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Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services Inc. has added Steve Peitz, Carlos Ruiz and Loren Pierce as risk management consultants.

Peitz was previously a safety specialist at Panasonic Energy North America and an assistant safety director at Q&D Construction Inc. before that.

Ruiz was formerly safety manager for the San Jose/Santa Clara Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant capital improvement project and safety manager at Gilbane Federal for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sharp Army Warehouse Depot.

Pierce was previously a safety plant/engineer at Suburban Propane, a safety manager at Penta Building Group and safety coordinator for Steel Engineers Inc.

LP Insurance is a risk services and commercial insurance brokerage firm.

United Insurance Services has added K.J. Stephens and Adam Terpstra to its Granite Bay, Calif., location.

Stephens is an employee benefits agent and Terpstra is a commercial agent. Terpstra specializes in member-owned group captives and alternative risk programs, while Stephens will focus on the employee benefits needs of employers in the area.

Terpstra previously was a commercial insurance broker with Owen-Dunn Insurance Services. He was a risk engineering consultant with The Hartford Financial Services Group before that.

Stephens is new to the insurance industry, joining the agency after serving as a youth pastor for over 15 years.

Leavitt United Insurance Services is part of Leavitt Group.

Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Edward Huang assistant vice president of employee benefits.

Huang an enterprise sales background ranging from financial services to software as a service.

Heffernan has California offices in San Francisco, Petaluma, Menlo Park, Los Angeles and Irvine, and offices in Portland, Ore., and St. Louis, Mo.

Hub California has named John Martin Ryan employee benefits market leader for Northern California.

Ryan is responsible for managing and overseeing Northern California employee benefit producers, recruiting employee benefits producers and leading client servicing teams. He will be based in HUB’s San Francisco office.

Ryan most recently was senior director of employee benefits consulting for NFP. He owned his own benefits consulting firm, Bay Benefits, prior to NFP.

Chicago, Ill.-based Hub International Ltd. provides property/casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services.

Miguel Nava has been hired at Stone Creek Insurance Agency in its Lafayette, Calif., headquarters as a personal lines producer.

Nava will also serve as chair of the language department, advancing Stone Creek’s market share in this area. His emphasis will initially be concentrated in the Spanish speaking sector.

Nava has been in the insurance industry for more than eight years. He has worked with various captive agencies in the sales, claims, underwriting and customer service capacity.

Stone Creek is a brokerage that specializes in property coverage in the Western U.S.

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE announced a change in its global cyber leadership team. Emy R. Donavan is being promoted to global head of cyber, reporting to Bernard Poncin, global head of financial lines at AGCS.

Donavan, who is regional head of cyber for AGCS North America, will succeed Nigel Pearson, who the insurer said has left AGCS to pursue other opportunities. Donavan will oversee cyber insurance for both commercial companies and financial institutions as well as IT Tech Professional Indemnity insurance.

Donavan will be based in San Francisco.

With Donavan becoming global head of cyber, her regional role will not be replaced. Jenny Soubra and Terri Mason, who have country responsibility for cyber and IT Tech PI products for the U.S. and Canada respectively will maintain their current focus.

Donavan’s experience includes more than a decade of cyber, technology and specialty errors and omissions underwriting. Before joining AGCS as North American cyber practice leader in December 2015, she was vice president of underwriting at AXIS Pro focusing on cyber and technology placements. Donavan has also held prior roles in the specified professions and technology division at Zurich North America. She began her insurance career as an underwriter for ACE Group.

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