Kelly Bridget Castriotta

Kelly B. Castriotta is the Founder and CEO of Ardiga, a next-generation specialty MGA focused on long-tail emerging risks across products like financial lines and casualty. With over two decades of experience across premier global carriers, Kelly work spans underwriting excellence, governance frameworks, emerging-risk modeling, product development, claims, and litigation. Before founding Ardiga, Kelly served as Global Executive Underwriting Officer at Markel, where she led the Cyber, Tech E&O, and AI underwriting strategy, Emerging Risk Group and helped advance AI governance, risk analytics, and strategic product design. Kelly is recognized for her expertise at the intersection of insurance, technology, and regulatory risk, and she advises several AI and data-driven platforms.