Machua Millett is the Chief Innovation Officer and Alternative Investment Practice Leader at Lockton Financial Services, in which role he creates new insurance products for unaddressed risk exposures and serves as a technical expert on management and professional liability issues for private equity, venture capital and hedge fund managers, SPACs and target companies, and private and public companies. He works on a regular basis with GPL policies, portfolio companies, D&O programs, SPACs, and companies making the transition from private to public through initial public offerings (IPOs) and reverse mergers, D&O/management liability, pension trust liability, fidelity/crime, employment practices liability, private equity/venture capital professional services liability, internet/e‐commerce/cyber liability, kidnap and ransom, and merger and acquisition facilitation products. Mach has also been involved in creating new insurance products relating to wage and hour liability, FCPA investigation costs, FERC investigation costs, the responsible corporate officer doctrine, Dodd Frank compensation claw-back, cyber liability, social engineering loss, Chief Compliance Officer personal liability, intellectual property infringement liability, reputational risk, medical billing and coding liability, and transaction facilitation. Mach came to Lockton after twelve years at Marsh and ten years as an attorney at Skadden Arps, Bingham McCutchen, and Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, where he practiced law as an intellectual property, securities and general commercial litigator and insurance coverage defense lawyer. He has extensive experience crafting insurance contracts and litigating, arbitrating, mediating and negotiating the settlement of complex securities, intellectual property, business and insurance coverage disputes.