Justin Gladieux is a Co-founder and Managing Partner. Justin has spent his entire career as a recognized leader in the manufacturing, distribution, and placement of life insurance products built for the institutional marketplace. He has a specialty focus on the design and implementation of executive benefit plans, business succession and retention strategies, and corporate asset strategies using life insurance.
Early in his career, Justin worked for Nationwide Financial holding operational, product development, and sales roles in their COLI division. As a wholesaler he was responsible for distribution of products to; producer groups, banks/wirehouses, IMO/BGAs, and legacy COLI producers. Most recently Justin was the head of the Corporate and Business Solutions team for Lion Street, the leading producer group in the country. He developed and built a team that focused on helping producers design, implement, and close business in the corporate and executive benefit landscape.
His extensive insurance experience includes working with a wide array of public and private companies, and many of the nation's elite life insurance producers. He has been involved in some of the largest corporate owned life insurance transactions placed in the last five years.
Justin holds a BS with honors from The University of Findlay and earned his MBA from Capital University. He also holds the CEPA designation as a Certified Exit Planning Advisor.
Michael Ori is a Co-founder and Managing Partner. He specializes in the audit, design, implementation, administration and funding of executive benefit plans for Institutional Architects’ corporate clients.
Michael spent the first 10 years of his career at a nationally recognized executive benefits consulting firm where he led the design and analytics team. His responsibilities included consulting with clients that ranged from small privately held companies to fortune 500 corporations on their executive retention programs and designing funding strategies that utilize corporate owned, bank owned and insurance company owned life insurance.
Michael has also worked for Nationwide Financial and Lion Street Financial, both industry leaders in the corporate insurance space, in various sales executive and consulting roles.
Michael holds a BS with honors in finance from the University of Florida.
Jacob Bosacki is a Co-founder and Managing Partner. He helps organizations develop, implement, and maintain executive compensation and benefit strategies that restore, reward and retain top talent.
Prior to co-founding Institutional Architects, Jake led the corporate practice of a national executive benefits firm. Throughout his career he has served multiple Fortune 100 organizations as an attorney or technical director, including JP Morgan, Northwestern Mutual and Nationwide Financial. Jake also leads corporate programs for TriAlpha Capital.
Jake holds a bachelor's in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a juris doctorate from Marquette University School of Law. He is also a Fellow of the Secure Retirement Institute.
Courtney Larsen is the Director of Operations at Institutional Architects, where she is responsible for building the company’s operational infrastructure and managing its day-to-day functions. She specializes in the audit, design, and implementation of NQDC plans, ensuring efficient administration and regulatory compliance for corporate clients.
Courtney previously spent her career at a leading executive benefits consulting firm, where she played a pivotal role in designing 409A plans and COLI strategies. Her work included consulting with corporate clients on executive benefit programs and financial modeling to optimize plan performance.
In addition to her expertise in executive benefits, Courtney holds a bachelor's in business administration from Fresno State. She also has extensive experience in corporate-level consulting, team leadership, and client relationship management, all of which contribute to her ability to deliver exceptional results and build strong client partnerships.
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