Bill Kost is the Energy & Power Advisory Leader in Marsh’s US Energy and Power Practice, residing in Houston, Texas. Bill is responsible for integrating, coordinating, and growing

Marsh’s Advisory capabilities across brokerage and consulting, mostly focusing on midstream, downstream, refining, chemical, petrochemical, mining, power generation, renewable energy, non-traditional energy, contractors, private equity, construction, and infrastructure clients. He also oversees complex insurance Claims advocacy as a national resource for Energy, Power, and Renewables clients. He also is a subject matter expert and placement resource for specialty insurance products such as parametric solutions, outage insurance, weather insurance, system performance, and warranty insurance. Bill strategically leverages Marsh’s 150+ Advisory services to improve our clients’ knowledge and control of risk; thereby substantially creating and delivering enhanced value beyond traditional risk engineering and claims offerings available from insurers.

Experience

Bill joined the Advisory team at Marsh in August 2022. Prior to joining Marsh, he has maintained various roles related to insurance underwriting, broking, and risk management

consulting – effectively, he has more than 20 years of experience supporting the global energy, private equity, and infrastructure sectors in various roles throughout the insurance

value chain, including underwriting, retail, wholesale, and reinsurance broking, risk management, and due diligence consulting. He successfully provides holistic, critical thinking to developing and delivering enterprise risk solutions to clients.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia

• Master of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa

Barbara

Affiliations

• Associate in Enterprise Risk Management (ARM-E)

• Licensed Broker in all 50 US States

• Engineer in Training – Chemical Engineer (State of California)