People & Places

National

Jeff Miller rejoined Lockton, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, as national practice leader for the stop loss and pharmacy practices. Miller has over three decades of industry leadership. Previously, Miller served as president of Point6 Healthcare and office president at Ryan Specialty Benefits. Additionally, Miller has held leadership roles at Aetna and PacifiCare of Texas and previously worked at Prudential and BlueCross BlueShield in Oklahoma. During his previous tenure at Lockton, Miller served as executive vice president and practice leader.

Marty Andrejko rejoined Zurich North America, headquartered in Schaumberg, Illinois, as head of construction professional liability. Andrejko most recently served as managing director of construction professional liability at Aon. Andrejko, based in Philadelphia, has over 35 years of industry experience, including leadership roles at Convex, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance and AXA XL, as well as a nearly eight-year tenure at Zurich.

Canopius Group, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, appointed Tom Losquadro as vice president of underwriting for national hull and liability U.S. Losquadro previously held senior roles at both AIG and Marsh McLennan. He joins Canopius from AIG, where he led the hull and liabilities underwriting team, focusing on large corporate and middle-market marine risks across the Northeast U.S.

Verisk’s Property Claims Services (PCS), headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, named Harry White head of commercial strategy. With over 14 years at Verisk and deep expertise in the risk transfer market, Harry brings a global perspective and a proven track record of client engagement and highly technical market insights.

Ted Gregory, who has been with PCS since 2013, will see his current leadership responsibilities expanded as the new head of research and operations.

Alliant Insurance Services, based in Irvine, California, named Lisa Paul leader of its new nationwide vertical specialty platform dedicated to serving clients in the transportation sector. With three decades of transportation insurance and risk management experience, Paul most recently served as an executive vice president at HUB International.

Markel Insurance, the insurance operations within Markel Group Inc., headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, appointed new leadership within its U.S. wholesale and specialty division. The company is simplifying its structure from six U.S. wholesale and two U.S. retail regions to four integrated U.S. regions. As part of the new structure, the following appointments have been made to lead the four U.S. regions: West, Central, Northeast and Southeast.

Brian Gray, regional president, will lead the West region with expanded oversight. Gray has been with Markel for 22 years and served as regional president for the West region for eight years.

Mimi Fiske, regional president, will lead the Central region. She has been with Markel for 11 years and served as regional president for Markel’s former Midwest region.

Sal Pollaro has been appointed regional president for the expanded Northeast region with scope for wholesale and retail. He has been with Markel for 16 years, most recently serving as executive underwriting officer, professional liability.

Hollis Zyglocke, regional president, will lead the Southeast region. She has been with Markel for seven years and served as regional president for Markel’s former Mid-Atlantic region.

Three additional appointments were:

Matt Huels has been appointed chief growth officer, U.S. wholesale and specialty. Huels has been with Markel for 10 years, most recently serving as regional president, West retail region.

Jim Hinchley has been appointed president, workers’ compensation and small commercial package. Hinchley joined Markel in 2024 as chief retail officer.

Scott Whitehead has been appointed executive underwriting officer, casualty. Whitehead has been with Markel for 26 years, serving in various underwriting leadership roles, most recently as senior managing director, Markel Insurtech.

East

Plymouth Rock Home Assurance Corporation, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, appointed Colleen Finn as chief marketing officer. Finn has over a decade of experience in property and casualty insurance and is responsible for developing and executing growth strategies. Finn previously served as managing director of product management at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance Corporation. Before joining Plymouth Rock, Finn spent nine years at Liberty Mutual.

Willis, a WTW business, headquartered in New York City, appointed Linda Fisher as the sub-vertical leader for law firms within the Financial Services and Professional Services (FIPS) industry vertical division within North America. Fisher, based in Chicago, Illinois, previously served as a managing director in the national law firm vertical at Marsh McLennan Agency. She was also a leader in Gallagher’s law firm group and the law firm practice leader at Old Republic Professional.

Liberty Mutual Insurance, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, named Neal Bhatnagar president, major accounts, of Global Risk Solutions (GRS) North America. Bhatnagar joined GRS in 2021 in his current role, executive vice president, major accounts casualty. He succeeds Mike Fallon, who retires in January 2026 and remains as a senior advisor to the GRS North America leadership team.

Tokio Marine HCC (TMHCC), based in Houston, Texas, appointed Elizabeth Geary to the newly created role of president and CEO of North America P&C. Geary will be based in New York City. Geary has over two decades of underwriting and senior leadership experience, joining from Liberty Mutual, where she was president of insurance solutions. Geary began her career at TransRe, gaining underwriting experience in U.S. property and healthcare, progressing to global head of cyber, and ultimately serving in a dual role as chief underwriting officer, North America, and president, global portfolio management.

Midwest

Frankenmuth Insurance, headquartered in Frankenmuth, Michigan, promoted Scott Merrihew to chief underwriting officer. In this expanded role, he oversees commercial lines and personal lines underwriting and continues to serve on the executive committee for Frankenmuth Mutual Holding Company and all subsidiary companies. Merrihew joined Frankenmuth Insurance 30 years ago and was promoted to chief commercial lines officer in 2024 after serving as head of commercial lines operations.

Circadian Risk, headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, named Frank Schools as chief financial officer (CFO). Schools previously worked with Circadian Risk principals while serving as the CFO of Universal Services of America (now Allied Universal). Schools’ 46-year career includes positions with Partners Group and Warburg Pincus, Ares Management, Blackstone and Onex. He has also held senior finance roles at 99 Cents Only and Pacific Sunwear.

Finys, an insurance software solutions provider headquartered in Troy, Michigan, appointed Tim Norman as chief growth officer and Rishi Khetrapal as director of finance.

Norman has over 20 years of experience in insurance technology and most recently served as vice president, enterprise sales at e123. Previous roles include vice president of sales at Applied Systems.

Khetrapal has over a decade of experience most recently serving in strategic finance and accounting at TruckSmarter. He previously served as investment director at Prudential Private Capital.

West

Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, named Faby Jauregui as vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in San Francisco, California, Jauregui has nearly two decades of experience and previously served as vice president of sales at EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants and in health and benefit sales at Mercer.

Caroline Buse joined Alliant as vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in South Carolina, Buse previously served as vice president at Gallagher.

Mercury Insurance, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, appointed Steve Bennett as its senior director of climate and catastrophe science. Bennett joins Mercury with over three decades of leadership in studying extreme weather, climate risk and effective risk management.

He also serves on the adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he was co-founder and chief scientist at Demex.

The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers, headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, hired Connor Dann as vice president, producer. Dann is based in Liberty’s Woodland Hills, California, office.

Dann began his career at Assured Partners and most recently served as a sales executive. In his new role, Dann focuses on expanding Liberty’s presence in the construction and real estate sectors.