Main Street America Group Announces Three Promotions

Geof Molina has been named vice president internal audit of the Main Street America Group in Jacksonville, Fla. At the same time Cathy Parrish and Roy Viands were named assistant secretaries.

Molina joined Main Street America in 1999 as director, internal audit. He was elected assistant treasurer/director, internal audit, in 2000 and assistant vice president, internal audit, in 2002.

Based in Keene, N.H., Molina is responsible for leading, organizing, planning and controlling the company’s auditing functions. He provides its senior management, audit committee and board of directors independent and objective assurance, as well as consulting services designed to add value and improve the quality of our financial and operational processes, controls and performance.

Molina has nearly 35 years of property and casualty insurance experience. Prior to joining Main Street America, he held a variety of product line and underwriting roles with The Netherlands Insurance Companies, American Patriot Group and CIGNA Corporation.

Parrish has been appointed assistant secretary/director, compensation and benefits. She joined Main Street America in 2004 as director, compensation and benefits.

Parrish, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is responsible for planning, directing and managing the analysis development and implementation of the company’s compensation, benefits and human resource information systems programs that are consistent with the organization’s strategic business and human resources objectives.

Parrish has more than 20 years of compensation and benefits experience. Prior to joining Main Street America, she ran her own consulting business, providing numerous compensation, benefits and executive consulting services to clients. Previously, Parrish held a variety of management positions at Zurich Financial Services, Kaiser Permanente, The Ryland Group, USF&G (now St. Paul Insurance) and Maryland National Bank (now Bank of America).

Viands has been appointed assistant secretary/director, corporate technical planning. He joined Main Street America in 1977 as a senior programmer and has held a variety of positions in information technology during his 29 years at the company.

Based in Keene, N.H., Viands is responsible for guiding and approving IT application implementation designs across the organization. He works with business analysts, developers and infrastructure technologists to meet Main Street America’s technology goals.

Prior to joining the company, Viands worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a computer programmer. Viands was inducted into Main Street America’s Circle of Excellence in 1987.