About Us
SOTO SPECIALTY GROUP, LLC (“SSG”) was founded on September 2020 by Arnaldo Soto, Jr., the founder and former Chairman & CEO of AQST Space Systems Group. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona with offices in San Juan Puerto Rico, SSG provides Construction & Key Infrastructure Insurance and Worldwide Surety Bonding Services for every business need. SSG also offers risk management services and employee benefits for all of it’s clients.
We are delighted that you have chosen to join our organization and hope that you will enjoy a long and mutually beneficial relationship with us.
SSG as an organization that has a reputation for outstanding leadership, innovation, and expertise. Our employees use their creativity and talent to invent new solutions, meet new demands, and offer the most effective insurance, surety bonding, risk management and employee benefits products in the industry.
MISSION
To provide fast, efficient and cost effective insurance and risk management programs to Contractors, Developers and Builders in Puerto Rico and abroad. We believe that the construction and infrastructure for the betterment of all citizens should be resilient, safe and reliable which can only be accomplished of it is built right, maintained to world class standards and insured correctly.
VISION
We aim to be leaders in the Construction and Infrastructure Industries providing our clients a “one stop approach” for insurance, surety bonding, risk management and advisory services for all types of construction and infrastructure projects, including but not limited to Heavy Construction, Renewable Energy, Advanced Technologies, Communications and Aerospace as leading industries for growth.
SAFETY
Soto Specialty Group is committed to providing a safe work environment for our team, our clients and to our society. Safety is a culture that encourages everyone’s participation, and is critical when dealing with critical energy infrastructure. Our professionals are trained to look for and identify safety issues as part of the inspections that we perform for our clients.
Arnaldo Soto, Jr and his family has always been involved in the Construction Industry. His father as Lic. Arnaldo Soto Couto was Head of Construction Lending at Banco Popular for aprox. 45 years and Arnaldo Jr. as a leading Construction Insurance & Surety Bonding broker as a partner of Saldana & Associates, Inc (now Marsh Saldana) and later as a partner of Carrion, Laffitte & Casellas, Inc (now Hub Puerto Rico). After retiring from Insurance for 3 years to establish an Aerospace & Defense Company, Mr. Soto returned to his roots as an Insurance Producer and founded Soto Specialty Group, LLC. He attributes his company’s success to having developed personal relationships projects with many contractors and developers thru his affiliations with the Builders Association, the Associated General Contractors of America, the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Surety Bond Producers, among others. He strives to provide a “one-stop-shop” for the entire construction projects and development workflows and contract life cycle, for all types of clients and their customers. Together with his dedicated partners, Soto Specialty has in-depth experience with all types of construction and development contract obligations and how to minimize risk.
Mr. Soto’s service team is used to the fast pace of the construction and development insurance and surety bonding industries which have time continuous time deadlines and constraints. Soto Specialty thrives on the opportunity to be of service and to assist in the planning, negotiation, acquisition, construction and operation of our clients projects.
Part of Mr. Soto’s confidence comes from the fact that they get involved in the analysis and negotiations of projects from early stages in other to provide our clients the best and most effective risk management solutions, from contract analysis to insurance and surety bond placements.