January 3, 2023
RIMS today announced that Jennifer Santiago will lead the Society as president for the 2023 term, effective January 1. Santiago is the director, risk management & safety at Wakefern Food Corp., the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States with …
April 19, 2022
RIMS announced Gary LaBranche will take over as the society’s new CEO on June 1 following the retirement of Mary Roth, who served for 37 years at RIMS. Since March 2017, LaBranche has served as president and CEO of Virginia-based …
April 14, 2022
AIG Appoints Tom Bolt EVP and Chief Risk Officer American International Group (AIG) said Tom Bolt was named Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, effective immediately. He replaces Sabra Purtill, who was named Executive Vice President and Chief Investment …
January 25, 2022
Risk professionals at all levels in the United States experienced an average 14.4% base salary increase in 2021 compared to 2019, while Canadian practitioners experienced an average 18.8% increase in the same period, according to the bi-annual survey RIMS 2021 …
September 21, 2021
RIMS, the global risk management society with a membership of 10,000 risk management professionals in more than 60 countries, has implemented new guidelines that will require attendees at RIMS’ in-person events to show that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. …
February 18, 2020
A risk professional is no longer merely someone who just focuses on protecting assets, according to Ward Ching, a managing director of the Western region at Aon. Ching not only sees a growing need for risk professionals to realize this …
February 11, 2020
The culture at technology startups like Uber, Airbnb and PayPal is all about risk-taking. They start by offering a unique, untested or reimagined product or service or by disrupting an industry’s established production, distribution or sales methods. To succeed long-term, …
January 2, 2020
The risk management society, RIMS, announced that Laura Langone, head of Insurance Operations at Airbnb, Inc., will lead the association as president for the 2020 term. As president, Langone is succeeding Gloria Brosius, who is director of Risk Management and …
March 7, 2019
Luke Figora, senior associate vice president and chief risk and compliance officer at Illinois’ Northwestern University has been selected as the 2019 RIMS Risk Manager of the Year. The RIMS Risk Manager of the Year program aims to raise the …
February 5, 2019
The risk management society RIMS has formed a Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council tasked with identifying “relevant diversity and inclusion goals” for the society to pursue in its activities, as well as providing guidance on how best to achieve them. …