About me
As TDCI’s Director of Business Development for the Insurance Division, Michael Schulz sets a focus on expanding the use of captive insurance companies as a risk management solution for businesses to attract new captives to Tennessee.
Before joining the Insurance Division in 2022, Schulz served as Executive Director for six regulatory programs within TDCI’s Division of Regulatory Boards from 2020 - 2022. Prior to joining TDCI, Schulz worked in the insurance and financial services industries, simultaneously holding a Tennessee insurance producer’s license as well as FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Series 6 and 63 licenses. Schulz worked as the marketing director for LocalShares, LLC, a brokerage firm that advised the Nashville Area ETF. While at LocalShares, Schulz managed the brokerage’s outreach, including supervising its marketing and advertising efforts, and served as the firm’s liaison to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, among other tasks. Schulz spent more than a decade working with former Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander first in Alexander’s Washington, D.C. office as assistant press secretary and legislative correspondent and then later moving back to Tennessee to assume operations of Alexander’s Nashville district office as field representative.