Cavignac & Associates Appoints Brouwer Surety Department Manager

San Diego-based risk management firm Cavignac & Associates has named Gerrit (Gary) Brouwer surety department manager.

A 29-year veteran of the surety bond industry, Brouwer will serve as the primary liaison between the agency’s surety accounts and surety companies, responsible for ensuring that clients’ bond underwriting needs are expertly met and that business relationships with surety companies are well maintained. He also will be tasked with developing and supporting new business and marketing the agency’s surety bond services.

For the past 15 years, Brouwer has served as senior surety underwriter for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. in La Mesa, Calif. Previous career experience includes six years as a surety manager for Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. in San Diego; five years as a senior bond underwriter for Insurance Company of the West, also in San Diego; and three years as a bond underwriter for Continental Insurance Co. in Toronto. He has provided surety credit to some of the most prestigious contractors in the Western United States and Canada.