Kate Boucher is Vice President of Regulatory & Compliance at Premier Insurance Management Services, Inc., (Premier Insurance), and is responsible for regulatory and compliance activities, corporate governance and enterprise risk management. Kate also serves on the leadership team. Premier Insurance provides independent insurance advisory services to hospitals and healthcare systems and manages American Excess Insurance Exchange, RRG a Vermont domiciled risk retention group serving non-profit health systems.
Kate began her career in captive insurance in 1990 in Burlington, Vermont at Johnson & Higgins, a global captive management firm that later became Marsh Captive Solutions, providing accounting and regulatory compliance services for a portfolio of captive insurance companies and risk retention groups as well as advisory services for the formation of new captives and risk retention groups. Kate joined Premier Insurance in 2002.
Prior to working in captive insurance, Kate worked in public accounting in Boston. She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from Boston University. Kate also earned a Vermont Certified Public Accountant license, an Associate in Risk Management-ERM from the Insurance Institute of America, an Associate in Captive Insurance and the ICCIE Fellow Designation from the International Center for Captive Insurance Education. Kate is also a Vermont Licensed Captive Manager.
Kate served on the ICCIE Board of Directors from 2011-2013 and the ICCIE Curriculum Committee from 2010-2013. Kate helped develop the Accounting for Captives courses and was an ICCIE instructor for those classes.
Kate has served on the Vermont Captive Insurance Association Finance Committee since 2007.