Daniel Teclaw

Daniel Teclaw is a director in AM Best’s property/casualty ratings division, managing a team of analysts that cover U.S.- and Caribbean-domiciled captive insurance companies, along with various other commercial specialty and excess and surplus lines carriers.  Prior to joining AM Best in 2013, Dan was a director of Financial Service Ratings at Standard & Poor’s for seven years, covering regional banks and the mortgage sector, including government-sponsored enterprises. Prior to that, he was a corporate credit and risk manager with Wachovia’s Corporate and Investment Bank for 12 years, managing transactions and relationships in the financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions and securitization segments.  Dan served seven years in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Flight Officer, weapons systems operator and flight instructor for carrier-based, radar-jamming EA-6B Prowlers before attending graduate school. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Penn State University.