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Michael Saltzstein is an adaptable and collaborative team leader who is organizationally agile, pragmatic, excellence focused, action-oriented, and results-driven. He leads with expertise in areas like alternate risk financing, loss control, technology solutions, workers’ compensation, safety, occupational health and safety, crisis leadership, strategic alignment, change management, self-insured/deductible analysis, actuarial studies, retain/transfer decisions, win-win negotiations, coverage evaluation, and growth strategies.
                                                                                         
Michael Saltzstein has been a volunteer and official for swimming for over three decades. He is a recipient of the USA Swimming Pettigrew Award for his outstanding service to the sport and served as Vice President of the USA Swimming from 2000 to 2006 and the Initial Chair of the Insurance Subsidiary’s Audit Committee. As a veteran USA Swimming official, Mr. Saltzstein drafted a six-point plan for ridding the sport of sexual misconduct.

Michael Saltzstein also selected to be a national and international referee and a technical official at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for pool and open swimming. He is an effective risk management leader in delivering multimillion-dollar expense reductions and bottom-line improvement, maximizing coverage, and minimizing cost. In the past, he has optimized award-winning risk programs, economic strategies, reserving, and best practices and state-of-the-art coverage. 

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