People Moves: Resilience Names Jones to Lead Engineering and Gittler Global Head of Claims; USG Hires McMahon, Buck and Gudenkauf

Resilience, headquartered in New York, named Rebecca Jones as senior vice president of engineering and Jeremy Gittler as global head of claims.

Jones takes over leadership responsibilities for the company’s engineering team and software delivery efforts. She brings over 20 years of experience leading growth market technology initiatives for various SaaS companies, most recently serving as senior vice president of technology at Disco and including previous roles as advisor, chief technology officer head of engineering at Trove and vice president and director of engineering at Credit.com.

Gittler will lead the company’s Global Claims team. Before joining Resilience, he held underwriting and claims leadership positions at global commercial insurance provider AXA XL, where he launched and built its cyber claims team. Earlier in his career, he handled complex cyber and technology claims at AIG and worked as a litigation attorney at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP.

USG Hires McMahon, Buck and Gudenkauf

USG Insurance Services, Inc., headquartered in Tampa, Florida, made three new hires to its teams in Texas, Arkansas and Georgia.

Thomas McMahon joins the USG Arlington, Texas office with over 25 years of industry experience. He most recently served as a broker and sales manager for FloodFlash and previously worked as an agency sales manager for AFR Services.

Kelly Buck joins the USG team in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a producer/broker on their personal lines team. With over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, she most recently served in personal lines underwriting at Risk Placement Services.

Tara Gudenkauf joins USG’s Atlanta team as a producer/broker. With 20 years in the E&S insurance industry and 38 years overall in commercial insurance, Gudenkauf has worked in commercial, professional, workers’ compensation, transportation/garage, and personal lines. She most recently served as senior vice president of underwriting at Southern Insurance Underwriters, Inc. and previously served as a vice president at Jencap.

Topics Claims