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Gallagher Broker Anthony Lutrario Recognized as a 2025 Captives Power Broker
Anthony Lutrario, Senior Vice President, Gallagher One of Anthony Lutrario’s clients is an 88-year-old roofing company that has grown to become one of the country’s premier roofing contractors. With a $15 million payroll in a high-risk industry, its workers’ comp policy has grown significantly. Lutrario began working on workers’ comp and general liability claims, then… View Article
Aon Broker Taylor Manders Recognized as a 2025 Captives Power Broker
Taylor Manders, Senior Vice President, Aon Taylor Manders considers client education to be a key responsibility in being an effective and successful insurance broker. In the past year, she has made significant progress in bringing the McDonald’s U.S. all-risk program to fruition. Manders started on the program seven years ago and has since helped grow… View Article
Hylant Broker Sarah Williams Recognized as a 2025 Captives Power Broker
Sarah Williams, Director, Group Captives, Hylant Sarah Williams is driven by a commitment to mastering industry knowledge. Williams recently faced a significant challenge when a founding member of a group captive was forced to take on additional exposures imposed by its parent company. Given that pricing in the standard market was either unavailable or prohibitively… View Article
Gallagher Broker Billy Gage Recognized as a 2025 Captives Power Broker
Billy Gage, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher When Billy Gage entered the insurance industry 25 years ago, he knew he needed a way to distinguish himself from other brokers. Realizing that no one simply wants to receive the same quote year after year, Gage started understanding everything he could about the captive insurance model. Increasingly,… View Article
Gallagher Broker Justin Felker Recognized as a 2025 Captives Power Broker
Justin Felker, Area Vice President, Gallagher Like many areas of the insurance industry, the captive insurance sector is constantly in flux. Successful brokers need a multifaceted approach that combines deep industry knowledge, continuous learning, technology and strategic partnerships. Justin Felker has what it takes. In one example, a longtime captive client acquired a trucking company… View Article
Marsh Broker Allan Smith Recognized as a 2025 Captives Power Broker
Allan Smith, Client Service Leader, Marsh Allan Smith has continued to expand his knowledge in risk and insurance, not only in technical issues but in communicating complex topics to non-insurance professionals. Smith strives to offer his clients what he would expect: responsiveness, professionalism, strategic thinking and long-term planning. One client, an insurance program director for… View Article
Newfront Broker Shantelle Cabir Recognized as a 2025 Construction Power Broker
Shantelle Cabir, Senior Vice President, Newfront Shantelle Cabir is always working to improve her expertise in the construction industry, a proactive approach that pays off for clients that end up with reduced stress and cost savings. One example of her knowledge put to good use occurred when she was asked to review the coverage of… View Article
Aon Broker Jenna Denton Recognized as a 2025 Construction Power Broker
Jenna Denton, Account Executive, Aon Broker Jenna Denton dives deep to understand her clients’ unique needs. “Jenna is thorough in her research, often providing quality, strategic, relevant, and complete information,” said Katrina Pon, risk management business director, McCarthy Holdings, Inc. “She is forward-thinking and is really good at anticipating our needs.” She secured operational insurance… View Article
Oakbridge Broker Thomas Rhodes Recognized as a 2025 Construction Power Broker
Thomas Rhodes, Principal, Oakbridge Thomas Rhodes focuses on what is unique about each of his clients’ businesses and is able to help them identify opportunities for enhancing coverage and decreasing risk. He takes a proactive, consultative approach to his relationships with clients — rather than a hard sell — and revels in seeing their businesses… View Article
Gallagher Broker Cameron Boots Recognized as a 2025 Construction Power Broker
Cameron Boots, Area Vice President, Gallagher 2024 was one of the toughest marketplaces in the last 15 years for crane insurance, but it’s Cameron Boots’ area of expertise. Reduced capacity options for excess liability drove a recent spike in large claim settlements throughout the industry. To help his clients, Boots and his team performed market… View Article
Aon Broker Brandon Schoper Recognized as a 2025 Construction Power Broker
Brandon Schoper, Project Area Advisor & Casualty Broker, Aon Brandon Schoper listens closely to clients, learns their specific needs and provides customized, easy-to-understand solutions to complex situations. Early in his career, Schoper learned about OCIPs, which allow an owner to secure and manage insurance coverage for a construction project, and CCIPs, which enable a general… View Article
Marsh Broker Philippe Dion Recognized as a 2025 Construction Power Broker
Philippe Dion, Vice President, Marsh Philippe Dion’s clients are glad to have him on their side as they face an increase in devastating storms and other threats. Although he boasts a diverse book of clients with varied project types and many different locations, Dion keeps abreast of the unique challenges and risks they each face…. View Article
Marsh Broker Eyad Kabbani Recognized as a 2025 Cyber Power Broker
Eyad Kabbani, VP, Cyber Advisor, Marsh Five months into her new job at Lehigh Valley Health Network in eastern Pennsylvania, Kimberly Krupka confronted a Russian ransomware attack that compromised sensitive information, including nude photos of cancer patients undergoing treatment. Broker Eyad Kabbani shepherded the health system through the breach’s aftermath by coordinating vendors, making required… View Article
Marsh Broker David Earl Recognized as a 2025 Cyber Power Broker
David Earl, Client Advisor, Marsh As a government services contractor, Amentum takes on projects with fairly complicated risks. They can be tough to explain to underwriters, and some even involve classified matters, said Stephen Easley, senior director of risk management for the company, which is based in Chantilly, Va. David Earl has done a “phenomenal… View Article
Johnson Kendall Johnson Broker Alexandra Bretschneider Recognized as a 2025 Cyber Power Broker
Alexandra Bretschneider, VP, Cyber Practice Leader, Johnson Kendall Johnson When a nonprofit discovered that a hacker had accessed the email account of a staff member in accounts payable, time was critical. “There was no telling to what extent they were able to change things,” said a finance executive at the organization. Alexandra Bretschneider quickly marshaled… View Article
Newfront Broker Michele Lepper Recognized as a 2025 Cyber Power Broker
Michele Lepper, AIC, SCLA, Senior Cyber Claims Consultant, Newfront After its carrier denied a seven-figure claim related to the Change Healthcare outage, the legal executive at a pharmaceutical company wanted to keep pressing. He sat down with broker Michele Lepper, who pored over the claim and made the case again. And again. On the third… View Article
Marsh Broker Julian Sylvestro Recognized as a 2025 Cyber Power Broker
Julian Sylvestro, SVP, Marsh A manufacturer had five months to create a cyber program for a business unit it was spinning off as a standalone company with a significantly different cyber risk. “It’s something that is easily messed up, because it’s complicated and it’s super timeconsuming,” said the risk manager for the manufacturer. Broker Julian… View Article
Aon Broker Adam Bruere Recognized as a 2025 Cyber Power Broker
Adam Bruere, VP, Team Leader, Aon When a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare created a backlog of unpaid health claims, it raised concerns at Meijer, a grocery chain with pharmacy operations. Tabatha Greer, the chain’s risk manager, reached out to broker Adam Bruere, knowing he would be on top of the situation. “You can tell… View Article
AssuredPartners Broker Steve Crawford Recognized as a 2025 Education Power Broker
Steve Crawford, Senior Executive Vice President, AssuredPartners Steve Crawford grew up in his family’s insurance brokerage before it was acquired by AssuredPartners, providing him with more than 30 years of insurance experience that benefits educational institutions throughout Kentucky. Seeing districts faced with daunting insurance premiums in their property and casualty programs, Crawford mobilized a creative… View Article
Risk Strategies Broker Scott Kurzynski Recognized as a 2025 Education Power Broker
Scott Kurzynski, Senior Account Executive, Risk Strategies It’s not every day that a president of the United States visits, but that’s just what happened at Sarah Lawrence University. Thanks to Scott Kurzynski, the school was prepared on short notice for this unique risk management experience. Kurzynski answered the call on a Saturday afternoon, telling him… View Article