People – Southeast

Kentucky-based insurance agency Neace Lukens has promoted longtime employee Todd Stocksdale to southern region leader. Stocksdale will be responsible for overseeing Neace Lukens’ southern Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina offices. In addition to his new responsibilities as southern region leader, he will continue in his role as managing director for Neace Lukens’ office in New Albany, Ind.

Stocksdale specializes in education, construction, manufacturing and workers’ compensation.

He joined Neace Lukens in 1991 as a producer and has remained with the company ever since. In 1998, he was promoted to managing director for the Sellersburg, Ind. office. He served as managing director for the Indianapolis, Ind. office for more than five years and returned to New Albany, Ind. in 2007 to serve the same role.

Members of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) have elected David Purinai, who is president of MSH Insurance in Rocky Mount, as the association’s new chairman of the board of directors for the 2012-13 term.

Purinai was re-elected to the IIANC board in 2008 after having served a previous six year term. He most recently held the positions of secretary/treasurer, vice president and chairman elect. Purinai has also served as a liaison for many committees, including the audit, agency management and technology, education and technical committees. In 1992, he received the association’s Achievement Award sponsored by the American Association of Managing General Agents.

In addition to Purinai, the IIANC Executive Committee was elected as follows:

• Chairman-Elect: Bobby Salmon, INSURE, Raleigh
• Secretary: Scott Evans, Coastal Insurance, Shallotte
• Treasurer: Jim Mozingo, MBA, Independent Insurance Group Inc., Fayetteville
• Immediate Past Chairman: Tim Templeton, Senn Dunn, Greensboro

Mark Rice, Callahan & Rice Insurance Group Inc., Fayetteville, and Ralph Whitehurst, Whitehurst Strategic Partners, Wake Forest, will serve their first terms on the board.

Judy Clemmons, Brunswick Insurance Services, Supply, Dan Gilbert, Dan Gilbert Insurance Inc., Fletcher, and Jeff Haney, Edwards, Church & Muse Inc., Charlotte, were re-elected to a second term on the IIANC board.

Dominic Casserley will serve as the next chief executive officer of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, effective Jan. 7, 2013.

Also, Steve Hearn, currently the chairman and CEO of Willis Global, will serve as deputy CEO and Joe Plumeri, who has served as chairman and CEO of Willis Group since 2000 and led the company back to public ownership and steered its global expansion during his 12-year tenure, will serve as non-executive chairman through July, 2013.

Casserley, 54, is currently a senior partner of McKinsey & Co. During his 29-years at McKinsey, Casserley has been based in the U.S. for 12 years, Asia for five and, since 2000, in London. Casserley led McKinsey’s Greater China Practice and its UK and Ireland Practice. He has been a member of the firm’s global board, since 1999 and for four years served as the chairman of the Finance Committee of that board. Following a transition period in 2013, Casserley will be based in Willis’ New York office.

Hearn, 46, joined Willis as chairman and CEO of Glencairn Limited, the third-party wholesale brokerage business that Willis acquired through its $2.1 billion acquisition of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs in 2008. He was appointed CEO of Willis Re in February, 2011. In January 2012, Hearn was appointed chairman and CEO of Willis Global, encompassing the company’s global reinsurance, placement and specialty operations. Hearn will continue in that role in addition to his deputy CEO post.