Alan W. Ponder has joined the Houston office of insurance brokerage and financial services firm, Higginbotham, as assistant vice president of loss control.
Ponder will apply his three-decade career in loss prevention to identify exposures and implement hazard control programs that reduce losses and contain insurance costs for Higginbotham’s clients in south Texas.
Higginbotham, founded in Fort Worth, Texas, opened its first office in south Texas in 2008 and has grown to nine regional offices.
Ponder earned a bachelor’s degree in public health from Texas A&M University in 1980 and has since worked in loss control capacities with corporations, insurance carriers and brokers.
He has evaluated workers compensation, property, general liability and commercial automobile safety and regulatory exposures for clients in diverse industries including heavy manufacturing and fabrication, commercial property management, agriculture, technology and concentration in the energy sector.
He comes to Higginbotham from Willis of Texas Inc. in Houston where he was a senior risk control consultant.
Ponder is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and provides instruction as an OSHA General Industry authorized trainer, a PEC Premier SafeLand and SafeGulf trainer and H2S trainer with UT Arlington. He is involved with a number of other professional organizations including the American Society of Safety Engineers, Houston STEPS, Food Products Association and Texas Department of Insurance Texas – Division of Workers’ Compensation.
Source: Higginbotham
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