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Gallagher Broker Paul Pousson Recognized as a 2019 Education Power Broker
Paul Pousson, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher “Paul has a unique and thorough understanding of building a risk program for what we are and what we do,” said Daniel Harper, vice chancellor and CFO, Texas State University System. The university partnered with Gallagher in December 2017 with the condition that Paul Pousson get them into… View Article
Gallagher Broker Byron Given Recognized as a 2019 Education Power Broker
Byron Given, Area Vice President, Gallagher Tom Akers, superintendent of Cambridge School District #227, said that although his school district is small, Byron Given understands what it needs. “That small-school understanding is so big for us. Recently, Byron was big on getting us violent and malicious acts coverage. School safety is in the news every… View Article
Gallagher Broker Kelly Ethier Recognized as a 2019 Education Power Broker
Kelly Ethier, Sports & Specialty Risk Broker, Gallagher Janitza Matta, insurance and claims specialist, was new to the field when she joined Five Colleges, Incorporated: “I had quite the year. The learning curve was insane.” It was Kelly Ethier, however, who made everything click. “She guided me in understanding the relationships between the schools [within… View Article
Gallagher Broker Ken Banks Recognized as a 2019 Education Power Broker
Ken Banks, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher Ken Banks has acted as Melissa Diaz’s colleague, competitor and broker for the last 12 years. When she signed on as risk services manager for the University of San Francisco, she said the transition was easy: Banks was already the university’s insurance broker. “He does more than act… View Article
Gallagher Broker Bill Powell Recognized as a 2019 Education Power Broker
Bill Powell, Area Executive Vice President, Gallagher With more than 25 years in the brokerage business, it’s no wonder Bill Powell knows his stuff. “When we need coverage that is out of the ordinary, Bill takes the time necessary to research, work with the underwriters to obtain the coverage and meet with us to explain… View Article
Gallagher Broker Nancy Sylvester Recognized as a 2019 Education Power Broker
Nancy Sylvester, Managing Director, Gallagher When risk manager Jayme Naquin had to go out on medical leave from Loyola University New Orleans, broker Nancy Sylvester didn’t leave her client in the lurch. “Nancy was absolutely amazing. When I had to transition out, Nancy brought in her team — I think she had three people on… View Article
Marsh Broker Ben Zviti Recognized as a 2019 Finance Power Broker
Ben Zviti, Senior Vice President, Marsh Ben Zviti this year delivered a result for client Aegon “that will be hard to beat,” said Barry White, the company’s global insurance manager. In what is a “very nascent market” for global cyber liability insurance programs, White set Zviti and his team some very significant targets: Not only… View Article
Alliant Broker Thomas Shashaty Recognized as a 2019 Finance Power Broker
Thomas Shashaty, Account Executive, Alliant A financial services company approached Thomas Shashaty to determine if he could help them place the right insurance programs for all of its moving parts; the firm was in the midst of acquiring a number of different types of companies — all with different risk profiles and insurance policies up… View Article
Aon Broker John McCall Recognized as a 2019 Finance Power Broker
John McCall, Senior Vice President, Aon John McCall often goes above and beyond for his clients. “John makes extra efforts to arrange face-to-face meetings with the insurance underwriters so they can better understand our risks and how we manage the risks,” said Rahul Agarwal, CIFC Asset Management’s CFO. “This has been very helpful in getting… View Article
Willis Towers Watson Broker Kevin Kirby Recognized as a 2019 Finance Power Broker
Kevin Kirby, Associate Director, Willis Towers Watson Kevin Kirby has a broad portfolio of clients including asset managers, banks, insurance companies and broker/dealers. Having worked as a financial institutions underwriter at AIG for several years prior to becoming a broker, Kirby understands and appreciates the different sides of the brokerage business. His expertise has served… View Article
Marsh Broker Jennifer Hustwitt Recognized as a 2019 Finance Power Broker
Jennifer Hustwitt, Vice President, Marsh One of Jennifer Hustwitt’s clients, KNØX Industries Inc., is an institutional-grade security platform for the storage of digital assets, which has developed proprietary hardware and software to establish new standards of security for cryptocurrency holdings. Throughout much of last year, the specie insurance market at Lloyd’s has started to underwrite… View Article
Aon Broker Shane Hogan Recognized as a 2019 Finance Power Broker
Shane Hogan, Senior Vice President, Aon When you win an RFP to handle the insurance work for one of the largest insurance companies in the world, you know you’re doing something right. Aon’s Shane Hogan is doing more than a few things right. For the major insurer, he was able to lower its Total Cost… View Article
Beecher Carlson Broker Marc Toy Recognized as a 2019 Renewable Energy Power Broker
Marc Toy, Senior Vice President, Beecher Carlson “Marc has been an outstanding resource for our company,” said one director of finance of Beecher Carlson’s Mark Toy. “He played a critical leadership role in helping us consolidate and streamline our complex insurance program. Our project submission process is now much simpler, and we’ve seen premiums for… View Article
Marsh Broker Erin Yamada Recognized as a 2019 Renewable Energy Power Broker
Erin Yamada, Assistant Vice President, Marsh A client of Erin Yamada’s was facing a very difficult property renewal. “We still have potential claims relating to 2016 storms that are in question,” said the company’s chief risk officer. “We believe these are covered claims, but the carriers are claiming that these are not due to multiple… View Article
Aon Broker Chris Shorter Recognized as a 2019 Renewable Energy Power Broker
Chris Shorter, Senior Vice President, Aon “Chris has an impressive technical knowledge and has been obtaining improvements to our casualty program this year,” said one risk manager of Aon’s Chris Shorter. “This year in particular, we had an outstanding renewal and Chris was instrumental to our success. We had a good rate reduction to the… View Article
Brown & Brown Broker Mary Leighton Recognized as a 2019 Renewable Energy Power Broker
Mary Leighton, Senior Vice President, Beecher Carlson “Mary saved us thousands of dollars in premium when she came on the program,” said the CEO of one of Mary Leighton’s client companies. “We are a waste-to-energy facility, which is very different than a big conventional power generation company. She reviewed not just our current insurance policies,… View Article
AssuredPartners Broker Frank Baer Recognized as a 2019 Captives Power Broker
Frank Baer, Agency President, AssuredPartners When a struggling captive group approached Frank Baer in 2011 to audit and produce a report on its program, little did he know that seven years later he would have turned around its fortunes. The group was having problems with the structure of its rent-a-captive program that it had only… View Article
EPIC Broker DeAnna Buck Recognized as a 2019 Captives Power Broker
DeAnna Buck, AFSB Principal EPIC, Fresno, Calif. DeAnna Buck, Principal, EPIC Logistics and distribution firm Performance Team had grown to become one of the largest members of its group captive, building $3.5 million in equity and making millions of upfront cost savings in the space of just seven years. But DeAnna Buck was convinced there… View Article
Marsh Broker Ellen Charnley Recognized as a 2019 Captives Power Broker
Ellen Charnley, President, Managing Director, Marsh As president of Marsh Captive Solutions, spanning 50 domiciles and 400 employees servicing more than 1,200 captives, Ellen Charnley has a lot on her plate. Her role is to ensure that the right brokers with relevant expertise are matched to the right clients. In the past year she has… View Article
Aon Broker Kathryn Christensen Recognized as a 2019 Captives Power Broker
Kathryn Christensen, Senior Consultant, Aon A digital asset exchange approached Aon’s Kathryn Christensen to do a feasibility study into using a captive to insure the assets it holds online. That entailed looking at a host of potential onshore and offshore domiciles and finding underwriters willing to write such hard-to-insure risks. The client said: “Kathryn is… View Article