John McDonough is a Senior Managing Director at National Brokerage Atlantic and a nationally recognized authority in life insurance consulting for ultra-high-net-worth individuals, global families, and cross-border estates. With more than two decades of experience, he leads a practice focused on the intersection of estate planning, tax mitigation, and wealth preservation, working in close collaboration with elite financial advisors, CPAs, estate attorneys, and private banks to design and implement structures that most producers never encounter. His clientele includes US citizens and affluent global residents with estates typically exceeding $10 million.

John’s technical fluency spans the full architecture of sophisticated insurance deployment, including premium-financed life insurance, irrevocable trust structures, SLATs, international planning components, and policy rescue and restructuring. He is frequently retained by families and their advisors precisely for cases requiring discretion, deep technical knowledge, and creative problem-solving at the highest levels of complexity. At National Brokerage Atlantic, he oversees all point-of-sale operations including premium finance, foreign national planning, and concierge services, bringing institutional rigor to every engagement.