AMY COOPER
Vice President of Carrier Practice for Gallagher Bassett, Founder & CEO of RISE
Amy Cooper founded a young professionals group called Rising Insurance Star Executives (RISE) in 2017 as an initiative to help bridge the talent gap in the insurance industry. RISE boasts an annual awards program that recognizes rising stars in the insurance industry, mentorship, internships, hosts monthly webinars, and delivers scholarships for young professionals to attend industry conferences and events. In her daily professional life, Amy Cooper is Vice President of Carrier Practice for Gallagher Bassett, a leading global TPA which provides claims solutions while integrating state of the art technology to achieve superior outcomes. Prior to that she was Vice President at VortexLegal with responsibilities over sales, marketing, and operations. Amy was recognized by the American Legal and Financial Network as one of the leading young professionals of the year in 2015, and the youngest to receive the award to date. In 2020, Amy was awarded the Insurance Business America Rising Stars designation.  Amy is a regular speaker at conferences such as CLM, ACE, ALFN, and others about millennials and generational differences, diversity & inclusion, career & management, privacy & security requirements that impact the legal field, and teaches an ethics CLE for the Florida Bar.