Hub International Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Gay Catherine Chung to senior vice president and client director and Arturo Perez-Reyes to senior vice president and cyber-group leader of the executive liability practices division in the company’s commercial risk division in San Francisco, Calif.
In addition to her client director role, Chung will continue to execute certain account management oversight responsibilities and serve in a risk management consultative role.
Prior to Hub, Chung was a principal at Makani o Ka’u Consulting, where she was director of risk management. Before that Chung was a placement advisor and life science industry practice leader for Marsh USA in its San Francisco office and the manager of the Aon Global Group of Jauch and Huebener in Zurich, Switzerland.
Prior to Hub, Perez-Reyes was affiliated with the Barney and Barney LLC in Oakland, Calif., where he was a client executive and broker. Perez-Reyes began his insurance consulting career at Marsh.
Chicago, Ill.-based Hub is a global insurance brokerage that provides an array of property/casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services.
Stan Loar, chairman of Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. in San Francisco, Calif., was sworn in as chair of the World Federation of Insurance Intermediaries.
WFII promotes the role of insurance intermediaries in today’s economy and represents insurance agents and brokers from more than 100 national associations.
Woodruff-Sawyer is an active partner of Assurex Global and International Benefits Network. Woodruff-Sawyer has offices throughout California, and in Oregon, Colorado, Hawaii and Washington.
Leavitt Group has hired Paul Carpenter in its Portland, Ore., office.
Carpenter specializes in commercial insurance. He has more than 15 years of experience managing teams and agencies in the life, individual and group health and annuity markets.
Prior to Leavitt Carpenter managed sales and marketing teams in the digital online and social media space.
The Leavitt Group provides clients with specialty products, a wide-range of insurance programs, risk management strategies and employee benefits solutions.
LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Shalila Cheta as a workers’ compensation consultant in it risk management services division in California.
She is responsible for providing claims management, oversight and program implementation for commercial clientele.
Cheta has more than 20 years of experience in California workers’ comp claims administration.
Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance specializes in property/casualty, surety, workers’ comp, employee benefits, medical/professional practice and risk management services.
SAIF Corp. named Kerry Barnett as the workers’ compensation insurer’s new president and CEO.
Barnett has worked for Cambia Health Solutions since 2004, most recently as executive vice president and chief legal officer. He previously held executive positions with ODS Health Plans and HealthFirst Medical Group, and he was director of the Oregon Department of Consumer Business Services, which serves as the state’s insurance commissioner.
Barnett will begin work on May 22, succeeding Interim President and CEO John Gilkey, who is retiring.
SAIF is Oregon’s not-for-profit, state-chartered workers’ comp insurance company.
Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Christopher R. Mitchell senior vice president of sales in the firm’s Northern California Bay Area property/casualty insurance division.
Mitchell will be based in Concord and report to Curt Perata, managing principal and director of property/casualty in the Bay Area.
Mitchell has more than 25 years of insurance industry experience. He comes from Wood, Guttmann and Bogart Insurance Brokers, where he was managing director of the risk management division.
San Francisco-based EPIC offers services including commercial property/casualty, employee benefits, specialty program insurance and private client services.
Barney & Barney Insurance Services LLC has named Carla Frolich a client executive.
Frolich will work in the firm’s San Francisco and Walnut Creek, Calif., offices.
Frolich has 20 years of experience. Before Barney & Barney, she was an alliance manager for ADP. Before that she was principal at Wishbox Events, an event management company she owned and operated.
In 2014, Barney & Barney joined Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, a subsidiary of Marsh Inc.
Barney & Barney Insurance Services maintains offices in San Diego, San Francisco, Walnut Creek and Orange County.
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