Dana M. Mikstay, CLU
Senior Managing Director, Insurance Services
Insurance Management Committee Member
353 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654  |  312.595.6157  | 

Areas of Focus: Life and Disability

Profile:
  • Oversees the daily operations of the Life and Disability Practice
  • Serves on the Insurance Management Committee that oversees the strategic direction of the Insurance Services Division
  • Delivers innovative insurance solutions that achieve the long-term goals of affluent individuals, families, closely held businesses, middle market private and public companies and high profile individuals
  • Specializes in the areas of corporate succession, estate tax, income tax and non-qualified executive benefit planning
  • Joined Mesirow Financial in 1993
  • Holds a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation
Accomplishments:
  • Featured in Worth magazine's "Leading Insurance, Wealth & Legal Advisors Program" in 2011 – a vetted venue for top insurance, wealth and legal advisors
  • Elected to the 2011 board of directors of Forum 400 (formerly the International Forum) – second woman ever to be named to this prestigious post
  • Speaker at the 2010 International Forum Annual Meeting
  • Platform speaker at the Illinois Life Underwriter's Annual Meeting in 1999
  • Qualifier for the Million Dollar Round Table since 1994
  • Qualifier for the "Top of the Table" of the Million Dollar Round Table since 2002
  • Featured in the Advanced Association of Life Underwriters' quarterly magazine in Fall 2007
Education:
  • B.A. in Business, B.A. in History (cum laude), Bethel College
Affiliations:
  • Young Women's Leadership Charter School, board member
  • Economic Club of Chicago, member
  • Chicago Finance Exchange, member
  • National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, member
  • National Association of Female Executives, member
  • National Association of Life Underwriters (NALU), member
  • The Forum 400, member
  • The Business Women's Network, past president
  • North Shore Illinois Life Underwriters, past president
  • Chicago Foundation for Women, past board member and treasurer
  • Advanced Association of Life Underwriters, member