Darren Sugiyama, premium financed life insurance specialist

Darren Sugiyama

Premium Financing Life Insurance

Irvine, CA
Author and premium financing specialist who helps high-net-worth clients evaluate bank-financed life insurance.

Darren Sugiyama specializes in premium financed life insurance for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients. He has written eight books on life insurance, including “Premium Financing Is For Everyone,” and his work has been featured in Forbes and Yahoo! Finance.

Darren owns Lionsmark Capital, a premium financing company, and Magellan International, an insurance marketing organization that supports more than 1,200 agents. He focuses on complex cases that carriers often consider difficult to place. Darren is based in Irvine, California, with his wife and two children.

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