Insurance broker Hub International Limited (HUB) has named Marc Cohen, currently regional president of HUB East Region, as president of HUB International as part of a restructuring of top management.
Cohen will replace Richard Gulliver, currently president of HUB International, who has been named vice chairman of HUB International and who will continue to direct the firm’s mergers and acquisitions activity.
The brokerage also named Lawrence Lineker, currently president of HUB Canada, as executive vice president of HUB International.
All positions to be effective January 1, 2017. All will report to Martin P. Hughes, chairman of the board and chief executive officer.
Hughes said the appointments will support “significant growth through mergers and acquisitions, organic growth and future business strategies that address industry changes.”
“We have a tremendous depth of experience and talent within HUB, which made the decision to promote from within compelling,” said Hughes.
Cohen will be responsible for growth and productivity improvements across HUB.
Cohen began his insurance career, entering the training program at HUB International Group Northeast (HUB NE), after college in 1988. He became a vice president in 1994 and a senior vice president in 1997. In 1999 he was appointed president of Program Brokerage Corp. and Claims Administration Corp., HUB NE’s wholesale insurance subsidiary and claims management divisions, respectively. Simultaneously, he was named president of Old Lyme Insurance Co. of Rhode Island, a HUB NE underwriting subsidiary that was subsequently sold. In those positions, he was responsible for all aspects of the firm’s program management and wholesale activities. In January 2004, Cohen was named president and CEO of HUB NE and Program Brokerage Corp.
Lineker will be responsible for innovations that recognize changing customer and workforce demands.
Lineker has 30 years of insurance industry experience and is president of HUB Canada. As president of the Canadian region, he oversees all sales and operations for six HUB retail entities as well as HUB Financial, Totten Insurance Group and Beacon Underwriting wholesale operations. He joined HUB in 1998 and has also served as president and CEP of the HUB International TOS (Vancouver) region. In 2004, he became the chief sales officer for all of HUB and was responsible for organic growth strategies through 30 regional sales leaders and 900 sales executives across the U.S. and Canada from the corporate office in Chicago.
Gulliver will continue to lead and grow HUB’s mergers and acquisitions activity. He has more than 35 years of experience acquiring, building and operating insurance brokerage firms. Under his direction HUB has acquired more than 350 acquisitions representing over $1 billion in revenue. Gulliver began his career in January 1977 by opening a one-man shop in Leamington, Ontario which continues today as a HUB International operation. He was instrumental in creating Insurance Network Solutions in 1995 where he served as president. He was also president of HUB Group Ontario Ltd. and its subsidiary, Gulliver Insurance Brokers. He played a pivotal role in the formation of HUB International and has been actively involved in its development and growth.
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