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Alliant Broker Sheneen Nicholson Recognized as a 2019 Private Client Power Broker
Sheneen Nicholson, Assistant Vice President, Alliant Insurance Services Sheneen Nicholson believes continuing education for herself, and her clients, is the key to helping high net worth individuals gauge risk and sort through complex policies. She regularly attends seminars and risk management groups and stays up to date with the latest federal updates through agencies such… View Article
Aon Broker Katherine Glancy Johnston Recognized as a 2019 Agriculture Power Broker
Katherine Glancy Johnston, Assistant Director, Aon Heavy catastrophe losses in 2017 made many companies nervous about 2018 property renewals. Even those that sustained no significant losses anticipated rising rates across the board. “Heading into our year-end property renewal last year, we were quite concerned. There had been a number of large CAT losses, which had… View Article
Marsh Broker Kashif Khan Recognized as a 2019 Private Client Power Broker
Kashif Khan, Senior Client Advisor, Assistant Vice President, Marsh Marsh Private Client Services’ Kashif Khan has often been described as “client obsessed” and is known for being consistently accessible, responsive and proactive on serving his clients’ needs. The retired CEO of a $5 billion public company, who has sat on multiple corporate boards, said Khan… View Article
Aon Broker Sandra Gulick Recognized as a 2019 Agriculture Power Broker
Sandra Gulick, Senior Vice President, Aon In 2018, Sandra Gulick, director of Middle Market Brokerage with Aon, was handed the challenge of restructuring a franchisee program including more than 350 franchises and nearly 3,000 individual policies. The client wanted a lower-cost program that was easier to administrate and did not sacrifice breadth of coverage. “Sandra… View Article
Gillis, Ellis & Baker Broker Betsy Ellis Clement Recognized as a 2019 Private Client Power Broker
Betsy Ellis Clement, Vice President, Gillis, Ellis & Baker Inc. Perched below sea level and prone to flooding and hurricanes, New Orleans can be a pricey place for insurance, especially for high net worth individuals. Identifying a growing need for private client services in the area, Betsy Clement spearheaded the creation of the Personal Life… View Article
Marsh Broker Jodie DeVries Recognized as a 2019 Agriculture Power Broker
Jodie DeVries, Senior Vice President, Marsh Power Brokers distinguish themselves by being more than insurance salespeople; they are true client advocates whose work enables companies to achieve their goals. When Graceland Fruit made an acquisition early in 2018, for example, the company had enough pieces of the puzzle to fit together on the operational side… View Article
Aon Broker Traci Crimm Recognized as a 2019 Private Client Power Broker
Traci Crimm, Senior Account Executive, Aon The solutions Traci Crimm delivers for her private clients tend toward the dramatic. In one instance, a panicked client woke her with the news that their finished basement was flooded. The family was traveling and the client feared for her two cats and whether they would survive the flood…. View Article
Aon Broker Kerry Bostwick Recognized as a 2019 Private Client Power Broker
Kerry Bostwick, Senior Account Executive, Aon For many high net worth individuals, having a single point of contact for all personal property and casualty needs can eliminate many headaches. Kerry Bostwick’s mission is to do just that by consulting with clients to negotiate the best pricing and coverage with everything under her guidance. “She’s like… View Article
Alliant Broker Jacqueline Altschul Recognized as a 2019 Private Client Power Broker
Jacqueline Altschul, Account Executive Lead, Alliant Insurance Services By building deep relationships with her clients and their families, Jacqueline Altschul adds value by often anticipating risk before they do. While reviewing coverage for a billionaire client from Japan, she noticed he hadn’t appraised his art collection in five years. A new appraisal was completed, revealing… View Article
Aon Broker Larry Bowlus Recognized as a 2019 Technology Power Broker
Larry Bowlus, Senior Vice President, Aon Professional liability insurance veteran Larry Bowlus is a broker his clients have come to rely on. His positive traits are numerous, but they include the fact he is a great listener who is also skilled at communicating with various internal constituents. “I didn’t have an insurance background coming into… View Article
Aon Broker Payal Chahal Recognized as a 2019 Technology Power Broker
Payal Chahal, Vice President, Aon Autonomous vehicles are intriguing, but placing insurance coverage for the companies that manufacture them is tricky. Aon’s Payal Chahal was able to shepherd an autonomous vehicle startup through the whole process; no easy task. For one, there is very little loss history for underwriters to go on. Chahal had numerous… View Article
Gallagher Broker Bruce Tindal Recognized as a 2019 Nonprofit Power Broker
Bruce Tindal, EVP, Chief Operating Officer, Gallagher Bruce Tindal and his team took a social service agency client away from standard “first-dollar” insurance policies — and a total cost of risk of $7 million — and placed the agency in Gallagher’s alternative risk transfer program, where the client’s cost for excess of retention insurance is… View Article
Gallagher Broker Mark Munroe Recognized as a 2019 Nonprofit Power Broker
Mark Munroe, Area Assistant Vice President, Gallagher One of Mark Munroe’s clients, a hospice, was dissatisfied with the service it was receiving from both its joint powers authority and its former broker. Munroe and his team successfully won the hospice’s business, and then placed the client in the same nonprofit self-insured group as another client,… View Article
IMA Select Broker Wesley Keating Recognized as a 2019 Nonprofit Power Broker
Wesley Keating, Producer, IMA Select One of Wesley Keating’s clients, SOS Outreach, is a nonprofit that provides mentorship and outdoor activities to help at-risk youth “gear up for life.” Previously, each of the organization’s extreme sports activities was covered by a separate company with extensive limiting exclusions. Keating and his team worked with Philadelphia Insurance… View Article
Johnson, Kendall & Johnson Broker Kevin Dougher Recognized as a 2019 Nonprofit Power Broker
Kevin Dougher; Vice President; Johnson, Kendall & Johnson Inc. In 2018, Kevin Dougher and his team successfully completed a five-year journey to move Legacy Treatment Services’ workers’ compensation insurance program from the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Insurance Plan to a private plan, albeit with a large deductible. Then this year, the plan transitioned to a… View Article
Gallagher Broker Tim DePriest Recognized as a 2019 Nonprofit Power Broker
Tim DePriest, Managing Director, Gallagher The Children’s Bureau of Southern California’s workers’ compensation insurance premium had doubled over a four-year period before the organization decided to move its business to Gallagher. In the new client’s renewal, Tim DePriest and his team were able to deliver a 19 percent decrease in premium, despite the bureau’s total… View Article
Gallagher Broker Brandon Cole Recognized as a 2019 Nonprofit Power Broker
Brandon Cole, National Director, Gallagher Community Arts Resources (CARS), has a niche business which produces large-scale cultural events, including the 100th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The event required two venues — the Disney Concert Hall and Hollywood Bowl — and eight miles of closed streets to accommodate 1,800 different performances and more… View Article
Aon Broker Henry Yuan Recognized as a 2019 Health Care Power Broker
Henry Yuan, Account Executive, Aon As medical practitioners assumed increasingly administrative roles, the risk manager for a large health care organization began to worry about an administrative act producing one of two worst-case scenarios: Either a savvy plaintiff’s attorney could “double dip” into both its malpractice and errors and omissions towers, or “neither policy responds,… View Article
Marsh Broker Lindsay Roos Recognized as a 2019 Health Care Power Broker
Lindsay Roos, Senior Vice President, Marsh Ascension Care Management already had 12 insurance lines in its program, and it wanted to add an investment manager’s E&O line for its third-party business and venture exposure for its four private equity funds. “We are not the client for typical medical malpractice brokers,” said Holly Meidl, VP, risk… View Article
The Buckner Company’s Brandon Robertson Recognized as a 2019 Health Care Power Broker
Brandon Robertson, Vice President of Health Care, The Buckner Company Brandon Robertson is a former administrator with an assisted care company and has also worked with an ambulance company. As such, he has a deeper knowledge of health care risks than many brokers might. He is also willing to deliver an extraordinary level of customer… View Article