San Diego’s Barney and Barney Adds Four Account Executives

Barney & Barney LLC based in San Diego has added four account executives to its staff: Michele Comtois and Sean Reddy in the Commercial Department, and Mary O’ Tousa and Henry Beceiro in Employee Benefits.

Prior to her new role, Comtois served as a senior underwriter at Arch Insurance Group for two years, where she worked in the development, expansion and servicing of a book of business consisting primarily of public directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, and private company management liability coverage for the western region. Prior to that, she was an investment operations associate at PanAgora Asset Management, and senior custody fund analyst at Investors Bank and Trust in Boston.

Reddy has worked across all lines of insurance with a focus on workers’ compensation, products, and environmental liability. In 2002, he began at Marsh Risk and Insurance Services where he participated in its Graduate Training Program. After completion of the program, he was a client advisor and environmental practice leader with the company.

O’Tousa has spent more than 17 years at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, where she served as the Bay Area Health & Group Benefits Practice Leader, consulting with employers on group health, absence management and disability program issues. Prior to that, she worked as director of financial services at the Hospital Council of Northern California and as a senior staff specialist at the Illinois Health Finance Authority.

Beceiro joins the firm as account executive with 20 years experience in the group benefits practice, having worked previously for another large San Diego brokerage firm, as well as for Blue Cross of California. He has worked with employers across all business sectors including life sciences, technology, public sector and non-profits.