Marsh McLennan Appoints Potter US and Canada Chief Commercial Officer
Marsh McLennan, headquartered in New York, N.Y., appointed Susan Potter as U.S. and Canada commercial officer.
Based in Washington, D.C., Potter brings more than 25 years of commercial and public sector consulting, management and leadership experience to her new position. She joined Mercer in 2019 as chief commercial officer for the U.S. and Canada after a 25-year career at Willis Towers Watson.
Rokstone Appoints Berisha, Vandermyde for Marine Team
Rokstone, the Aventum Group’s re/insurance MGA, has appointed Alex Berisha as head of US marine cargo and Derek Vandermyde as underwriting manager, inland marine, both based in New York.
The pair join Rokstone later this month. Berisha joins from Liberty where he was vice president US marine cargo manager for the past 17 years. Experienced and well known across the market, Berisha joins Mike Nukk who also previously spent 20 years at Liberty and was appointed head of Marine at Rokstone last month.
In an additional appointment to the North America Marine team, Vandermyde joins from Starr Insurance where he was senior underwriter for Inland Marine. Prior to that he spent five years at Lexington Insurance as senior underwriter. He is a specialist in both retail and wholesale transportation.
London-based Rokstone plans to grow the Marine portfolio in North America from a startup to $100 million in five years, focused on middle market North American business.
Topics USA Commercial Lines Canada
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