Jeremy Hitzig

Jeremy formed Starfish Specialty Insurance in 2021. The company focuses on underwriting and distributing specialty property & casualty programs including residential builders risk, charter aviation, EPLI for staffing firms and specialty lines for community associations.

He began his insurance career in 1995 as a principal at Capital Risk Strategies where he focused on emerging risk transfer tools including catastrophe bonds and other blended capital markets/insurance products. In 1997 he joined Distinguished LLC and held a number of executive positions before being named Chief Executive Officer in 2006, serving in that role until the end of 2018. Among other divisions, Distinguished comprised Distinguished Programs, a leading national program administrator and TMPAA Best Practices designee, and ReSource Pro, a business process outsourcing company focused on the insurance industry. Jeremy is currently a board member of Obsidian Insurance, ReSource Pro and BondIt Media Finance.

Jeremy is a graduate of McGill University and received his MBA from Columbia Business School in New York. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter designations. He is also a past-President and emeritus board member of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association.

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Additional Info

  • Title: TMPAA Past Board President [Emeritus Board Member]
  • Organization: Starfish Specialty Programs