Shel Bachrach, President and Founder of Bachrach & Associates, is considered one of the world's foremost experts in Entertainment and High Net Worth Insurance. In a career spanning over 25 years, Shel has insured the world's most beloved films, actors, entertainers, musicians, businesses, and business people.

Shel has held positions as President of Entertainment and High Net Worth divisions for USI (acquired by Goldman Sachs), and President of Albert G. Rubin of Beverly Hills. He was also in the Guinness World Record in 1990 for the largest life and disability policy ever written, valued at over $140 million.

Shel wrote his first Entertainment Insurance Policy in 1983 and has since developed a portfolio of the world's most well known entertainers. Early in his career, Shel developed a reputation for insuring the supposedly uninsurable. Subsequently, he became one of the most sought-after risk management executives in entertainment.

Over the years, Shel Bachrach has pioneered practices that are employed by companies worldwide, including policies for:

• Advertising commercial wrap-ups for Fortune 500s such as Coca Cola, McDonalds, Ford Motors, Phillip Morris, and Toyota;
• Drug-related filming delays for stars such as Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt
• Actors who pilot aircraft, such as Harrison Ford in the blockbuster, Air Force One
• Aging key persons, such as acclaimed director, Sir David Lean, for his last movie ever made;
• Severe medical conditions, such as for Academy Award-winning director/actor John Huston;
• Pregnant actresses during filming for actresses like Bette Midler;
• Magicians, entertainers, and "Big Cats" performers, including Las Vegas's most popular acts; and
• Winnings for some of television's longest running game shows like "The Price is Right".

Shel empowers his clients with unique solutions by leveraging an experienced team and an expansive network of insurance providers that look to him for insightful, innovative and precise risk management. He instills Bachrach & Associates with his "anything can happen" philosophy: the belief that any situation can be insured as long as critera can be anticipated and precautions executed. For this reason, Shel Bachrach has become one of the most recognizable names to insurance providers and funders such as major insurance companies and Lloyds of London.

A family man for over 30 years with four children, Shel is also well known for his philanthropic and charitable activities. He is on the Board of ABCs at St. John's Health Center, contributor to Cedars-Sinai, LACMA, and other well known Los Angeles institutions. The Bachrach Family is also on the Board of Governors at Cedars-Sinai and Members of the Amie Karen Cancer Fund for Children and Assistance League for over twenty and ten years respectively.

To discover what Bachrach & Associates can do for you, please contact us.