Summer Jenkins

650-489-5232| summer.jenkins@suite200solutions.com

Summer Jenkins is a seasoned and well-respected insurance professional.  She supports her clients, which include private equity, risk management, underwriting, and claims organizations, with wide-ranging insurance expertise.

Summer is recognized as a thought-leader in, and has grown her core practice area around, the provision of risk management and insurance-related consulting for cannabis industry. She has authored and influenced much of the cannabis-related insurance policy contract language used by insurance companies in the United States, and has authored multiple articles on related topics within peer reviewed risk management publications. 

Summer currently serves as Chairperson of the NCIA’s Risk Management & Insurance Committee and as a member of the DISE Committee for the CCIA (Diversity Inclusion and Social Equity). She is a faculty member at Oaksterdam University, and is a Fellow in the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (the CLM).  

Summer began her insurance career more than 20 years ago, cutting her teeth managing large construction accounts for a national brokerage group.  Summer considers herself an “insurance nerd” and enjoys reading and studying policy contracts in her spare time.  Her other hobbies include fishing, American muscle cars and working with persons with developmental disabilities.