People Moves: New Hire at Risk Strategies; Promotions at Ames & Gough

Risk Strategies Hires Honig as Compliance Director for Employee Benefits

Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, hired Erica Honig as the compliance director for its employee benefits division.

In this new role, Honig will provide the life and health team and its clients and prospects with compliance assistance, education and training with respect to federal, state and local health and welfare benefits law.

Honig has a diverse background and experience creating and implementing benefit programs that enhance employee engagement and drive strategic business objectives. Most recently, she was a senior global benefits manager with a business immigration law firm. Prior to that role, Honig was a global benefits compliance manager at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and a benefits and contracts specialist at White & Case LLP.

With 25 specialty practices, Risk Strategies serves commercial companies, nonprofits, public entities and individuals.

Source: Risk Strategies

Ames & Gough Promotes Two Executives in Washington D.C. Office

Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms, associations/nonprofits and other professional service organizations, appointed Tom Marchetti as senior vice president and Kim Fruin as assistant vice president. Both executives are based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.

Marchetti, elected an equity partner of Ames & Gough in 2014, previously was a vice president. In addition to working with some of the firm’s larger design firm and construction management clients throughout the U.S., he co-leads the growth of the firm’s national association/nonprofit business initiative. He also has direct responsibility for overall business development in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, Florida and other parts of the country. He joined Ames & Gough in 2010 after leading the construction and real estate team at an insurance and risk management advisory firm in New Jersey.

Fruin has served as a senior account manager at Ames & Gough focusing on small firm property/casualty and professional liability insurance placements. She began her insurance career in 1986 as an account manager in the architects and engineers division of Victor, then Victor O. Schinnerer. Subsequently, she worked on agency programs in multiple states for Lexington Insurance Company’s small program division. Later, she served as an underwriter with Travelers medical services division. She joined Ames & Gough in 2008.

With more than 1,700 architects, engineering firms and other construction professionals of all sizes as clients, Ames & Gough is a specialty insurance brokerage and risk consulting firm serving the needs of these professionals.

Source: Ames & Gough