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Bob Mackin is president and CEO of Mackin & Company.
Bob founded Mackin & Company in 1985.
The company has guided the conception, establishment
and development of the Association of Financial Guaranty
Insurers (AFGI), an association made up of highly rate insurance companies that transact virtually all the financial guaranty insurance written on public and private debt in the U.S. and in a growing international market. Mackin & Company has represented AFGI in New York, California, Florida, and other states, and before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Bob has served as Executive Director of AFGI since its founding in 1986.
The company has served as a managerial catalyst for the growth of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), enabling the Conference to grow from an exclusively education-oriented group to an effective voice in the making of public policy in the states and in Washington.
The company has also managed the Insurance Legislators Foundation (ILF), an educational and research organization. Bob spearheaded and authored several significant studies resulting in landmark reports, including the recently released report of the Insurance Legislators Foundation entitled
The Path to Reform—The Evolution of Market Conduct Surveillance
Regulation, and Insurance Market Conduct Examination: Public Policy
Review. He was the principal draftsman of several other significant reports including
Risk, Reality and Reason in Deregulation, Closing the Regulatory Time Warp, Can Any of These Laws Solve This Problem?, Laws to Stop Rising Car Insurance Costs, and The NAIC Solvency Accreditation Process - A Background Review, all published under the auspices of NCOIL. He also oversaw development of Rising Waters, Mounting Challenge – Flood Prevention, Protection and Assistance, a report on the National Flood Insurance Program, published under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and NCOIL.
Mackin & Company also assisted in the formation and growth of an important new legislative forum - the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS), an organization concerned with meeting public policy concerns on gaming issues. Bob has also served as principal consultant to the National Council of Gaming Legislators from Gaming States Foundation.
Mackin & Company is active in publishing. Its completed works include the 19 annual editions of the
Insurance Legislative Fact Book and Almanac, published for NCOIL. The Company has, among its credits, a major work on insurance investment law, published by NILS Publishing Company, and two books on insurance legislation, published by Commerce Clearing House.
Prior to founding Mackin & Company, Bob was active in journalism and public relations.
Bob is a former Associate Editor of Parade, the Sunday newspaper magazine supplement. He authored more than 75 articles appearing in the
New York Times, Newsweek, TV Guide, New York Newsday,
the NY Sunday News, Parade, Best Review, Business
Insurance, the National Underwriter, the Journal of Commerce, the
Journal of American Education and the Journal of Insurance
Regulation.
Bob’s career has also included several tours of duty in government and politics. Bob served at different times as Assistant State Insurance Commissioner in California, as Executive Assistant to the New York State Superintendent of Insurance, as Staff Director of the New York Senate Insurance Committee, and as campaign press secretary to U.S. Senator James L. Buckley. He began his career as a press aide to the New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz. He also spent time as Director of Public Affairs for the New York Urban Development Corporation, where he helped win public support for the development of what is now Roosevelt Island. As a political consultant, he compiled a won/lost record of 18-1 in statewide New York races.
Bob holds a Master’s degree in communication from Fordham University Graduate School and a Bachelor’s from Fordham College. |
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