Our Team

Our Team

CAILEN CORRIGAN CONROY | Executive Vice President CLIENT SERVICES

Since 2010, Ms. Conroy has been responsible for all services related to plan implementation, as well as providing ongoing support of plan administration. She is the primary liaison for clients, insurance companies, and support staff. Prior to joining C & C, Ms. Conroy worked in Marketing and Advertising at major firms in Chicago. She currently holds her life and health insurance licenses in the Western States and has her FINRA Series 6 and 63 securities registrations. Ms. Conroy spends her free time hiking the many hills in Santa Barbara and enjoying the company of her family. CA Insurance License #0H20703

SEAN CONROY | EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

Since 2010, Mr. Conroy has been responsible for managing sales and servicing financial institution clients in the Western United States. Prior to joining C & C, Mr. Conroy worked as a financial analyst for UBS AG’s Investment Banking group in Chicago. He currently holds his life and health insurance registrations in the Western States, as well as his FINRA Series 6 and 63 securities licenses. Mr. Conroy holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from DePaul University in Chicago. CA Insurance License #0H23851

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KRISTINA THOMAS | IN-HOUSE COUNSEL

Kristina is responsible for assisting with plan implementation and documentation and often works in concert with Bank counsel to create plan documents which comply with ever changing regulatory and legislative requirements. Ms. Thomas has been with Corrigan & Company since 2005 and has extensive experience with nonqualified deferred compensation plans. She has a B.A. from Bates College in Maine, and received her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law.


MICHAEL E Corrigan | Founder and CHairman

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. CA Insurance License #0644287, AR Insurance License #766438