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Everest Insurance appointed Patrick Hagerty senior vice president and head of U.S. retail property. He is based in New York.

Hagerty joined the company’s corporate underwriting team in 2021 and was most recently Everest Insurance’s chief underwriting officer for U.S. property.

Roshan Navagamuwa joined American International Group Inc. (AIG) as executive vice president and chief information officer.

Navagamuwa joins AIG from CVS Health, where he was EVP and CIO.

Rose Marie Glazer, who has served as interim general counsel at AIG since October 1, has been named general counsel, overseeing AIG’s legal, compliance, regulatory and government affairs functions.

Glazer remains an executive vice president and a member of AIG’s executive leadership team.

Cover Whale Insurance Solutions Inc. hired Darryl Siry as chief operating and technology officer. Before joining Cover Whale, Siry most recently served as chief technology officer at SiriusPoint.

Verisk, headquartered in Jersey City, N.J., named Rob Newbold president of Extreme Event Solutions. Current President Bill Churney retired effective Dec. 31, 2023.

Newbold joined Verisk in 2002 as a risk consultant and most recently served as executive vice president and chief operating officer, Extreme Event Solutions.

Churney is retiring from Verisk after 21 years with the company.

Commercial property insurer FM Global appointed Laurel Rudnick senior vice president, division manager for AFM, FM Global’s middle market insurance division.

Rudnick most recently served as operations senior vice president, New York operations manager for FM Global. She joined FM Global in 2006 as a field engineer in Los Angeles.

W. R. Berkley Corp., headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., appointed Mark Schuermann president of Berkley Entertainment, a Berkley company. He succeeds Cindy Broschart, who has been named chair of the business.

Schuermann joined Berkley Entertainment as chief operating officer in 2021.

Broschart was named president of Berkley Entertainment upon its formation in 2004.

Church Mutual Insurance Co. S.I. promoted Alan S. Ogilvie from president to president and chief executive officer. Ogilvie assumed the role from Rich Poirier, who has retired after 12 years of service to the company.

Ogilvie held positions at Wausau Insurance Companies, Caliber One Indemnity, Godfrey & Kahn S.C. and Capitol Insurance Companies before joining Merrill, Wisconsin-based Church Mutual in 2015. He was promoted to president of Church Mutual in January 2023.

World Insurance Associates LLC, headquartered in Iselin, N.J., hired Joe Klein as an executive vice president of its national accounts practice.

Klein, based in Chicago, comes to World with more than 35 years of leadership experience at broking giant Aon Risk Services.

East

W.R. Berkley Corp., headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., appointed Christopher H. Balch president of Berkley Technology Underwriters. He succeeds Matthew A. Mueller, who has been named chairman of the business.

Balch joins Berkley Technology Underwriters with nearly 20 years of experience, including various technical and management roles at a leading national insurance company with a particular focus in the commercial insurance market.

Mueller joined Berkley as president of Berkley Technology Underwriters when it was formed in 2011.

DeCotis Specialty Insurance, headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island added Lori Lyle as senior commercial lines account manager, and Jay Downie as commercial lines insurance broker.

Lyle joins DeCotis after spending nearly four decades on the commercial insurance retail side. Most recently, she served as client executive at Cross Insurance.

Downie started his insurance career nearly 17 years ago. Most recently, he was a territory sales manager for The Hanover Insurance Group.

Convelo Insurance Group, headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., hired Andrew “Andy” Borst as president.

Borst has 25 years of insurance industry experience, most recently serving as president of E&S and international programs. Borst also served as an executive officer at Argo Group and held senior roles at OneBeacon Insurance Group.

Dan Shea, Convelo’s former president, moves into the newly established executive vice president and chief marketing officer role. Shea has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry.

Donegal Insurance Group, based in Marietta, Pennsylvania, named Dan DeLamater executive vice president and chief operating officer.

DeLamater has nearly 30 years of insurance industry experience, with two decades at Donegal, most recently as senior vice president and head of field operations. DeLamater also serves as president of Southern Mutual, a member of Donegal Insurance Group.

Noland Deas succeeds DeLamater as senior vice president of field operations and national accounts. With three decades of industry experience, including 18 years at Donegal, Deas served as regional vice president of the Virginia/North Carolina region and became senior regional vice president in May 2022. He is based in Donegal’s Glen Allen, Virginia, office.

Signers National, a specialty insurance agency group focused on commercial real estate, nonprofits and human service organizations, headquartered in New York, N.Y., hired Chris Parkinson as chief information officer.

Parkinson most recently served as senior vice president of global technology and operations at AmTrust Financial Services.

After more than 35 years with the New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal (NYMIR), including 17 years as executive director, A. Kevin Crawford retired from NYMIR on Dec. 31, 2023.

Peter A. Baynes has been named NYMIR executive director. Baynes previously served as the executive director of the New York State Conference of Mayors (NYCOM).

Marsh named Patrick Hennessy as zone leader for its eight Northeast offices. Based in New York, Hennessy brings 30 years of insurance brokerage, consulting and management experience to the role, having spent his entire career with Marsh, most recently serving as the Northeast zone risk management leader.

Hennessy succeeds Chris Roak, who assumed the newly created role of U.S. strategy and execution leader.

Anthony Lively joined Alliant Insurance Services as senior vice president within its employee benefits group. He is based in Boston.

Lively previously served as area vice president at Gallagher and senior partner at Lively Insurance, an Alera Group company.

Alliant is headquartered in Irvine, California.

ShoreOne Insurance Managers Inc., a coastal home and flood insurance provider headquartered in Dedham, Mass., appointed Russell Carlson as chief financial officer.

ShoreOne offers homeowners and flood coverage in a single policy. It sells in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and South Carolina.

Carlson brings 20 years of financial services and insurance expertise to ShoreOne.

Midwest

Central Insurance has promoted new members to its executive leadership team.

Jessica Seymour, formerly vice president of risk and capital management, has been named chief financial officer.

Chad Glenn, formerly chief actuary, will serve as chief distribution officer.

Jocelyn Pfeifer, former senior vice president of underwriting, will serve as chief insurance officer.

Central Insurance is based in Van Wert, Ohio.

RT Specialty, headquartered in Chicago added Jessalynn Suda to RT Binding Authority’s leadership team.

Suda brings 15 years of underwriting experience to RT Binding Authority. She most recently served as vice president, underwriting for HW Kaufman, Atain Specialty Insurance Companies, Burns & Wilcox.

Unison Risk Advisors, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, hired Andrew Maisano as senior vice president of corporate development.

Maisano most recently worked at TravelCenters of America as vice president of strategy and M&A.

Unison Risk Advisors is the holding company for Oswald Companies of Cleveland, Ohio; Baltimore, Md.-based RCM&D; and Miami, Fla.-based NSI Insurance.

Atain Insurance Companies, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Mich., hired Cara Delestienne as vice president and head of binding authority.

Delestienne has over two decades of insurance industry experience, most recently serving as vice president operations at MacNeill Group Inc.

Society Insurance, headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wis., named Ryan Haase vice president — change management and marketing, and Dennis Saldana vice president — chief sales and underwriting officer.

Haase joined Society Insurance in 2004 and previously served as the company’s director of change management.

Saldana joined Society Insurance in 2003. He most recently served as the company’s director of underwriting.

XPT Specialty, headquartered in New York, N.Y., hired Ben Swift as an underwriter/broker specializing in commercial binding accounts for Midwest retailers.

Before joining XPT, Swift served as a senior commercial underwriter at Chubb Insurance.

Swift is based at XPT’s Indianapolis office.

Alliant Insurance Services, hired Andre Davis as vice president within its employee benefits group in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Before joining Alliant, Davis was a corporate and community engagement executive for Built Interior Construction and vice president and business development officer at Sunflower Bank.

Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, appointed Michael Tate to the newly created role of inland marine — head of product and underwriting.

Tate is based in Chicago. Before Aspen, Tate served as chief underwriting officer at Berkley Fire & Marine.

South Central

Lockton Dunning, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., named Steve Idoux president.

Idoux joined Lockton Dunning in March 2007 as vice president and became a Lockton partner in 2019. In 2021, Idoux was promoted to president of the Dallas office.

Standard Lines Services named Joshua Lakey division leader. Standard Lines Services is a division of Graham-Rogers Insurance, based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Lakey has 18 years of insurance experience and previously served as senior territory manager at Safeco Insurance.

The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. elected the following officers for 2024: President Kimmi Cantwell, McGowan, Donnelly & Oberheu LLC senior vice president of Operations, Austin; Vice President Robert McEwen, MBA, CIC, The Parks Group Inc. president, Austin; and Secretary/Treasurer Terence Babler, vice president, property broker Brown & Riding, Dallas.

New TSLA directors elected for three-year terms are Randy Doss, CRC Group, Houston; Joe Taylor, RT Specialty, Houston; and Morgan Whitt, Towerstone Inc., Dallas.

Elevate Risk Solutions CEO Jerry Messick stepped down from the position but continues to serve the firm as a consultant. With the transition, Elevate’s Managing Director Ryan Ralston was appointed president, and Serena Lintker was promoted from director of Finance to COO.

Ralston is an industry veteran in risk management and insurance, with experience developing and implementing global risk management strategies at Whirlpool, Koch Industries, The Boeing Company, among other prominent organizations.

Based in Oklahoma City, Elevate Risk Solutions provides captive insurance solutions for a variety of businesses.

Matthew Posey has been appointed deputy commissioner of Operations and External Relations at the Texas Department of Workers’ Compensation.

Posey most recently served as government relations manager for Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association. He previously served as a chief of staff in the Texas House of Representatives for more than 10 years under Rep. David Cook and former Rep. Bill Zedler.

Southeast

Wiglesworth-Rindom Insurance Agency, based in Stuart, Florida, named Linda Cathey vice president of agency operations.

Cathey previously was the managing director for Squeeze, an online insurance agency and quote comparison site. She also served as director of personal lines at Marsh McLennan for more than 20 years.

The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers, headquartered in Gainesville, Fla., promoted Adam Baillie to chief operating officer.

Baillie joined Liberty in 2014 as a producer and later became a managing partner. He most recently served as chief strategy officer.

Massachusetts-based underwriting and wholesale brokerage group XS Brokers named Adam Geiss as vice president, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Geiss has spent 15 years in the excess and surplus lines market, including senior roles at Hull & Co.

Alliant Insurance Services named Burney Hutchinson, of Jackson, Miss., a vice president for its Americas Division.

Hutchinson has extensive experience in the industry, including providing commercial coverage for large accounts in the Southeast.

West

INSTANDA, headquartered in London, England, hired Geoff Keast as its new vice president of sales. He is based in Denver.

Before joining INSTANDA, Keast held senior roles with Fiserv and ABnote North America.

San Francisco-based Symphony Grow, the specialty business of Symphony Risk Solutions, appointed Michael H. Sampson as senior director of legal affairs and risk management.

Sampson joins Symphony from Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl, where he co-led the law firm’s cannabis industry group and led the insurance coverage group.

PCF Insurance Services, headquartered in Lehi, Utah, appointed current CFO and COO Felix Morgan as its new CEO.

Peter C. Foy is transitioning from founder, chairman and CEO to founder and chairman.

Morgan has more than 20 years of leadership experience and previously served as CFO at Cotiviti and CFO of Population Health Technology at Aetna.

Foy has more than 35 years of experience, having founded Peter C. Foy & Associates in 1987.

kWh Analytics, headquartered in San Francisco, named Isaac McLean as the company’s chief underwriting officer.

McLean has more than 18 years of insurance experience, previously serving as head of property insurance at kWh Analytics.

Dan Berry has joined Alliant Insurance Services as venture capital leader and executive vice president with Alliant M&A.

Based in San Francisco, Berry previously served as private equity and venture capital group leader at Woodruff Sawyer.

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