About Us

As the Managing Associate of ICA since 1981, Barron oversees the activities of the firm and provides thought leadership in tailoring consulting services to ICA’s 400 diverse domestic and international clients. Under Barron’s leadership, the organization — comprising legal, accounting and risk management professionals — has grown both in the scope of services it offers as well as in the range of clients it serves.

Over the course of 49 years, Barron has been responsible for homing in on what risk management services each individual industry would most benefit from. In this regard, services were created for management liability needs of clients, as well as services of varying types to protect the client’s own assets and operations. The design of these services also includes auditing of all types of third parties that the client would typically purchase services from that are part of the client’s risk management program. These services support ICA’s Clients that do not have a risk management department or supplement services to Clients that maintain a risk management department. By design, these 20 services bring value and a significant return on the Client’s investment in these services. The depth of ICA’s services has allowed professionals in the industry to refer to ICA as “the gold standard of risk management firms”.

Prior to providing consulting services, Barron led the risk management department for a multibillion-dollar supermarket retailer in the Northeast.

Barron received a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University and he holds his Associate in Risk Management (ARM) from the Institutes Risk and Insurance Knowledge Group. Barron served as a Director of the Society of Risk Management Consultants and as President of the former Insurance Consultants Society. Barron is also a member of the Risk Management Consultants of Ontario, Canada. Barron is both a lecturer and author on many insurance and risk management topics as well as an expert witness in the industry. Barron served as the President of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College. He is a member of the National Eagle Scout Association.

Barron also focuses his efforts on two of his many passions: health and education-driven philanthropy. Barron serves as a friend and benefactor to charities that protect and educate children and women and is currently funding the construction of a birthing hospital in Uganda. He provides financial support to students from military families seeking university degrees, whose parent has died in the line of duty.

Barron’s devotion to endangered species is evidenced by one of his proudest achievements: his contribution to building the Charles Goldberg African Wildlife Foundation Bonobo Research Center located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in honor of his late grandfather who inspired Barron’s love of wildlife.

Barron resides in the New York metropolitan area and is currently working on a fictional novel that he hopes will eclipse Harry Potter as the world’s new favorite fantasy adventure.

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Michael A. Santulli. Esq., ARM is an Associate/ Principal and ICA’s ERM Practice Leader having joined ICA Risk Management Consultants in 2005.  Michael provides consulting services to the firm’s Clients in diverse industries including higher education, financial institutions, pharmaceutical and real estate developers as well as international non-for-profits and hospitality. Michael specializes in private equity/opportunity funds, high net-worth/single-family offices (SFO) and REIT structures.

Since 2011, Michael established, and has managed, ICA’s United States West Coast office in Newport Beach, California from which the firm services many of its largest West Coast and Asian clientele providing risk assessment, management and audit services as well as Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) services. Michael also serves as a key member of ICA’s “Disaster Planning and Business Continuity Support” practice group, which is tangential to his leadership role as ICA’s ERM practice leader.

Before joining ICA, Michael was General Counsel for the Cambium Group, a U.S. industrial development and sourcing firm developing manufacturing facilities through Southern China, Vietnam and Southeast Asia for various private equity firms and American/Sino joint ventures. Prior to earning his law degree, he worked as an Analyst for Kamine International Power Company, a U.S. Independent Power Producer (IPP) and development firm in Rome, Italy, developing and managing waste-to-energy power production facilities throughout Southern Europe in conjunction with ABB and GE Capital.

Michael earned his Bachelor’s degree from The University of North Carolina and his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School where he was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and, upon graduation, received the National Barrister’s Award for excellence in oral advocacy. Licensed to practice law in New York State, Michael is a member of the New York Columbian Lawyers’ Association, First Judicial Department and the Society of Risk Management Consultants (SRMC) – serving as a Board Member from 2013 to 2015.

Michael currently lives in Newport Beach, California with his wife and four daughters and maintains a residence in Manhattan, New York.

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Sean S.J. Wu joined ICA’s Newport Beach, California office in 2020 as a Consultant. He provides statistical, analytic and quantitative support within ICA’s ERM Practice Group using his expertise in quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills.

Sean majored in Finance in his undergraduate studies. After receiving his degree, he served in the Taiwanese Military and later as a Special Education teacher assistant in an elementary school. Sean started in a Master’s program in Economics at North Carolina State University and then went on to receive his PhD in Mathematics from NC State.

Prior to joining ICA, Sean worked in academia. He started his academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, the National Academy of Taiwan. He then worked as an Associate Professor at Soochow University in China. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

During his academic career, Sean published research papers in several prestigious academic journals. His research interests include probability theory, stochastic processes, mathematical finance, economics and inverse problems. He has advised and guided PhD, Masters and Undergraduate students in their research and has taught courses at various levels.

He is passionate about international travel, because it allows him to experience local life, nature, food and to achieve self-realization. In his free time, Sean enjoys reading, learning, meditation and practicing martial arts.

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Prastin Paul is a Consultant responsible for all aspects of client servicing, including marketing, loss analytics and claims handling for a wide array of Clients in diverse industries that include real estate, not for profits, construction, higher education and financial institutions. Prastin also serves as the Chairman of ICA’s IT committee because of his knowledge, passion and interest in a very important area of concern to the organization.

Prior to joining ICA, Prastin gained experience in business management as an Operations Manager at Regraph Trading LLC, a reputed commodities trading firm in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and worked in Information Systems Management for a Non-Government Organization (NGO) in India.

Following his Bachelors’ degree, Prastin earned his Masters’ Degree in Business Administration (MBA), and Associate Degree in Project Management from University of California in Irvine. Prastin entered the field of risk management with ICA in 2016 and has applied his experience in business to gain a better understanding of the risk and opportunities facing ICA’s Clients.

Prastin earned the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation from The Institutes Risk and Insurance Knowledge Group in 2017 and is currently pursuing his PhD in Business Management. He lives in California and works in the west coast office of ICA in Newport Beach, CA.

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Praveen joined ICA in 2023 as an Analyst with 6-years of professional experience in Commercial Real Estate insurance. Working with a diverse portfolio of ICA clients including financial institutions, real estate investment/management, hospitality, and private equity; Praveen brings his background in in Commercial Real Estate lending and his expertise in compliance to bear with regard to lender and third-party specific insurance coverage requirements for all lines of coverage.

Prior to joining ICA, he worked as a Certified Property and Casualty Insurance Compliance Executive at Berkadia Services India Private LTD with a focus on market analysis tracking and understanding current trends and requirements in the insurance industry as it relates to lender requirements. He also worked on Special Projects for Freddie Mac, including property appraisals for lenders and underwriting review specific to compliance, quality control and assessment, and determination of final property values based upon both appraisals and market conditions.

Praveen is a graduate of Gurunanak Institutions Technical University with training in Commercial Real Estate lending and expertise specific to compliance and lender-driven insurance coverage requirements.

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Kristen joined ICA in 1999 and is a leading member in the organization.  As a Senior Consultant, her role as a key member of her Client’s Risk Management team is evident in her detailed approach to analyzing risk.  Prior to joining ICA, Kristen began her risk management career at a large private aviation firm. She then went on to work as the Risk Manager for a large public Fortune 500 company based in Manhattan.  Kristen’s risk management background, coupled with her extensive technical training benefits her Clients immensely.  Some of the industries Kristen specializes in are construction and development, commercial and habitational real estate, manufacturing, entertainment, financial institutions and retail.

Kristen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Saint Thomas Aquinas College and has furthered her technical studies by earning the Associate in Risk Management designation (ARM) as well as the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation (CPCU) from The Institutes Risk and Insurance Knowledge Group.  She is the co-chair of the Education Committee at ICA and establishes in-house continuing education training and designation programs for all employees,fundamental aspects of ICA’s core values and continuous improvement initiatives.

As a former risk manager, Kristen appreciates the coordination involved in a successful risk management program.  She has developed internal risk management manuals and guidelines for her Clients and their employees. Her favorite part of her job as a risk consultant is being able to dive into her Clients’ operations, understand their risks and implement policies and procedures to mitigate risk, either by transfer to an insurance carrier or contractually through third-party agreements.  She has extensive experience in negotiation of indemnification language and contractual insurance requirements and has negotiated favorable results for her Clients with lenders, public entities and other third-party vendors.

In her spare time, Kristen enjoys traveling with her family, attending New York Yankees baseball games and snowmobiling.  She coaches recreation softball for her town league and is also a Girl Scout troop leader for her daughters’ Cadette troop and Junior troop in the Morris county, NJ area.

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Tom Rosaschi is a Senior Consultant at ICA, a licensed attorney in the State of Florida, and an advisor to clients in the private equity, hedge fund, real estate, and hospitality industries, among others.

Since joining ICA in 2015, Tom has advised U.S. and international Clients, their principals and financial advisors on holistic risk management and responsive insurance-program restructuring in connection with mergers, spin outs, acquisitions, divestitures and other material transactions. Beyond his transactional practice, Tom assists clients with complex first and third-party claims and litigation management and is also a senior member of ICA’s Claims Audit Consulting Practice Group.

Tom received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University where he studied economics with a specialization in financial markets. He received his Juris Doctorate from Ave Maria School of Law in Florida and clerked in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Tom earned the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation in 2017, the Enterprise Risk Management (ARM-E) designation in 2019 and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation in 2018. In 2021 Tom also earned the prestigious Registered Professional Liability Underwriters (RPLU) designation from the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS). There are only 2200 professionals in the United States that have been awarded this designation.

A member of ICA’s Business Development and Public Relations Committees, Tom contributes to ICA’s publications, speaks on risk management matters in the community and assists with ICA’s pro bono work in the New York and New Jersey Metropolitan Area.

Tom is the Secretary of the Society of Risk Management Consultants (the premier global professional association for risk managers), is an active member of the Florida Bar Association and, outside of the office, enjoys traveling, exploring and hiking the globe.

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