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Daniel Kusaila is a partner with Crowe Insurance Tax Practice. Daniel has spent his entire career serving property and casualty, captives and life insurance companies in global and multi-state environments. He has significant expertise in the taxation of traditional insurance companies, single parent captives, risk retention groups, association captives, cell companies, risk pools, and reciprocal insurance companies. Mr. Kusaila has a deep understanding of all tax aspects of insurance companies, his specific areas of concentration include FATCA, federal and state tax compliance and planning, structuring of off-shore and on-shore captive insurance companies, mergers, acquisitions & reorganizations, private letter rulings, federal excise tax compliance, GAAP financial statement reporting, and Statutory financial statement reporting. He has authored several captive insurance articles for various publications, is a frequent national speaker on topics relating to Federal and State taxation of insurance companies and is an instructor for the International Center for Captive Insurance Education (ICCIE).

Charles J. (Chaz) Lavelle was elected to the Captive Review Hall of Fame, and has received VCIA’s “Service to the Captive Industry” award and CICA’s “Distinguished Service Award”. He is a lawyer in the Louisville, Kentucky office of Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP. He regularly represents clients before the IRS, and frequently speaks and writes on captive insurance topics. Chaz was outside Tax Counsel for both Humana (brother-sister) and Ocean Drilling (unrelated business) in their captive insurance victories in the U.S. Court of Appeals. Among his civic and charitable activities, he is past Chair of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

Kevin brings a wealth of association management and financial tact to VCIA, having engineered a merger of three global independent accounting associations and forming PrimeGlobal, which represented 2,000 partners and 14,000 employees in 90+ countries. Kevin then facilitated rapid membership and revenue growth, increasing the net income 25% from 2 billion to 2.5 billion USD for PrimeGlobal.