Steve Keller

Expert Topics:

  • The life settlement industry: how it works and how it was built
  • Life insurance industry practices and what policyholders don’t know
  • Financial innovation and disrupting entrenched industries
  • Pay-to-play politics and corporate influence in government
  • What happens when entrepreneurs challenge powerful interests
  • Navigating legal battles against well-funded opponents
  • Resilience and rebuilding after prison and exile
  • The American Dream: business, power, and who really wins
  • Options for terminally ill patients with life insurance policies
  • His memoir Pay to Play and the story behind it

Steve Keller

Entrepreneur, Founder of the Modern Life Settlement Industry, and Author of Pay to Play

  • Entrepreneur, industry pioneer, and former financial executive
  • Helped build the modern life settlement industry into a multibillion-dollar market
  • Gave terminally ill policyholders cash for their life insurance benefits
  • Challenged the insurance industry’s most lucrative practices
  • Refused to “play the game” — says his firm was targeted by powerful corporate and political interests
  • Endured legal battles, exile, and prison
  • Author of new memoir Pay to Play
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Steve Keller is an entrepreneur, industry pioneer, and former financial executive whose new memoir, Pay to Play, tells the astonishing true story of how he helped build the modern life settlement industry—turning a controversial idea into a multibillion‑dollar market—only to collide with powerful corporate and political interests when he refused to “play the game.” As founder and CEO, Keller was at the center of an innovation that provided cash to terminally ill policyholders in exchange for life insurance benefits, challenging some of the insurance industry’s most lucrative practices and drawing the ire of entrenched players and their allies. In Pay to Play, he gives a first‑hand account of the financial boom, the pressure and pay‑to‑play politics he says targeted his firm, and the years of legal battles, exile, and prison that followed—offering an insider’s look at the collision of business, power, and the American Dream.

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