William (Bill) Goddard

Principal at Sustain Insurance Services LLC

Bill teaches the Insurance Solvency Regulation course each year and taught Insurance Litigation for over ten years at the University of Connecticut School of Law. At UConn, Bill developed and conducted a new law school course on InsurTech Start-Up Law.

Bill is building an underwriting platform for emerging insurance products at Sustain Insurance Services, is a mentor in InsurTech accelerators and manages a portfolio of seed-stage investments in insurance technology ventures.

Bill is the author of several law journal articles on insurance regulation and insolvency. Previously, Bill practiced law as a partner at Bingham McCutchen and Day Pitney in the areas of insurance, reinsurance, insurance mergers & acquisitions and insurance insolvency matters, representing creditors, regulators and insurance companies.

Prior to entering practice, Bill served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jon O. Newman, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Prior to attending law school, Bill was an investment banker at JP Morgan & Co. and at Marsh & McLennan Securities Corporation, focusing on mergers and acquisitions within the insurance industry. Bill also co-founded, developed and sold a broadcasting company consisting of 19 radio stations located in New York and New England.