Hirigoyen Joins John B. Collins Associates as Marketing VP

Minneapolis-based reinsurance broker John B. Collins Associates has named Patrick Hirigoyen vice president of marketing and communications.

Collins brokers reinsurance for clients in the property/casualty, life, and accident and health insurance markets. The firm has offices across the United States as well as in London and in Bermuda. Since its founding in 1987, Collins has also grown rapidly in the global reinsurance marketplace. It placed more than $1.5 billion in ceded premiums in 2004.

Hirigoyen’s responsibilities include corporate communications, advertising and media relations strategies and programs.

Hirigoyen, 52, previously worked 17 years for the St. Paul Cos. (now St. Paul Travelers), where he held several positions in corporate communications and public relations. During the 1990s he led marketing communications and public relations strategies and programs for St. Paul Re, based in New York City.