July 3, 2006

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Trindl Reeves joined Barney & Barney, San Diego, as a principal, responsible for the ongoing growth of Barney & Barney in San Diego and Orange County. She will be based in San Diego.

Reeves, formerly managing director of the Marsh San Diego office, has nearly 20 years of experience, serving in numerous leadership positions at Marsh. She has a significant background in risk management and health and welfare consulting to global exchange traded companies.

Barney & Barney also added four account executives to its staff: Michele Comtois and Sean Reddy in the Commercial Department, and Mary O”Tousa and Henry Beceiro in Employee Benefits.

Prior to her new role, Comtois was senior underwriter at Arch Insurance Group, where she worked in the development, expansion and servicing of a book of business consisting primarily of public directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, and private company management liability coverage for the western region.

Reddy has worked across all lines of insurance with a focus on workers’ compensation, products, and environmental liability. In 2002, he began at Marsh Risk and Insurance Services where he participated in its graduate training program. After completion of the program, he was a client advisor and environmental practice leader with the company.

O’Tousa spent more than 17 years at Mercer Human Resource Consulting as the Bay Area Health and Group Benefits Practice Leader, consulting with employers on group health, absence management and disability program issues. Prior to that, she worked as director of financial services at the Hospital Council of Northern California.

Beceiro joins the firm as account executive with 20 years experience in the group benefits practice, having worked previously for another large San Diego brokerage firm, as well as for Blue Cross of California. He has worked with employers across all business sectors including life sciences, technology, public sector and nonprofits.

Ames & Gough, a McLean, Va.-based insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving architects, engineers, law firms and managed care organizations, elected Dan Knise president and CEO. Dan was elected at Ames & Gough’s annual board meeting after joining the firm as an equity partner in its McLean, Va., headquarters.

Knise’s career has included senior leadership roles with Johnson & Higgins and it’s successor firm, J&H Marsh & McLennan.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Insurance Brokers of California Inc. based in San Francisco announced that Mark Freeman has joined the firm as area president. He will be responsible for the San Francisco financial district operation and Gallagher Construction. Doug Bowring continues as president of Gallagher Construction.

Freeman has more than 25 years of insurance industry experience. He held several executive level positions at Acordia, most recently as regional managing director over all of Acordia’s operations in California.

California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund appointed John E. Putnam to vice president and member of its executive committee. Putnam brings a quarter-century of workers’ compensation experience to his new vice presidential post.

Putnam previously served for 10 years as manager of State Fund’s Fresno District Office where he began his career in 1981 as a sales representative. Putnam earned a number of State Fund awards for excellence — including Sales Representative of the Year and the Supervisory Award in the 1980s and 1990s.

Los Angeles-based GNW-Evergreen Insurance Services LLC’s Karen Oxman was elected to the Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) Board of Directors of Southern California, regional director. Jason Meshekow, a producer at GNW-Evergreen, was recently elected to the board of IBA West’s San Fernando Valley Chapter.

Acordia, the insurance brokerage subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co., promoted Cameron Rudolph to managing director for its Arizona operations. Rudolph has been in the insurance industry for 14 years. He joined Acordia in 2001 in Alaska managing risk and loss control programs before moving to Seattle. Prior to working with Acordia, he worked with Brady & Co. a family- owned brokerage in Alaska and developed specialized risk management programs for many of the Alaska Native corporations and CIGNA, a national insurance carrier.

Network E&S Insurance Brokers LLC, a California based wholesale broker, hired Matt Gomez as a casualty and property broker in the Calabasas, Calif., office. He will concentrate on writing general liability/products, including contractors, wraps, project specific policies, as well as umbrella/excess liability, property and DIC.

Prior to joining Network E&S, Gomez was an assistant broker with Lemac & Associates in Los Angeles since August 2000.

Michael Moraitis also joined the company as a vice president – casualty broker in the Calabasas office. Moraitis brings more than 18 years of insurance experience to Network E&S. Most recently, he was a senior vice president with Guy Carpenter & Co., part of Marsh, overseeing the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices.

Colemont Insurance Brokers, Woodland Hills, Calif., named James Maddox assistant vice president and broker. Prior to joining Colemont, Maddox served as a placement broker with Marsh & McLennan, where he specialized in risk management for middle market technology and life science accounts.

Anthony “Tony” Leoni has joined AFS/IBEX Financial Services Inc. as senior account manager. He will work out of the firm’s Newport Beach, Calif. office. Leoni has been active in the premium finance industry in Southern California since 1994.

Michael Tourtellott joined Sloan Mason’s San Diego brokerage firm. Tourtellott has more than three years experience in the Southern California insurance market, and previously worked at G.S. Levine Insurance in San Diego.

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