The Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) has appointed Mark Friedlander as its new Florida-based communications consultant.
Friedlander was most recently a communications consultant at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), where he focused on media relations. He is the former head of corporate communications and assistant secretary at The Main Street America Group, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based super-regional property/casualty insurance carrier. He has also held senior communications and marketing roles at Prudential Financial and HSBC Holdings PLC.
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Friedlander has also held leadership roles within several insurance industry trade associations, including chairing the Insurance Marketing & Communications Association as well as the IBHS Communications Committee.
He’s also served as a member of the Trusted Choice Company Partner Advisory Board and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America Agency Best Practices Program.
Friedlander succeeds Lynne McChristian, who had been the I.I.I.’s Florida-based communications consultant since 2008. McChristian was named earlier this year the director of the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Researchat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also a senior instructor teaching insurance and enterprise risk management classes. She continues to serve as an I.I.I. spokesperson and a non-resident scholar.
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