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Bruce Carnegie-Brown will become the chairman of Lloyd’s following a meeting of the Council of Lloyd’s where his appointment as successor to John Nelson was approved unanimously. His appointment also was unanimously supported by the Lloyd’s Franchise Board.

The council, on Feb. 21, confirmed that Carnegie-Brown, chairman of Moneysupermarket.com Group and vice-chairman of Banco Santander S.A., will take up the position in June of this year. This appointment is subject to formal approval and consent from the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Carnegie-Brown has more than 35 years of experience across the financial services industry. He was chief executive for Marsh Europe between 2003 and 2006, non-executive chairman of Aon UK Ltd. from 2012 to 2015 and was also a senior independent non-executive director at the Catlin Group plc between 2010 and 2014. He will be stepping down from his current role as a non-executive director of JLT Group plc, a position he has held since May 2016.

He has been chairman of Moneysupermarket Group since his appointment in April 2014 and a vice-chairman of Banco Santander since February 2015.

He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years across a number of senior roles, ran 3i Group plc’s Quoted Private Equity Division from 2007 and was a senior independent director at Close Brothers Group plc. Between 1981 and 1983 he worked as an investment banker for Bank of America Corp.

San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Darren Cartwright claims auditing and consulting practice leader.

Cartwright will be responsible for the direction of the claims group, which provides claims management and advice across the areas of property/casualty, management liability and workers’ compensation.

Cartwright has nearly 25 years of experience in the claims and workers’ comp industry. He joined Woodruff-Sawyer in 2005. Before that he was an integrated disability manager at PeopleSoft. He was previously a workers’ comp claim consultant at Marsh.

Woodruff-Sawyer has offices throughout California, and in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Hawaii and New England.

Infogain has named James Patterson as Guidewire head.

Patterson is based in San Diego, Calif., and reports to Girish Kannalli, vice president and general manager of the insurance and healthcare business unit.

Patterson is responsible for strengthening Infogain’s solutions and services around the Guidewire platform.

He has more than 25 years of experience as a product and development strategist. He was previously part of the Guidewire implementation team at Ernst and Young. Prior to E&Y, he spent four years with Guidewire, initially as solution architect implementing Guidewire’s suite of products, later moving to Guidewire’s product management team.

Infogain provides Digital Transformation solutions in property/casualty for auto claims, workers’ compensation claims and specialty P/C programs.

The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Tom Ciardello, senior executive vice president of Worldwide Facilities LLC, as the chair of the SLA board of directors.

Ciardello’s election was finalized after the SLA tallied the final ballots from authorized voting representatives who were unable to attend the SLA annual meeting, which took place Feb. 7, and Feb. 9, 2017, in San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively.

Ciardello succeeds Chris Houska, California managing director of R-T Specialty LLC, who completed his 2016 term as chair and was elected to a seat on the board.

Also elected to leadership were Robert Gilbert, underwriting director, Markel West Insurance Services, as vice chair; and Terri Moran, senior vice president, Western Region executive, and construction practice leader, Vela Insurance Services, as secretary/treasurer.

Additionally, SLA members elected Tim Chaix of R.E. Chaix and Associates Insurance Brokers Inc., and Hank Haldeman of The Sullivan Group, to the board.

Completing the 13-member board are the following who were reelected after serving on the 2016 board:

Janet Beaver, Tokio Marine HCC

Denis Brady, Burns & Wilcox Brokerage

Rupert Hall, M.J. Hall & Company, Inc.

Davis Moore, Worldwide Facilities, LLC

Pam Quilici, Crouse & Associates Insurance Services of Northern California Inc.

Les Ross, Wholesale Trading Insurance Services LLC

Gerald Sullivan, The Sullivan Group

SLA members also reelected as mediator Hon. Harry Low, a former insurance commissioner and retired presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.

All individuals elected to the 2017 board will serve until balloting is completed following the next SLA annual meeting in February 2018.

Based in San Francisco, the SLA operates as a self-governed private organization. Appointed by the Commissioner in 1994, the association serves as the statutory surplus line advisory organization to the California Department of Insurance and facilitates the state’s capacity to monitor and direct surplus line brokers’ placements of insurance with eligible nonadmitted insurers.

San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Stephen Watson a junior account executive.

Watson’s area of focus will be on professional liability.

Watson previously was employed as assistant manager of Walmart in State College, Pa., where he led, trained and managed a team of associates.

Prior career experience includes administrative assistant for Levitzacks, Certified Public Accountants, in San Diego.

Cavignac & Associates is a risk management and commercial insurance brokerage firm.

Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC is expanding its West Coast operations with the appointment of Keith Newell as its managing director.

Newell will be primarily based in the firm’s Woodland Hills, Calif., office. His focus is on new business strategies for the West Coast and he reports directly to Scott Davis, Beecher Carlson’s president of property/casualty.

Newell has 29 years of experience in the insurance and surety industry. His previous positions include senior vice president at Hub International Ltd., senior vice president and Heffernan Insurance Brokers and president and managing director at Allied North America.

Beecher Carlson Beecher Carlson is a risk management broker and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc.

Socius Insurance Services Inc. has hired Cassandra Grace to join its management and professional liability practice as assistant vice president.

Grace is based in Phoenix, Ariz. She has more than a decade of experience in the insurance industry, specifically in management and professional liability.

Socius Insurance Services is a property/casualty and management liability wholesale broker based in San Francisco.

Wholesale Trading Insurance Services LLC in San Francisco, Calif., has named Chris Kiley managing director and property broker.

Kiley has more than 20 years of property broking and underwriting experience with expertise in real estate and specialty property.

Kiley joins WTIS from AmWins Group Inc. where he was an executive vice president and served in various other capacities, including national property practice leader for several years.

WTIS is a privately held wholesale insurance broker.

Topics California Agencies Claims Workers' Compensation Excess Surplus Property Property Casualty Professional Liability