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David J. Bresnahan has been named president of Lexington Insurance Co., the surplus lines unit of Chartis Insurance. He is succeeding Peter Eastwood, who is moving into his new role as president and chief executive officer of Chartis for the United States and Canada region. Most recently, Bresnahan was the executive vice president of Lexington’s casualty, healthcare, and programs divisions. He joined Lexington in 1999 as manager of the errors and omissions product line. In 2002, he was named vice president responsible for Lexington’s professional lines and construction business. In 2004, he was promoted to senior vice president, casualty division executive. Prior to joining Boston-based Lexington, Bresnahan held managerial positions at Executive Liability and New Hampshire Insurance Co. after joining Chartis in 1995. Bresnahan began his underwriting career in 1990 at Chubb Group.

Harold Field has been given leadership and profit center responsibility of the New York City office for wholesale broker Swett & Crawford. In addition to his new responsibility, Field will continue to serve as a broker in the professional services practice group and sales leader of the Swett Morristown, New Jersey office. Field began his career at Prudential as a claims analyst and moved from there to AIG where he served as an underwriter of financial institution risks. He had also worked in the Los Angeles office of Zurich as a regional underwriting officer, and at Westrope as a professional services broker before coming to Swett & Crawford more than five years ago.

Insurance broker Marsh has named Ryan A. Barber to the newly created role of head of industry specialization within its U.S. property practice. Barber will be responsible for industry-based risk advisory and insurance placement strategies for various industries including health care, real estate and retail. Barber brings 15 years of experience. After spending the first seven years of his career with Marsh, Barber worked at Willis as a senior property broker and business development specialist. Most recently, he served as co-leader of Integro’s U.S. property practice. He will be based in New York.

Lockton Companies has added Steve Conger to its Washington, D.C. brokerage team as vice president and producer. The addition of Conger expands Lockton’s Washington, D.C.-based employee benefits practice and mergers and acquisitions capabilities. Prior to joining Lockton, Conger was an area vice president in Arthur J. Gallagher’s Columbia, Maryland office as a producer and client advocate. Prior to Gallagher, he served as a senior vice president for Willis’ Potomac, Maryland office.

Vito Gaeta has joined NSM Insurance Group as director of construction programs. Gaeta previously held the position of senior underwriter for ACE USA. Conshohocken, Penn.-based NSM is a national commercial property/casualty program manager.

The Travelers Companies in Hartford has appointed Raymond T. Martino as the president of ocean marine. Prior to this appointment, Martino was vice president of field operations for ocean marine and was previously the chief underwriting officer for ocean marine. From 2000 to 2003, he served as the head of ocean marine for Atlantic Mutual, which was later acquired by Travelers. Martino is based in New Jersey.

A former New Jersey banking and insurance regulator has been named to the North Jersey Community Bancorp board of directors. Steven M. Goldman, who served as commissioner of banking and insurance under Gov. Jon S. Corzine, is currently a partner in the law firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankle LLP. Previously, he was a senior partner at law firm Sills, Cummis & Gross where he represented banks in the financing of acquisitions and recapitalizations.

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