisitions, the creation of many new products including the company’s first registered securities products. He left Protective Life to satisfy a lifelong goal to become an entrepreneur  He purchased the investment affiliate of a failed Savings and Loan based in Santa Barbara, CA, that company has become Corrigan & Company. In what was then a novel concept, the firm became the Western Regional Affiliate of Atlanta-based Benmark (now NFP Executive Benefits). Corrigan & Company has grown to be one of the largest firms of its kind and services over $3 billion in life insurance cash values from the policies the firm has sold over the years. When not at the office, Michael can be found enjoying time at home with his large family or riding his horse in the back country of Santa Barbara. He also derives great joy from his second, “unpaid job” as an Episcopal priest where he is on staff at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara.

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