Meet the Team
Ryan Stang President Read Bio
Ryan Stang is a native of Hamburg, NY where he still resides today. He graduated from Frontier High School in 2002 and followed that by graduating from Buffalo State College with a bachelor's degree in Communications. Ryan has always had a passion for helping others. So after college he pursued a career in the life insurance industry, working for Mass Mutual for ten years. Being an independent thinker, Ryan decided to form his own company in 2019, Stang Insurance Consulting. There he would be able to help as many people as transparently as possible get the best life insurance guidance for them and their families. Ryan is also known throughout Western New York as an event planner by hobby. He's hosted an annual Christmas party in the City of Buffalo yearly for going on 17 years now. Each year he donates a portion of the event to a different charity in need. He also formed an annual event back in 2009 called 'Buffalo Spikes for Tykes'. With this co-ed volleyball tournament on the beach he brings together his network of businesses and individuals to raise money for disabled and disadvantaged children in Western New York. To date, he's raised roughly $300,000 for Jim Kelly's foundation Kelly for Kids. He also sits on the board for the Buffalo Hall of Fame Experience where the mission is to raise funds and awareness to bring a state of the art museum to Buffalo to honor its sports, music and media past and present as it appropriately deserves. Ryan is an avid sports fan, passionately rooting for all things Buffalo. When he's not working or planning events he enjoys playing basketball and golf and hanging out with his family. He is a father of two little girls, Rylie and Delanie. |
Dan A. Murphy Consulting Read Bio
Dan is Senior Vice President at Lion Street and a proud fourth-generation Murphy working in life insurance. He is a member of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU) and earned the Chartered Life Underwriter designation (CLU) through The American College. Dan received degrees in Psychology and Communications from Rhode Island College and received an Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut, with a concentration in Finance and Strategy. He is a Competent Communicator with Toastmaster's International, serving as former Vice President of a state Chapter and holds FINRA Series 6 & 63 as well as Life, Health, & Variable licenses. As an ASPCA Guardians Member and a volunteer for the Animal Humane Society, the Murphy family are passionate advocates for shelter-dog adoption. Dan was formerly with The Hartford Global Annuities, Prudential Financial, Woodbury Financial Services, and began his career with Ameriprise Financial Services. |
Tiffany Hyde Chief underwriter Read Bio
Tiffany Hyde heads up the Underwriting division at Lion Street, which she has led for five years. In this role, Tiffany manages the underwriting team, case underwriting, new firm selection, vendor relationships and process improvement in the Underwriting and New Business divisions. Her additional areas of expertise include reinsurance staging and negotiations, foreign nationals, complex medical history, advanced case design, product selection and premium finance. Tiffany has been active in the life insurance industry since 1990, serving in various underwriting leadership capacities for companies including Voya (formerly ING - Security Life of Denver), US Financial and Mutual of Omaha. She also brings vast medical knowledge from her previous career in nursing. Passionate about continuing education, Tiffany has earned her FALU designation and currently teaches underwriting courses of all levels for hundreds of field office staff. She specializes in training both internal and external key staff in field underwriting. Tiffany is active in several industry groups, including the ALU, where she served on the Seminar and Webinar Committee and Marketing Committee. She is also an active member of the American Academy of Insurance Medicine and a regular speaker and contributor on current events and trends in underwriting and the industry. |
Mike Fontanini Advanced Sales and Design Read Bio
Michael Fontanini, MT, CFP®, CLU® is Vice President, Advanced Sales and Design with Lion Street, Inc., a national network of fiercely independent life insurance and wealth management advisors. Michael specializes in developing sophisticated life insurance solutions to meet the sophisticated needs of high net worth and business owner clients of the 190 Lion Street Firms nationwide and manages a team of four advanced case design consultants. Prior to Lion Street, his background consists of diverse experience with several life insurance companies in the areas of personal financial planning, life insurance product development and advanced markets. Michael has earned a Master of Taxation (MT) Degree and Estate Planning Certificate through the Graduate Tax Program of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and Villanova School of Business, as well as the designations of Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU). He is FINRA series 7 and 26 registered, a current member of the Wealth Transfer Committee and Estate Tax Working Group committee for the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU) and a former member of the Advanced Sales Committee for LIMRA. Michael is from Des Moines, IA and currently resides in Austin, TX. |
