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Guy W. Millner

Guy serves as Executive Chairman of AssuranceAmerica, guiding the company’s focus towards becoming a leader in the auto insurance sector. As a Co-Founder, Guy chairs the Board of Directors and works with the executive team to establish the strategic direction of the company.

Additionally, Guy champions AssuranceAmerica’s philanthropic endeavors where the company gives back 5% of pre-tax earnings to charitable organizations focused on ending homelessness.

Prior to AssuranceAmerica, Guy served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Norrell Corporation (NYSE), a leading national provider of staffing and outsourcing solutions. He then stepped into politics running as a Republican for Governor of Georgia in 1994 and 1998, and as United States Senator from Georgia in 1996. Despite losing all three races, he is acclaimed for building Georgia into a two-party state.

Guy has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Government from Florida State University and served eight years in the Naval Reserve.

Innovator Award

Brian Casey

Brian T. Casey is a Partner in the Atlanta office of Locke Lord LLP and has served the insurance and reinsurance industries for 35 years. As Co-Leader of Locke Lord's Regulatory and Transactional Insurance practice group, and a member of the Firm's Corporate, Capital Markets and Health Care practice groups, Brian focuses on corporate, merger and acquisition, corporate and structured finance and other transactional, and regulatory matters for corporate clients in the insurance, financial services and health care industries. His clients include insurance companies, insurance holding companies, managing general agents and insurance agencies, third party and claims administrators, banks and other financial institutions, investment banks and reinsurance companies.

Mr. Casey graduated from Auburn University with a B.S.B.A. in Accounting (summa cum laude, 1984), The Ohio State University College of Law (1987) and Emory University with a Masters of Laws in Taxation (1992). From 1996 to 1999, he was an adjunct professor of insurance law for the Georgia State University’s Risk Management and Insurance Department, and has served as a foundation Board of Trustee for over a decade.

Rising Champion Award

Nora Hattauer

Nora Hattauer joined AIG Financial Lines in 2006 and has twenty years of experience in the Directors & Officers Liability industry. Nora was named Head of Management Liability for National Accounts in December 2020, and was previously the Chief Underwriting Officer for Public Company Management Liability in North America where she played a critical role in improving the performance of the portfolio. Nora graduated Magna Cum Laude from American University, and earned an MBA with High Honors from Georgia State University.

Rising Champion Award

Alexander Yu

Alexander Yu received his masters in Mathematical Risk Management from Georgia State in ​December 2019, and served as research assistant for Dr. Liang Peng. After graduating, Alex worked for BBVA Compass bank (recently acquired by PNC) and focused on fraud rules for the online acquisition of credit products and demand deposit accounts.

He’s currently employed at Synchrony Financial as the lead for synthetic fraud strategy on the acquisitions side. He works with specialized client managers to develop individual (and generalized) strategies for different clients/portfolios. Alex enjoys working on fraud due to its ever-changing nature and where creativity and proactiveness are required.

GSU Risk Management & Insurance Hall of Fame Inductee

Susan Willey

Susan L. Willey is Clinical Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Risk Management & Insurance, where she also directs the Legal Studies program. Prior to joining the RCB faculty, she taught legal studies classes at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Professor Willey earned her BA in history, magna cum laude, from Duke University as an Angier B. Duke Scholar, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Duke, and her law degree from Indiana University.

She is an active member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) and the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and previously served as the president of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. She has presented nearly 100 academic papers at ALSB national and regional conferences, the Academy of Business Disciplines, and other professional meetings, earning several best paper awards. In the past five years, she has also received awards for teaching and service from the college, GSU, and the University System of Georgia.