People Moves: Cho Named Coalition’s Head of West; Pinnacol Names Awad to Board, Renews Terms for Absher and Oakley

Cho Named Coalition’s Head of the West Region

Coalition Inc. named Manny Cho as head of its west region.

Cho joins Coalition with over three decades of experience in the insurance industry, most recently serving as executive vice president of executive lines at Risk Placement Services. Before his nine years at RPS, he also held senior leadership roles at Axis Capital, CNA Insurance, Aon Affinity, Carpenter Moore, AIG and Chubb.

The West leadership team, Matthew Jaber, Morgan Justice, and Marshal Getz, will now report to Cho.

Coalition is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pinnacol Names Awad to Board of Directors, Renews Terms for Absher and Oakley

Pinnacol Assurance appointed Marti Awad to a five-year term on Pinnacol’s board of directors. Awad will serve as an investments and finance representative. Awad has more than 30 years of experience working in the capital markets.

Akasha Absher was confirmed for another five-year term as chair of the Pinnacol board. She is also the chair of the investment committee. Absher is the co-president at Syntrinsic, an IMA Company. She has more than 25 years of experience in investment consulting, investment banking, fixed-income trading, risk management and nonprofit leadership. She also chairs the firm’s portfolio implementation committee.

Angela Oakley will serve another five years on the Pinnacol board as an employee representative. Oakley is WellPower’s chief financial officer and joined Pinnacol’s board of directors in 2024. With more than 35 years of experience in healthcare finance, she has worked in both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

Pinnacol is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.