Caryn Brenna Siebert has been selected as president and CEO of Orange, Calif.-based Carl Warren and Company. Siebert previously served as vice president & national director of claims operations at Safeco Insurance Company. Siebert, an attorney and former general counsel, headed several customer-facing departments within GE ERC Commercial Insurance and Coregis Insurance.
Anaheim, Calif.-based American Team Managers hired Barbara Hartz as director of programs, commercial specialty lines. Most recently, she was program director for a wholesale agency specializing in contractor programs. Hartz began her career in the insurance industry in 1979 as an underwriter for a local office of The Home Insurance Company. Her previous experience includes working for USF Reinsurance Company. She also was director of commercial underwriting for a local MGA.
Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope appointed Philip L. Engel, former president of Chicago-based CNA Insurance Companies, to chairman of the board of directors. Engel will replace outgoing chairman of the board Jack Suzar, who will complete his two terms as the organization’s volunteer chairman in July 2004. Engel has been a City of Hope board member since 1997. Engel served as president of CNA from 1992 through 1999, retiring in 1999 after a 37-year career with the company.
Charles E. Symington Jr. is the new head of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s (IIABA) federal government affairs program. Symington comes to IIABA from the House Financial Services Committee where he served as a senior counsel for the majority and focused on insurance issues, including congressional efforts to assess state insurance regulation. During his time with the Financial Services Committee, Symington was actively involved in drafting the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, the Financial Services Anti-Fraud bill, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 and other legislative proposals. Before joining the Financial Services Committee, Symington worked as a majority counsel for the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, where he concentrated on health care policy and the panel’s oversight responsibilities. Prior to working on Capitol Hill, Symington was an attorney with the law firm of Matricardi & Moylan in Springfield, Va., and before that was an associate attorney with the firm of Drew, Eckl & Farnham in Atlanta.
Evan G. Greenberg has been elected to the additional position of CEO at ACE Limited. He will continue to serve as president. Greenberg joined the ACE Group of Companies in November 2001 as vice chairman of ACE Limited and CEO of ACE Tempest Re. In April 2002, Greenberg was appointed to the position of CEO of ACE Overseas General. He was elected to his current position of president and COO of ACE Limited in June 2003. Prior to joining ACE, Greenberg spent 25 years at AIG where he was president and COO from 1997 to 2000. He held a variety of senior management positions, including CEO for Japan-based AIG Far East, and was president and CEO of AIU, AIG’s Foreign General Insurance Organization.
Herbert Rothman has been promoted to chairman of the board & CEO of Woodland Hills, Calif.-based C.M. Meiers Insurance Company. Rothman will be the company’s legal advisor for operations and clientele. He began his career in real estate and joined C.M Meiers as a sales associate in 1963. He became a partner at the company in 1970, and the sole owner and president in 1996.
Jeff Kleid has been promoted to president at C.M. Meiers. In his new position, he will be responsible for marketing, mergers and acquisitions, new producer enlistment program and niche marketing creation, including entertainment and specialty programs. Kleid became a sales producer at C.M. Meiers in 1994 and was promoted to vice president of marketing in 2001. Kleid also served as president of Insurance Brokers and Agents of the San Fernando Valley in 1999.
Kansas City, Mo.-based Lockton Insurance Brokers appointed Linda Halbleib as senior vice president in the Northern Calif. Property and Casualty practice. She will be based in Lockton’s San Francisco office. Halbleib has worked in the Bay area insurance industry for more than 20 years, including 11 years as a senior vice president with a national insurance brokerage firm.
Redwood City, Calif.-based ABD Insurance and Financial Services has appointed Jeff Mann as vice president. He will be the P&C public entity specialist in the company’s Torrance, Calif. operation. Mann joins ABD from the public entity division of Newport Beach, Calif.- based Driver Alliant Insurance Services. Mann began his career in the insurance industry in 1981 and spent 14 years with Marsh & McLennan Companies, holding management positions in both their Pittsburgh, Pa. and Los Angeles offices. He also ran the aerospace industry practice of Aon Risk Services.
Santa Ana, Calif.-based Yates & Associates announced the promotions of Barbara Parker-Hatch and Alex Zardeneta. Parker-Hatch was promoted to executive vice president. She will continue many of her previous duties, including carrier liaison, investigating and negotiating new markets and overseeing many of the daily operations of the firm. Parker-Hatch began her insurance career in 1980 as a file clerk at RIC Insurance Services in Anaheim, Calif. She became an underwriter at RIC and joined Yates in 1997 as an underwriter/broker, later becoming operations manager and then vice president of operations.
Alex Zardeneta has been promoted from senior underwriter / broker to manager of underwriting/marketing. Zardeneta will be responsible for new business development and will be a resource to Yates’commercial underwriting team. Zardeneta began his insurance career in the early 1990s as an underwriting assistant and was an account executive at a large San Diego firm prior to joining Yates & Associates in 2001.
Orange, Calif.-based G.J. Sullivan Co. recently added Julie LeBrun to its staff. She will be responsible for property, casualty and transportation lines of business. LeBrun has held mid- and senior-management positions with Aetna, Transatlantic Re and Yasuda Fire Marine. LeBrun has been in the insurance industry for over 29 years and has a background in underwriting and managing commercial and personal auto insurance and reinsurance.
Los Angeles-based Brown & Riding Insurance Services has hired Scott Carroll as COO. The new position was created in response to Brown & Riding’s continued rapid growth and plans for opening additional offices. Carroll will initially focus on strengthening broker support and client service by developing higher-skilled support personnel, better management and more efficient systems and procedures. He began his career as an underwriter in the surety department of the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, where he spent 16 years in various underwriting, administrative and management positions throughout the United States. Carroll was also a Chubb marketing manager in both Seattle and Los Angeles, and an administrative assistant to the zone officer in Los Angeles. He completed his career at Chubb as Chubb Custom Market’s first West Coast branch manager.
American Insurance Association announced that Kenneth L. Gibson has been appointed vice president of the association’s Western region, based in Sacramento. Gibson will oversee all of AIA’s state government affairs operations in the 10-state region, which includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Prior to joining AIA, he was a director of the Insurance Regulatory and Compliance Solutions Group for Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, where he provided consulting services across the country to public and private entities. Previously, Gibson led the West Coast insurance practice for Navigant Consulting where he provided services to a broad range of clients, including insurance companies and state departments of insurance. He served as chief deputy commissioner of the California Department of Insurance from 1995-97 and director of the California Department of Commerce from 1987-90. Gibson also served as a senior vice president with Kaiser Steel Corporation, where he worked for 21 years.
Los Angeles-based Marshall & Swift / Boeckh appointed Shelton Shugar as vice president and chief technology officer. In his new role, Shugar is responsible for product development, product delivery and technology infrastructure. Shugar will be located at Marshall & Swift’s Los Angeles office. He has held the chief technology officer position at Homestore, was vice president of engineering at Verisign and also held senior-level positions at The Thompson Corporation and AOL.
Robert Nesbit has been appointed to the position of senior vice president & chief human resources officer at Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.-based U.S.I. Holdings Corp. He will work out of USI’s corporate office. Nesbit previously served as vice president of global staffing and diversity at Campbell Soup Company. He also held a senior human resources position at AOL Time Warner. Nesbit was human resources transition director and later the senior vice president of human resources at Wachovia.
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