Cathy Neifeld, JD, is Partner and General Counsel with AgencyONE. She began her career in the life insurance industry in 2004 as the Director of Business Development and General Counsel for the Potomac Partners Group in Bethesda, Maryland. Potomac Partners Group was one of the nation’s premier insurance platforms offering premium financing solutions to insurance companies, investment banks and wealthy individuals. In this role, Cathy evaluated all premium finance programs and specialty products and worked closely with international lending institutions, program developers/promoters, insurance agents and their clients and advisors on all aspects of these transactions (from development to implementation).She was instrumental in helping place over $5 Billion of life insurance death benefits with $300M of target premium over 5 years. In December 2009, Potomac Partners Group merged with AgencyONE to form an even more powerful wholesale life insurance brokerage arm. Cathy now oversees all of the combined retail and institutional financing relationships, is a Partner at AgencyONE, serves as General Counsel and is also very active in Business Development.
Cathy is a member of the Forum 400, AALU, the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the New Jersey Bar. She served as President of the Forum 400 in 2019 – an organization that is limited to the top 400 life insurance professionals in the United States. Cathy also served as the Vice President of the Forum 400 and acted as the Annual Meeting Chair in 2018. She also served on the Forum’s Finance Committee, the Study Group Committee and the Program Planning Committee. Cathy is currently a Member of the GAMA Women’s Community Advisory Board for 2020.