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People Moves: Nordholm joins Mercury as Head of Technical Product

Mercury Insurance, headquartered in Brea, Calif., named Cameron Nordholm as its head of technical product. Before joining Mercury Insurance, Nordholm was head of product and head of strategy at AgentSync and served as a product consultant at Diegetic Media, LLC.

People Moves: IOA Names New Western Division Team Members

Insurance Office of America (IOA) named three new members to its western division team based in Encino, Calif. Ricky Choi is a senior advisor and leader of IOA’s newly launched Korean practice. Choi has more than two decades of expertise …

People Moves: California Commissioner Makes Appointments to Curriculum Board, CAARP and COIN

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara named new members Colbie McRae, Gloria Mitchell, and Vinh Truong to the Curriculum Board; Michael Golden to the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan (CAARP) Advisory Committee; and reappointed members Rudy Espinoza and Maïté Irakoze Baur …

People Moves: Breskin Joins Insurance Office of America’s Western Division

Insurance Office of America added Jeffrey Breskin to its western division team. Breskin has more than 35 years of experience in risk management, claims, safety, and workers’ compensation laws and regulations. He previously served as senior vice president, risk management …

People Moves: Pie in Colorado Names Four VPs to Leadership Team

Pie Insurance, headquartered in Denver, Colo., appointed four new vice presidents to its leadership team. Pie promoted Carla Woodard to vice president of claims. Woodard has more tahn 25 years of claims management experience, including most recently as director of …

People Moves: CIBA in California Names Aldorisio Head of Product Development

CIBA, headquartered in Glendale, Calif., named Andrew Aldorisio head of product development and a member of the executive management team. Aldorisio has more than 15 years of insurance experience, most recently as chief underwriting officer at Obsidian Insurance Holdings, Inc., …

People Moves: Woodruff Sawyer in California Names New VPs

Woodruff Sawyer, based in San Francisco, Calif., named two new vice presidents. Owen Igbinosun joined the firm as vice president, management liability, focused on private equity and real estate in the upper middle markets. Before joining Woodruff Sawyer, Igbinosun spent …

People Moves: Insurance Office of America Hires Leland to Western Division

Insurance Office of America (IOA), headquartered in Longwood, Fla., hired Zack Leland to its western division team. Based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., Leland joins IOA as a commercial lines producer, focusing primarily on staffing, contractors, warehousing and logistics. Before joining …

People Moves: Frank Joins the WCF Insurance Board in Utah

WCF Insurance appointed Jan Frank to the company’s board of directors for a four-year term. Frank’s experience in the trade spans almost three decades. Most recently, she was chair, CEO, and president of Pacific Compensation Insurance Company, a California specialty …

People Moves: SAIF in Oregon Promotes Keefer to Chief Actuarial Officer

SAIF, headquartered in Salem, Ore., named Olivia Keefer its new chief actuarial officer. Keefer previously served as actuarial director. In her new role, she manages the reserves process, oversees ratemaking and the rate filing process, maintains the economic capital model …