People Moves: Cole from XS Brokers to Rockwood; Westchester’s Roberts, Fred C. Church’s Sanderson Promoted

Rockwood Programs Names Cole as Chief Marketing Officer

Rockwood Programs Inc., a full-service managing general agency, has appointed Carol Cole to chief marketing officer.

In this role, Cole is responsible for marketing employment practices liability, insurance agents errors and omissions, miscellaneous professional liability, allied healthcare, cyber liability, Rockwood Brokerage and the Firearm Legal Expense program.

Carol Cole

Cole will also manage the underwriting teams for employment practices liability and insurance agents errors and omissions. Additionally, she will oversee new initiatives including off-duty police officers liability, podiatric physicians liability and Chart 2.0.

Cole has more than 20 years of experience in both marketing and underwriting. Prior to joining Rockwood, Cole was at XS Brokers and Global Indemnity. She also held marketing and underwriting leadership roles at Main Street America Group and CNA. She resides in Leesport, Pennsylvania.

Source: Rockwood Programs Inc.

Fred C. Church Insurance Names Sanderson as Director of Population Health & Wellness

Fred C. Church Insurance, a Lowell, Massachusetts-based independent insurance brokerage and leading provider of property/casualty and employee benefits insurance, has announced Wendi Sanderson as its new director of population health and wellness.

Sanderson will play a role in the creation, administration, management and budgeting of wellness, claims utilization and population health programs for clients.

Prior to joining Fred C. Church, Sanderson spent more than two decades at Cigna New England, where she led and managed a team of client and customer engagement consultants. These consultants were responsible for client and customer benefit education and developing and executing worksite holistic health and wellbeing programs. In her time there, she also led Cigna’s New England Wellness Council for six years.

Source: Fred C. Church Insurance

Chubb Company Westchester Appoints Roberts as Senior VP of Small Business Unit

Westchester, Chubb’s wholesale excess and surplus insurance business, has appointed Dave Roberts as senior vice president of Westchester Small Business.

Dave Roberts

Westchester Small Business serves the risk management needs of small businesses. In this capacity, Roberts will have oversight of product and business development, underwriting operations and profit and loss performance. He will also be responsible for developing and implementing strategies that help drive profitability and growth.

Roberts succeeds David Charlton, who has announced his retirement. Roberts will report to David Lupica, chief operating and distribution management officer for Westchester. He will be based in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Roberts brings close to two decades of industry experience, having held several regional and national leadership roles prior to joining Westchester in 2014. Before this most recent appointment, he served as senior vice president of Small Business Underwriting.

Focused on the wholesale distribution channel, Westchester provides specialty products for property, specialty casualty, environmental, professional risk, inland marine, product recall, small business, binding and programs.

Source: Chubb