Strongwood: Brandeis, Oslie and Dubois to Executive Posts in California

David Brandeis has been named chief operating officer for Monterey, Calif.-based Strongwood Insurance Holdings, while Larry Oslie was promoted to executive vice president of business development and Laura Dubois was made executive vice president of account management services for Networked Insurance Agents.

Brandeis will lead cross-functional initiatives for all distribution companies. He joined Strongwood in 2004 as chief information officer, and will continue to serve in that role as well.

Oslie joined Networked in 2003. Oslie will lead all teams with pre-bind responsibilities: new business placement in the Northern California and Southern California offices, sales, online placement, personal lines placement, and affiliate services. Oslie will also serve as office manager for the Orange office.

Dubois has held several leadership roles within Strongwood since 2006. She will work from the Grass Valley office and will lead the new Account Management Services team which handles postbind functions: renewal business account managers, customer service, business processing, quality control, cluster management, and the Monterey-based Strongwood Insurance Service Center.

Strongwood Insurance Holdings, Grass Valley, Calif.-based Networked Insurance Agents, Northeast Agencies and AmCom Insurance Services are the companies of Strongwood Insurance Holdings. Strongwood serves independent retail agents with resources to write more new business and improve client retention. Networked has offices in Northern and Southern California, and serves more than 1,000 agent affiliate members in 10 Western states.

Topics California Agencies