Latest Leadership Headlines
All the headlines from our Leadership Topic Page, ordered by recency.
USI Names Lang Commercial Insurance Leader in Southern California
Dec 21 2016 // USI has named Jeff Lang practice leader for the Southern California commercial insurance division. Lang is based in USI’s Woodland Hills regional office. He will focus on growth strategies, client service and...
Oklahoma, Texas Insurance Commissioners Elected to NAIC Leadership Posts
Dec 15 2016 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has been elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak was elected vice chair of...
Top 50 Personal Lines Leaders
Nov 21 2016 // The 2016 Personal Lines Leaders in this report are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in August. This list utilizes only the 2015 personal lines numbers of the...
Insurance Society of Philadelphia Presents Distinguished Leadership Award
Nov 18 2016 // Starr Companies, a New York-headquartered global insurance and financial services organization providing risk management solutions, announced that the Insurance Society of Philadelphia honored Maurice R. Greenberg,...
Woodruff-Sawyer Names Barrengos CEO, Among other Leadership Changes
Nov 14 2016 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co.’s board of directors has named Andy Barrengos the firm’s new CEO. The appointment is effective Nov. 30. Barrengos, 52, has been with the firm for 20 years....
Lockton Adds van Winden as Sr. VP, Energy Property Leader in Houston
Nov 2 2016 // Rene van Winden has joined Lockton as a senior vice president and national energy property leader based in the insurance broker’s Houston operation. He is an expert in onshore property insurance programs and will...
Update: XL Group to Realign P/C Operations with Senior Leadership Team Named
Oct 27 2016 // Bermuda-based XL Group Ltd./XL Catlin announced senior role changes in connection with a planned realignment of its property/casualty operating model. All of the new appointments are effective as of Jan. 1, 2017. The new...
Fischer Named VP, Property/Casualty Service Leader at Hylant
Oct 26 2016 // Ohio-based privately owned insurance brokerage firm, Hylant, has named Debbie Fischer to the newly created position of vice president, property/casualty service leader. Most recently, she was vice president, client...
Erie Insurance of Pennsylvania Announces Executive Leadership Promotions
Oct 25 2016 // Erie Insurance, an Erie, Penn., based insurer, has announced several new executive leadership promotions. This move follows the company’s June 2016 announcement that Timothy G. NeCastro was named the firm’s...
Former FBI Cyber Leader Trainor Joins Aon Risk Solutions
Oct 24 2016 // Aon Risk Solutions announced the appointment of James C. Trainor as senior vice president in its Cyber Solutions Group. Trainor joins Aon after a career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he most recently led...
Peyton Manning’s Pep Talk to Insurance Leaders: ‘You Are Only as Good as the Team Around You’
Oct 24 2016 // If retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning felt out of place in a room filled with insurance professionals – miles away from where he was last year on his way to a Super Bowl-winning season – no one would have...
Insurance Agent, Industry Leader Bolton Remembered as Friend and Mentor
Oct 24 2016 // William Bolton, head of a large national brokerage, leader of a regional brokers group and chairman of Assurex Global, died on Oct. 5 at age 77 following a long battle with squamous cell carcinoma and a bilateral lung...
XL Catlin Names Zimmerman Client Distribution Leader in California
Oct 20 2016 // Steven Zimmerman has joined XL Catlin’s broker and client management team as client distribution leader in Los Angeles, Calif. He reports to Mike Soper, XL Catlin’s U.S. West regional broker and client...
UK’s Century Underwriting Launches Liability Division, Senior Leaders Named
Oct 17 2016 // Century Underwriting, the London-based specialist commercial managing general agent, has launched a new liability underwriting division and made two senior appointments to support its growth. Tony Collman has been...
XL Catlin Opens 2nd Mexico Office; Matthey Named Client Distribution Leader
Oct 13 2016 // XL Catlin has opened a second office in Mexico, located in Monterrey, and appointed Carlos Matthey as client distribution leader in that location. Monterrey is the capital of the state of Nuevo León, which has an economy...
ProSight Appoints Green & Kennet as Senior Leaders for Its Lloyd’s Operation
Oct 12 2016 // Morristown, N.J.-based ProSight Specialty Insurance has made two key appointments to the management team of its Lloyd’s operation, ProSight Specialty Managing Agency. Philip Green becomes finance director while...
Insurance Agent, Industry Leader Bolton Remembered as Friend and Mentor
Oct 11 2016 // William Bolton, head of a large national brokerage, leader of an influential regional brokers group and chairman of Assurex Global during his nearly half-a-century in insurance, is being remembered by those close to him as...
Cole Named St. Louis Branch Production Leader for CNA
Sep 26 2016 // CNA has appointed Maria Cole assistant vice president, branch production leader for the St. Louis branch. Cole will lead CNA’s St. Louis team in cultivating deeper relationships with producers, accelerating...
Rockhill Insurance Group Names Abney, Upton to Leadership Positions
Sep 20 2016 // Rockhill Insurance Group, a member of Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Group, has tapped Jack Abney to lead its environmental underwriting unit as vice president – environmental. Rockhill also announced it has...
Willis Names Shay Western Financial and Executive Risk Practice Leader
Sep 20 2016 // Willis Towers Watson has named Charles Shay leader in financial and executive risk in North America’s West region. The financial and executive risk practice delivers tailored risk management and risk transfer...
