George Rogers has been promoted to senior vice president at GEICO. Rogers’ new responsibilities include oversight for GEICO’s Southeast and Midwest operations in addition to his current duties as vice president of GEICO’s regional operations in Lakeland, Fla.
Rogers joined GEICO in 1969, and has held positions as director of performance review and regional liability director early in his career. In 2000, Rogers was chosen to head GEICO’s Dallas regional operations, and became regional vice president of GEICO’s Lakeland office in 2002.
Rogers earned a bachelor’s degree in business from The University of Maryland.
The Main Street America Group announced Dave Randle has been appointed president of its Southeast Region, which includes Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Randle is based at the super-regional property/casualty insurance company’s corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and reports to Jeff Kusch, Main Street America’s senior vice president/head of field operations.
According to Kusch, Randle will lead the Southeast Region sales operation and focus on improving profitability and driving net premium growth across the region’s six states.
Most recently, Randle was Main Street America’s director of distribution management, a role he assumed in May 2015. Randle joined Main Street America in 2008 as a surety development executive in its bonds operation. Prior to joining Main Street America, Randle held various marketing and underwriting positions at Zurich Insurance Services, Jacksonville.
ACE Limited announced the leadership team it will appoint for the company’s North America field organization that will take over upon completion of the acquisition of Chubb, which ACE said is expected in the first quarter of 2016.
Harold L. Morrison Jr. will serve as senior vice president of the new Chubb Group and division president, field operations, for the North America Insurance division. Currently executive vice president, chief global field officer and chief administrative officer of The Chubb Corp., Morrison will be responsible for the field organization in North America, which includes 48 offices in the U.S. and Canada. He will be responsible for regional and branch office functions and services to agent and broker distribution partners.
Gerard M. Butler will serve as executive vice president and deputy field officer for North America, with responsibility for coordinating the company’s North American distribution relationships, sales results and practices, and field analytics resources. Butler is currently executive vice president and U.S. field territory operations manager of Chubb & Son. Butler will report to Morrison.
Reporting to Morrison will be eight regional executive officers (REOs) who will operate a 48-branch network across the U.S. and Canada. The branch network will be divided into eight regions headquartered in New York City: Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Toronto. The REOs will be responsible for regional underwriting and sales strategies of the North American business units, staff management, production, profit and loss, and distribution management.
D. Scott Dalton will serve as senior vice president, North America Insurance, and REO of the Atlanta region. Dalton is currently senior vice president and Atlanta regional branch manager of Chubb. Reporting to Dalton and serving as regional chief operating officer (RCOO) will be James M. Shevlin, who will lead the Atlanta office. The branches in the region will be Tampa, Birmingham, Nashville and Charlotte.
Kelley J. Kinsella will serve as senior vice president, North America Insurance, and REO of the Chicago region. Kinsella is currently REO, Midwest region, ACE USA. Reporting to Kinsella and serving as RCOO will be Kevin G. Smith, who will lead the Chicago office. The branches in the region will be Itasca, Detroit, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, Des Moines, St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Columbus and Louisville.
Specialist global insurer Hiscox has appointed John Giralt as head of Property for its Miami MGA operation.
Joining from Catlin XL where he was a director covering the Americas, Giralt was responsible for managing the Latin American and Caribbean underwriting operations including its facultative product lines – property, engineering, energy and casualty. Giralt has almost 30 years of experience in the industry, 20 years of which have been focused on Latin America and the Caribbean.
He will focus on writing property, power generation and construction business throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on behalf of Hiscox and, as required, additional partner capacity providers.
According to Rebecca Ince, who runs the Hiscox MGA Miami office, Giralt’s appointment strengthens Hiscox’s Miami operations and complements its terrorism and fine art business in the region. Hiscox MGA Miami sits within Hiscox MGA which was created earlier this year with the acquisition of the mega-yacht and general marine leisure MGA business, R&Q Marine Services.
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