About Us

Group Editor in Chief, Bill Coffin, has been covering the risk and insurance industries for nearly 20 years. Prior to becoming the Life and Health Group Editor in Chief for Summit Business Media’s LifeHealthPro.com, he ran National Underwriter Life & Health magazine, which underwent a complete redesign in 2012 and won numerous journalism awards. Before joining Summit, he was Director of Publications at the Risk and Insurance Management Society, a research analyst for the American Re-Insurance Company, and an editor for various A.M. Best publications. Bill’s work has also been published in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Captive Review, New European Economy and other business publications. He is also a published novelist and game designer. Coffin can be reached at bcoffin@sbmedia.com.

Nichole Morford is the Managing Editor of LifeHealthPro.com, and is a former Managing Editor of Agent’s Sales Journal magazine. Prior to joining the Summit Business Media team in 2010, she spent six years as an editor with Penguin Group, managing non-fiction titles in both the reference and lifestyle categories. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Seattle Pacific University, and is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. A Seattle native, Nichole relocated from London to Colorado in 2009. She lives with her husband in downtown Denver and can be reached at nmorford@sbmedia.com or on Twitter @LHPro_Practice.

Brian Anderson has been the Editor-in-Chief of Life Insurance Selling magazine since 2009. Prior to that he was the Editor of Senior Market Advisor magazine, and has edited sales-oriented business-to-business magazines with an emphasis in the financial services sector for much of the past 15 years. He was also a key player in the 2011 launch of LifeHealthPro.com, and serves as a content director for the site.  Anderson is a journalism graduate of the University of Wyoming, Laramie. An avid skier, golfer, basketball and softball player, he resides with his wife and two children in Centennial, Colo. He can be reached at banderson@sbmedia.com.

Daniel Williams, Editor-in-Chief of Senior Market Advisor magazine, is an award-winning journalist and business editor with extensive experience in print, online and trade shows. Prior to joining Senior Market Advisor, Daniel was editor of Real Estate Southern California magazine and West Coast South Bureau Chief of GlobeSt.com, both are divisions of Real Estate Media. Previously, he covered the commercial real estate beat for the Orange County Business Journal. While there, he received a certificate of merit from SABEW (the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Inc.) for a story on "OCs Cash Economy." A native of the Deep South, Daniel relocated from Los Angeles to Denver with his wife and daughter and can be reached at dwilliams@sbmedia.com.

Noah Guillaume is Online Editor for LifeHealthPro.com and BenefitsPro.com. Before joining Summit, he was online editor and copy editor at the Northern Colorado Business Report. Noah received his bachelor’s degree in Technical Journalism from Colorado State University. An avid road cyclist, he enjoys riding in the mountains west of his home in Denver. He can be reached at nguillaume@sbmedia.com.

Corey Dahl Life Insurance Channel/Social Media Editor for LifeHealthPro.com and Managing Editor of Life Insurance Selling magazine. She holds a bachelor’s in journalism and a master’s in communications management, and she’s worked as a reporter and editor for a variety of publications. Her likes include the word “cornucopia,” dogs, and slipper socks. She dislikes creatively shaved sideburns, traffic jams and writing professional bios about herself. Email her at cdahl@sbmedia.com and follow her on Twitter at @LHPro_Life.

Allison Bell, LifeHealthPro.com Health Insurance Channel Editor, has been covering health insurance long enough to own a copy of the HIPAA conference report. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Before she came to Summit Business Media, she covered banking for the Business Journal of Charlotte. Bell can be reached at abell@sbmedia.com or on Twitter @LHPro_Health.

A journalist and writer for over 20 years, LifeHealthPro.com’s Annuities Channel Editor, Maria Wood, has covered such diverse topics as the nursing profession in the U.S., commercial real estate and local politics in her home state of New Jersey. She has reported extensively on the lodging industry and now covers annuities and the retirement advisory market. Wood can be reached via email at mwood@sbmedia.com or on Twitter @LHPro_Annuities.

Life Insurance News Editor for LifeHealthPro.com, Michael K. Stanley graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Professional Writing from Champlain College in Burlington, VT. Immediately after graduation he travelled to South East Asia where he covered geopolitics for an English language newspaper in Phuket, Thailand. Upon returning from abroad, he began his career with Summit Business Media in December of 2008. Stanley can be reached at mstanley@sbmedia.com.

Warren S. Hersch is Senior Editor, Advanced Markets & Sales, for National Underwriter Life & Health magazine, which he joined in 2004. He covers practice management and life insurance-funded advanced planning techniques and trends in such areas as executive benefits, wealth transfer/estate planning, retirement planning and business planning. In addition, he serves as the Annuities & Wealth Management News Editor of LifeHealthPro.com.  Previously, Mr. Hersch served in various editorial capacities at Call Center Magazine, Teleconnect and Computer Reseller News (CRN), all publications of the information technology publisher United Business Media. He also was an editor and analyst at Probe Research. Mr. Hersch has a B.A. in economics and history from the University of Colorado at Boulder and can be reached at whersch@sbmedia.com.

Elizabeth Festa, Regulatory & Compliance News Editor for LifeHealthPro.com, is a longtime financial and regulatory affairs journalist with a background in insurance, securities, the investment advisor space and telecomm deregulation, both in Washington and New York. She has worked at everything from old-school newsletter sheets punched into binders to an international wire service to a hyper-local blog, and has free-lanced for major and regional newspapers and magazines on a variety for features, real estate and lifestyle stories. She found herself covering insurance when all her colleagues covered banking, and figured an actuary could talk circles around a banker and stay in a Rolodex (she still uses one) a lot longer. Elizabeth learned insurance regulatory issues on the back of the demutualization/investment bank movement and Glass Steagall reform efforts in the late 1990s and went religiously to four NAIC meetings a year, sitting in the cheap seats in back with the skeptical accountants, heckling consultants and the pacing consumer advocates. Fast forward, after a decade of real estate and Internet company boom and bust, and she is back on the beat again, covering insurance modernization, which is an evolving process, she has learned, not a destination. Festa can be reached at efesta@sbmedia.com or on Twitter @LHPro_Reg.

Regulatory & Compliance News Editor for LifeHealthPro.com, Arthur “Dave” Postal is a veteran reporter covering Washington, D.C. and federal insurance regulation. He has more than 30 years of experience in financial journalism, and is well-known in Washington circles as a dogged enterprise reporter with a knack for highlighting forward-looking trend analysis on regulatory matters. He also writes for National Underwriter Life & Health and National Underwriter Property & Casualty magazines and contributes legislative and regulatory news to PropertyCasualty360.com. He can be reached at apostal@sbmedia.com.