Staff

Scott Harrison was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the NALC in January of 2025.  Harrison previously served as the NALC’s Director of Regulatory Affairs.

Harrison brings more than 30 years’ of diverse experience to the NALC as a former regulator, attorney and trusted advisor to insurance carriers, and in association leadership.  In 1993, Harrison was appointed Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the Delaware Insurance Department.  In 1995, he was appointed Deputy Superintendent of Insurance for the New York State Insurance Department, where among other responsibilities he led the Department’s Regulatory Reform Initiative.

Since leaving government service in 1997 Harrison has served as an attorney and advisor to insurance carriers on a wide variety of matters involving insurance regulatory policy, transaction and financial issues, and management of regulatory, compliance and operational risk.  He regularly represents the NALC and private clients before the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, (NAIC), state insurance departments, and the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL).

Over several decades Harrison has been a leader in efforts to modernize regulatory standards involving financial regulation, life insurance reserves, and the impact of emerging technologies on insurance including cybersecurity and AI.   In 2005 Harrison formed the Affordable Life Insurance Alliance (ALIA), an organization of life insurance carriers that advocated successfully for the modernization of the U.S. system for valuation of life insurance reserves.  In 2015 he led the first regulatory examination into a cybersecurity breach involving a major insurance carrier.  He is a Co-Founder of the American InsurTech Council (AITC), an organization committed to the development of regulatory policy that encourages ethical, technology-driven innovation in insurance.

Harrison attended his first NALC meeting as a guest speaker in 1995.  Since then, he has been an effective advocate for common sense regulation and a level regulatory playing field for NALC members and other specialty life and health insurers that play an indispensable role providing financial services products to middle class Americans and other underserved markets.

In addition to his private practice, Harrison is a Senior Advisor in the Global Financial Services Practice at Alvarez & Marsal.

Dawn Bergsma is the Director of Member Services/Meeting Planner of the National Alliance of Life Companies. She has 30+ years of office management experience and 29 devoted years of service to NALC.

Along with her daily Office Management responsibilities Dawn handles all aspects of Conference Planning and serves as the point of contact for current and prospective members.