People Moves: Maryland Appoints Two Associate Insurance Commissioners

Maryland Insurance Commissioner Marie Grant appointed Megan Mason as associate commissioner of life and health and Giri Govada as associate commissioner of operations and technology.

Mason will oversee the agency’s life and health division, which is composed of the rates and forms review unit, the medical director/private review agent oversight unit, the life and health complaint unit, and the appeals and grievance unit.

Mason comes to the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) from the international law firm Steptoe, where she most recently served as director of government affairs and public policy. Before joining Steptoe, she spent nearly seven years at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, most recently as a group director overseeing the regional office staff. She also served at MIA as chief market conduct examiner for life and health from 2013 to 2016 and, before that, special assistant to the commissioner for health care reform.

Govada was promoted to the associate commissioner role after serving as a senior information technology project manager at MIA since July 2025. He will lead the operations and technology division, which houses the fiscal services/procurement unit and the management information systems unit.

Govada has nearly 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, including management consulting and advisory services, business process optimization and re-engineering, information technology modernization initiatives, application development and cloud migration.

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