Phurba is a cyber leader for USI’s West Super Region overseeing the West, Northwest, and Southwest regions within their Executive & Professional Risk Solutions (EPS) group.
In this role, Phurba is an in-house resource for cyber and technology E&O liability solutions, providing strategy, training, and market relationships. He provides consultative and technical approaches to risk transfer of cyber and technology exposures through both risk management and insurance across multiple industries for large and complex private and public companies and governmental clients.
Phurba has over 20 years of experience in management and professional lines products. Prior to joining USI (through its acquisition of Wells Fargo Insurances Services), he co-ran The AssureTech Group, a specialty wholesale brokerage focused on venture capital and portfolio company risks primarily for member firms of the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to that he was a financial lines broker at Carpenter Moore and Woodruff Sawyer, both highly regarded boutique insurance brokerage firms based in San Francisco. Prior to working in the insurance industry, he was consultant on various environmental projects in Nepal for the World Wildlife Fund after graduate school and spent several years doing biomedical research after college.
Phurba has an M.B.A. with a concentration in banking & finance from Case Western Reserve University and a B.A. in neuroscience from Oberlin College. He is based and lives in San Francisco.