Catie Muccigrosso is Vice President and Chief Underwriter of U.S. Underwriting Operations for Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP. As head of operations she leads, manages, and directs the Underwriting operations of traditional facultative underwriting, strategic underwriting programs, and other non-traditional underwriting programs. Her responsibilities also encompass client relationship management and associated risk and retention management activities. She is a subject matter expert on accelerated/alternative underwriting and older-age underwriting, and has been with Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP’s underwriting department for more than two decades.
An active participant in the underwriting industry, Catie has served as past President of the Illinois-Missouri Home Office Underwriters Association, as an Academy of Life Underwriting (ALU) Exam Writer and Coordinator, as On the Risk Editor-in-Chief, as On the Risk Representative and Chair of the ALU Board, and as AHOU VP of External Relations.
Catie received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in biology with a minor in psychology from Truman State University in Missouri. She has a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a specialty in epidemiology from Saint Louis University. She is a Certified Fellow of the Academy of Life Underwriting (FALU), a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (FLMI), as well as an Associate, Reinsurance Administration (ARA), and Associate, Customer Service (ACS).