Philadelphia Insurance Promotes Pottle to Chief Strategic Operations Officer

Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) has promoted Bob Pottle to executive vice president and chief strategic operations officer (CSOO).

The CSOO role is a newly created position that will use Pottle’s 34 years of leadership and experience at PHLY to enhance operations serving the company’s agency partners and policyholders.

In this new CSOO role, Pottle will be responsible for strengthening the collaboration and delivery of service across PHLY’s marketing and underwriting teams.

Pottle has spent his entire 34-year insurance career with PHLY, starting as a marketing representative in 1986. He was promoted to regional vice president of PHLY’s North Central region in 1998 and senior vice president of the Midwest territory in 2006.

On January 1 of this year, he assumed responsibility as the senior vice president of marketing for the Eastern territory.

PHLY is headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Penn., and designs, markets and underwrites commercial property/casualty and professional liability insurance products incorporating value added coverages and services for select industries.

Source: Philadelphia Insurance Companies