RYAN

Ryan Specialty Holdings, Inc.

A specialty insurance middleman that helps brokers place hard-to-find coverage for complex, high-risk situations in the Excess & Surplus market. Its brands include RT Specialty and Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers, serving thousands of retail brokers. Founder Patrick Ryan launched the firm in 2010 after stepping away from Aon, the global brokerage he'd built and led for decades — a kind of second act in his hometown of Chicago.