Gus A. Kristancic, MBA, CPA, ARM

Biography. Gus is one of Risk International’s founding employees. He joined Risk in 1986 upon its formation. Prior to Risk International, Gus held various accounting and risk management positions at The BFGoodrich Company (now Goodrich Corporation). He has also served as an accounting instructor at Cuyahoga Community College. Gus plays an important role in all aspects of the risk management services Risk provides its clients. He has particular expertise in risk accounting and taxation, surety, workers compensation, and risk retention strategies and analysis.

Gus is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation from The American Institute of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters and Insurance Institute of America.

leading areas of expertise

risk management services

• alternative risk finance or transfer analysis
• broker/tpa/vendor evaluation, selection, and management
• captive feasibility study
• claim development, allocation, and reporting
• claims management
• collateral reduction
• contingent risk management
• contract review
• exposure analysis
• insurance audit/gap analysis
• insurance budget, allocations, reserves
• insurance renewal administration
• limit and retention analysis
• tcor benchmarking

other areas of expertise

claims mitigation services

• broker/tpa/vendor evaluation, selection, and management
• claim development, allocation, and reporting
• claims management
• insurance budget, allocations, reserves
• risk management manuals
• short-tail claims oversight

claims recovery

• claim development, allocation, and reporting
• claims management
• exposure analysis
• insurance coverage policy charting
• short-tail claims oversight

insurance archaeology

• insurance audit/gap analysis
• insurance coverage policy charting
• lost policy review, research, and reconstruction