People Moves: POWERS Promotes Pair; TigerRisk Adds Tuttle in Minnesota

POWERS Insurance & Risk Management Promotes Kate Murphy and Shari Smith at VIAA

POWERS Insurance & Risk Management recently promoted Kate Murphy to licensing coordinator and Shari Smith to account manager for sister company Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA).

Murphy will be responsible for licensing and compliance needs across the country. She will handle carrier appointments, license renewals, and arranging continuing education for the company’s associates. Murphy previously served as an Administrative Assistant at POWERS for the past four years.

Smith was promoted to a newly created position at VIAA where she will manage both commercial and personal lines accounts. She also will assist with quoting and issuing new business policies, as well as work with commercial book roll transfers. Prior to her promotion, Smith served as a commercial account manager at POWERS. She has more than 20 years of customer service experience and is a certified insurance service representative.

St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS provides personal and business insurance, surety, and risk management.

TigerRisk Partners Names Bill Tuttle as Partner, Senior Reinsurance Broker

TigerRisk Partners LLC, a leading risk, capital and strategic advisor to the global insurance and reinsurance industries, has announced the appointment of Bill Tuttle as partner, senior reinsurance broker.

Tuttle will be responsible for guiding key clients through complex property placements in this difficult time in the market cycle. He has over 35 years’ experience in the Property & Casualty casualty, and joins most recently from Aon, where he was managing director with a focus on property catastrophe clients. Based in Minnesota, Tuttle will report to Dan Miller.

Tuttle began his career at E.W.Blanch Co. in 1985, working as a reinsurance broker, where he was also involved in the development of new catastrophe models. He then moved to Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) in 2000 as Vice President of Product Marketing, helping to improve catastrophe modeling products and develop new exposure management solutions.

TigerRisk is a risk, capital and strategic advisor to the insurance and reinsurance industries founded in 2008.

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