People & Places

June 6, 2005
Bradley Poe

The Harry W. Gorst Co.has hired Bradley T. Poe to manage its new Irvine, California office. He will be responsible for new business and staffing. Poe began his career on the retail side of the business almost 14 years ago. He served from 1997 to 2001 at Aon, Albert G. Rubin in Los Angeles. Poe then joined Hull & Company in Newport Beach in 2001 where he managed the day-to-day operations for his staff and serviced a personal book of business for predominately entertainment and high net worth individuals.

Lorraine Iglesias

Burns & Wilcox appointed Lorraine Iglesias and Margaret Browne as senior underwriters for the company’s new service center in Modesto, California. Iglesias and Browne will be responsible for the production and development of excess and surplus business.

Margaret Browne

With over 18 years of insurance experience, Iglesias most recently served as a senior underwriter for a wholesale insurance brokerage firm in Lathrop, California.

Christina Funk

Browne has 10 years of property/casualty experience. She also previously served as senior underwriter for a wholesale insurance brokerage firm in Lathrop.

Joseph Savarese

San Diego-based Magellan Insurance Servicesannounced that Christina Funk has been hired as account manager. She will be responsible for assisting in broker and market relations and brokering new business. Most recently Funk served as an account manager for a large San Diego-based regional agency and prior to that she served as a risk analyst and client representative for Marsh Cleveland and San Diego.

NBIS appointed Joseph Savarese to senior vice president of underwriting. He will focus on the company’s eastern and western U.S. presence, working to establish a network of insurance agents and brokers in the contractors’ insurance market. Savarese began his career as a reinsurance broker with Guy Carpenter and Company Inc., based in New York. Over the last 20 years he held a variety of positions, including vice president and manager of the primary casualty department for Investors Underwriting Managers in Red Bank, N. J.

Jerry O’Neill was named NBIS‘ vice president of underwriting. O’Neill comes to NBIS with over 20 years of insurance experience in the brokerage and reinsurance community. He held multiple senior level executive positions over the years with such companies as AIG, Transamerica Insurance Group and Markel. He will be responsible for implementing a variety of programs designed by NBIS to service the general liability needs of contractors throughout the U. S. O’Neill will also work to develop a network of insurance agents and brokers in the contractors’ insurance market in the Eastern United States.

Seattle-based Safeco promoted Charles Horne to senior vice president and controller. Since July 2002, Horne has served as Safeco’s vice president-audit services, with responsibility for managing Safeco’s internal audit department. In addition, he led the company wide effort to ensure compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Prior to joining Safeco, Horne worked at Dell Inc., serving as finance director for Dell’s Worldwide Procurement and Supply Chain organization as well as other financial roles.

Seattle-based Kibble & Prentice has added Dudley Johnson to its property/casualty division as senior vice president. He will focus on the company’s commercial insurance and risk management services. Johnson most recently served as senior vice president at the Seattle office of Marsh & McLennan, where he had spent the previous 22 years in sales and leadership positions.

Vince Reardon joined Encino, Calif.-based International E&S Brokers Inc., in the dual role of underwriting manager for International E&S Contract Companies and manager of open market placements. Reardon will assist the broker community in placing property risk, including dwelling policies, and will underwrite contracts for high-valued homeowners, small property owners and builder risk coverage. Reardon has more than 30 years of experience as a property insurance specialist. Previously he served as the property manager for Crum & Forster’s Los Angeles office and was the founder and president of G V Reardon & Associates, the original West Coast managing general agent for the RLI Insurance Company.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associatesannounced the addition of Kryztofer C. Novotnaj as the new director of human resources and employee benefits. He will focus on strategic human resources initiatives and the deployment of core processes in the employee benefits department, accompanied with customer care in assisting Lawson-Hawks client management teams. Novotnaj has nine years of experience in customer service, human resources and broker services. Prior to joining Lawson-Hawks, Novotnaj served as director of human resources for a national events planning corporation. He worked as a senior client manager for a regional Bay Area brokerage, providing human resources consulting and employee benefits expertise to Fortune 500 companies.

Jason T. Andrew has been promoted to vice president of the employee benefits division for Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates. Andrew has over five years of experience in the independent financial planning and employee benefits design arenas. He has been active in the growth of Lawson-Hawks’ Human Resource Compliance and Benefits Consulting initiatives. Having previously served as an associate financial advisor with American Express Financial Advisors, Andrew joined Lawson-Hawks in February 2003. At American Express, he specialized in seminar presentation of concepts such as 401(k) retirement planning, employee benefits, disability insurance, long-term care, mutual fund acquisition and comprehensive financial planning. Since joining Lawson-Hawks, Andrew has specialized in employee benefits, automating client-employer human resource systems and creating an advisory role with affiliated companies.

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