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Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler named longtime staffer Jim Odiorne to chief deputy in the Office of the Insurance Commissioner.

Odiorne has a long tenure at the office, having served as the deputy commissioner for the company supervision division since 1996. He came to the agency in 1989 from Texas, where he served as the assistant state auditor, worked in private practice as an attorney, and worked for the Texas Department of Insurance in a number of positions, including senior deputy commissioner.

Odiorne is an attorney as well as a certified public accountant.

Hub International Insurance Services named Mary Castiglia senior vice president of its San Francisco commercial division.

Castiglia will be responsible for producer recruitment, business development and sales. Castiglia and her team will be based at one of Hub International’s newest locations from a recent acquisition in San Francisco.

Castiglia’s experience includes errors and omissions, directors and officers, and renewable energy risk attenuation programs for technology and energy companies and enterprises.

Most recently Castiglia served as a practice leader with a large regional insurance brokerage in the San Francisco Bay area.

Chicago-based Hub is a provides an array of property/casualty, risk management, employee benefits, investment and wealth management products across North America.

BB&T Insurance Services named Dan Husges as an account manager for its employee benefits group in Pleasanton, Calif.

Raleigh, N.C.-based BB&T Insurance Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&T Corporation, operates more than 100 insurance agencies in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky and California.

Cottonwood, Ariz.-based Butler-Leavitt Insurance Agency has tapped Rick Mangum for its operations.

Mangum will focus on providing property and casualty insurance and life and health insurance to his clients.

Prior to joining the agency, Mangum was with New York Life for nearly three years followed by an additional three years as an independent agent.

Butler-Leavitt is part of the Leavitt Group.

Leavitt Pacific Insurance named Susan Groff as a commercial lines producer in Northern California.

Groff has more than 16 years of experience in property/casualty insurance and workers’ compensation. She has worked with many types of contractors including painting and decorating contractors and their association, the Painting and Decorating Contractors Association.

Leavitt Pacific is part of the Leavitt Group.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Scottsdale Insurance Co. named Karen Davis vice president of agency management and business development.

Davis will oversee the product management, research and new business development areas, reporting to Gary Tiepelman, senior vice president of contract underwriting. Davis is replacing Steve Franke, who became vice president of contract underwriting’s West Region in January.

Davis began her insurance career in underwriting with Great Southwest Fire, and then moved to a retailer where she sold insurance. Davis started working at Scottsdale in 1990 as a personal lines underwriter, and then moved into management. Most recently, she was senior director of contract underwriting’s Southwest Region.

Scottsdale is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nationwide.

R-T Specialty LLC named Gloria Lam to its workers’ compensation specialty division. Lam joins as a senior vice piresident in the Irvine, Calif. office.

Lam has worked in the wholesale industry for seven years, with a focus on developing solutions in workers’ comp. She also has 15 years of experience on the carrier side of workers’ comp, including underwriting, marketing and management.

At RT, Lam will continue to focus on open brokerage placement.

RT’s workers’ comp specialty division has offices nationwide and is managed by Viviane Woodcock.

Sullivan Brokers Wholesale Insurance Solutions named Brian Janes to the firm’s property practice group as assistant vice president, and Suzann Murphy as broker assistant.

Sullivan Brokers is a nationwide wholesale brokerage specializing in healthcare, professional, management, and transaction liability, property, casualty, environmental, and alternative risk transfer. The firm has California offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services LLC in Northern California named wholesale brokerage industry veteran Sheryl Smith as the firm’s director.

Smith will be based in WTCI’s San Francisco office.

Smith joins WTCI from AmWINS Group Inc. Prior to that Smith held wholesale casualty positions at CRC|Crump and Tri-City Brokerage. Her experience includes the handling of complex liability claims for leading specialty carriers.

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