New York Golf Classic

The 2023 New York Golf Classic will take place on Monday, July 31, 2023, at the North Hills Country Club in Manhasset, New York.

If you would like more information about the event, please contact Megan Harbold, Senior Director of Special Events, at mharbold@kidneyfund.org.

Meet our 2023 honoree

Michael Cavallaro - CEO, ARC Excess & Surplus

Michael Cavallaro joined ARC in 1992 and became an Officer and Partner at ARC Excess & Surplus in 2002. Today he is the Chief Executive Officer of the company – which has a focus in the brokering of Management & Professional Liability Insurance.  The company has recently written over $1 Billion in annual premium volume for the first time in its history.

His duties include managing the company as well as managing a book of business with 4 brokers and 8 administrative people that service accounts he is directly involved in producing. His focus is in dealing with relationships with brokers, insureds and insurance companies and other business partners and setting the direction for the company in terms of marketing and operations. He has been handling Management and Professional Liability in his 30 years at ARC and worked at AIG from 1985 to 1990 and then Gulf Insurance Company from 1990 to1992. 

The singular emphasis on Management and Professional Liability with a heavy focus on D&O Insurance has allowed him to gain substantial experience and expertise in placing Management and Professional Liability Insurance and providing clients with valuable advice when making decisions regarding these lines of coverage. He has written various articles during his career including the following white papers: Directors and Officers Liability - What to Know, From a Broker's Perspective. A D&O Broker's Dilemma: Who Do We Represent? and Summary of the State of the Directors & Officers Insurance Marketplace.

From 2001 through 2004, he was the co-chair to the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) D&O Liability and Insurance Issues Symposium, one of the most well-known and attended conferences regarding Directors and Officers Liability Insurance. From 2016 – 2017, he served as the Chairman of the Eastern Chapter of PLUS, and in 2018, won the PLUS Founders Award.

Michael Cavallaro graduated with magna cum laude honors from City College of New York (CCNY), where he received a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) and a minor in Mathematics.  Michael has received the Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU) designation granted by the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS). 

Special thanks to our Planning Committee

Planning Committee Chair

Maria A. Grasso, Flushing Bank

Planning Committee

Jennifer Armstrong • Steve Arzt • Jake Band • Cecilia Brewer • Gustavo Buitrago • Aimee DiBartolomeo-Cody • Jennarose Colucci • Lauren Grasso • Sylvia Knutson-Barr • Gregory M. LaSpina • Michael Mancusi • Maura Nicolosi • Frank Korzekwinski • Ryan Korzekwinski • Joanna Pawlowska • Frank Pelliccione, Co-Chair Emeritus • Albert Petraglia • Bobby Ross • Reynaldo Tariche • Sal Turano • Barron S. Wall • Jeremy S. Weinstein