CALIFORNIA - NEWPORT BEACH OFFICE

Michael A. Santulli. Esq., ARM is an Associate/ Principal and ICA’s ERM Practice Leader having joined ICA Risk Management Consultants in 2005.  Michael provides consulting services to the firm’s Clients in diverse industries including higher education, financial institutions, pharmaceutical and real estate developers as well as international non-for-profits and hospitality. Michael specializes in private equity/opportunity funds, high net-worth/single-family offices (SFO) and REIT structures.

Since 2011, Michael established, and has managed, ICA’s United States West Coast office in Newport Beach, California from which the firm services many of its largest West Coast and Asian clientele providing risk assessment, management and audit services as well as Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) services. Michael also serves as a key member of ICA’s “Disaster Planning and Business Continuity Support” practice group, which is tangential to his leadership role as ICA’s ERM practice leader.

Before joining ICA, Michael was General Counsel for the Cambium Group, a U.S. industrial development and sourcing firm developing manufacturing facilities through Southern China, Vietnam and Southeast Asia for various private equity firms and American/Sino joint ventures. Prior to earning his law degree, he worked as an Analyst for Kamine International Power Company, a U.S. Independent Power Producer (IPP) and development firm in Rome, Italy, developing and managing waste-to-energy power production facilities throughout Southern Europe in conjunction with ABB and GE Capital.

Michael earned his Bachelor’s degree from The University of North Carolina and his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School where he was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and, upon graduation, received the National Barrister’s Award for excellence in oral advocacy. Licensed to practice law in New York State, Michael is a member of the New York Columbian Lawyers’ Association, First Judicial Department and the Society of Risk Management Consultants (SRMC) – serving as a Board Member from 2013 to 2015.

Michael currently lives in Newport Beach, California with his wife and four daughters and maintains a residence in Manhattan, New York.

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Michael can be reached at msantulli@icarisk.com and via LinkedIn.

Sean S.J. Wu joined ICA’s Newport Beach, California office in 2020 as a Consultant. He provides statistical, analytic and quantitative support within ICA’s ERM Practice Group using his expertise in quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills.

Sean majored in Finance in his undergraduate studies. After receiving his degree, he served in the Taiwanese Military and later as a Special Education teacher assistant in an elementary school. Sean started in a Master’s program in Economics at North Carolina State University and then went on to receive his PhD in Mathematics from NC State.

Prior to joining ICA, Sean worked in academia. He started his academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, the National Academy of Taiwan. He then worked as an Associate Professor at Soochow University in China. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

During his academic career, Sean published research papers in several prestigious academic journals. His research interests include probability theory, stochastic processes, mathematical finance, economics and inverse problems. He has advised and guided PhD, Masters and Undergraduate students in their research and has taught courses at various levels.

He is passionate about international travel, because it allows him to experience local life, nature, food and to achieve self-realization. In his free time, Sean enjoys reading, learning, meditation and practicing martial arts.

Sean can be reached at swu@icarisk.com and via LinkedIn.

George joined ICA’s Newport Beach, CA office in 2019 as a Consultant having been in management and consulting positions with a national broker and developed expertise in many areas with a high-level focus on real estate property development and management as well as the automobile dealership industries.

George’s experience in the property and casualty industry includes contracts, Memorandums of Understanding, certificate of insurance, claims administration and loss control initiatives. He also created Emergency Response Plans, OSHA and safety training regimens assuring EPA compliance. George was a Dealer Insurance Specialist for General Motors (GMAC) and Chrysler in the south. He also worked as a Risk Manager for a large multi-location auto dealer that employed in excess of 1000 employees where he developed Risk, Loss Control and Claims Administration programs. Prior to these positions, his industry experience included Software, Independent Power Producers and Energy Industry firms. Through all of his experience, George has developed an extremely holistic view of risk management.

George graduated from Widener University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and from Pace University with a Master’s in Business Administration. He also earned a Chartered Property and Casualty designation and Associate Risk Management designation from the Institutes Risk Insurance Knowledge Group, evidencing his commitment to professional growth and lifelong pursuit of education.

George can be reached at gsiekielski@icarisk.com.

Prastin Paul is a Senior Consultant responsible for all aspects of client servicing, including marketing, loss analytics and claims handling for a wide array of Clients in diverse industries that include real estate, not for profits, construction, higher education and financial institutions. Prastin also serves as the Chairman of ICA’s IT committee because of his knowledge, passion and interest in a very important area of concern to the organization.

Prior to joining ICA, Prastin gained experience in business management as an Operations Manager at Regraph Trading LLC, a reputed commodities trading firm in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and worked in Information Systems Management for a Non-Government Organization (NGO) in India.

Following his Bachelors’ degree, Prastin earned his Masters’ Degree in Business Administration (MBA), and Associate Degree in Project Management from University of California in Irvine. Prastin entered the field of risk management with ICA in 2016 and has applied his experience in business to gain a better understanding of the risk and opportunities facing ICA’s Clients.

Prastin earned the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation from The Institutes Risk and Insurance Knowledge Group in 2017 and is currently pursuing his PhD in Business Management. He lives in California and works in the west coast office of ICA in Newport Beach, CA.

Prastin can be reached at ppaul@icarisk.com and via LinkedIn.