AAIS Names Parkes Vice President of Sales

Don Parkes, an insurance executive with 18 years’ experience in catastrophe risk management, has been named vice president of sales for the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS).

AAIS is a national insurance advisory organization that develops policy forms and rating information used by 700 property/casualty insurers.

As part of his duties as AAIS vice president of sales, Parkes will be the product leader for the AAIS Homeowners By-Peril Plan, the first bureau plan filed and approved in most states for rating homeowners insurance by separate perils.

Parkes comes to AAIS from CoreLogic, which maintains databases on properties, mortgages, and consumers. Before joining CoreLogic in 2007, Parkes was senior vice president and chief risk officer at ICAT Holdings LLC, a catastrophe risk firm based in Boulder, Col. Prior to his years at ICAT, Parkes was with Risk Management Solutions Inc., a catastrophe modeling firm.

Don Parkes, AAIS
Don Parkes, AAIS