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Marsh Broker Liza Webster Recognized as a 2023 Environmental Power Broker
Liza Webster, Senior Vice President, Marsh Managing the cost of a client’s premiums once can be relatively straightforward, particularly if they’re overpaying. Doing it twice is much harder — especially as capacity shrinks. That’s what Liza Webster’s client with a large real estate portfolio faced; because it was so heavily marketed during the previous cycle,… View Article
CAC Specialty Broker John Kim Recognized as a 2023 Environmental Power Broker
John Kim, Senior Vice President, CAC Specialty In 2022, John Kim took on two dauntingly complex projects on opposite coasts, both involving major remediation efforts. One, a property transaction and development project in New York, came with known contaminants, both from its history of onsite operations and from upstream groundwater contamination. Both buyer and seller… View Article
Aon Broker Trisha Blau Recognized as a 2023 Environmental Power Broker
Trisha Blau, Managing Director, Aon Life handed many of us challenges in 2022. It handed Trisha Blau a handful. Luckily, she came prepared. First, a superfund site, a former landfill the purchase and development of which would make it an industrial park, bringing jobs to a Denver neighborhood, assuming it could meet stringent environmental insurance… View Article
Aon Broker Blythe Hogan Recognized as a 2023 Fine Arts Power Broker
Blythe Hogan, Vice President & Director, Aon When a private art collector wanted to loan some of their works to a museum in Florida for an exhibition, they felt confident Blythe Hogan would be able to manage their insurance needs for the six-month exhibition. The borrowing institution had been unable to provide primary insurance for… View Article
Risk Strategies Broker Emily Schaffer Recognized as a 2023 Fine Arts Power Broker
Emily Schaffer, Assistant Vice President, Risk Strategies As an artist herself, Emily Schaffer has an intimate understanding of the unique risks art made from different materials can harbor. Whether it’s sketches on paper, paintings on canvas or sculptures made of stone, she’s acutely aware of the elements that can damage a great piece. “Her knowledge… View Article
Risk Strategies Broker Mary Pontillo Recognized as a 2023 Fine Arts Power Broker
Mary Pontillo, Senior Vice President/Fine Art Practice Leader, Risk Strategies “Mary really has no competition in this area,” said one client of Mary Pontillo. “She’s not just in a different league, she’s playing a different sport.” This year, Pontillo worked with her clients to navigate a number of insurance challenges. For a large museum client,… View Article
Risk Strategies Broker Christopher Wise Recognized as a 2023 Fine Arts Power Broker
Christopher Wise, Vice President, Risk Strategies With Christopher Wise, artists never have to worry about insurance: “I know jack about insurance. It’s not my forte. My forte is being creative,” a client said. “[With Chris,] you know somebody’s there. Somebody has your back.” Take artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, who has his own studio where he employs… View Article
Newfront Broker Cameron Lock Recognized as a 2023 Finance Power Broker
Cameron Lock, AVP, P&C Account Executive, Newfront Cameron Lock treats each client as though they are his only client. Seeing himself as a key stakeholder in forming their risk management strategies, he dedicates extra time and effort to fully understand their businesses, especially those in the evolving digital assets sector. By staying up-to-date on news… View Article
Starkweather & Shepley Broker Jessica Thayer Recognized as a 2023 Finance Power Broker
Jessica Thayer, SVP & Financial Institutions Practice Leader, Starkweather & Shepley Responsive, proactive and knowledgeable are three words that were repeated by clients when describing Jessica Thayer. “Overcommunicate, pick up the phone, return calls and reply to email,” is how Thayer outlines her approach to client service. These tactics may seem simplistic, but they hold… View Article
Gallagher Broker Eileen Yuen Recognized as a 2023 Finance Power Broker
Eileen Yuen, Managing Director, Financial Institutions, Gallagher Broker Eileen Yuen surprises her clients with how much time she invests in learning the intricacies of their businesses. Despite the breadth of the national book she oversees, “We always feel like she’s attuned to what’s going on with us as an institution, with what our needs are,… View Article
Aon Broker Jacqueline Waters Recognized as a 2023 Finance Power Broker
Jacqueline Waters, Managing Director & Practice Leader, Aon Listening is at the heart of Jacqueline Waters’ client approach. She listens to their spoken needs and pays particular attention to what goes unsaid but is at the crux of the matter. “And when she talks, people listen,” one of her clients at a global corporation said…. View Article
Newfront Broker John McCall Recognized as a 2023 Finance Power Broker
John McCall, SVP, Financial Institutions & FinTech Practice Leader, Newfront, San Francisco John McCall has been described as a “culture-focused” leader who guides his team in providing careful, thoughtful guidance to build specialized programs that meet and support his clients’ goals. Though individual in design, the solutions that emerge from McCall’s diligent collaboration with clients… View Article
Willis Towers Watson Broker Jason Bosley Recognized as a 2023 Finance Power Broker
Jason Bosley, Director, Risk & Broking, Willis Towers Watson Jason Bosley’s brokering philosophy centers upon ensuring that clients are heard and valued and that they view his team as an extension of their internal risk management team. Because claims or other issues can arise at any time, he focuses on being readily available for clients… View Article
Gallagher Broker Michael Boisvert Recognized as 2023 Health Care Power Broker
Michael Boisvert, Area Vice President, Gallagher Michael Boisvert is no stranger to the difficulties a renewal can bring. Add the usual hurdles to last year’s hardening market and Boisvert was truly put to the test. Still, he delivered for his clients. “This was a very challenging year in regard to renewing all lines of coverage,”… View Article
Marsh Broker Tara Clayton Recognized as 2023 Health Care Power Broker
Tara Clayton, Senior Vice President, Marsh Focus Healthcare Partners LLC was approaching its general liability and property liability renewal in early 2022. Four claims that had occurred in the year prior were causing a potential hiccup in the company’s chances of a successful renewal. “[With] four claims at one property, [the] loss developments [were] very… View Article
RCM&D Broker Kevin Carnell Recognized as a 2023 Health Care Power Broker
Kevin Carnell, Chief Legal Officer/Health Care Corporate Division Director, RCM&D For clients of Kevin Carnell, captives go the extra mile, thanks to his ability to generate innovative ideas. “[Kevin] is always coming up with innovative uses for [our] captive,” said Susan Martielli, vice president for legal services, Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The center’s captive is… View Article
Marsh Broker Natalie Gomez Recognized as a 2023 Health Care Power Broker
Natalie Gomez, Account Executive, Marsh Clients of Natalie Gomez are impressed by her eagerness to delve into their risk profiles. This stems from her approach to brokering — which, according to her Power Broker application, involves “becoming an extension of the client’s risk management team.” Bree Williams, director of corporate risk at Ventas, recognizes this… View Article
Marsh Broker Eileen Flaherty Recognized as a 2023 Health Care Power Broker
Eileen Flaherty, Senior Vice President, Health Care, Marsh It’s clear that Eileen Flaherty is both an expert in cyber and a key mediator between health care organizations and underwriters. Tim Slowick, director of risk management for UMass Memorial Health, said, “We had a difficult [renewal] in 2021 with EPL, cyber and D&O. 2022 was much… View Article
IMA Financial Group Broker Andrew Agress Recognized as a 2023 Health Care Power Broker
Andrew Agress, Executive Vice President, Bolton, an IMA Company Going to extraordinary lengths for clients is a cornerstone of what it takes to be a Power Broker. But it’s what Andrew Agress of Bolton did for those who weren’t his clients that has earned him the distinction this year. When Traffic Management Inc. was gearing… View Article
BKS Partners Broker Joey Masters Recognized as a 2023 Hospitality Power Broker
Joey Masters, Senior Advisor, BKS Partners BKS Partners’ Joey Masters has a hotel company client that had some real coverage issues. The situation was very complicated, but here are a few salient points: The cyber program wasn’t what they thought. They thought all their properties were covered when only their home office was. In other… View Article