LEADERSHIP

Patrick T. Duke, Managing Principal pduke@xn--80adcgfaj7adyu0byc.xn--j1adp.xn--p1acf
Patrick is a career insurance professional whose experience and expertise spans many disciplines. After beginning his career in the life insurance industry, he has most recently served as a trusted advisor and broker assisting business owners and executives implement effective risk management and welfare benefit strategies. His responsibilities at Chesapeake include the development and implementation of the firm’s business strategy and positioning, marketing to the advisor community, developing provider relationships, partner recruitment, and negotiating settlement offers.

Joseph M. Young, Principal jyoung@xn--80adcgfaj7adyu0byc.xn--j1adp.xn--p1acf
Joe’s background is in the life insurance and financial advisor market. His experience working as a part of a client’s advisory team provides a platform for Chesapeake to effectively communicate to the advisory community the expanding planning solutions that life settlements offer high net-worth individuals, businesses owners, and charities/institutions. His responsibilities include sales and marketing to the financial services and non-profit communities along with general business, operational and financial management matters for the firm.

Dr. Stephen Nightingale, MD, Medical Director sdn@xn--80adcgfaj7adyu0byc.xn--j1adp.xn--p1acf
Dr. Nightingale is responsible for case review, life expectancy analysis, and negotiation with actuarial vendors. Dr. Nightingale is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine and nephrology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and is Board Certified in both disciplines. He taught at Case Western Reserve University, Hopkins, The University of Chicago, and the Centre Universitaire des Sciences de la Sante in Yaounde, United Republic of Cameroon before becoming Chairman of the Division of General Medicine/Primary Care at Cook County Hospital in 1982 and the Medical Director of the AIDS Clinic at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1988. Dr. Nightingale joined the Food and Drug Administration in 1996 and the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1997, where he was Senior Medical Advisor for Blood Safety to the the Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General. Dr. Nightingale also served as an Attending Physician at DC General Hospital until it closed in 2001. In 2002, Dr. Nightingale left the government to form Burntside Partners, Inc., a biotechnology firm. In 2005, while continuing as CEO of Burntside, Dr. Nightingale became Medical Director of Chesapeake Financial Settlements. He became a member of the American Academy of Insurance Medicine in 2006.

Nicole Chapin Duke, General Counsel nchapinduke@xn--80adcgfaj7adyu0byc.xn--j1adp.xn--p1acf
Before joining the Chesapeake team, Nicole Chapin Duke was a litigator for Williams & Connolly, LLP, for six and a half years. While at Williams & Connolly, LLP, she provided a full-range of litigation services for fee-paying and pro bono clients in civil, criminal, and administrative cases at both the trial and appellate level. Prior to that, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harold H. Greene, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, providing legal research and writing assistance to this federal trial court judge in both civil and criminal cases. Ms. Duke is a 1994 magna cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where she received the Order of the Coif, numerous academic awards, and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Ms. Duke did her undergraduate work at Yale University, where received a B.A. magna cum laude, with Distinction in History.

Chesapeake Financial Settlements LLC
9900 Belward Campus Drive
Suite 175
Rockville, MD 20850

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