People & Places

National

FM Global’s board of directors named President and CEO Malcolm C. Roberts chair of the board. Roberts succeeds Thomas A. Lawson, former president and CEO of FM Global, who served as chair since 2018.

Roberts joined FM Global, headquartered in Johnston, Rhode Island, in 1995 as a loss prevention consultant in London. In August 2021, Roberts was named president and elected to the board of directors. He began as CEO on Jan. 1, 2022.

Beazley appointed Melissa Carmichael head of U.S. cyber. She is based in New York.

Carmichael joins from Aon, where she most recently held the role of managing director, specialty and middle market leader. Prior to this she spent more than 16 years at Marsh where she went on to become managing director, NY FINPRO practice leader.

Marsh McLennan Agency, headquartered in New York, appointed Anne Rappa to the newly created position of fine arts and specie leader.

Rappa joins Marsh McLennan Agency from Aon’s Huntington T. Block Insurance Agency, a fine arts insurance broker, where she was most recently a senior vice president. She has nearly 30 years of experience in the fine arts insurance field.

East

New York’s St. John’s University appointed Henry “Hank” Watkins Jr., regional director and president of Lloyd’s Americas, as executive director and associate dean of the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science (GSRM) at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business.

Watkins assumes his new role on November 1, replacing Brandon W. Sweitzer, who has served as dean of the Greenberg School since 2011 and who is retiring from the position.

Watkins served for 15 years at Lloyd’s Americas. He has more than 43 years of experience in the global property/casualty insurance industry.

Former owner Terry Grindle has retired from The Roland Grindle Agency, a division of Brown, Holmes & Milliken in Bucksport, Maine.

Grindle spent nearly 50 years in the insurance industry. His grandfather, Ivor Grindle, founded the agency in 1937. The agency was sold to Cross Insurance in 2016 and sold again in 2019, becoming a division of Brown, Holmes & Milliken while operating under the Roland Grindle name.

Brown & Riding, headquartered in Dallas, hired Rina Visconti as a senior vice president and broker in its national casualty practice.

Based in New York, Visconti has over 27 years of experience in the insurance industry, specializing in construction. She most recently served as a broker at CRC Insurance Services.

Holden Strub joined Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, as a producer within its national employee benefits group. Strub is based out of Alliant’s east region.

Before joining Alliant, Strub was a brand account manager for Corestream and an account project manager for Vancery.

John Bell joined Alliant as vice president within its employee benefits group. Bell’s will support clients in the Northeast with benefit selection, employee enrollment efforts, and the onboarding process.

Before coming to Alliant, Bell served as sales manager at Roofing Rochester, as an associate broker at Keller Williams Realty Inc., sales director at US Employee Benefits Services Group and strategic benefits consultant at Brown & Brown Insurance.

Midwest

RT Specialty, headquartered in Chicago, promoted six to leadership roles in its environmental and construction professional practice.

Hannah Altomare was promoted to consultant. Altomare joined RT ECP six years ago. She previously served as commercial lines account manager at Dash & Love Inc. and as a senior associate claim constant at Conner Strong and Buckelew.

Tim Prosser has been promoted to assistant vice president and will continue to lead RT ECP’s southeast region. Before joining RT, he was an underwriter at RLI Insurance Co.

Drew Rothman was promoted to assistant vice president. He will continue to lead the southwest region. Before joining RT, he was an AE lines claims manager at Beazley and an attorney at Andrew Moore & Associates and Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo P.C.

Joseph Buono was promoted to assistant vice president. Buono has been with the RT ECP team for nearly 15 years. Before joining RT, he was an account manager at HUB and Bart Proud Insurance.

David Slaugenhoup has been promoted to senior vice president. He joined the RT ECP team in 2013 after working as an environmental consultant at Kleinfelder.

Joe Reynolds has been promoted to executive vice president. Before joining RT ECP in 2018, he served as vice president- architects and engineers product head at Hiscox and vice president-design professional liability at XL Catlin.

CRC Group, headquartered in Honolulu, hired Andrew Weinberg as an underwriting team leader specializing in transportation.

Weinberg is based in CRC’s Minneapolis office.

Before joining CRC Group, Weinberg served as an underwriter at Burns & Wilcox and a commercial transportation specialist with The Paladin Group.

Huntington Bancshares Inc., parent company of The Huntington National Bank, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, appointed Angie Klett as president of Huntington Insurance Inc.

Current president Mary Beth Sullivan is retiring July 1 after nearly 20 years of service at Huntington.

Klett most recently served as senior vice president of corporate development at Nationwide Insurance, where she led mergers and acquisitions, ventures, and strategic partnerships.

South Central

IMA Financial Group Inc., headquartered in Denver, named John Mizell a director within IMA Houston’s energy and marine practice.

Before joining IMA, Mizell led McGriff Insurance Services Inc.’s Houston office as executive vice president and energy and marine practice leader.

XPT Specialty added Suzette Torres as vice president of personal lines.

With a career spanning more than 15 years in the industry, Torres previously served as managing director at Burns & Wilcox and vice president, underwriting leader, and senior vice president at AmWINS Group.

West

Risk Strategies, based in Boston, named Bryan Newman private client services leader for the West region.

Newman has more than 15 years of experience. Most recently, he was the field marketing director for Cincinnati Insurance.

The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers named Neal Rubin senior vice president, benefits. Rubin is based in Irvine, California.

Rubin has more than 40 years of experience in the Southern California employee benefits sector. He spent seven years as vice president at Millennium Corporate Solutions and previously served as a consultant at Reliant Reinsurance Company, vice president at CBIZ and president at Planned Health Services.

Liberty is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida.

Specialty wholesaler Capitola Insurance in California completed its rebranding to Flow Specialty and added new leadership.

David Derigiotis has been named president of brokerage and head of insurance. Derigiotis has 20 years of specialty insurance industry experience.

BenefitMall named Sam Patton benefits sales executive for Colorado.

Patton most recently served as an executive disability benefits consultant with Unum.

BenefitMall also added Xavier Montes to its individual and senior division (ISD) as broker sales executive for California.

Montes is based in Whittier, California.

Montes has over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. He most recently served as a broker sales executive at Kaiser Permanente.

BenefitMall is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Lynn Roberts joined the employee benefits group in the Gold River, California, office of LP Insurance Services LLC.

Roberts has over 30 years of industry experience and most recently worked as a benefits consultant at OneDigital.

LP Insurance is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

AMERIND, headquartered in Bernalillo, New Mexico, named Sheryl Sattler chief financial officer.

Sattler is an advisor and strategic partner to the company’s leadership team and oversees finance, human resources, IT and corporate communications.

Sattler has more than 35 years of experience in the financial and insurance industries. She was most recently assistant divisional controller at Trean Corp.

Andy Anguis joined Crest Insurance Group as a commercial lines broker in its Chandler, Arizona, office.

Anguis has 25 years of insurance industry experience. He most recently served as vice president of sales, personal lines, at Arthur J. Gallagher (U.S.) LLC.

Crest is based in Tucson, Arizona.