People – West

The Main Street America Group has named Stacy Juelfs sales director for its Western region.

Prior to joining Main Street America in 2013 as a business management executive for the Montana and Western South Dakota territories, Juelfs held sales and management roles at The Travelers and Payne Financial Group.

The Main Street America Group is a mutual insurance holding company that writes business through its property/casualty insurance carriers.

Capital Insurance Group has named Christine Oliver as agency development manager in its California Bay Area territory.

She will work primarily with agents in the East Bay, Monterey Peninsula and the Salinas Valley to maximize ease of business and agency compensation.

Oliver began her 25-plus year career in workers’ compensation. She also has been an insurance buyer with an international corporation, a self-insured claims manager and a professional liability underwriting manager.

CIG is a regional property/casualty insurer serving the Western U.S.

Leavitt Group of Boise has named Stephanie Barnes a commercial account manager in Idaho.

Barnes has 26 years of experience. She specializes in insurance for municipalities, professional offices, retail operations, construction, and those in the service industry.

Barnes has assisted in developing 13 new independent agencies over her career.

Leavitt Group is a privately-held insurance brokerage.

Edgewood Parterners Insurance Center has added Courtney Pino as a commercial insurance broker/producer.

EPIC has also named Myesha Lamison director of benefits technology as a part of EPIC’s employer services platform team.

Pino will be responsible for new business development and the design and management of insurance and risk management programs for her clients. She will report to Tom McCready, managing principal of EPIC’s Sacramento region property/casualty operations.

Pino joins EPIC from Applied Business Solutions, a Reno-based Professional Employer Organization, where she was as a human resource business partner.

Lamison will be based in EPIC’s San Francisco office and report to John Gaffney, operations director of EPIC’s employer services platform. Lamison leads the technology solutions team, working with clients and EPIC account teams across the country.

Lamison has experience in benefits, human resources management system and payroll administration. Before EPIC, Lamison worked in the benefits industry for more than 15 years, including most recently as benefits program manager at Zenefits, as well as prior roles at United Healthcare and TriNet.

San Francisco, Calif.-based EPIC offers commercial property/casualty, employee benefits, specialty program insurance and private client services.

Worldwide Facilities Inc. has named Marvin Altamirano a property broker in Southern California.

Altamirano has more than nine years of experience in placing complex property risks. He has worked as a property broker since 2006.

At Worldwide Facilities he will continue to specialize in excess and surplus lines property placements.

Worldwide Facilities is a national wholesale broker and managing general agent.

Equity Risk Partners has named Kirk Gilleland a senior vice president in property/casualty in the firm’s San Francisco office.

Gilleland has more than 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions due diligence, risk assessment, cash flow analysis and P/C underwriting. Most recently Gilleland served as practice leader of mergers an acquisitions risk management for AHM Financial Group. Before that Gilleland spent more than 10 years at Hartford Insurance, Marsh & McLennan and Aon Risk Services in similar capacities.

Equity Risk Partners is a risk management and employee benefits brokerage.

Wells Fargo Insurance has named Steve Anderson managing director for the San Francisco Bay Area region.

Anderson will lead business development, cross-sell, and sales for Wells Fargo’s four insurance offices. He is based in San Francisco, and will report to Sam Elliott, regional managing director for Wells Fargo Insurance’s West region.

A 15-year company veteran, Anderson joins Wells Fargo Insurance from the Wells Fargo Corporate Banking group, where he recently served as the division head and executive vice president of the West region.

Previously, he was regional vice president for the Pacific Northwest. Anderson also served in several leadership positions at Bank of America and Security Pacific Merchant Bank prior to joining Wells Fargo.

Wells Fargo Insurance is part of Wells Fargo & Company Wells Fargo & Co.