People & Places

National

Resilience, headquartered in San Francisco, named Killian Brady chief underwriting officer. He will continue to act in his role as chief operating officer of global insurance operations.

Brady has more than 15 years of industry experience.

Everest Insurance, the insurance division of Everest Group Ltd. headquartered in Warren, New Jersey, appointed Stephen Buonpane to lead the company’s U.S. wholesale and programs business.

Buonpane most recently served as head of Everest’s casualty lines and industry practices business.

Everest also named Danielle Stewart chief operating officer. Stewart currently serves as the national head of wholesale distribution for Everest Insurance and was previously the director of business strategy at Liberty Mutual.

Chubb appointed George Ohsiek as vice president and chief accounting officer of the Chubb Group. He currently serves as chief auditor of the group. Before joining Chubb in 2008, Ohsiek served at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and KPMG.

Ohsiek succeeds Annmarie Hagan, who has been named vice president of Chubb Group and chief financial officer of operations, technology and transformation. Hagan has over 35 years of industry experience.

Mong-Diep “Dee” Le will succeed Ohsiek as chief auditor. She currently serves as executive vice president and global controller for Chubb and is internal audit functions worldwide. Le has more than 25 years of accounting and reporting experience.

East

IMA Financial Group Inc. expanded its team in New York City, hiring Shawn A. Jacobs for the newly created role of employee benefits new business client executive.

Jacobs has 17 years of industry experience and joins IMA from UnitedHealthcare.

DeCotis Specialty Insurance, headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, named Jessica Wrigley as director of commercial lines.

Most recently, Wrigley served as a senior territory manager and marketing representative for Safeco Insurance.

XPT Specialty, headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, appointed Tyler Myers as transportation underwriter.

Myers has over 10 years of experience as a broker specializing in underwriting commercial automobile risks.

Midwest

Powers Insurance & Risk Management, headquartered in St. Louis, hired Brittany Gaglioti as a commercial account manager and Contina Hester as a personal lines marketer.

Gaglioti brings nearly 10 years of experience in the insurance industry to her new position.

Hester has five years of experience in the insurance industry, having previously served as a licensed account manager at M3 Insurance.

GuideOne Insurance Company, headquartered in De Moines, Iowa, appointed Travis Sheets senior vice president and general counsel. Previously, Sheets served as chief legal officer for BH Companies.

South Central

BevCap Management LLC, headquartered in McKinney, Texas, hired Danny Vehovic as vice president of dealer risk services.

Vehovic most recently served as regional distribution executive, central U.S., at Berkley Aspire.

Skyward Specialty Insurance Group appointed Julie Miglin as vice president, spearheading the expansion of its Healthcare Solutions unit with the introduction of its new Life Sciences solutions. Miglin has more than 15 years of underwriting experience.

Steven Smith joined Skyward Specialty to lead the Transactional E&S Property portfolio. Smith has more than 30 years of underwriting expertise specializing in the segment.

Southeast

Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, named Sean Bisig vice president and producer in its employee benefits group.

He will continue to be based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

West

MGIS, headquartered in Salt Lake City, named Jim Wrage vice president of sales and distribution. Wrage worked for more than three decades at Principal Financial Group.

Kurt Meyer retires from his role as MGIS chief sales officer at the end of the year. He joined the company in 2013 and previously served as vice president of underwriting and operations, group benefits.

Alliant Insurance Services opened an office in Honolulu, the firm’s second location in Hawaii.

Chad Karasaki, managing director, will lead the Honolulu office. Before joining Alliant, Karasaki most recently served as chairman, CEO and resident managing director at Aon Risk Services Inc. of Hawaii.

Michael Grossi, executive vice president, has over 29 years of surety and insurance industry experience in Hawaii. He most recently served as managing director and executive vice president at Aon Risk Services Inc. of Hawaii.

WCF Insurance, headquartered in Sandy, Utah, promoted Ken Houting to senior vice president of middle market.

Houting has over 20 years of insurance experience, most recently serving as WCF’s vice president of commercial claims. Before joining WCF in 2022, Houting was head of new markets and strategic accounts for Farmers Insurance Group.

Ushur, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, named Mike Price chief revenue officer.

Price has 20 years of experience in sales leadership, most recently as CRO at Radiant Logic.

Ushur serves insurance and other industries with AI-powered customer experience automation.

BenefitMall hired Crystal Bishop as a benefits sales executive for Southern California.

Bishop has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry.

BenefitMall is headquartered in Dallas.

Woodruff Sawyer added four producers who will open a new office in Modesto, California, focusing on the Central Valley’s agriculture, ranching and dairy industries.

The team includes Michael Brunn, Rick Moen, Serafim Fontes and April Kobayashi.

All four previously served in various roles at Andreini & Co.

Woodruff Sawyer is headquartered in San Francisco.

Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, named Travis Davis senior vice president within its Alliant Americas division.

Davis is based in Bend, Oregon. Before joining Alliant, Davis most recently served as a risk advisor for Marsh McLennan Agency.