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Gallagher Broker Daniel R’bibo Recognized as a 2024 Entertainment Power Broker
Daniel R’bibo, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher Daniel R’bibo has been thrown his fair share of curveballs. But time after time, he has shown industry twists and turns are no match for the solutions he can deliver. One of R’bibo’s clients, St. Ann’s Warehouse, is a Brooklyn-based performing arts theater that is no stranger to… View Article
WTW Broker Jon Dollar Recognized as a 2024 Entertainment Power Broker
Jon Dollar, Broking Director, Sports & Entertainment, WTW Foley Entertainment Group provides both risk management solutions and insurance placements for a wide range of businesses, one of which is sports arenas with Fidelity National Financial. When the company realized that a bifurcated program resulted in about 33 renewals for its sports and entertainment business, it… View Article
Newfront Broker Amanda D’Angelo Rentfrow Recognized as a 2024 Entertainment Power Broker
Amanda D’Angelo Rentfrow, SVP, Entertainment Practice Leader, Newfront Experiential Media Group, otherwise known as E/M Group, is both the sole organization in possession of artifacts recovered from the Titanic and the only entity that is permitted to extract artifacts from the wreck site today. When E/M Group was originally awarded the rights to the Titanic… View Article
HUB International Broker Kyle Clancy Recognized as a 2024 Entertainment Power Broker
Kyle Clancy, Vice President, HUB International In delivering first-rate results and solutions for his clients, Kyle Clancy gets an exceptional rating. One client, Brian Glazer, SVP of production and operations for Texas Crew Productions, recalled when Clancy served as an invaluable tool in securing “probably the most complex solution he provided for us [this year.]”… View Article
Marsh Broker Yasmine Ramos Recognized as a 2024 Entertainment Power Broker
Yasmine Ramos, SVP Senior Client Advisor, Marsh When you’re switching from one brokerage to another, the transition process can feel clunky or unproductive. This risk becomes even more significant when the transition occurs mid-term. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc./Sony Corporation of America was experiencing this shift between brokers when Yasmine Ramos took over the company’s risk… View Article
Aon Broker Faye Yu Recognized as a 2024 Entertainment Power Broker
Faye Yu, Senior Vice President, Practice Leader, Aon Entertainment industry insurance is never what it seems. “In motion pictures and television, we face production scenarios that require underwriter approval or unique negotiations more often than other industries or even other parts of our business. It happens a lot,” said Matt Ruffner, director of risk management,… View Article
Marsh Broker Matthew Doyle Recognized as a 2024 Environmental Power Broker
Matthew Doyle, VP, Client Advisor, Marsh As its footprint grew in the U.S., a specialty chemicals company was facing new challenges to its environmental coverage. New acquisitions came with different risk appetites and different policies, said an insurance executive for the company, which has been trying to better align coverage without taking anything away. Matt… View Article
Marsh Broker Cristin Bullen-Wickless Recognized as a 2024 Environmental Power Broker
Cristin Bullen-Wickless, Senior Vice President, Marsh Belinda Foxworth is used to asking a lot of Cristin Bullen-Wickless: “I do think that we are a difficult risk to cover,” said Foxworth, senior vice president and general counsel for Gulf Oil LP, based in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. But the difficulty level ratcheted up over the past year…. View Article
Marsh Broker Matthew Kern Recognized as a 2024 Environmental Power Broker
Matthew Kern, Senior Vice President, Marsh Before it could divest its operations in a foreign country, a company needed a runoff environmental policy. To secure the policy, the company needed the right broker. And that turned out to be Matthew Kern, according to a risk manager for the company. “We just felt like if anybody… View Article
Aon Broker Ashley Walker Recognized as a 2024 Environmental Power Broker
Ashley Walker, Director, Aon A global manufacturer was facing a unique environmental risk in a slice of its business, and its risk manager worried that the cost of complying with insurance requirements would exceed the cost of actually doing business in that slice. “We didn’t think the marketplace was offering a realistic solution,” said the… View Article
Alliant Broker Sarah Price Recognized as a 2024 Environmental Power Broker
Sarah Price, First Vice President, Alliant Environmental coverage is a must-have in the waste disposal business. But it is not easy to get, especially for acquisition minded companies taking on new risks and new territories. One lucky company had Sarah Price. “We wouldn’t be able to do business if it wasn’t for her help on… View Article
Marsh Broker Jim Vetter Recognized as a 2024 Environmental Power Broker
Jim Vetter, Managing Director, Marsh When an attorney brought a novel insurance request to Jim Vetter, she was not sure it was even possible to meet. She was looking for excess indemnity coverage, a policy that would kick in if the indemnified company, a third party, did not meet its obligations. “I expected it to… View Article
Aon Broker Anne Rappa Recognized as a 2024 Fine Arts Power Broker
Anne Rappa, Senior Vice President, Aon/Huntington T. Block From helping clients open new locations to onboarding others, it’s been a year of novelty for broker Anne Rappa, senior vice president with Aon/Huntington T. Block. She proved instrumental in broadening coverage for the Ohio State University. Rappa quickly got up to speed on the account, and… View Article
Risk Strategies Broker Kierstin Johnsen Recognized as a 2024 Fine Arts Power Broker
Kierstin Johnsen, Team Lead, Vice President, Fine Arts, Risk Strategies When you purchase a piece of art, you want it to be the real thing. No collector wants to discover they’ve purchased a forged Degas or Monet. For art investors, the question of authenticity takes on an added layer of importance. Investors in an art… View Article
Gallagher Broker Cheryl Karim Recognized as a 2024 Fine Arts Power Broker
Cheryl Karim, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher Cheryl Karim, area senior vice president with Gallagher, understands how difficult it can be for artists and collectors alike to lose a painting, sculpture or even a piece of jewelry to damage or theft. When a work of art is damaged, it’s not like replacing a car or… View Article
Risk Strategies Broker Blair Wunderlich Recognized as a 2024 Fine Arts Power Broker
Blair Wunderlich, Account Executive, Vice President, Risk Strategies When an art advisor’s client purchased a property with a massive sculpture, they ran into an insurance challenge. The property is in Napa and exposed to wildfire risks. The sculpture, which is monumental in scale, is priceless. There’s only a handful in existence. Insurers were uncertain whether… View Article
Marsh Broker Azzizza Larsen Recognized as a 2024 Finance Power Broker
Azzizza Larsen, SVP, Lenders Solutions Group Leader, Marsh Three of Azzizza Larsen’s references, all of them at large banks, commended her work developing NPIs — non-payment insurance policies that issue claims in the event that lendees don’t repay. It’s an important tool for expanding a financial institution’s lending power, but it’s a complex product. “Azzi… View Article
Alliant Broker Ryan Farnsworth Recognized as a 2024 Finance Power Broker
Ryan Farnsworth, Senior Vice President, Alliant When businesses grow, Power Brokers grow with them. From 2016 to 2022, said LendingClub’s then chief legal officer, Brandon Pace, “we had a pretty dynamic business model.” That included the acquisition of a bank — LendingClub was the first FinTech to do so, and it radically changed the company’s… View Article